In a striking report on Thursday, the Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper reported Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer (AAPL), had some major differences in vision with Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs. According to the piece written by Peter Nowak, Wozniak asserted that Apple ought to spin off its iPod division and was hesitant in his support of the Cupertino-based company's switch to Intel processors.
The telcos have been making threatening noises about Net traffic
passing through their lines. Despite rumors to the contary,
Google
says they aren't negotiating with the telcos. This has been
rumbling around the Net for a couple of months. Recently
Verizon
announced their intent to prevent the proposed "network neutrality"
which currently prevails. So far, it's been voluntary, but Congress
appears set to consider codifying it in legislation. Verizon and
friends are fighting to charge for Net access at both ends. A quick
reading is all it takes to realize this is no more than Google envy. As
one wag said somewhere, if it were really about bandwidth, they'd be
going after iTunes, streaming video and other serious bandwidth hogs.
Instead, they are going after a service which sends little more than
text and a few tiny images, but happens to make millions doing it. This
is transparently petty envy. Perhaps the telcos need to revisit their
economics classes.
In Linux Land, distributions are often divided into categories based
on how they manage software. It's more than just keeping track of what
is installed, but what version. The obvious issue is security updates.
Software is usually offered in packages. Sometimes they are all
self-contained; often there are packages which depend on others. These
dependencies usually make sense, but not always. You don't have to be a
developer to know there is no sense in requiring one package with
another, when the second won't even use the first. Yet I assure you it
does happen. Sometimes it's a simple matter of adding extra packages to
add extra functions. Either way, it helps if the package management is
smart enough to tell you what it needs to run when there's something
missing. There are three main systems for package management.
Apple Computer's Steve Jobs announced the first Intel-based Macintosh computers today during his annual MacWorld San Francisco keynote. Contrary to previously published rumors that had spread across the web in recent days, Apple did not announce a Mac mini DVR or a plasma television.
Last month, Open for Business looked at one component of Adobe's Creative Suite 2 Premium: Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional. In that review, we found the product was certainly useful and worth its price tag, but it isn't exactly what one would call a “creative” product, in the typical sense. So, what puts the “creative” in Creative Suite? Today, we look at Adobe InDesign CS2, the package's professional grade desktop publishing program.
Helping the Small Office/Home Office user migrate to Open Source is
the purpose of this site. We advocate Open Source primarily for the
sake of freedom (
libre), but we also believe it will save you
money (
gratis). If your business can afford high-end
computing, then go for it. On purely economic grounds, that could be
the best option for some. However, for many of us there is more to life
than that. Ours is a labor of love, and computers are simply one of the
most important tools in that labor. Because of that, we tend to have
smaller budgets, which means older machines and free software. There's
something about quality and excellence which causes us to ignore the
concept of billable hours. We are willing to become low-level experts
in Open Source technology, because it's worth our time. Though we often
find ourselves somewhere between the developers and end users, we are
altogether willing to invite the latter to join us.
Hardly a week goes by that I don't hear from a friend or colleague with a monumental Windows problem. […] I tell them I'm glad to help, on one condition: Next time they buy a computer, they agree to consider a Macintosh.
Apple Computer has applied for a trademark for Rosetta, the translation technology that will act as a bridge as Apple moves to Intel chips beginning next year.
Bob Young is, arguably, one of the most influential figures in the development of Linux and open source. By co-founding Red Hat with Mark Ewing in 1993, Young helped turn Linux into a household name. After being involved with Red Hat for more than 12 years, Young recently stepped down from Red Hat's board of directors. We caught up with him to see what his plans are, and what his thoughts are on Red Hat and the future of open source.
The Ubuntu Below Zero conference is in full momentum this week and Kubuntu has been prominent throughout. In his opening remarks at the start of the conference Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that he was now using Kubuntu on his desktop machine and said he wanted Kubuntu to move to a first class distribution within the Ubuntu community. The large number of Kubuntu users at the conference was evidence as the need for this. Free CDs for Kubuntu through shipit should be available for the next release if the planned Live CD Installer removes the need for a separate install CD.