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October 13, 2006

Why Microsoft’s future OS could be open source…

Filed under: tech — zeb @ 3:42 pm

“Microsoft has long had a love-hate relationship with software piracy. On the one hand it sees this practice as its number one business problem in areas where it has succeeded in establishing market dominance, and on the other Microsoft has, since the QDOS deal with IBM, consistently made it easy for people to copy…”

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How To Install VMware Server On Debian Sarge

Filed under: tech — zeb @ 3:20 pm

VMware has just released version 1.0 of its free VMware Server. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems (”virtual machines”) such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system.

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October 10, 2006

Laser TV unveiled

Filed under: tech — zeb @ 12:54 pm

Laser vision… Australian Dr Larry Marshall and France’s Jean-Michel Pelaprat pose before the world’s first laser television, which they say uses less power, has more colour range and costs half the price of LCD and plasma screens

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October 6, 2006

Leo Laporte & Scott Bourne to spend up to $30K to trademark “Netcast”

Filed under: tech — zeb @ 11:22 pm

As a result of the Apple enforcement of its “pod” trademark, Leo Laporte & Scott Bourne are willing to finance an effort to trademark “netcast” as an alternative to “podcast”. They have agreed to foot an expected $30,000 cost to trademark the term, to be owned by a podcaster’s trade group.

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