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I wish motherboard manufacturers wouldn't consign parallel ATA (PATA) hard drives and the IDE ports they require to the dustbin of history just yet.

April 21, 2009 by Chris Duckett

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Mac users should heed the call and realise that root user stupidity can always subvert any security in place.

April 19, 2009 by Chris Duckett

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By choosing Java for its App Engine, Google got a plethora of other languages for free.

April 14, 2009 by Chris Duckett

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Microsoft has announced that from next week, it will begin deploying its Internet Explorer 8 browser to the majority of users via Automatic Update — and there was much rejoicing and a feeling of relief.

April 13, 2009 by Chris Duckett

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The Debian project has announced that it is adding two new FreeBSD kernels to the unstable and experimental archive under the name of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.

April 5, 2009 by Chris Duckett

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Plans for the next major iteration of the GNOME desktop have been released with the major change being a new user experience.

April 2, 2009 by Chris Duckett

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A rash of creativity has overcome browser vendors recently in a completely unexpected place: the content of the new tab page.

March 26, 2009 by Chris Duckett

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The poster child of the Linux movement is set to be temporarily replaced by a cleverly disguised marsupial to raise awareness for the plight of Tasmanian devils.

March 23, 2009 by Chris Duckett

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IE may be the quickest browser to load pages, but this is not a 100m dash; seems like someone has forgotten to tell Microsoft that there is another 300m of JavaScript to go until this race is over.

March 19, 2009 by Chris Duckett

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Firefox is still king when it comes to daily work on the tubes, despite the steady increase in the buzz surrounding the open-source Webkit project, on which Safari and Google Chrome are based.

March 16, 2009 by Chris Duckett

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