KDE 4.2 is a good solid release that is finally showing off the improvements and advances in the KDE 4.x series. Bruce Byfield takes us on a tour of some of its new design concepts and features, such as customizing the desktop and the panel, configuring desktop effects and menus, keeping your systray from turning [...]
Linux is a joke. Well, that may be a bit harsh, but Ubuntu certainly seems to be all the excuse founder Mark Shuttleworth needs to make one bad pun after another. After Bill Gates’ performances with Jerry Seinfeld, one wonders if becoming a billionaire tech mogul alters brain chemistry. At any rate, Paul Rubens reports [...]
Most segments of the technology market are hurting due to the recession, but one — open source systems — appears to be thriving despite the economic turmoil. Open source vendors such as Red Hat, SugarCRM and Vyatta say the recession has compelled organizations and corporations large and small to take a closer look at Linux-based [...]
Mobile workers are especially vulnerable because they operate outside corporate security systems, and often return home to unload nasties into the company network. Paul Rubens finds seven excellent Firefox plugins to help protect the mobile worker.
Microsoft has filed complaints against TomTom in both the U.S. District Court in Seattle and with the International Trade Commission, alleging that the GPS gadget maker has infringed eight of its patents. Is this another day, another tech patent suit story? If it were any other plaintiff, perhaps. Microsoft is usually at the receiving end [...]
Money can’t buy you love; nor can it buy you happiness. But it just might bring you peace of mind. Ken Hess examines the big three commercial Linuxes, Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu, and compares their support offerings.
Akkana Peck has shown us how pathnames work, the
difference between /home and home, and using ls to see the contents of a directory. Today we’re going to go all dotty and learn what ../../ means, and how to share, or not share, files with other system users. You’ll never be mystified again!
Oh, Linux is Linux, and Windows is Windows, and never the twain shall meet — isn’t that how the saying goes? Well, not quite, of course, but it might have been if Kipling had only lived long enough to get to know our favorite operating system. The fact of the matter is that Linux and [...]
ZaReason is an independent Linux systems vendor, and I think one of the best. They “get it”. Which is not something you can say about a lot of Linux vendors. Like the ones who plaster “We Recommend Windows Vista!” all over their Linux pages…
Though “everyone knows” the threat and consequences of insider attacks, it was still shocking to read the headlines that a former Unix engineer at mortgage giant Fannie Mae was charged in federal court with allegedly planting a logic bomb that would have effectively shut down all 4,000 servers at Fannie. The FBI alleges that this [...]