“But it’s free!” I stood in the cube of an engineer on my team as he made his case about a free software tool that would supposedly solve a recurring problem we were having with our network. Sure it didn’t cost any money to purchase the tool, but what about the intangibles?
What if you gave a concert and the crowd refused to watch? It’s not as far-fetched as it seems. As more and more concertgoers fiddle with cell phone cameras and fidget with BlackBerries, some people say mobile technology is ruining the concert experience.
Since my Cube could not run Leopard , and I did not have any other Macs, I was unable to delve into Leopard right away. Apple NL was kind enough to fix this problem for us, by generously loaning me a brand new MacBook with Leopard installed so I could review it for OSNews. Read on for the findings.
Andrew Min gives a taster of the open source goodies being developed at Google's Summer of Code: a GUI for Aptitude, a GUI for Grub 2, search based menu browsing for GIMP and Audacity file import/export with FFmpeg amongst others.
LinuxEdge has posted the videos of the presentation of Novell Desktop Linux 10 by Nat Friedman. "A preview of Novell Linux Desktop 10 was shown to an audience at the Solutions Linux conference this week.
The caseload in Hancock County Juvenile Court dropped again in 2007, with the number of delinquency, traffic and unruly cases down 15 percent from 2006 levels.
YATES WINS AWARD: Arlington baseball coach Tom Yates has been selected as Ohio's honoree as a NFHS Coaches Association Coach of the Year in baseball. Holgate's Paul Wayne earned the state's boys basketball award.
Here is a look at some new and current DVD releases, reviewed by Walter Addiego, Peter Hartlaub, Rachel Howard, Mick LaSalle, David Wiegand and Steven Winn. Just released RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)The Great Debaters This straightforward drama recounts a little-