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Microsoft Slugs Mac Users With Vista Tax 661

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @11:14PM from the pay-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mac users wanting to run Vista on their Macintosh, alongside Mac OS X programs, will have to buy an expensive version of Vista if they want to legally install it on their systems. The end-user license agreement for the cheaper versions of Vista (Home Basic and Home Premium) explicitly forbids the use of those versions on virtual machines (i.e., Macs pretending to be PCs)." Update: 02/08 17:50 GMT by KD : A number of readers have pointed out that the Vista EULA does not forbid installing it via Apple's Bootcamp; that is, the "tax" only applies to running Vista under virtualization.

Graph of Linux Vs. Windows System Calls 302

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @02:42PM from the linguini-or-angel-hair dept.

cgrayson recommends Richard Stiennon's blog on ZDNet — a post titled Why Windows is less secure than Linux shows a compelling graphical comparison between system calls on the two operating systems. The blogger tips Sana Security for the images. Quoting: "In its long evolution, Windows has grown so complicated that it is harder to secure... [T]hese images... are a complete map of the system calls that occur when a web server serves up [the same] single page of [HTML] with a single picture."

German Police May Not Break Into a Suspect's PC 123

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 05, 2007 @05:33PM from the no-peeking dept.

hweimer writes to tell us that a ruling in Germany's Supreme Court has made it illegal for the police to secretly hack into a suspect's computer. While some hailed this as a victory for civil rights, Germany's Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble is expected to push for changes in the legal framework to allow police hacking.

Vista a Threat to Internet Freedom? 479

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 05, 2007 @04:48PM from the leave-it-to-business-to-ruin-a-good-time dept.

BBC columnist Bill Thompson warns readers that new DRM technology, especially that found in Vista, is damaging the freedoms that the internet was based on. "The freedom of expression that was once available to users of the Internet Protocol is being stripped away. Our freedom to play, experiment, share and seek inspiration from the creative works of others is increasingly restricted so that large companies can lock our culture down for their own profit. [...] governments and corporations around the world are making a concerted effort to dismantle the open internet and replace it with a regulated and regulable one that will allow them to impose an 'architecture of control.'"

Journal Journal: Ubuntu Issues

Journal by 7of7 on Saturday March 25, 2006 @04:11PM

Well, I've have the newest flight of Dapper for a while now. This time I'm making a concerted effort to try and use it for an extended period of time. They recommend that it not be used as a primary desktop and I can see why. There are some serious problems. It has this great new window manager called Compiz. It brings some eyecandy to the normally drab Gnome desktop. There are, however, several problems with Compiz that are being worked over in the Ubuntu forums. ATI users are having some troub

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