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The Latest Mac Converts

By Staff Staff | Feb 13, 2004 at 4:08 PM

“For our [Mars] landing site work, we always get the highest-end desktop Mac we can find, so we just got one of the G5s with dual 2-GB processors and 8 GB of RAM,” Matt Golombek, a planetary geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told the E-Commerce Times.

A Talk about Qt 3.3

By Timothy R. Butler | Feb 13, 2004 at 3:17 PM

Trolltech's Qt development toolkit is serious stuff. As the foundation of KDE on the GNU/Linux desktop as well as its usage as a popular environment (when matched with Trolltech's Qtopia) for PDA interfaces, not to mention great support for Mac OS X, it is hard to imagine any tool that offers a comparably serious cross platform solution. With the third major release of the Qt 3 series last Wednesday, Trolltech CEO Haavard Nord graciously took some time to talk with us about Qt and related topics.

Basic Lesson #4: Can You See It?

By Ed Hurst | Feb 04, 2004 at 11:23 PM
In this lesson, we discuss more about stability issues. A popular buzzword these days is "interface". That's just a fancy word implying that two or more people are face to face. In actual practice, it usually means anything but face to face. It's a means of interacting with another. You are said to "interface" by some means. So it is with computers.

As the Macworld turns

By Staff Staff | Jan 26, 2004 at 9:31 PM

Wait, Steve, back
up a slide; I blinked. What was that skinny rack thing with the
turbo ports carved out of the front? Oh, never mind. That's a cute
little iPod you've got there.

Red Hat to Protect Linux Customers

By Staff Staff | Jan 25, 2004 at 12:47 AM

Red Hat Inc. on Tuesday will follow the lead of Hewlett-Packard Co. and Novell Inc. by announcing a plan to protect its enterprise Linux customers.

Is SCO Denting Customers' Buying Plans?

By Staff Staff | Jan 25, 2004 at 12:46 AM

Are The SCO Group Inc.'s ongoing legal attacks against Linux vendors putting any dent in customers' plans to buy Linux? The answer is a resounding “No,” judging from reactions of showgoers at this week's LinuxWorld here.

Apple bolsters Xserve Platform

By Staff Staff | Jan 25, 2004 at 12:42 AM

Apple next month will offer the Mac business market much-anticipated hardware upgrades to its Xserve platform. Forthcoming will be a 2GHz dual-processor G5 server in a 1U form factor and Xserve RAID with 3.5TB of storage capacity.

Apple's core: The Mac turns 20

By Staff Staff | Jan 25, 2004 at 12:39 AM

Its dedicated users are so passionate they're often described as religious about their love for the machine.

Panther: A Look at Mac on Its 20th Birthday

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 24, 2004 at 11:10 PM

Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the Apple Macintosh computer. While the original Mac is certainly meager by today's standards, there are few that would argue against its revolutionary status in the early years of personal computing. In commemoration of that event, today also marks the launch of OfB MacFor.Biz, the new section of Open for Business that will cover the Mac in much the same way OfB covers GNU/Linux and BSD. In this premier piece, we will examine the latest Mac OS X, 10.3 “Panther,” on two separate generations of Macintosh systems.

Update: Improved OpenGL benchmark results included below.

MandrakeSoft Reports Profitable Quarter

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 22, 2004 at 6:22 PM

MandrakeSoft, the French GNU/Linux distributor who filed for bankruptcy protection one year ago last week, announced today that its first fiscal quarter of 2004 resulted in a positive operating result of €280,000. This follows news in recent weeks that the company is preparing an exit plan to leave bankruptcy protection by the end of the quarter.

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