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Read more »Internet Explorer 8 provides best web browsing experience
Well, that's what this commercial seems to tell us. Their claims? That my slow browser is probably "several generations old." They tell me that IE8 is "a huge improvement on the speed scale."
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Running the 2.6.30.1 kernel ultralight
About a year ago I made some notes about plucking out parts of the 2.6.25.5 kernel — as well as some other ideas. I’ve configured a lot of kernels for a variety of machines in that time, and I have a few more subtractions to recommend.
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Antitrust: How Microsoft Came up with Windows Bundling
A journey back in time shows Microsoft's explanation of bundling
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Distro Hoppin`: antiX MEPIS 8.2
For those of you who don't know, antiX MEPIS is the resource-friendly version of SimplyMEPIS, a great Linux distribution based on the even greater Debian. With a bit of extrapolation, it's obvious that antiX is built upon Debian.
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Cubuntu - Console Ubuntu part II
The Console is one of the more interesting parts of the Ubuntu system. It is where the Command Line lives and where instructions can be passed to the machine using any number of commands and scripting formulas.
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KMess 2.0 is (finally!) out
I’m very, very happy to announce that the KMess team has released KMess version 2.0, after more than an year and an half of development!
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How To Recover Your Linux Root Password
Let's face it: you can sometimes forget a password, because well... it happens! I can't help you with all of them, but I can tell you how to recover your lost Linux root password thanks to Tips4Linux. Just follow the below steps to recover it:
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Google makes promise it cannot keep
So Google reckons that it can provide the perfect operating system in Chrome, even to the point where according to Google's Engineering Director, Linus Upson, it will herald the end of malware.
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In Defense of Boycott Novell
Existing and former Microsoft employees are jointly attacking us, joined by others whose interests are seemingly similar or at least intersecting
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What Bill Gates Did in India: Business as Usual
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Wait a Minute. What Was That Darl Said About New Deals in 2003?
Something clicked in my brain when I was slogging through the list of contracts SCO says it would like to transfer to unXis and its list of licensees going back to the '70s, which you can find as Exhibit A here and as Exhibit A continued here.
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Microsoft Hopes to Make Money from Lawsuits in China
Microsoft brings lawsuits to the table in hopes of increasing revenue
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Mississippi Paid up to $60 Million in Vouchers After Microsoft’s Violations of the Law
Another timely reminder of Microsoft's anti-competitive behaviour and the toll it entails after proceedings at the court of law
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New Zealand Post Dumps Microsoft for Google, Lies Ensue
Another large-scale abandonment of Microsoft; Seattle press lies about it
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