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Do you happen to be running a Linux distribution and have Panasonic Lumix digital camera?
If yes, you may have problems downloading photos from it – depending on your kernel and udev settings, or more generally, on Linux distribution used.
The tips from below may help you.
Quite recently, HP announced a new line of thin clients with Debian Etch 4.0 preinstalled. That’s certainly good news for Linux, but why HP’s Linux support is Windows only?
Did you also notice an increase of unwanted “Blogspot messages” either in your inbox or spam folder? These messages contain a link to http://<some_random_letters_and_numbers>.blogspot.com, but in the end, you end up on entirely different page – why? Let’s try to analyse the page and find out.
According to Netcraft statistics, Apache is loosing its market share to Microsoft’s IIS since almost the beginning of 2006:
In Mid 2006, the change was really dramatic, and since then, there were countless articles which tried to explain why Apache looses its market share, while IIS have massive gains.
I’ve seen conspiracy theories which claimed that Microsoft pays Netcraft. There were reports of massive “parked” domain blocks hosted on Linux being moved to Windows, or lower TCO of IIS when compared to Apache. Lack of GUI in Apache, superior ASP.NET, release of Windows Vista, you name it. Perhaps just IIS gains more than Apache. Continue reading ‘Just how (un)reliable is Netcraft?’ »