Xserve-empty SMEs are Apple's 'bread-and-butter'

The well publicized Xserve clusters at Colsa and Virginia Tech, have helped Apple overcome its reputation as the high-priced option, but it's the smaller customers that really matter, according to analysts.

Mandrake Announces Move

PRESS RELEASE: With the
release of Mandrakesoft's new Move, Linux becomes a viable option to
millions of first-time Linux users. A « live » Linux system that teams
up with a USB key, Move lets beginners get a first taste of Linux and
gives advanced users a full Linux system they can take anywhere.

Griffin Ships SecuriKey For Macs

PRESS RELEASE: Griffin Technologies, LLC, a
leading provider of information security solutions for software protection and
user authentication, today announced it has begun shipping SecuriKey® for
Macintosh Professional Edition, the first-ever USB-based authentication
solution for individual Macintosh users. Featuring a USB token that acts like
an 'ignition key' for any desktop or portable Macintosh, SecuriKey for
Macintosh is the most convenient and reliable way yet to protect Macs from
unwanted use.

Interview with Chris Schlaeger

At aKademy I had the chance to talk to Chris Schlaeger about SUSE, its relationship with the KDE community, his view of the Linux enterprise desktop and the speed of development of several key features in KDE.

Desktop FreeBSD Part 6: User PPP Connections

By this time, you should have guessed that running KDE takes a large chunk of machine resources. Really old machines will run this latest version of KDE quite slowly. I chose it for the FreeBSD beginner because it's a good safe place to start, with so many built-in tools. One of the most important ones up to now has been KPPP -- the dialup tool. In this lesson we are going to learn how to dialup without KPPP. With that, about the only reason to keep using KDE is simply that you like it.

The 2004 OfB Choice Awards

Today marks Open for Business's third year of informing you on the latest enterprise computing news. It seems very appropriate for this day to also mark the announcement of our third annual OfB Choice Awards. We have spent the last year testing and reporting on the very best open computing offerings and it finally comes down to this time when we must choose the very best of that elite group of products to report to you as our OfB Choices.

RadTech's Tech Makes Good on Promises

Here is a scenario that probably sounds familiar if you have owned a laptop. You buy a sparkling new laptop and, no doubt, you would like to keep it in good shape — this is a machine that will be traveling with you for a long time. But soon, the case becomes marred and, if it is a particularly compact unit (such as an Apple PowerBook), your screen may start to show the impression of the keyboard on it. How could this have happened to your trusty companion? How can you prevent it next time? RadTech seems to offer some of the best solutions we have seen for these problems.

Basic Lesson #4: Can You See It?

In this lesson in the Clueless Computer User series, Ed Hurst will 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.

The Stealth Desktop: Managing Users, Fonts, and Printers

In the third installment of the Stealth Desktop series, Eduardo Sánchez builds upon the previous steps of Part I and Part II. Continuing where those parts left off, he introduces the subjects of user, font and printer management in Slackware.

Desktop FreeBSD Part 5: Internet Mail Setup

The one thing that really fired up the develpment of the Internet as we know it today was e-mail. The protocols were designed back when the system itself was highly difficult to access, and security wasn't a significant issue. Since then, even your average household pet has heard of Internet security problems.