Main Page Google Pack Released Contrary to many of the rumors that were swirling, Google did not announce a cheap PC at CES. What they did announce was the Google Pack. Am I the only one this doesn't make sense to? Let's put aside the "Google Pack is only available
Linux Linux/Unix Vulnerabilities Outnumber Microsoft Windows' 3 To 1 Or do they? This is a fantastic example of numbers not meaning anything if you're just throwing something against the wall. Actually, these numbers are less than useless, they're just plain silly. The original stats are from the US-CERT site, but that fantastic headline came from
Linux You Never Forget Your First Web Server A great post from Jeremy Zawodny about the first public web server he had. I remember mine quite well also. It was a dual PentiumPro 180 with a PR440FX Intel board and would become the first machine to run LQ. I think I had the server online in 1999, although
Linux Dell vs. Microsoft II A sort of follow up to this post. It looks like Dell is standing strong in its decision to back Blue-ray (which it had a hand in creating) despite Microsoft pressure and incentives to back HD-DVD. The Dell/Microsoft partnership definitely is not what it was just a few years
Linux BusinessWeek Looks at How Open Source Did in 2005 Here's a BusinessWeek article that looks at what they consider the five biggest Open Source events of 2005. Not sure I agree with all of them, but it's always good to see the mainstream media report positively op Open Source. I think one thing true about
Linux Infrastructure Upgrades at LQ With the code upgrade at LQ recently completed, I decided to do some infrastructure upgrades that I had been putting off. Two weeks ago I made the switch from PHP 4.4.x-> PHP 5.1.x and just now I made the change from Apache 1.3.x
Main Page Microsoft’s Top 10 Challenges for 2006 Directions on Microsoft has listed Microsoft’s Top 10 Challenges for 2006. While a couple of them are interesting, one really stood out to me. Deliver Clarity on Managed Solutions (I should also note that I think at least two items are missing from the list, but that's
Linux Dell Pre-Installing Firefox in UK? Looks like there is a lot of speculation that Dell is preinstalling Firefox in the UK. While that is fantastic for Firefox, it may not make a huge difference in actual acceptance numbers, since IE appears to be the default. It will likely make a small difference though as some
Main Page Creative Commons Needs Your Help (Courtesy of Lawrence Lessig) The Creative Commons needs your help. In order to keep their tax free status, they apparently need a certain amount of donations to prove "public support". The Creative Commons is a great cause and it's our license of choice for the LQ
Linux LinuxQuestions.org Reaches Two Million Posts and Two Hundred Thousand Members Wow. 2,000,000 posts and 200,000 members. We've certainly come a long way. When I started LQ roughly six years ago, I had no idea it would grow to become what it has. It's been a fun and interesting trip. I'm happy
Linux LQ is a SCALE 4X Sponsor LQ will once again be a SCALE sponsor - this time it's SCALE 4X. I look forward to being able to attend the expo this year as last year it was held at the same time I was at a different conference. Ilan has been great to work
Linux The LQ Code Upgrade is Live Well, we've been working on it for the last 12 hours or so straight...but as of about noon LQST the new LQ is up and running. A couple unforeseen issues arose, but they always do. Things actually went a little smoother than I thought they would. That
Main Page Unpatched IE Flaw Is Worse Than Expected It looks like a security hole that was reported many many month ago, but considered minor by Microsoft and therefore never corrected, turns out to be a remote arbitrary code execution flaw. My question is why IE holes go uncorrected for this long - this isn't the first
Main Page MySQL AB to Counter Oracle Buy of Innobase Another issue that I've posted about before. It looks like MySQL AB may be developing their own transactional database engine for MySQL. From the article: "Obviously because Oracle made that acquisition we are evaluating options to replace that functionality in some way," said Richard Mason, vice
Main Page Microsoft to Open up Office Formats? This is a topic I've covered quite a bit recently and one that I think is extremely important. The main problem I see with this press release is the lack of details. I've seen rumors that only the information to write will be included, which would
Linux New LQ Site is in Internal Beta Been a long time coming, but the new LQ site is now in an internal sort of beta and the mods are having at at. What's this mean if you're an LQ member that has been waiting for the upgrade? We have set the tentative date
Main Page Google is at it Again - Web Analytics III As promised, an update on this post. As of a couple hours ago, Google Analytics is finally consistently both reasonably fast while also having reports populated with data. My first impression is that this is very slick. The data you get is presented in a useful manner and the amount
Linux OSDL and the Linux Kernel Community I mentioned in a previous post that I hoped Greg's comments on OSDL technical management were just an anomaly or simple miscommunication. Greg was kind enough to point out to me that this is unfortunately not the case. Currently they seem to be still ignoring us, as nothing
Main Page Google is at it Again - Web Analytics II Just a quick follow up to this post. The product looks extremely cool and at the price (free) some of the competing vendors had to be quite concerned. The WebSideStory stock fell almost 15% on the news, to give you an idea of the impact this is going to have.
Main Page Google is at it Again - Web Analytics Another "you probably saw it coming" from Google, but as usual they have gone above and beyond. Enter Google Analytics. From the page: Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You'll
Main Page Birthday Memo leaked on Purpose? Robert X. Cringely thinks the birthday memo may have been leaked on purpose. Some of the reasons he gives really make sense. Is Microsoft using this as a PR stunt meant to both entice Wall Street while painting Google as the bad guy (and itself as the good guy)? Here&
Linux Suse Linux Founder Exits Novell Suse Linux founder, and kernel maintainer for more then a decade, Hubert Mantel has announced his resignation from Novell. "Too late for me. I just decided to leave Suse/Novell, this is no longer the company I founded 13 years ago." were his parting words. Novell has a
Main Page Gates/Ozzie Challenge Microsoft to Alter Its Business - Birthday Memo Another leaked memo from Microsoft (Dave has posted the full emails here). "This coming 'services wave' will be very disruptive," Gates said in an Oct. 30 e-mail to top Microsoft employees. "We have competitors who will seize on these approaches and challenge us." The
Linux Should Linux Have a Binary Kernel Driver Layer? For those of you that follow LKML at all, you know this is a hotly debated topic. Greg K-H recently posted aboutan OSDL meeting on this topic, along with a follow up. This is a really interesting topic to me. Now, we all know that binary drivers are bad. Here&
Linux Microsoft: Open Source Not That Open This article is about a presentation that was made at the OSBC. LQ was a show sponsor and I had hoped to attend, but that didn't work out. Jason Matusow, director of Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative, claimed that Open Source is really not all that open.
