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Is TiVo Forsaking Us?

Between the recent announcement that we'll soon have commercials while fast forwarding, rumors that some serious record-inhibiting DRM may be built into future versions and now this, are the people at TiVo going in the wrong direction?  I have to say, I really like my TiVo.  Every announcement

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Apple Gets Silly

It appears that Apple, who I have really been liking lately, is doing their best to make people not like them.  An odd move for a company that depends so largely on its image.  While I can understand their desire to keep unreleased products under wraps or their past action

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Latest Linux Magazine Article

My latest Linux Magazine column has been posted to LQ.  Have fun!  As always, if you have any suggestions for article topics, be it for the "Tech Support" column or for a feature, let me know. --jeremy

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LinuxQuestions.org Podcast - 01.06.05

The latest LinuxQuestions.org Podcast. Topics include the 2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards, the updated Linux Reviews section, another LQ Radio update, Firefox, mainstrem Linux and Gates at CES. --jeremy

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Bill Gates, Windows Lockups and Communism

During his annual keynote speech at the international Consumer Electronics Show, Bill Gates had a Windows Media Center PC hard lock and a game demo blue screen.  Ouch.  Talk about a rough day at the office.  That wasn't enough though.  In an interview later, he basically stated that

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LQ Reviews Section Updated

The LinuxQuestions.org Reviews section just got a shiny new code upgrade.  It's the first in a series of code upgrades that will be making there way through LQ.  You'll notice that not a ton has changed on the frontend.  Don't fix what isn&

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IDC Proclaims Linux Is Now Mainstream II

A couple followup thoughts on this.  The article does make one very good point that I forgot to mention.  From the article (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols talking): And so does open source in 2005. No, you may not be running a Linux desktop at year's end. But I'

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IDC Proclaims Linux Is Now Mainstream

Gotta love analysts!  IDC has now proclaimed that Linux is mainstream.  From the article: IDC analyst Al Gillen recently said that "Linux is no longer a fringe player. Linux is now mainstream." A fluff piece to be sure and not a lot of context there.  And while it&

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2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards Going Well

Voting for the 2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members' Choice Awards has been open for just over 72 hours now and we already have just shy of 10,000 votes cast.  Keep the votes coming in and make sure to let us know ASAP if we are missing your favorite project

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Firefox 1.0 Download Graph and NYT Ad Impact

Asa has posted a graph of the firefox download numbers.  It's great to see that the NYT ad did indeed have a noticeable impact on the download numbers.  I think the intangibles from the ad far outweigh the shear number of downloads, so IMHO the ad was a

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Gmail Anyone?

If there is anyone left who would like a Gmail account, post in this thread and I'll send you an invite.  I still have at least 6 to spare... --jeremy

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Happy New Year

On behalf of LinuxQuestions.org I'd like to wish everyone (well, everyone using the same calendar as me) a happy new year!  We have many things in store for 2005, but those can wait ;)  For now, enjoy the new year and recover from last night. --jeremy

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Voting for the 2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards has Opened

Voting for the 2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards is now open.  We had a great turnout last year and this year looks to be even better.  Good luck to all those up for an award! --jeremy

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LinuxQuestions.org Podcast - 122904

The latest LinuxQuestions.org Podcast.  Topics include an update on LQ Radio, LQ hitting 150,000 members, the 2004 LQ Members Choice Awards, sponsoring the upcoming Linux Desktop Summit, LWE Boston and some general Linux news. --jeremy

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Looking for Feedback - 2004 LQ Members Choice Awards

I'm looking for feedback on the categories for the upcoming 2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards.  Competition was pretty stiff last year, and I expect a couple of great races this year.  Are we missing anything? --jeremy

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WOW - Amazon Traffic Stats

All I could think when I saw these numbers, was...WOW.  The company said it set a single-day sales record during the period with more than 2.8 million units, or 32 items per second, ordered across the globe. Visitor traffic peaked at an estimated 700,000 users during a

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Little LQ Search Downtime

The search on LQ was down for about 30 minutes yesterday, due to this bug.  If you are using RHEL, make sure that you do not have a symlink for /tmp when you upgrade to U4.  Luckily the sever this happened on was not in a remote colo.  The bug

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Visions of WindowsUpdate, Dancing in their Heads

While many of us were enjoying the holiday season and spending time with family and friends, it looks like many a Windows admin was not.  Three exploits on Christmas day...ouch.  While Linux security has been far from perfect recently (and make no mistake about it, it never will be

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Red Hat Profit Soars But Revenue Misses Street View

Red Hat recently released their numbers for the quarter.  Revenue jumped 55 percent, but came in just shy of Wall Street's expectations on a net income of $10.8 million, or 6 cents a share.  Total subscription and services revenue grew to $50.9 million from $32.9

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Canopy Dumps Top Execs

Two top executives of The Canopy Group, the parent company of Unix firm The SCO Group Inc., have unexpectedly left the firm.  Two snippets from the article: SCO spokesperson Blake Stowell confirmed that Canopy had ousted Ralph Yarro, president, chairman and chief executive of the Lindon, Utah-based business, and Darcy

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Happy Holidays...and My Apologies

First, I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Holiday season.  I hope whatever you choose to celebrate goes well.  Secondly, I'd like to apologize for being so behind.  Between the holiday season and a little sickness I am way behind, not only on this blog but

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150,000 LQ Members

As I posted here, LQ just passed 150,000 members.  Another milestone that I am quite proud of.  As was pointed out to me in a recent review, we now have more members than are registered at the Linux Counter.  Thanks again to each and every LQ member.  Without all

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Scoble asks Gates: can we create an interesting music player?

Brian Scoble has written an open letter to Bill Gates about "Open Sourcing" the product development for an iPod competitor.  He outlines an interesting plan that would compete with the grass roots Apple culture head on.  Will MSFT listen?  We'll see.  I think it would be

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Patrick Volkerding Back to Work

Good to see that Patrick is back and feeling a bit better.  Hopefully the health issues are all behind him and he can get back to happily hacking on Slack.  Welcome back Pat. --jeremy

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Firefox Ad Runs in the New York Times

Been a busy week, but I'm back ;) The full page ad (which ended up being two full pages) that was coordinated by the Spread Firefox team has been run.  You can view a small PNG or a large PDF.  Congrats to the whole Firefox team, this was a