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Computer makers push device builders

Saturday, May 3. 2008

For years, device and peripheral builders could get away with ignoring the Linux desktop market. It was too small to matter, they would say. Things have changed. At the Linux Foundation meeting in Austin, Texas, last month, major PC vendors ASUS, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo said they would be telling their chipset, component, and peripheral OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) that they were going to demand Linux-compatible hardware from them.

It's one thing when Linux users ask for support; it's an entirely different thing when multi-billion-dollar companies demand it. This is an offer that the OEMs can't refuse.

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Microsoft ups Yahoo offer above $31 per share

Saturday, May 3. 2008

Microsoft Corp. finally dangled a higher takeover bid in front of Yahoo Inc. Friday, hoping to reach a friendly deal after weeks of saber rattling. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker upped its offer beyond the original value of $44.6 billion, or $31 per share, according to a person familiar with the matter. The specifics of the new offer weren't known by this person, who didn't want to be identified because the negotiations are still confidential.

GO yahoo! soak them for as much as you can get!

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Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS Released

Thursday, April 24. 2008

Today is the day. The next LTS version of Ubuntu is available for download here.

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Ubuntu Linux Takes Aim At Larger Role For Itself In Enterprise

Tuesday, April 22. 2008

A new release of Ubuntu Server, version 8.04, is scheduled to be available for free download Thursday with more enterprise qualities than previous releases. The move puts Canonical's Ubuntu, heretofore a consumer-oriented, desktop version of Linux, on more of a collision course with Red Hat Enterprise and Novell Suse Linux Enterprise.

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One more reason why lawmakers are pushing residents out of NY

Saturday, April 12. 2008

In case living in New York wasn't already expensive enough, state lawmakers passed the "Amazon Tax" bill this week, which will require online retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases shipped to the state, even when they don't have physical operations there.

New York-based retailers have argued for years that the Amazon loophole gives out-of-state online shopping centers an unfair advantage. Technically, consumers are supposed to report purchases they make online on their tax returns, but virtually nobody does it and enforcement is impossible.

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our idiot ex governor

Monday, April 7. 2008

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Farmer cuts property in two to give to ex-wife

Sunday, April 6. 2008

A Serb farmer used a grinding machine to cut in half his farm tools and machines to comply with a court ruling that he must share all his property with his ex-wife, local media reported on Thursday.

"I still haven't decided how to split the cow," he told the newspaper. "She should just say what she wants -- the part with the horns or the part with the tail."

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Ha! Give her the tail end, that shows what an ass both of you are being. idiot.

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Vista, MacBook Out--Only Linux Left in Hacking Contest

Saturday, March 29. 2008

The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.

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When will you get your Economic Stimulus rebate??

Thursday, March 20. 2008

Or, as I prefer to call it the bush exit strategy......aka.. our fucking idiot president.

Provided you filed your tax return for 2007, look at the schedule below and see when to expect your rebate. If you elected for direct deposit of your tax refund, then your rebate will be direct deposited into the same account. Why anyone would choose snail mail is beyond me, but if you were born last century chances are you chose to have a paper check mailed for your tax return, your ass will receive the rebate check the same way.

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Gas prices jump, oil hits $110

Wednesday, March 12. 2008

Beautiful. you can thank all the fucking idiots who voted bush into office for this shit. paid $3.42 this afternoon in Rome.

Gasoline and oil prices extended their record-setting streaks Wednesday, with gas at the pump reaching a new high of nearly $3.25 and crude surpassing $110 for the first time.

The national average price of a gallon of regular gas rose by 1.9 cents overnight to $3.246 a gallon, a new record, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. Pump prices are following crude's recent surge, and could rise as high as $3.75 a gallon this spring, analysts say.

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Idiot Elliot Spitzer resigns as governor of NY

Wednesday, March 12. 2008

Just another dumbass slut. Elliot Spitzer paid over $4000 for that?
Please.

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Third-World Laptops Headed for Alabama

Saturday, March 8. 2008

If US$200 laptop computers are good for kids in Peru and Mongolia, why not Alabama?

Birmingham's City Council has approved a $3.5 million plan to provide schoolchildren with 15,000 computers produced by the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child Foundation, which aims to spread laptops to poor children in developing countries.

The foundation says the deal marks the first time a U.S. city has agreed to buy the machines, which also are headed to such countries as Rwanda, Thailand, Brazil and Mexico in addition to Peru and Mongolia.

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Vt. towns approve Bush 'indictment'

Tuesday, March 4. 2008

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - Voters in two Vermont towns approved measures Tuesday calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for violations of the Constitution.

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Vista SP1: Still Lagging Behind the Linux Desktop

Tuesday, March 4. 2008

There is little improvement in such a so-called update.

I had really thought that Vista SP1 would be an improvement. I didn't think it would be a big improvement, but still that it would be more competitive with Windows XP and the modern Linux desktop. I was wrong.

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