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Linux: Will it ever smash Windows? (SearchCIO.com)
Linux is unlikely to dethrone Microsoft's Windows as the top desktop operating system anytime soon, but experts at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School say Linux will gradually become more attractive to users as more applications are developed for it.
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Linux company plans Windows move (CNET)
A Linux company evidently sees a Window of opportunity. SWsoft, makers of Virtuozzo software that lets multiple copies of Linux run simultaneously on the same Intel server, plans to tweak its software so it works with Windows. The Windows-friendly version should be ready by the middle of next year.
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QUICK HIT OF THE DAY
Making sense of browser elections, part one
Browser elections are a hassle for a Windows administrator. They keep showing up in your Event Viewer, and, frankly, you're getting sick of seeing them. They tie up network traffic, fill up the Event Log and are generally a pain. How do browser elections work, what causes them to happen and how do you keep the number of elections down? In this first installment of the two-part series on browser elections, Doug Paddock offers some answers to these questions.
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Wheeeeee! Joyride post gets mechanic canned
A car mechanic's motor mouth threw a monkeywrench in his career when he went to a Ford Mustang forum on the Net and bragged how he had taken a customer's car on a 140 mph joyride. It turns out, the car owner read his post, went to the repair shop's owner and got the guy fired. Two morals to this story: Bragging online is a bad idea, and never take your car to a shop and tell them to make sure that no "punk" drives your car.
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