In our modern, and busy, world the separation between home computers and home entertainment systems is fast fading. Linux makes it a cinch to build your own PVR, allowing you to watch, pause and record live TV broadcasts.
,” and continuing the theme let’s explore the simplicity of making your own Linux-based media centre for the lounge room.
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Red Hat today announced the availability of its High Performance Computing Solution, based around a special edition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (RHEL) and a bundled copy of Platform Computing's Open Cluster Stack 5 (OCS) cluster provisioning and management package. There is also a standalone version of just the OS component, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Nodes, available in different editions for two-socket and four-socket servers for Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft's Xbox 360 has lost its lead to Nintendo's Wii and is losing ground to Sony's PlayStation 3, despite debuting a year earlier than either. Smart-phones such as Research in Motion's BlackBerry and Apple's iPhone are stealing share from Windows Mobile devices. Microsoft's Zune MP3 players are an afterthought in a market dominated by Apple's iPods. And in search, the company's MSN is a distant third behind Google and Yahoo.
During a visit Read the rest of this entry »
-- Idera, a provider of management and administration solutions for
Microsoft Windows, announced that its SQL mobile manager solution is
nominated in the PocketPC Database Category of the Smartphone &
PocketPC Magazine 8th Annual Best Software Awards 2008.
The awards are designed to help users select the best Windows Mobile
software, while also honoring companies that produce outstanding
software. The board of expert judges will test the nominated Read the rest of this entry »
SATO, a pioneer in the Automatic Identification and Data Collection (AIDC) industry and a leader in barcode printing, labeling, and EPC/RFID solutions, announced the latest release of its labeling software, Label Gallery 3 (LG3).
LG3 follows in the tradition of innovation that SATO proudly upholds. It is the result of a user-centric product design process to create a more enhanced and better-suited barcode and RFID label design and printing solution Read the rest of this entry »
Many have tried, tested and fumbled. But not everyone has been as lucky in cracking a successful business model around open source. What's the trick? Is it the services and support periphery around the free core that makes revenues possible?
Not exactly.
is a concept that is around for the last 15 years but it is still relatively new. We are the only profitable and public company. Why is not everyone able to make money out of something, which Read the rest of this entry »
08:30 AM CDT on Sunday, October 5, 2008
Until now, Sam Wyly has been a bit of an oxymoron: a high-profile public recluse. Not the weirdo Howard Hughes kind, but a billionaire who makes business headlines yet keeps his private life private.
The Smithsonian Institution recognizes the 74-year-old entrepreneur as a pioneer of the software industry with University Computer Co. He made headlines as he built the small chains Read the rest of this entry »
, I have a Compaq Presario V6305NR laptop, on which I upgraded the operating system from the pre-installed Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows Vista Ultimate for x64 for testing purposes, using my MSDN subscription. I still need to use it for 64-bit testing once or twice a week, so reverting to the pre-installed system is not an option.
I have more use for it at home than at the office, so that's where it lives most of the time, and as a result Read the rest of this entry »
October 6, 2008 (Computerworld)
last week revealed some details of a new operating system aimed at helping developers write Internet-based applications.
The operating system, known as Windows Cloud, will be formally unveiled within a month, Ballmer told an audience of IT managers at a Microsoft-sponsored developer conference in London.
Windows Cloud is a separate project from Windows 7, the operating system slated to succeed
, he noted. Read the rest of this entry »
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, has hit the European press circuit in full-on tease mode. He’s talking up a new version of the Windows operating system that will cater to so-called “cloud computing” technology, where people use software that’s running in a data center rather than on their local machine.
Mr. Ballmer has mentioned this operating system, dubbed Windows Cloud, at events in
. The name-dropping comes ahead of Microsoft’s Read the rest of this entry »