Hardware failures, power failures, and most of all, storage media failures. Ever notice how fragile digital storage media are? Are we ever going to get digital storage media that can match plain old paper, and other analog media, for reliability and longevity?
Hardware failures, power failures, and most of all, storage media failures. Ever notice how fragile digital storage media are? Are we ever going to get digital storage media that can match plain old paper, and other analog media, for reliability and longevity?
What is Red Hat up to with its launch this week of the opensource.com Web page? This replaces the “Truth Happens” page which ran articles and videos on open source, intellectual property, transparency and other issues. “Opensource.com is now the place to go to find out about how open source principles are re-shaping business, law, [...]
In this business climate, the road to striking a venture capital deal is difficult for both funder and fundee. Small startups with big ideas obviously have a harder time finding VC firms willing to take a chance on them, but those VC firms themselves are under added pressure to make the correct decisions regarding where [...]
The tech industry is jumping this week. On the consumer side, Apple finally took the wraps off the poorly named but interesting iPad. On the enterprise side, Oracle finally had the chance to lay claim to Sun and spell out what it's planning to do with the spoils.
KDE users love the look of all those pretty applications. The key is the toolkit KDE uses: Qt. Akkana Peck uses a poker game to show how quickly you can create a nice-looking graphical application.
It’s a well-known fact that humans love lists, and the media are generally all too happy to oblige. Recently, however, mixed in among the many “Top 10″ lists and “10 Ways to …” articles out there was one that seemed worthy of attention. “10 Characteristics of a Linux Guru?” was the title of the post, [...]
The employees of MySQL are a truly blessed people. As with Sun Microsystems before it, Oracle has vowed to leave its sales and development team independent and intact…
How to harden SUSE Linux Novell says that its SUSE Appliance Toolkit is ready for primetime…
It all started with upgrading a CPU. It should have been a simple, inexpensive task, but it has taken on a life of its own, resulting in battles with warranty service and shopping for yet more new parts. Will the madness ever end?