Monthly Archives: February 2009
Microsoft adapts slowly to the netbook wave
Quoting Microsoft Reports Second-Quarter Results : Client revenue declined 8% as a result of PC market weakness and a continued shift to lower priced netbooks. Sounds like Microsoft unwillingness to sell XP instead of Vista has a very big effect … Continue reading
Filed under Proprietary software
Always use protection
Thanks to Ido, I got a link to TECH SOURCE FROM BOHOL’s 25 Most Awesome Firefox Wallpapers. The one I loved the most is “Safe Browsing with Firefox”: What’s yours ?
Filed under Mozilla, Proud to use free software
Defeating SSL In Practice
NetSec has published a very interesting presentation about Defeating SSL In Practice from the blackhat confenrece. I found that a very interesting reading. It also got me thinking about our software indicators.
Filed under Uncategorized
How to make an open source kindergarten
If you can read Hebrew, you’ll find the original story at “איך עושים גן בקוד פתוח“. Otherwise, you’re welcome to read the post. Vitali Perchonok was asked to check the computer is his city of Kiryat Gat, he found a … Continue reading
Working for Free? – Motivations of Participating in Open Source Projects
I’ve been asked to summarize an article by Alexander Hars & Shaosong Ou about motivations of participating in open source projects written in 2000 for a psychology course. It was very interested to see how many things can motivate one … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora, Mozilla, Openoffice.org, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu
When Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack fails – use Openoffice.org
When my girlfriend told me her reason for installing openffice.org 3, I was happy about three issues: She started using free software willingly and knowingly (as opposed to back end software she isn’t aware of like Apache for websites). She … Continue reading
Debian follows Openoffice.org 3.x in the experimental archive
While Debian unstable is in freeze (and deep freeze), Rene Engelhard, started uploading openoffice.org 3 packages to the experimental archive. I’ve been enjoying following the openoffice.org development process through updating the packages on my machine. As Rene keeps the packages … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Openoffice.org
I’m not going to FOSDEM 2009 after all
Although I really wanted, it seems I’m not going to FOSDEM 2009. After not attending the last Debconf, I really wanted to see some of the people from the project… But that would have to wait till DebConf 9. Talks … Continue reading
