Category Archives: Proprietary software
When software patents works against you
AP reports about “Court: Microsoft violated patent; can’t sell Word“ A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a $290 million judgment against Microsoft Corp. and issued an injunction that will prevent the sale of its popular Word software.The court injunction … Continue reading
Filed under Proprietary software
Oracle removes gnome packages from its database requirements
As a sysadmin I try to make sure my servers will have the minimal installation needed in order for them to work. In most cases this policy works fine, but some applications depend on too much unneeded software like GUI … Continue reading
vendor lock-in in Windows Live?
My university is forcing it’s students to have an account with Windows Live email service in order to get the university announcements/updates. Today I noticed a very strange behavior, in certain situations the website doesn’t let you configure email forward … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Mozilla, Proprietary software
Microsoft to ignore web standards in Outlook 2010
It seems that Microsoft decision to continue working with the word engine to process/design emails in outlook 2010 is making waves through a twitter campaign, which gained almost 20,000 twits. Behind the campaign stands the Email Standards Project, which trys … Continue reading
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“Get Openoffice.org” icon on a new laptop
I recently saw a new bought Toshiba laptop. While the laptop had Vista installed, and also the Microsoft Office 2007 trail eddition, it had an icon named “Get Openoffice.org”. I guess they didn’t just install Openoffice.org due to some limitaion … Continue reading
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
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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
A virtual world
I have a friend which works as a DBA. She decided she wants to test some of application at home. She tells me she is run here windows application though wine which run on linux under a virtual machine on … Continue reading
Can everything except windows can be free software?
I got my hands on a laptop with Windows XP installed, and can do whatever I want with it, except deleting the windows. I decided not to have a dual boot on it, but to try and make it free … Continue reading
Oracle and ncompress
I’ve been approached by someone installing Oracle Enterprise Manager with a problem of the installation fails due to not finding the compress binary. It seems that some of the Oracle products relay on the ncompress package for compressing. While compress … Continue reading
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