Turn your Dual-Monitor PC into Dual-Station (two user) PC

December 27, 2007 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

Turn your Dual-Monitor PC into Dual-Station PC

Attention all Linux user, Want to have more than Two Users on your computer? Userful is a Linux software that transforms your dual monitor PC into a dual-station PC, each with their own screen, keyboard and mouse. The software is ideal for places that offers free internet surfing, for example schools, clubs, hotels or any light surfing and multi-tasking computer activities.

Userful supports up to 10 simultaneous users per computer. The software works with most standard video cards, the only drawback for the system is the $200 price tag that comes with a 4 user starter kit. I would love to give Userful a go.

Via Labnol

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Lenovo Linux PCs

August 9, 2007 · Filed Under Silicon Valley · Comment 

lenovo-mast-logo.gifLenovo, the world’s third largest computer maker announced that it will begin offering Linux as an option in its notebook computers, joining the ranks of other computer makers such as Dell. It appears that the market is responding to a weaker Windows Vista.

Looking at the entire scenario from a different point of view, if the market shows a demand for Linux PC, it could signal a desire for a change in operating system or possible an opportunity to purchase a cheaper computer compare to a preloaded windows. Either way, Microsoft Windows is here to stay for quite sometime.

p.s. I believe Acer would be the next company to announce a choice of Linux operating system.

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Vista More Secure than Linux and Mac OS X

June 25, 2007 · Filed Under Security · Comment 

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Is Windows Vista and XP really secure than Linux and Mac OS X? According to Microsoft’s Security Technology Unit Jeffrey Jones, Vista and XP are indeed better than the other OS, or so it seems.

One of the reason for such a high number of vulnerabilities is the fact that other OS like Linux and Mac comes bundle with tons of softwares that do not exist in Vista or XP, for example operating system like Linux tend to bundle with word processing programs and image editing programs, to include these security holes together with the OS is very unfair, that would be like including Microsoft Office’s security holes together with Vista and XP.

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Microsoft Plans $3 Suite for Emerging Markets

April 20, 2007 · Filed Under Silicon Valley · Comment 

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has finally decided it’s time to sell their Operating System for a small sum or $3, that is the good news and for the bad news, it is going to be made available only in third world, probably not in China and it is not Windows Vista but a trim down version of Windows XP, well I guess when you live in a third world computers are a luxury, getting a good graphic card just for Vista and the Aero rendering engine is not economically viable.

What is the reason behind this sudden change of plans? Experts believe that this could signal the threat pose by Linux, we’ve seen many big company offering linux as an alternative to Windows and on the server side Microsoft is slowly losing out to linux and fear that the same thing might happen in the desktop market. Microsoft’s aim is to have as many as 2 billions computer running Windows in the next few years with the introduction of the $3 Windows XP, good move indeed but can they beat those pirated Windows Vista selling for $1?

As part of the new plan, Microsoft will offer a US$3 software package called the Student Innovation Suite, which includes Windows XP Starter Edition, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Microsoft Math 3.0, Learning Essentials 2.0 for Microsoft Office and Windows Live Mail desktop.

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