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September 27, 2011

Geek Smack! #201: HP, Yahoo! Change CEO. What Direction Should they Go from Here?

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www.thegeeksmack.com – Weekly Show of Technology news and Geek news. This week – What direction should HP take with Meg Whitman? Where should Yahoo go from here?

November 30, 2010

LibreOffice Beta for Windows and Linux

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LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice. That requires a bit of explanation for those not familiar with open source slang. A decade ago, Sun Microsystems donated the code for their office program, StarOffice, to the open source community as the Open Office office suite. They contintued to develop proprietary components for OpenOffice, while OO took […]

September 12, 2009

The Pros, Cons of Working, Playing in the Clouds

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“I was just wondering if you wanted to chase this tornado, or if you just wanted to catch the next one.” — Beltzer – Twister (Warner Bros, 1996) Larry Ellison (Oracle’s CEO) was right! The computer/communications industry is really just a huge fashion industry. When Grace Hopper (the Navy’s computing genius) couldn’t explain what was […]