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IT Management Linux News for Aug 19, 2009
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What's really the safest Web Browser? (Aug 19, 2009, 21:02)
Sure, it's Secure!: "It's hard to believe that
people will actually believe the new NSS Labs report that claims
Internet Explorer is safer than other Web browsers at blocking
"Socially Engineered Malware""...
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Why Are Computer Hardware Vendors Such Snoopy Control-Freak Weirdos? (Aug 19, 2009, 20:32)
LinuxPlanet: "You think you own your stuff that
you paid your own money for? The Sony PS3, the XBox, the Palm Pre?
Think again---these titans of tech are not selling products..."
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Jon Maddog Hall's videos on YouTube (Aug 19, 2009, 19:32)
Linux Pro Magazine: "Lean back with a bagful of
popcorn. In his blog Maddog writes: "Secondly, have posted two
videos of wild Brazilians saying "Linus we love you, Linus we need
you"."
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Sony Reveals PS3 Slim, Slashes Price, Removes Linux Option (Aug 19, 2009, 18:32)
OSNews: "The new PS3 system will focus on
delivering games and other entertainment content, and users will
not be able to install other operating systems to the new PS3
system"
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Mozilla to EC: Microsoft Getting Off Too Easy (Aug 19, 2009, 18:02)
InternetNews: "As a settlement looms in
Microsoft's tête-à-tête with the European
Commission (EC) over bundling Internet Explorer (IE) with Windows,
one of the software giant's arch rivals has weighed in with a
calculated blogging campaign."
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Linux vendor revenue $1 billion by 2012? Or is it $49 billion+ ? (Aug 19, 2009, 17:32)
Netstat -vat: "In 2007, IDC analyst Al Gillen
(the same guy that wrote the current report), forecast that the
Linux ecosystem would be worth $40 billion by 2010. In 2008, IDC
forecast the Linux ecosystem to be worth $49 billion by 2011."
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If Moonlight is so hot, why isn't Novell using it? (Aug 19, 2009, 12:02)
IT Wire: "When a company announces a technology
release, the least one would expect is that the company itself has
found said technology worthy of use."
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Thoughts from OSCON 2009: Open government, concurrency (Aug 19, 2009, 04:32)
IBM Developerworks: "According to O'Reilly, the
entity Gov 2.0 has several features. It emphasizes transparency of
social networks and allows citizen contribution and collaboration.
It treats government as a platform and a means of collective
action, but it's about Benjamin Franklin's concept of citizen
action, not what Donald Kent called "vending machine
government.""
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