Show me the Speakers!!!
by sshaw
It has finally arrived! The list of approved speakers (though it might not be final and more might be added). For those of you out there waiting to see if it is worth paying for admission to the Utah Open Source Conference, the wait is over. Not that this should have ever been questioned. If you see your name and wonder why you haven’t received a notice yet, its on its way. Congrats to all the presenters. See you all then!
Tags: conference, UTOS
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What’s a monopoly again?
by sshaw
So apparently its only a monolopy at 90% share if its against Microsoft according Brad Smith one of Microsof’t's top lawyer (according to the article)Â So Microsoft is all up in arms that it isn’t fair that Google and Yahoo can have a deal that would supposedly give them 90% market share.
This leaves me wondering. So, typically people claim well Microsoft it the better product why else would they have ~90% market share. References you ask… Well you’re in luck.
(Some dates are old)
Wikipedia ~90%
WindowsITPro ~93%
OneStat.com ~97.5%
Market Share by Net Applicatoins ~91%
Yes I know this isn’t the greatest list or maybe even a good list, but well you get the idea. If you have better links or to the contri then post them in a comment.
Tags: google, microsoft, monopoly, yahoo
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PC World, Linux examined by the ‘informed’
by sshaw
Well I’d talk about the article, but well you are just going to have to read it. Just a quick gem though from the article:
The big question is: Given that Red Hat bases its Fedora distribution on OpenSUSE, and that Fedora and OpenSUSE are both distributions with advanced features intended for power users, why would you pick one over the other?
openSUSE Examined
Tags: articles, lame, Linux
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Utah Open Source Conference interview
by sshaw
One of the major projects that I have been working on for the last year or so has been the Utah Open Source Foundation and their annual conference. I’m incharge of sponsorships and marketing, so if you are interested in sponsoring or helping us market the conference better… Please let me know!
Yesterday Jayce, one of the guys in our group, was interviewed on couchcast.org. It was really good, so if you missed it you are lucky they have a stream up that you can listen too. Plus, I think there is a discount code that was announced there.
A direct link to the article and stream: Utah Open Source Conference Preview – Jayce Hall of UTOS – Jul 07, 2008
Tags: 2008, conference, couchcast, UTOS
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HP 2133 Mini-Note also with SLED
by sshaw
I saw an email about this and went to tigerdirect.ca to check it out. HP 2133 Mini-Note on TigerDirect.ca. Also here is the ad from the email.

Tags: 10, HP, SLED
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