“Open source software is often some of the best software for the job, even when cost is no consideration. So how can you make open source software work for your business? Here are 50 apps that can help your office get on track to join the growing numbers of businesses that have made the switch to open source.”
Month: October 2007
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Red vs Blue in Halo 3
Here’s a montage of the RvB Easter Egg in Halo 3, with different audio on different difficulties.
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Critical Excel 2007 bug cripples users
What is 850 x 77.1 ? a calculator will tell you it’s 65535, but a critical flaw in Microsoft’s Excel 2007 causes it return 100000 as the answer to this, and any other calculation for which the result is 65535.
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PHONES: Google Creates Free, Open-Source Competitor to Windows Mobile
“The essential point is that Google
’s strategy is to lead the creation of an open-source competitor to Windows Mobile,” said one industry executive. “They will put it in the open-source world and take the economics out of the Windows Mobile business.” -
Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 due in Q1 ’08
The first service pack for Windows Vista is on its way, and PC Magazine has a preview of an early private beta version.
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Windows XP SP3 goes Vista-ish
According to NeoSmart Technologies, which is among those who have received the first version of Windows XP SP3 build 3205 as part of the Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista SP1 beta program, SP3 has more than 1,073 patches/hotfixes including security updates.
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Boot Linux 200% faster with an open BIOS
Linux can boot faster if a PC’s BIOS is replaced by an open BIOS. Among other benefits, open BIOSes can save the time wasted by proprietary BIOS legacy support for MS-DOS and other unnecessary functions.
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Toyota ‘World of Warcraft’ Ad
“Did you see me lay down the law? I’m the lawgiver”
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CRAZY Yamaha Tesseract four-wheeled motorcycle concept [pics]
I know, “four-wheeled motorcycle” doesn’t make sense, but you’d never mistake this thing for a car. As the post author says, it looks like a Transformer half transformed.
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Torvalds irate over Linux Smack
Linus Torvalds has launched a blistering attack on security programmers who object to adding the Smack application to the upcoming 2.6.24 Linux kernel.