Sydney's Linux community took a blow last week, losing EverythingLinux founder Anthony Rumble to what appeared to be a tragic home accident.
Registering a domain name similar to that of another organisation and then using the URL to protest against its namesake's products or services is acceptable, according to a decision made by a WIPO appointed external panel.
A new government program protecting kids from Internet nasties is not Big Brother but more like Big Mother, Olympic swimmer Kieren Perkins said.
British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking revealed his desire today to make "real science as exciting as science fiction" as he publicised a new book for children about the cosmos.
Business executives are spending too much time after work glued to their BlackBerries answering e-mails, according to a recent survey.
Communications minister Stephen Conroy today announced the controversial web filtering blacklist will be scrapped and be replaced with a whitelist-based filtering regime, to be administered by viewer voting through a family-friendly digital TV-only show called 'The White List'.
Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
A year from taking on perhaps the toughest IT job in the country, Defence chief information officer Greg Farr is staring down the barrel of a massive ICT reform agenda for 2009 that will reveal whether Defence got the "expert CIO" they needed.
The Apple Mac is one of the most famous and easily recognisable personal computers ever manufactured. This photo gallery takes a look inside Mac Classic -- and what technology was like in 1991.
Facebook has taken Gawker Media founder Nick Denton to task over some screenshots of a member's profile that he posted on Gawker.com on Tuesday, Portfolio.com reports.
A scientist who was frustrated by his PC's squeaky hard drive tried to stop the problem by drilling a hole through its casing and pouring oil in the hole. The squeak stopped but so did the hard drive. Data recovery firm, Kroll Ontrack offers this and nine more recovery highlights from 2007.
AMD and Intel both have dual-core CPUs out on the market, but which chip maker's technology is truly the best? To find the answer, we built two testbeds as nearly identical as we could and ran each chip through a battery of tests.
Humble pachyderms could be the solution to data storage durability.
With such a wide variety of server platforms available, we take a look at some beefy servers sporting some very impressive processing grunt.
Featuring Intel's new 865 chipset, the Dimension 4600C's case is big on features, though future upgrades are limited.
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