Peter Nowak wrote a CBC article yesterday about Quebec being sued for not accepting software contract bids:
“Government buyers are using an exception in provincial law that allows them to buy directly from a proprietary vendor when there are no options available, but Facil said that loophole is being abused…”
The article has the tantalizing title of [...]
If “Office Live” is an indication, Microsoft seems to prefer a fragile web. A web not only restricted to a couple of web browsers, but also to specific operating systems.
The Ubuntu command line tool to install software aptitude wants to install a bunch of additional packages that aren’t required according to apt-get.
Yesterday, I did an install of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on the Dell Dimension E520. The install went well; I haven’t experienced any hardware problems (yet), but I’m near tears for all the (minor) experience issues.
Today, when I tried to <code>aptitude install</code> a package on Ubuntu the response was “WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!”
I received a similar warning when I tried to use Synaptic Package Manager.
I checked and made sure that the software was trying to install from the official repository.
I’m not really sure of the cause, or [...]
Walt Mossberg, you are one of my favorite technology reporters, and so I’m particularly disappointed by your article
“Linux’s Free System Is Now Easier to Use, But Not for Everyone“.
My first disappointment is the timing of the article. September 27th Ubuntu will have a beta release of their next version with Ubuntu 7.10 scheduled for release [...]
I’m writing this email on my purring ThinkPad T42p with its new fan. Yes!
My ThinkPad t42p is less than two years old, and today it became a paper weight — I hope temporarily.
Thursday Update: Yes, it seems that it was temporary!
With the immediate arrangements for me “volunteering” for my employer, Flock, I booted up a “400$ special” PC, built myself 10 months ago. I have not used this PC much since starting with Merc, as they have met well all my “computing needs” At Merc I had 4 PCs (2 of them top [...]
http://http:// is redirected to Microsoft. I have stumbled upon this once before, but did not have time to reflect on it.