The HP EliteBook 8440w notebook isn't cheap, but then it claims to offer the equivalent of a workstation in a portable package. Does it live up to its claim?
<b>ZDNet AU:</b> "Take a good hard look at your screen and ask yourself if it is possible to accidentally close an application while reaching for the File menu. In most cases the answer is a clear no, but for users of Ubuntu, it has become a very real and dangerous use case."
<b>Zona-M:</b> "Here I only want to look at the software side, that is to explain what are, in my opinion, the technical requirements and features of the perfect VPES."
<b>KnoLinuxGuy:</b> "Like many other distros, it seems PCLinux now has a way to gather applications outside of Synaptic...why? I don't see the need to go beyond a solid method of gathering applications... Why have two points of failure that are doing the same thing?"
<b>InaTux:</b> Quick: As of Feb. 2nd, 2010, out-of-process plugins (OOPP) are now on by default for Windows and GNU/Linux builds and will load Flash and all other plugins in a separate process by default. Now...""
It may be 'tax' day for most Americans but, for some developers, April 15 is the day that Microsoft releases version 4 of its Silverlight media streaming technology.
<b>Free Software Magazine:</b> "Trouble is, the resulting file has hard new-line characters after every line, and a double new-line between paragraphs. I could cursor to the end of each line, delete it, and type in a space, but my inner sloth told me there had to be a better way."
<b>Howtoforge:</b> "SphinX is a great full-text search engine for MySQL. Installing the Sphinx daemon was straightforward as you can compile it from the source or use a .DEB/.RPM package but SphinxSE was a little bit tricky since it needed to be installed as a plugin on a running MySQL server."
Lenovo's all-in-one desktop shakes up the nettop segment, bundling Intel's Atom CPU and other netbook hardware (plus a DVD±RW burner) into a spiffy 20-inch screen.
Although it was designed primarily as a consumer product, the iPad is finding its way into the workforce. We look at five different business scenarios where the iPad could earn its keep.
<b>Network World:</b> "Developers, exercising their legal right specify their own licensing terms, have come up with some pretty wacky stuff. Fact or fiction? Some software is only legal to use after you are dead."
<b>Technology & Life Integration:</b> "The users and purchasers of microsoft systems are secure in themselves that they have a company behind them to point the bone at when things go wrong."
<b>Linux Journal:</b> "In my last article I looked at performance loopers for Linux. This week I begin a 2-part review of similar applications called arpeggiators."
<b>IT World: </b>"This debate arouses vehement opinions, but according to one IT consultant who spends a lot of time with both Windows and Linux, it's a matter of arguing which server OS is the most appropriate in the context of the job that needs to be done."