With quad-core horsepower, dual-monitor support, and a speedy SSD as well as a hard drive, this $899 desktop poses IT managers a tough question: Deploy it to staff or keep it for yourself?
With quad-core horsepower, dual-monitor support, and a speedy SSD as well as a hard drive, this $899 desktop poses IT managers a tough question: Deploy it to staff or keep it for yourself?
Microsoft's big mobile announcement was all about 7 Series, but the company hasn't said what's going to happen longer term with Windows Mobile 6.5, which just debuted in October.
The promise of immediate payback is strong motivation to move all networking services – even voice – to the cloud, but it isn't quite that simple.
<b>Tech Drive-In:</b> "How to download YouTube videos in Ubuntu is probably among the first things a newbie Ubuntu user will ask for. There are simply a number of application to do the same, but there is an even better way."
<b>OStatic:</b> "...exploring the fertile territory that surrounds a good idea can lead to other good ideas on a quick basis. If you think about it, that last concept is very central to how the best aspects of open source work."
<b>Tech Source:</b> "We all know how it sucks to see error messages. If you have been using Windows all your life, you have probably seen lots of them already."
<b>cmdln.org:</b> "Monitoring and analyzing performance is an important task for any sysadmin. Disk I/O bottlenecks can bring applications to a crawl. What is an IOP? Should I use SATA, SAS, or FC? How many spindles do I need?"
In the face of rising and increasingly sophisticated threats, software giant offers up a framework for classifying and responding to incidents of cybercrime.
<b>Click:</b> "Just this kind of problem, in my opinion, is a very good reason why the 10.04 LTS should have been more like a refined, bug-fixed Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) rather than an alpha for what might get fixed in Ubuntu 10.10 or 11.04."
<b>Howtoforge:</b> "This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 10.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware"
<b>IT World:</b> "In the embedded space, there's been a lot of talk about whether Android is fragmented, and if that fragmentation will ultimately hurt Android, because developers won't know what version to code for and users won't know which one to use."
For Canonical, there may well be a silver lining in cloud computing that could finally lead the company to Linux profitability as it looks to convert users of the free product to a premium version.
<b>LinuxDevices:</b> "The organizers of the 2010 SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF) have announced new speakers for their second annual event, to be held June 11-13 in Spartanburg, South Carolina"
<b>SourceForge.net: </b>"PLplot is a cross-platform software package for creating scientific plots. This is a development release of PLplot. It represents the ongoing efforts of the community to improve the PLplot plotting package."
I admit it: I'm slightly jealous of Microsoft server administrators. You see, in the Linux world, we have the power to create crazily robust and creative systems, but we're often reinventing the wheel.
<b>Standards Blog:</b> "Good evening. We begin tonight with the shocking story of how the U.S. Government has hidden the threat of global collapse from the American People."
As winter blows itself out and spring blossoms, Microsoft's troops are digging in to provide compelling new features and updates for its Bing search engine.