My mum’s machine runs openSUSE 11.2, with KDE 4. She continues to use Thunderbird as her mail client as it is familiar. Naturally she also uses Firefox for web browsing. […]
Malaysia started looking into FOSS for government back in 2004. Now, it appears they have reached 95% adoption across the government. Some 95 percent of Malaysia’s government agencies have adopted […]
There are plans afoot to replace the UK government’s computer systems with a “cloud” and free software. The government will also push for “open source” software to be used more […]
Who says you can’t find anything useful on Digg? Not me that’s for sure. I just discovered an ever so handy Linux command to find out what kind of RAM […]
Is the success of Linux directly proportional to its ability to integrate with existing proprietary systems like Windows? If so, should free software developers be spending more time integrating with […]
I just discovered that the Ogg Media format (OGM) is not a specification supported by Xiph Foundation. That’s right, OGM is not Ogg. OGM is an extension of Ogg which […]
While I’m not convinced that Google is our friend, this latest move from Canonical is interesting. Microsoft has been paying companies to move their sites from Google to Bing and […]
Albany Senior High School in Auckland New Zealand is a new school, set up just last year in 2009. Most education institutions are “Microsoft shops” but this school has bucked […]
Christopher Blizzard has a great article about H.264 and what it might mean if it becomes the de-facto standard for video on the web. Remember, this is still very early […]
With all these Internet Explorer insecurity issues coming to light, a common argument is: “All browsers are insecure, just practice safer browsing by not clicking on links in unsolicited mail.” […]