Gateway's New Turnaround Tale

Having slashed costs and nabbed retail share, CEO Wayne Inouye is now going after big customers. He's also asking investors to be patient

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Mozilla browser for PocketPC's!

Minimo is a free, open-source web browser for Windows Mobile (Also called Windows CE, Pocket PC 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2003se) and is based on the Mozilla codebase. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over Pocket Internet Explorer, such as tabs, spatial navigation and more.

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ORACLE UNVEILS FREE DATABASE

For Mac, Windows and Linux - This is way cool. Now you can write a commercial application with Oracle, and use it.

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300GB disc set to challenge DVD

A computer disc about the size of a DVD that can hold 60 times more data will go on sale in 2006, according to its American developer InPhase Technologies, a Lucent spin off.

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How to Run Windows Inside of Linux

Despite interest in moving to a full Linux commitment, sometimes you need to settle for a transitional position and that is where a program like Win4Lin can help a business or school system maintain a Linux base but still use aspects of Microsoft that are needed for special projects.

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AntiVir Personal Edition Classic, Beta 7

One of the best freeware anti-viruses releases a new beta for public testing that features a complete redesign, a complete new scanner and more.

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Windows capture server market

Microsoft Windows captured the lead for the first time in server operating systems during the third quarter, boosted by continued demand for inexpensive servers selling for less than $25,000, according to a new report.

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Damn Small Linux 2.0 Screenshot Tour

DistroWatch reports - A new major version of Damn Small Linux has been released. From the changelog: new kernel 2.4.31 and modules; new 64 cloops; new prism2 support; updated ndiswrapper support;

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Novell names new CTO

"Novell on Tuesday named Jeffrey Jaffe as its executive vice president and chief technology officer. Jaffe, a former executive at IBM and Lucent Technologies, replaces Alan Nugent, who left the position earlier this year."

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10 Things You Should Know About Every Linux Installation..

" Linux is not Windows, and although there are some similarities, you must realise that there may be a few "new ways of doing things" to learn before you can be comfortable in Linux." I've been looking for an article like this for awhile...

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The Sysadmin Song

A funny song that sings the praises of System Administrators.

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 3 Screenshot Tour

DistroWatch reports - Third alpha release of SUSE Linux 10.1 has been announced and is ready for download. The most important changes include the following: "Update to KDE 3.5 RC1; update of GCC to the current 4.1 development version;

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Are you getting email from the FBI or CIA?

Dear Sir/Madam, We have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.

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$100 Laptop is getting more expensive

Even before the hardware has moved out of mockup design phase and into reality, Negroponte says that the price per laptop won't be $100.

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ClarkConnect Home Edition 3.2 Screenshot Tour

ClarkConnect is a powerful yet easy-to-use software solution based on Linux for deploying and managing dedicated servers and Internet gateways. The software is secure, extremely reliable and proves to be a cost effective alternative to competitive platforms.

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The Ultimate Linux Backup Setup

The thing about backups is that they can just be a pain. Everyone knows just how important they are, but very few people actually take the time to perform proper backups. Even after they have felt the pain of losing all those important files.

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Novell Server That Hasn't Crashed in Six Years

Charlie White had an old NetWare 3.12 server tucked away in the datacenter that faithfully kept on going year after year. He sent us a new screen capture of his NetWare NFS Server running on NetWare v3.12 showing that it has been up and running now for over 6 years!

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Common TCP and UDP ports

List of frequently seen TCP and UDP ports and what they mean. The goal of this port table is to point to further resources for more information.

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Condor: Building a Linux cluster on a budget

So you need a lot of computing power but don't want to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a commercial cluster? Or maybe you just have a lot of machines sitting idle that you would like to put to good use? You can build a powerful and scalable Linux cluster using only free software and off-the-shelf components. Here's how.

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Novell Defends SUSE Against MS-Sponsored Study

Peter Galli reports on Novell's verbal lashing of Microsoft's story saying what we all say:It's not a reliable study.

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Science Tool: Periodic Table of Elements with Flash

A cool periodic table of elements made with flash.

