The United States warned China Thursday that it risked "technological isolation" for developing unique technical standards of its own that also are shutting out foreign competition.

When Eric Schmidt left his job as the chairman and CEO of Novell to become the top executive at Google in 2001 he privately told journalist John Battelle that one of the things he was looking forward to was no longer competing with Microsoft.

Computer working environments are pretty similar to the species on this planet. One can see ancient species, that have survived millions of years, living along some fairly-recent ones like humans.

It has been almost three years since the release of OpenOffice.org 2.0. During that time we've seen community fragmentation and frustration resulting from Sun's heavy involvement with the office suite's development, and even a third-party online version that provides editing and collaboration features.

Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral, by Ryan Cartwright and Tony Mobily

This paper surveys Linux's suitability for use by owners of very small businesses and the self-employed. It was written by Howard Fosdick, a self-employed database consultant who finds Linux fairly well-suited to his needs, and reckons it has saved him thousands of dollars in recent years.

Changes since last week's annoucement: * dotnet11 now works again. Removed GAC kludge, added font kludges. * new verb fontfix to install working versions of arphic fonts (bad versions crash dotnet 1.1) * fixed dotnet20, too. And wsh56 no longer requires you to run vcrun6 first (it does it for you).

Here's my top ten GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications for Linux, the ones I'm supposed to never live without (click on the screenshots to enlarge):