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Tuesday October 07, 2008
Microsoft: Invisible patents as a uniform
Fortune magazine thought the story was important enough to put above the magazine's name on the front cover of its May 28
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A call to action against Microsoft's open source threats
Once again, Microsoft has hoisted the canard that there are 235 Microsoft patents that open source products, largely Linux
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Database tricks
What commands would I use from the MySQL command line to recreate a large database table's structure without having to type
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Ask. Dr. Internet
I'm looking for a stripped-down Linux distribution to use on a specialized network server. What do you ...
A cynic rips open source
I chaired an interesting meeting the other day. It was me against senior executives of Cisco, Agilent Technologies and ...
Automated network-management tools to the rescue
One of the fundamental challenges facing network professionals is balancing ongoing responsibilities with reacting to daily
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Letters: There's no free (open source) lunch
The cost of software must include installation, configuration and maintenance, and depending on the particular software and
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Letters: Cisco re-sellers fight back
Phil Hochmuth's story "Cisco looking to counter used gear competitors" doesn't mention that IBM, long a bellwether of ...
Looking for Windows troubleshooting tool
I'm looking for a Windows troubleshooting and monitoring tool that would act similar to a firewall at the process level to
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Welcome to the appliance wars
Over the past few years, enterprise software vendors have ventured well beyond their traditional focus on licensed software
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Verizon V-Cast needs some work
Verizon Wireless was nice (or smart) enough to hand out a bunch of mobile phones loaded with its V Cast Mobile TV service
to ...
Where have all the good phones gone?
In my office, I get to try out all sorts of new gear and technologies. And with all this testing come boxes full of gear
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Open source and secret sauce
A few weeks back, one of The Tolly Group’s testing clients got a fair bit of press when it announced test results showing
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Sony ships new VAIO
The arrival of spring brings rain showers, flower gardens and, of course, new colorful notebooks. Sony recently announced
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Delivering audio
In the last two weeks we've cleaned up our MP3 collection, played with Wi-Fi, looked at the annoyingly high radio frequency
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• Dell puts Linux and Atom in Vostro PCs
• Mozilla names best Firefox 3 add-ons
• Torvalds: Fed up with the 'security circus'
• Dell Latitude ON - big win for Linux
• Open source advocates hail appeals court ruling
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