IBM has announced a new initiative with ghostly reflections from the past, but perhaps with a more promising future. In a climate where business users are unimpressed by the bulky and costly lackluster Windows Vista, IBM is offering corporate customers a viable alternative. IBM has created a “Microsoft-free” virtual desktop. The […]

Daylight Saving Time has been rescheduled this year from first Sunday in April to an earlier time… yesterday. If your computer did not automatically change the time yesterday then you may not be at the current update patch level. If you use Windows XP with SP2 and have all the current updates installed, […]

LazyGirl of Geek Girl News posted a new story today about an age-old debate. What happens when a Microsoft advocate meanders into a Linux forum and asks which operating system is better; more secure, or has greater stability? Does the proverbial crap hit the fan or does someone sensible stop the madness? […]

Perhaps one of the largest misconceptions about Linux made by devoted Microsoft Windows users is that Linux lacks support for hardware. This belief that Microsoft Windows supports more computer hardware devices, such as Ethernet, sound, and video cards, as compared to Linux, comes from lazy thinking. The truth is, Linux distributions today support […]

Here is another installment of our “Coping with WGA” series of articles. It is advised that you avoid the WGA Virus, or Windows Genuine Advantage Notification, as it is officially called, by preventing its installation. The Automatic Updates feature of Microsoft Windows XP is being used as one way of delivering the WGA […]

Is Bill Gates harassing you? Is he stalking you, inside your computer, telling you that “This copy of Windows is not genuine” with annoying little popup messages? Then you are not alone. This latest Microsoft stunt basically installs a virus, created by Microsoft, through Windows Auto Update. The WGA Virus will […]

Appearing on LinuxChix News, Apple will be modifying OS X not only to run on the Intel architecture, but they are going further to make it incompatible with any Intel system except those produced by Apple. They are obviously trying to protect their hardware sales, but it is a backwards effort to build walls […]

Theo de Raadt has released version 3.8 of the “Hard as Nails” operating system, OpenBSD. OpenBSD has always been my first pick for a secure DNS or mail server. Now with improved hardware support and RAID management tools, OpenBSD becomes more attractive for a wider host of uses. Although OpenBSD is free, […]

Naughty Windows XP “Devils Own” users were recently locked out of MS Windows Update. Microsoft started requiring users to verify their serial number before using Windows Update. This effort to force users to either buy XP or tell them where you got the illegal copy is called ‘Genuine Advantage.’ Within 24 hours of […]