When Vista was released the chorus of complaints and criticisms quickly grew from a low hum to a near deafening roar. A little more than 4 months since Apple released Leopard and that low hum of discontent has already been amplified to the sound of fingernails being dragged on a chalkboard. So far I have only [...]
In the beginning, there was “mailto:” and it was good (or at least functional to a point). Then Matt Wright graced us with the Perl script we all know as Form Mail for collecting and validating the users input.
Initially FormMail was touted to be a feature-rich, fully-functional send-mail script that would (and did) revolutionize the [...]
Mozilla Corp. released the third beta of Firefox 3 Wednesday, eight weeks after it made the last major milestone for its open-source browser, and right on a schedule it set a dozen days ago.
Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s interface designer, touted additions and enhancements to Beta 3 in a post to the company’s Web site Tuesday, touting [...]
It’s really funny, though a bit pathetic, to see the media pick up a theme and run with it. In this case, it’s the idea that open source has problems with interoperability, and that it’s somehow crimping open-source adoption. This is ironic because proprietary enterprise software has had this problem for decades…and still does. In [...]
Google sometimes wears its source code on its sleeve (Summer of Code), and sometimes it doesn’t, as when it was reported today that Google will be contributing significant source code to MySQL. Given how innovative and engineering-oriented Google is, it’s hard to imagine a better vote of confidence in MySQL and a better code partner [...]
Microsoft says users are responsible for the modifications that generated claims of unauthorized patch installs last week. The software giant claims that they have made no changes that would alter the Windows Vista update settings.
Reacting to reports that first surfaced last Friday, a program manager for Windows Update said today that an investigation had turned [...]
