Tag: commentary

  • Welcome to Laptop Solaris

    Coming soon…

  • LinuxToday Official Announcement

    Brian Proffitt has used his weekly editorial to confirm that the majority of LinuxWorld editors have moved over to LinuxToday/LinuxPlanet. You can see his editorial on LinuxToday.

  • LWM Editors Move House

    After some heavy negotiations, discussions and a lot of thinking the majority of the old LinuxWorld team will be doing some work with a new organization in the form of Brian Profitt at LinuxToday/LinuxPlanet. These sites are run by the same people…

  • Annoyances 101

    The one thnig I hate about buying computer equipment is the timing…you can guarantee that the moment you buy something, a newer, better, and probably cheaper model will be released the day after. For me, it’s today. According to InfoWorld Seagat…

  • Shock, Horror, RSS Loading Issues

    Not to take anything away from the recent fuss over RSS (mostly generated by the release of Tiger), but the issue is nothing new. It’s interesting to see Om Malik and Chris Holland at The Apple Blog (which I also contribute to) mention the problem…

  • Optimization Tart

    I’ve really agreed with the ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix’ line of thinking. I think there are a number of reasons for that, but the primary one is that my world and environment is constantly changing and therefore the chances of a component or si…

  • Using those ‘wasted’ cycles

    I’m no stranger to grid applications, and in particular I’m on the whole all for making better use of my computer equipment, if I can, but I think there’s a slight misconception about how these applications work and operate. In general, most peopl…

  • Working from home with SaRAH

    Working from home is seen as the utopia for many (certainly I enjoy it), but I’m also aware that providing users with the technology and the capability to let them do their job effectively is just as difficult. In the bad old days we used modems a…