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Have you ever wondered why your PC is so expensive? Well, a good portion of that cash goes straight into the pockets of Intel for its processors and Microsoft for Windows. Unfortunately, while the market has seen that the days of expensive PCs are over, executives at Microsoft and Intel may fight to retain high PC prices as we move into the next era of the PC: tablets.

This is an elaborate fault-tolerant Kickstart script for an on-line Ubuntu installation, optimized for home users, with extensive remote administration support and documentation. Not recommended for beginners.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a Utah company's $1 billion federal antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict.

Ah, sweet revenge! After winning its court battle to lift the ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, Samsung is making the most of the fondleslab injunction saga.

Setting up a proxy with a content filter and configuring programs to access them correctly is hard enough without broken implementations and bugs getting in the way.

Here are some references for shell script developers, man page creators, README writers, etc. While documentation styles are a bit haphazard and vary with OS and programming language, there are some standards.

Bing, Microsoft's two-year old search engine, is losing nearly a $1 billion a quarter, with no sign of letting up. Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since the search service launched in June 2009, but the company's search losses actually pre-date that. In fact, the software giant has never made money in its online services division. Since Microsoft began breaking out that unit's finances in 2007, the company has lost a total of $9 billion.

Not FOSS related but of interest to our readers I think - Scott

EML files are a problem for some of my users on Ubuntu. They receive these as Email attachments but can only view them as text (usually in gedit) even if they contain pictures. The senders are probably using Outlook Express or a related mail application to attach them. While some non-Microsoft mail clients can open them properly this is a hassle for my users as they all use web mail.

Standard backup tools like BackupPC are great for backing-up moderate amounts of user data but they can be impractical with huge data stores such as multi-terabyte RAID arrays as they need a backup store that is larger than the source data. My simple solution is to clone the array with another drive and store it off-site.

Is your network safe? Almost all of us prefer the convenience of Wi-Fi over the hassle of a wired connection. But what does that mean for security? Our tests tell the whole story. We go from password cracking on the desktop to hacking in the cloud.

John Carmack talks about the complexities of code optimization in modern games, PC/console development challenges, choosing programming languages, static program analysis tools (mentions PC-Lint), and open-sourcing the id Tech 4 (Doom 3) engine.

Many scientists cheered last year when a federal judge ruled that human genes couldn’t be patented... But now the courts have reversed themselves again.

(includes a link to free Perl code to check the BRCA genes in a non-patent infringing way)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp suffered a defeat on Thursday when the Supreme Court upheld a record $290 million jury verdict against the software giant for infringing a small Canadian company's patent. The justices unanimously agreed with a U.S. appeals court ruling that went against the world's largest software company in its legal battle with Toronto-based i4i.

In a grand concession, Microsoft is now borrowing a page from Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Windows 8 takes the colorful tiles and finger-swipe gestures from the Windows Phone operating system and expands them to a larger screen -- in this demo, 10.6 inches diagonally.

It sounds nice, it looks beautiful, and on the surface it appears to be a way for Microsoft to keep Windows relevant... But analysts say there is a major hole in Microsoft's Windows-on-any-device approach: Microsoft is misguided in its continued belief that consumers want every device they're using to function like a PC.

Google TV is a flop so far. Consumers don't seem to care, the TV networks don't like it and most big gadget manufacturers haven't started selling it yet.

But Google TV is not dead yet.

So Microsoft is buying Skype for $8.5 billion, its biggest deal ever. It's too soon to make a pronouncement on whether the purchase is an idiot move, a brilliant one or just something in between. All the geniuses who ripped the investors who bought Skype from eBay in 2009 don't look so smart now. But I will recount a bit of history that readers of "In the Plex" already know: It was almost Google who owned Skype.

According to Spafford, security experts monitoring open Internet forums learned months ago that Sony was using outdated versions of the Apache Web server software, which "was unpatched and had no firewall installed." The issue was "reported in an open forum monitored by Sony employees" two to three months prior to the recent security breaches, said Spafford.

Today, the fate of the iPod and the TiVo recorder couldn't be more different. The iPod mp3 player grew up to become the iPod Touch (and the iPhone, which is an iPod Touch with phone service)...TiVo is a company about patents and not so much about getting innovative products to consumers.

Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and "pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo homeowner didn't need long to figure out the reason for the early morning wake-up call from a swarm of federal agents. That new wireless router. He'd gotten fed up trying to set a password. Someone must have used his Internet connection, he thought.