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Asus Eee PC a win for Intel and Linux

ddhservices @ March 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet

By Jon Stokes | Published: November 05, 2007 - 12:02PM CT
A little over a week ago, reviews of Asus’s Eee PC 701 started to trickle out onto the Internet. Some of the larger publications, like CNet and LAPTOP Magazine got their hands on the unit first, but as it has become more widely available sites [...]

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MacBook Air compromised in 2 minutes for $10,000 (Updated)

ddhservices @ March 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Source: ArsTechnica | By Jacqui Cheng | Published: March 28, 2008 - 09:54AM CT
Many of you remember last year’s CanSecWest conference, where a MacBook Pro was compromised for a $10,000 prize. Well… take that, replace the MacBook Pro with a MacBook Air, and repeat it again for 2008.
We learned in February that this year’s CanSecWest [...]

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Microsoft slips to #59 from #1 in just 4 years

ddhservices @ March 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Source: Slashdot
My main beef with Microsoft remains the 10 year life span of any given OS. This would be tolerable if I could rely on the new product to work out of the box, do what the hype says and be reliable. We all know that is not the case.  I’ve owned Dos 3.1, 3.11 [...]

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