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Repartition Your Drive Without Reformatting

Using a Live Linux CD, repartition your Windows NTFS or FAT32 drive without reformatting...as always, perform a backup of important files.

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The $100 laptop has a new look!

At a world Internet summit in Tunisia, MIT Media Lab Chairman Nicholas Negroponte and Alan Kay, a laptop visionary in the 1970s while at Xerox PARC and now part of the $100 laptop project, announced the details of computer intended for children in poorer nations. It uses a wind-up crank, a 500MHz processor, 1GB of memory and a variant of the Linux operating system.

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Open source AJAX-powered webmail

Amazing use of AJAX looks like Outlook and Gmail on steroids, open source too. Conversation grouping, tagging, saved searches, also has open API. Link goes to demo.

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CrossOver Puts Windows Programs on Linux OS

One of the most common reasons I hear most from people that they can't consider a Linux desktop is that they can't run their favorite Windows application on it.Think again. With CrossOver Office 5, you can run many of the most popular Windows applications on Linux.

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MIT's $100 Laptop to be Demoed Wednesday at the U.N. Tecnology Conference

A working prototype of the much anticipated MIT $100 laptop will be shown off at a U.N. technology conference on Wednesday. While there is still much development to be done, production could begin in late 2006 or early 2007, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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100 Deals Under 100 Bucks at tiger direct

Just in time for X-Mas shopping.

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Dell admits poor competition with iPod

Dell CFO Jim Schneider today said that his company is far behind Apple in the digital music market, adding that "we're obviously not competing very well."

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Linux in school

The state of Indiana over time intends to supply Linux computers to all of its high schools. It will lead to more than 300,000 students gaining experience in working with Linux on the desktop.

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FolderShare now free!

FolderShare, a service that used to cost $50/year, is now free, thanks to Microsoft which has recently bought the company. FolderShare allows you to create a private peer-to-peer network that will help you to synchronize files across multiple devices and access or share files with colleagues and friends.

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NewsForge presents free OpenOffice.org training videos

Massachusetts is trying to convert all computerized state documents to the open document format (odt). We think this is a fine idea. One concern that's been expressed about this move (at least by Microsoft) is that training employees to use OpenOffice.org 2.0 or other software that uses non-proprietary file formats (in place of Microsoft Office) will be time-consuming and costly. But what if basic OpenOffice.org training materials were available online for free? As a public service for Commonwealth of Massachusetts employees (and everyone else), NewsForge is presenting -- absolutely free of charge -- 11 OpenOffice.org training videos.

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Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008

Gartner analysts have said that most companies should hold off on upgrading to the upcoming Vista OS until 2008, since the features that will be available in the initial release due next year are already available via third party products.

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Move over, Mac Mini -- MiniPC runs Linux

A Taiwanese systems integrator is readying a tiny Linux-powered PC likely to make even Mac Mini owners envious. The AOpen MiniPC measures 6.5 x 6.5 x 2 inches, is powered by an Intel Pentium M or Celeron M processor, and runs Linspire Linux.

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Microsoft Delays Windows Vista Beta 2 to 2006

Microsoft will soon delay the release of Windows Vista Beta 2 from December 7, 2005 to sometime in January or February 2006.

The big question now is whether this will jeopardize the final ship date that was supposed to be in Summer 2006.

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KDE vs. Gnome

Indepth comparison, which is best for you? "One of the most common questions people new to Linux ask is 'Should I use KDE or Gnome?' "

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Suse Linux Founder Exits Novell

SuSE Linux founder Hubert Mantel has resigned from Novell stating "Too late for me. I just decided to leave Suse/Novell. This is no longer the company I founded 13 years ago."

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High School Memories Go Digital

Jostens Inc., producers of high school memorabilia, has been helping schools make hi-tech CD-ROM yearbooks. The hi-tech yearbooks will have the normal text and pictures, but it will also have digital video.

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New Linux live CD for security professionals

Arudius (formerly Securinix) is a live CD Linux distribution based on Slackware (Minislack) and Linux Live scripts. It contains an extensive set of software tools used by IT security professionals for penetration testing and vulnerability analysis.

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Dell's Profits Fall

Due to faulty parts in some of their computers, they have lost a lot of money!

