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FOSS Force on FacebookThe good news is that Google Fiber is coming to North Carolina, the home state of FOSS Force. The bad news, we'd have to move by about a hundred miles to use it. Google Fiber Coming To North Carolina, Here's What To Expect wunc.org 'It used to be like, 'Oh, hey everyone, I am uploading stuff! Don't use the Internet for 2 hours!' All is sneaky on the western front... CSE tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents www.cbc.ca Canada's electronic spy agency sifts through millions of videos and documents downloaded online every day by people around the world, as part of a sweeping bid to find extremist plots and suspects, CB... Vivaldi claims to be an improvement on both Chrome and Chromium -- and it will install on Linux. Vivaldi - Awesome Multi-Platform Browser Including Linux linoxide.com A new browser is on the market. Vivaldi is a web browser based on Chromium / Blink (A project from Google), especially created for users who "have problems fitting all their open tabs on one screen" a... |
Last week, I had to laugh aloud at Microsoft’s announcement that Windows 10 would be offered as a free upgrade for users of both Windows 7 and Windows 8. This was a strange synchronicity, as I’d wondered allowed in an article earlier in the week, “If Microsoft can’t give Windows away for free on the laptop, how long will it be able to continue selling it on the desktop?” It was a rhetorical question, with […] Continue reading Redmond’s ‘Free’ Gambit 
On Tuesday morning I awoke to find in my inbox a cryptic message, sent during the wee hours of the morning, from Jeff Hoogland. Shortly after our interview I made a liar out of myself and got bit by the Bodhi bug again.
The interview, of course, referenced the one published here on FOSS Force on the Monday before last, in which we discussed his leaving Bodhi for greener fields or Python or something. […] Continue reading Why Jeff Hoogland Returned to Bodhi 
Here’s some news that should make Bodhi Linux users happy. Jeff Hoogland has returned to Bodhi in his former position as project manager/lead developer. If you’ll remember, Hoogland stepped down from the position back in September, stating on his blog that he was leaving his post “for a variety of reasons.” In an interview with Hoogland a couple of weeks back, I learned that despite stepping down as lead developer, Hoogland has continued to be […] Continue reading Jeff Hoogland’s Back at Bodhi 
Microsoft continues its slide into irrelevance, as least as far as consumer tech is concerned. Even the company’s successes, like the Surface Pro, are only relative successes. No matter how hopeful sales figures for the Pro may look, the device is still roadblocked by Redmond’s lack of apps for its mobile devices. Evidently, the holiday shopping season was dismal for Redmond, even in some areas where it would be expected to dominate as usual. Take […] Continue reading Microsoft Can’t Sell Laptops or Phones 
PayPal was supposed to have made the change on December 3, the date it announced as the target for no longer accepting secure connections from sites using SSL v3 instead of TLS. As I manage a Zen Cart site which uses PayPal’s express checkout as it’s only payment option, I checked with the server’s technical support staff to make sure we were covered. Yup. We got you set up with that, they said. I was […] Continue reading Old News Anew: Fixing Zen Cart for SSL v3 Vulnerability |
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