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I received my new Pangolin laptop (Hardy Heron-64, NVidia video) earlier this week, and have been absolutely thrilled with it in all regards.

However, when I turned it on this morning, the display...

I recently received my new Pangolin laptop but thought it rather odd that no user manual shipped with it. I understood some of the more obvious controls on the laptop, but I'm unsure of others, such...

I think Red Hat, Sugar CRM, Alfresco, Google and Canonical all say yes, just to name a few. More and more companies are jumping on the open source band wagon everyday, not because of any trendy...

Since you're asking for advice, I'll offer it, although you might not like it. This is based from IT work for corporate as well as self-employment.

As Keith_Burton mentioned, in corporate IT, you...

I believe TurboTax also has a web-based service that essentially does the same thing as the PC version. However, since I haven't yet used it, I don't know if requires IE or if it runs client...

Absolutely. Most security problems in software come from flaws in the code which leave vulnerabilities for exploit. Open source makes vulnerability detection and patching much easier. Closed code...

Several years ago in my own military service (USAF), I worked on an advanced radar and signals analysis system. The central computer for this equipment was an i386-based system running Red Hat Linux...

An eventual Linux virus beyond the proof of concept experiments are inevitable. Sooner or later, it will happen, and the creators of such malware will be much more skilled than the current script...

You caught me off-guard at first. Nice joke.

From my days as a Linux integrator at HP's Imaging and Printing Lab, there are two important business lessons that Intel seems to have grasped very well.

1. The cost of integrating firmware into...

Since you're already in the IT Management stream, I would suggest the writing stream as a minor. The ability to merge writing skills with IT management is absolute gold in nearly any technical...

and yet more....

-You insist on naming your first child Linus. Your wife argues that this is not a good name for a girl.
-You want to name your second child Tux. Again, your wife argues that...

Microsoft releases it's newest OS, codenamed "WinBuntu" based on Ubuntu 17.04. Although Windows became the world's largest Linux distribution in 2010, it still has not delivered the often promised...

10. Your favorite word processor is still emacs.
9. You want to use regular expressions to search the phone book.
8. Your wife says she wants pearls for her birthday and you try to convince her...

Microsoft has always had this marketing dilemma of being their own worst competition. In order to maintain the obscene cash flow of revenues generated by software, they must revamp their products...

You have a lot of good choices available in HTML/CSS editors. My own preference is BlueFish, but that's just a personal preference. Screem, Nvu and Quanta Plus are also top-notch editors.

As for...

You are right, Nowshining. I did misunderstand your post.

Although I read through the thread, I did not correctly understand your shift in opinion from what I perceived as an initially strong...

No, not really. Your argument seems to be along the line that you should never charge a friend for your services. In essence, don't do business with friends. I couldn't disagree more.

Nearly...

If your office uses Windows XP machines with Office 2003, which is still very common, you also have no way to read an Office 2007 document. This issue has arisen with every release of Microsoft...

I know of a small business that was in a similar situation. However, rather than dumping about $20,000 for new computers to replace their old Win2000 machines, their IT director recommended delaying...

Over the last weekend, I picked up an old and cheap system (P4 1.2GHZ, 512 MBytes RAM, 40 GByte IDE HD) from a thrift shop for $75. I figured this would be a nice, extra desktop that my son could...

Since the early 70s, Sony vs. Betamax has been a festering sore to the media industry because it asserted definitively that time-shifting media was indeed fair use when the device used had a primary...

PC Desktop:
P4 1.4 GHz
640 MBytes DDR RAM
120 GByte 7200 RPM Harddrive
NVidia 5500 FX Videa with 128MBytes
Ubuntu 7.04 with Beryl

While boot time is slow, about 90 seconds, once up the system...

Apt, alonog with Synaptic, is an awesome package manager, usually. As you say, for the most part, everything works well and life is grand. However, on those infrequent occasions that things go...

The BSD license is also what allows Apple to use BSD community software while keeping the lid on tight with proprietary licensing. Now, it's just my opinion, and I believe Apple is currently a fine...