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Windows’ Roaming Profiles to the Rescue

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-02 Windows 30 Comments

Depending on how you apply them, roaming profiles can do anything from making your life easier to saving your bacon. If a user needs access from all over the building, roaming profiles are a convenience. If you have 50 users and only 10 computers, roaming profiles are an easy solution. If an entire department's computers die in the middle of a critical project, roaming profiles are a lifesaver.

MorphOS 1.4.5 released

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-01 Morphos 50 Comments

MorphOS version 1.4.5 is now available. This is hopefully the last bugfix update before the next full release, and solves many bugs and problems with the previous releases.

Kaiwai’s Review of Tiger

Submitted by Kaiwai 2005-05-01 macOS 121 Comments

Review of Tiger from an end user's perspective: likes and dislikes discussed.

KOffice 1.4 Beta 1 Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-01 Office 65 Comments

This release specifically introduces the database management application Kexi, the image editor Krita and upgrades the major KOffice components to use the OASIS Open Document format, an industry standard allowing better interoperability across applications and platforms.

Apple’s New Cat: Some Thoughts

Submitted by Thom Holwerda 2005-05-01 macOS 58 Comments

"Friday evening, 18:00 CET, Apple released Mac OS 10.4 'Tiger' to us Europeans. I attended a 'launch event' (which is a posh means of saying free drinks and snacks) at an Apple Center in Berlin to be among the first mortals to see and use it. They had set up various Macs with the much anticipated new version of Mac OS. After playing around for a while, making good use of the free drinks and snacks, I shelled out the €120,- (somehow they didn't charge €129,-) and walked out a happy, but poorer, man." eXpert Zone takes a quick look at Tiger.

Nemerle 0.3.0 released

Submitted by Kamil Skalski 2005-04-30 .NET 20 Comments

A new major version of Nemerle is out there. Nemerle is a high-level statically-typed programming language for the .NET platform. It offers functional, object-oriented and imperative features. It has a simple C#-like syntax and a powerful compiler extensibility capabilities by means of hygienic macros. New release brings custom implicit conversions, interactive shell and many bugfixes.

A Look at YellowTAB’s Progress

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-30 Zeta 95 Comments

Bernd Korz, yellowTAB's CEO, was over here tonight and we had a little talk about the progress of the yellowTAB business and the upcoming Zeta 1.0 (screenshots included).

GNOME’s no fun anymore

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-30 Gnome 138 Comments

Edd Dumbill, valuable member and developer of the GNOME Desktop Environment, author of the "Mono: A Developer's Notebook" book, speaks up his mind about GNOME in one of his recent blog entries.

Apple offers treats for Tiger users

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-30 macOS 43 Comments

Now that Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger has been released into the wild, many users are looking for things to do with their new operating system. Apple has you covered.

Jakub Stachowski: Zeroconf Support in KDE

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-29 KDE 21 Comments

Last month's release of KDE 3.4 was the first to feature Zeroconf's service discovery. Relevant applications can advertise their services, such as shared folders or networked games, which can then be browsed with the zeroconf:/ ioslave. KDE Dot News spoke to the man behind KDE's Zeroconf support Jakub Stachowski to find out more on this exciting technology.

Microsoft Reaches Out to Open-Source Community

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-29 Microsoft 103 Comments

Microsoft has extended an olive branch to the open-source community, calling for a sit-down to discuss how the software giant can better work with the open-source world.

Tiger Server Roars, Too

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-29 macOS 26 Comments

While most of the attention Friday is on the client version of Apple's latest release of its Mac OS X operating system, Tiger Server is a major event in itself. It bridges the worlds of open source, Unix and Windows, and may be the key to finally gaining Apple a foothold in the corporate data center.

NetBSD: Live Network Backup

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-29 NetBSD 4 Comments

It is possible but inconvenient to manually clone a hard disk drive remotely, using dd and netcat. der Mouse, a Montreal-based NetBSD developer, has developed tools that allow for automated, remote partition-level cloning to occur automatically on an opportunistic basis.

Sneak peek: Longhorn search capability previewed

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-29 Windows 25 Comments

Microsoft has offered an early peek at Longhorn's file navigation and search capabilities -- and fired a shot across the bow of the emerging desktop search tool vendors.

McNealy dismisses Sun buyout rumor

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-29 Oracle and SUN 19 Comments

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy is disparaging a report that suggests an investment firm is planning a leveraged buyout of the server and software company.

Benchmark: Panther versus Tiger

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-29 Benchmarks 26 Comments

According to Apple, "...unmodified applications that use the system math functions will get an automatic performance boost on the G5..." when switching from Panther to Tiger. BearFeats decided to run some tests to see if they got a speed gain right out of the box with applications that we suspect use system math functions.

Longhorn will run on older PCs too

Submitted by DaveP 2005-04-29 Windows 36 Comments

Although Microsoft is recommending that computers be pretty modern to fully run the next version of Windows, Longhorn will probably also run on a good number of older machines. My Take: Actually, for those who have read the PPTs last year, this info was already there: Longhorn will have three levels of requirements, depending how much hardware acceleration/features you need.

Boo 0.5.3 released

Submitted by Arron Washington 2005-04-29 General Development 6 Comments

Boo celebrates its 0.5.3 release today, featuring a host of bug fixes and features. Boo is a new object oriented statically typed programming language for the Common Language Infrastructure with a python inspired syntax and a special focus on language and compiler extensibility. It features ASP.NET support and dynamic duck-typing. For SharpDevelop users, BooBinding has been updated to work with the latest SharpDevelop release. MonoDevelop users will be interested to know that a Boo Addin is available in SVN.

Run PalmOS Apps on your Pocket PC

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-29 Wireless 18 Comments

The StyleTap Platform allows you to run applications (and games!) originally written for Palm OS handhelds on your Windows Mobile Pocket PC handheld. With more than 20,000 applications for the Palm OS platform available – many of them free – you will be able to do so much more with your Windows Mobile Pocket PC handheld. Demo preview available for download.

Progeny Debian 3.0 Preview 1 Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-29 Debian 8 Comments

The first preview release of Progeny Debian 3.0 Developer Edition is now available for testing.