The original news from Google that it was producing its own OS for release in 2010 was met with quite a welcome in the FOSS community. It was reported that Google shares benefited from the news at the time and to be fair pretty much everyone (IMO) has an interest in it, even if it … Continue reading »
Posted in July 2009 …
Power of the word of mouth – A new blog!
First time I have done this on Openbytes, but after we have seen the increase in uptake of FOSS alternatives, it shows (IMO) that expensive advertising budgets (of certain proprietary firms) are no match for honest held belief and word of mouth. It would explain why, even in the face of Windows 7 hitting the … Continue reading »
Recession buster: £45 will make you a movie!
A slightly different subject for today and proof that “the little person” still can make the headlines with innovation in the days of dancing Ballmers, Canonical, Ipods and Harry Potter! A film entitled “Colin” which was made by Marc Price on a camcorder for approximately £45 is to be released for Halloween this year. The … Continue reading »
A case of not so curious opinion
This is my chance to give my opinions to the article featured here: http://armchairtheorist.com/2009/07/21/the-curious-case-of-boycott-novell It is written by a chap called Johnathon Wong and he works for Microsoft. He decided to make his opinions known on the website Boycott Novell and Roy (the sites owner) So this is my story. Let me start by saying … Continue reading »
IT PRO’S SPEAK ON LINUX! & LINUX ON THE SHELVES AGAIN!
ANOTHER OFF THE SHELF MAGAZINE FOR LINUX This article has two pieces of news to it. The first being about journalism. Those of you who visited Microsoft-Watch may remember that when Joe Willcox was let go he explained about the issues surrounding journalism, he mentioned layoffs. I don’t think it can be argued that off … Continue reading »
Microsoft profits down again for Q4?
It is being reported that Microsoft’s figures for Q4 that are due to be posted next Thursday are expected to be down, again. The recession has hit PC manufacturers hard and in my opinion this has had a direct impact on the OEM sales for the Microsoft platform. Whilst Bing is yet to achieve the … Continue reading »
MONO – No! No!: A useful utility & Billy Gates’s Teapot.
I won’t go into detail about a subject that has already been discussed at length on many blogs, however I would like to bring your attention to a small piece of software that will prevent MONO from being installed on your distro: http://tim.thechases.com/mononono/ I had promised on #boycottnovell that I would link to this, however … Continue reading »
Piratebay – Pay to torrent?
Its been announced that the Piratebay.org, one the definitive site for all the “IP liberal” is now to become a monthly pay site after being offered 7.8million by the Global Gaming Factory. Ive said before I am against piracy, however as a FOSS user its not really a big concern to me. I have no … Continue reading »
Oops he did it again! – Ballmer has another one of his “moments”?
Ok, maybe its not as animated as before, but lets take a look at Ballmer’s recent (IMO) outburst. I dont need to go into a long winded text. I think it speaks for itself. http://gizmodo.com/5314471/ballmer-goes-nuts-again-gets-confused-as-to-what-type-of-venue-hes-at So as to not forget some of his previous “outbursts”, here for your enjoyment are my favorites: “Come on…..give it … Continue reading »
Wolvix-2.0.0beta2
This distro was brought to my attention in the BN IRC room, and whilst my distro hopping machine had difficulties with it (its a little anti social at the moment) I gave it a run on one of the many machines dotted around my house and found myself very surprised (pleasantly) by the results. Its … Continue reading »