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Is Dell Crashing?

Dell Inc.'s quarterly income disappointed Wall Street for a second straight quarter Thursday as the world's largest personal computer maker saw its income dip 28 percent on repair and restructuring charges.

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Novell Back Peddles on Move to Gnome

Novell has decided to support KDE in all of their products after all. Holger Dyroff, Vice President of Product Management at Novell, declared that the company had "after consulting with its customers decided to continue to make both GNOME and KDE available in all Novell products."

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How to cheat at tech support!

A full list of how to reach a live person on the support lines of almost every company.

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Open source SchoolTool looking for partners

The open source SchoolTool project is looking for schools to test the software. SchoolTool, founded by the Shuttleworth Foundation, is a school management system to organise school timetables and resources.

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The SchoolTool Project (Open Source SASI alternative)

SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence.

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Laptops give students a license to roam but everybody is not happy

With 40 percent of college classrooms in the U.S. equipped with wireless Internet service, some schools are finding that the educational advantages are also accompanied by relentless distractions, such as students who write e-mails, browse the Internet or play video games while in class.

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Novell Linux Death Reports Greatly Exaggerated

The rumors that Novell is going to kill off its Linux desktop line appear to be not true at all. Novell's focus on Gnome instead of KDE seems to be the root of the controversy.

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A young man was arrested on charges of spreading viruses to almost 400,000

A young man was arrested on charges of spreading viruses to almost 400,000 military and other computers, letting him put "armies" of electronics under his control.

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More Info on the $100 laptop

Looks like the laptop will be ready to demo by Nov. 16th but the screen might not have color due to battery life concerns, I'd rather crank up the battery every hour so I can have a color screen.

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IBM (Lenovo) to re-enter US market

Here comes the rebirth of the ThinkPad. Should start showing up at Office Depot by Mid-November.

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RFID: The Future Is in the Chips

RFID tags -- tiny chips attached to antennae that store remotely readable data -- are hardly a new invention. But, until recently, businesses and government agencies were hard-pressed to find cost-effective uses for the devices.

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Cisco finally patches IOS flaw after THREE MONTHS

Three months after Michael Lynn quit his job at ISS and presented the flaw at the Black Hat Briefings, Cisco has finally patched the IOS flaw that was presented showing how the exploit could lead to DOS attacks or other malicous acts.

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Virus Scanners Made Moot by New Exploit

A workaround discovered by a virus researcher allows malware
to fly under the radar of most popular virus scanning software.

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Novell President: Layoffs, Other Cost-Control Measures Upcoming

Ron Hovsepian, Novell president, would not comment on the number of layoffs but said the software vendor's cost-cutting measures will be announced soon.

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Open Source Invades the Enterprise

Open-source software is tearing through B2B-land. Can enterprise software giants adapt?

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New technology is expected to revolutionize rural America

Now, a new wireless technology known as WiMax promises to revolutionize rural America the way rural electrification did during the 1930s, speakers at the University of Georgia's Unwired Rural Wireless Conference. The two-day conference ended Wednesday.

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10 gigabit Ethernet runs on copper wires

Dynatem is shipping a 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) NIC (network interface card) claimed to offer the world's "highest throughput Ethernet performance." In contrast to today's fiber-optic 10GbE NICs, the MAX Copper enables 10GbE transmissions at distances up to 10 meters using standard CAT5e or CAT6 cabling and RJ-45 connectors.

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Gates Confirms Web Based "Office" & "Windows" but with Ads..

Gates says "It(Web Office) will be primarily supported by advertising and be separate from the operating system itself. Office Live will come in both ad-based and subscription versions that augment the popular desktop productivity suite".

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Free Remote KDE Desktop w/ 1GB of personal Storage

Free 1GB online to store and edit your emails, office documents, calender, organizer, photos and files, chat to friends play games surf the web even faster and more from any computer on your own personal online desktop and access it from anywhere in the world hosted by http://www.cosmopod.com.

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Will Wal-Mart sell $398 notebooks, desktops?

Wal-Mart and Hewlett-Packard will likely celebrate this Thanksgiving season by attempting to crush their competitors with low-price desktops and notebooks.

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