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Ubuntu kicking butt on Redhat. Why Red Hat will go bust because of Ubuntu: “ By abandoning their desktop users, Red Hat has effectively shot itself in the foot. Funnily enough, they kept on chasing the mirage of thousands of soul-less corporate customers with the real money. However, the bleeding didn’t stop altogether, and behind… Continue reading Why Red Hat will go bust because of Ubuntu

Why the Top-Selling Antivirus Programs Aren't the Best. The top three antivirus programs — from Symantec, McAfee, and Trend Micro — are less likely to detect new viruses and worms than less popular programs, because virus writers specifically test their work against those programs: On Wednesday, the general manager of Australia's Computer Emergency Response Team… Continue reading Why the Top-Selling Antivirus Programs Aren't the Best

Open Source Licenses are Obsolete. By tim Last week at OSCON, I made the seemingly controversial statement “Open Source Licenses Are Obsolete. During the Q&A period, Michael Tiemann of Red Hat and the Open Source Initiative took issue with my statement, pointing out just how much value open source licenses have created. I don't know… Continue reading Open Source Licenses are Obsolete

Hosting providers, meet reality check. Around here, we’ve been hosting projects on the web for the longest time. However for the last couple of years most of our development has been rails-centric, and hosting providers haven’t been helping at all. Like us, there are many companies out there who are using rails to deploy applications… Continue reading Hosting providers, meet reality check

Security Model Analysis of Windows Vista. Matthew Conover, a security researcher over at Symantec, has published a new paper on the “Analysis of the Windows Vista Security Model“. His paper provides an in-depth technical assessment of the security improvements implemented in Windows Vista, focusing primarily on the areas of User Account Protection and User Interface… Continue reading Security Model Analysis of Windows Vista

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A nice little work-at-home business. Linda spent an hour yesterday, trying to get Photoshop to export a jpeg. This represents a great business opportunity. Lots of smart people run up against small, simple technical hurdles. It happens all the time. You need to use some application that's not in your daily repertoire but that everyone… Continue reading A nice little work-at-home business

US House: Schools must block MySpace, many other sites. US House Resolution 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), was passed by a 410 to 15 vote tonight. If the Resolution becomes law social networking sites and chat rooms must be blocked by schools and libraries or those institutions will lose their federal internet subsidies.… Continue reading US House: Schools must block MySpace, many other sites

Open Communities vs. Open Source. By tim At an OSCON panel yesterday, there was a really interesting conversation between Danese Cooper and Dain Sundstrom. We were talking about what happens when money arrives at an open source project (either in the form of corporate sponsors or commercialization of the project itself.) Mitchell Baker pointed out… Continue reading Open Communities vs. Open Source

Thumper & Friends We announced a bunch of new boxes this morning (of, course, the damn Register has had the poop for weeks, I find our leakiness irritating). There’s a Real Big Opteron server (personally, I’m more of a scale-out than scale-up kinda guy, but big iron is a big part of our business). There’s… Continue reading Thumper & Friends