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Posted in Digg-News on Feb 15th, 2008
There’s been quite a bit of buzz recently after it was announced that OpenOffice 3 was due in September. It seems, however, most people still aren’t aware of what’s in store.
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Posted in Digg-News on Feb 15th, 2008
The ultimate collection of cheat sheets for linux users. Enough to fill up your whole wall with commands yielded by the geek gods!
Be sure to digg this so more people can have the opportunity to get ahold of all these in one place.
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Posted in Digg-News on Feb 15th, 2008
Virtualization is the technique of running a “guest” operating system inside an already-running OS; for example, Windows inside Linux, or visa-versa. This article compares four virtualization products available for Ubuntu Linux: the free, open source Qemu; the closed-but-free versions of VirtualBox and VMware-Server, and the commercial Parallels.
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Posted in Digg-News on Feb 15th, 2008
Imagine how successful Dell’s Ubuntu offering could be if just one Dell Ubuntu machine was put in retail stores. If people knew of an alternative to Windows, they would go for it! So what do you say, Dell? Why don’t you try to put at least one of your Ubuntu machines offered in retail stores? [...]
Posted in Digg-News on Feb 1st, 2008
By the time I was 22, I knew who I wanted to marry, was in the process of quitting college, going into debt, and thought that I would be a millionaire by the time I was 30 because I was so smart. If I could go back in time, here are a few items I [...]
Posted in Digg-News on Feb 1st, 2008
Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares. WTF?
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