Good news that the Danish government has agreed to mandate the use of Open Document Format. Last Friday, after four years of deliberation, representatives of all parties in the Danish […]
Ars Technica reports on issues with Windows 7 and battery life on some laptops. These users claim their batteries were working just fine under Windows XP and/or Windows Vista, and […]
According to research by a German IT provider, almost a quarter of computers in Germany run the OpenOffice.org office suite. That’s not bad! Given that 17% did not have an […]
Intel and Micron will ship 25nm flash memory in the second quarter of this year, which in turn should finally mean cheaper SSDs for everyone. Yay. Intel’s existing multi cell […]
Currently, there is no default video format for use with the HTML5 video tag. The patent and royalty free Theora format was planned to be the default, but this was […]
The Register has an article on another vulnerability in Internet Explorer and Windows which allows the attacker complete access to the hard drive. If you use any version of Internet […]
An interesting story of Norway enforcing public sector websites to use open formats, such as PDF and ODF for documents, in order to lower the bar for accessibility. Taking effect […]
Sometimes on an openSUSE box I want to be able to pre-download the packages and install at a later date. By default, it downloads each package and installs it before […]