Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong? An in-depth article that looks at the uptake of Linux powered operating systems and servers. While Linux has enjoyed a moderate rate of adoption it hasn't quite been at the levels predicted several years ago. In 2004, IDC predicted that growing Linux adoption would push the operating system from three percent market share to seven percent by 2008, with sales ... Read full entry
Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong?
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 16 May, 2008 to the technology subset
Future operating systems to remain Windows and Linux
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 4 April, 2008 to the technology subset
Future operating systems to remain as Windows and Linux Looks like there's going to be no respite from the likes of Windows Vista for sometime, according to UNSW professor of operating systems, Gernot Heiser, who says the current "big name" operating systems (which, as some consolation, include Linux), are here to stay. Previously big companies had invested a lot of money to fight ... Read full entry
Windows XP SP3 & Window Vista DIS-Service Pack 1
Posted by John Lampard on Saturday, 23 February, 2008 to the technology subset
Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Windows XP draws slowly nearer. Microsoft have now made XP SP3, Release Candidate 2, available for download (for the daring) from their website. Full release could be as far away as June this year though. Windows XP SP3 was originally expected as early as 2006, but has been pushed back several times as the bulk of Microsoft's energy has been focused on Windows Vista. The ... Read full entry
Question: RTF is a standard, true or false?
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 7 January, 2008 to the comment subset
Question: RTF is a standard, true or false? If 90 per cent (or whatever very high number the figure actually is) of the globe's computer users are on Windows machines, then that possibly means 90 per cent of us are unaware that the Rich Text Format, or RTF, as used largely in Word documents, is in fact a Microsoft development. Using Linux exclusively at home I've become really interested in ... Read full entry
Ignore the four
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 24 February, 2005 to the technology subset
Since the temporary shutdown of the reinvigorate web statistics service, I have been using another tracking service in the interim. This is in addition to my web server stats. Why all the stats services you ask? Well, too much information is not enough, is it?The back up stats service is one I had along time ago, and I was surprised to find my account still active, despite not ... Read full entry
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