There is a version of Debian that can be ran on smart phone wish a major vendor would carry it such a great open source platform. Since they dropped droid maybe that could try that on a phone since they are producing Ubuntu laptops.

They spent 500 million for the purchase in 2003 I wonder if they every got there money worth out of the company. I do hope linksys stays around they make good home and small business solutions at a reasonable price.

My heart goes out to those people in Connecticut my thought and prays are with you. 18 children among 26 dead in Connecticut school shooting in Newtown Conn this gunman should be burned at the stake cause lethal injection is two good for him. These types of people are the problem in this world.

I had no idea Bing had maps news to me.

If you want keep yourself hidden from the world on social media it's not going to work out. I own a computer business and online store I have enjoyed a great deal of success but I am the public face of the company. Just the way being a business owner is people people want to see the boss whether it's in face or on internet. I am not saying share your life but you are your brand when it comes to business.

You think since Microsoft is based out of Washington they would want put there stamp on it and call it Microsoft Fiber just to rain on Google's recent fiber success. See these are the NEWS generating things Microsoft needs to do get themselves into the spot light not that I am a Microsoft fan but you would think someone at Microsoft could think these things.

I am sure many of the die hard slashdoters use BSD. The old slashdot readers like myself were and still are linux and unix enthusiasts. The article helped a NON-PROFIT organization and slashdot got some positive press. Good for them. Web sites do have ways to track where site donations and site traffic comes from.

Summary is I have yahoo mail its bad lets hope this helps.

Page has made a good CEO there was a lot of skepticism about him being CEO of Google so far he has done great job.

they admitted this crash was an admin that made a bad change to there load balancer.

This could hurt or help small ISPs will see what happens.

Let's be real Microsoft wants a bigger cut because windows 8 is slow out the gate and office is there second biggest seller. Microsoft wants there big cut but they software structure and licencing model is a dinosaur. They need to start operating like a app company or cloud computing company if they want survive.