I don't know how about you, but my personally favorite book of all times is J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". I bet that everyone who read the book is familiar with the following verse:
One Link to rule them all, One Link to find them,
One Ling to bring them all and in the network bond them
The keyword to understanding what the Master had on his mind is the word bond. What Tolkien was referring to, I believe, is bonding of network interfaces.
Read more »With its latest version, Mozilla's browser continues to raise the bar for what Web browsers should be
Read more »I support Linux and the free software movement. I appreciate all the hard work that the community has put into free software. However, we need a solid base of what Linux is. Every distribution their own package management, file system structure, and set of tools that is different.
Read more »The last Wine review I made was to 1.0RC2 (release candidate 2), in which I already tested World of WarCraft, mIRC and DC++. I had no issues with World of WarCraft (tested using a trial account) which performs very well, without any visible problems, DC++ has minor stability problems and the mIRC scripts editor crashes, but otherwise, mIRC behaves good enough.
Read more »"I think it would be a great thing to educate people on, though: If you're installing something new, make sure you remove the old stuff first."
'Nuff said.
Read more »When I added Amazon.com to our SaaS 20 Stock Index, a few readers asked me whether the online retailer is really a software as a service (SaaS) company. My answer: Absolutely. And a growing number of tech companies agree with me.
Read more »Security researchers at Tipping Point have found what could be the first vulnerability in the new Firefox 3.0 web browser, ranking the severity of the bug as 'high'.
Read more »In honor of today's Firefox 3 release, Microsoft's Internet Explorer team gave a cake to Mozilla. The tasty treat, which prominently displays IE's blue "e" icon, just arrived here at Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View.
Read more »For years now we have heard about Linux on the desktop and its need to make a concerted effort to illustrate its value to the end user and whatnot. The point of it all being is that if we expect Linux to become a household name, we must find away to get it into the minds of the typical user, like we have seen with Windows.
Read more »Novell Inc. has added support for VMware Inc.'s Virtual Machine Interface (VMI) to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP2, which Novell says will make SUSE run faster on VMware's ESX hypervisor.
Read more »A new programme promises to provide CRM users with large amounts of company contact data at no charge. Stuart Lauchlan examines Jigsaw's Open Data Initiative and asks whether it will change the course of the data industry.
Read more »The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) - stewards, incubators, and developers of leading Open Source projects - today announced that both the organization's community and its meritocratic process (known as "the Apache Way") continues to gain recognition as one of the most influential, prominent, and innovative leaders in Open Source.
Read more »IBM is being eyed to support a national open source software center that will serve both local software companies and end-users.
Read more »Despite a variety of open source testing tools, until recently there wasn't an easy way to measure and compare the performance of two Linux-powered machines. Phoronix Test Suite (PTS), released this month, addresses this -- and how!
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