BeOS Successor Keeps the Faith

Posted by technology-blog on 02 Mar

The managing editor of OSNews Thom Holwerda has reportedly reviewed Haiku who is the open source successor of the BE operating system. The editor seems to have only praises for Haiku when he says that the same has been highly successful in replicating user experience for BeOS and also the ‘personality’. It has been able to do so with pronounced short periods for booting. Along with this project, a native GCC 4.3.3 tool chain has also been launched which is really helpful in clearing the path for bringing up-to-date ports for multi-port programs like Firefox and VLC. The entire aim of the technology under consideration is to make the use of Haiku ports easier and more user-friendly.

US Nuclear Weapons Lab Loses 67 Computers (IT)

Posted by technology-blog on 25 Feb

The Los Alamos nuclear laboratory over at New Mexico is the new hot-bed for technology thieves as officials confirm reports that there have been extensive thefts over the past few years. The laboratory in question has apparently lost 67 computers over the past few years with 13 being stolen in the last year itself. The matter was brought before the general public when a highly confidential document by the Project on Government Oversight was leaked from one of the stolen nuclear laptops. A few of the 13 stolen computers have been stolen from a scientist’s home. Apart from this, a Blackberry containing confidential information was also reported missing in a sensitive foreign country.

New Microsoft Strategy

Posted by technology-blog on 07 Feb

There’s a new position available for application from the Microsoft Corp. It would seem that they’re looking for an “Open Source” position to be filled. This is not to bring open source to the company, but more so to compete and beat Linux desktop operating systems. There just seems to be no other purpose to start a campaign like this unless their OS rival was in their cross-hairs. Not sure though why Linux would be more of a problem than that of MAC who’s OS is UNIX based. Their reason remains unclear, but we do have our suspicions

Making More Revenue With Traffic Infractions

Posted by technology-blog on 06 Feb

Many people around the world are familiar with traffic tickets received in the mail from an infraction such as running a red light. You’ll get a statement in a letter with some legal mumbo jumbo and that you need to pay “X“ amount to the local municipality. Ok, yes, no doubt running a red light is dangerous and a person shoul dbe fined for such acts, but Italy ha staken this to a whole new level. Kind of a new way to make more money. The traffic monitory system has been rigged to make the yellow light shorter. So short that the scam has increased recently to bring suspicion and even lead to arrests.

Open Source Vmware

Posted by technology-blog on 04 Feb

There goes another solution that has gone opensource. VMWare has officially decided to make ist desktop version totally opensource. The bottom line is that the popularity of VMWare banked on the growth and usage of Linux/Unix distros. Because of this forward moving motion, the only logical next step was to follow suit. VMware allows multiple operating systems to run on the same unit, which caters to multiple applications to be used at the same time and completely redefines multi-tasking. , not to mention their remote virtualized desktop, which is similar to that of Microsoft’s Hyper V.