Enemies dig in for WiMAX-on-cell phone trench war | The Register
The exception is when Qualcomm is involved. It has a general rule (say its rivals) of hiring as many lawyers as technologists; it will let you use its IP, but only on a strict royalty basis. And the amount it charges is seen as prohibitive - to the point that the GSM spec was drawn up almost entirely with the objective of avoiding any technology owned by Qualcomm.

Getting Vista to work with Samba
I was tinkering with my Vista system the other day, when I found it wouldn’t connect with a pair of NAS (Network Attached Storage) drives. I was not a happy camper.

Posting this one for Andrew’s pleasure. He’s always giving me hassle about how much of a pain it is to install linux apps.

Ian Murdock’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Software installation on Linux: Today, it sucks (part 1)
I have a confession to make. Sometimes, when I’m trying out an unfamiliar open source component, I cheat. Even if the software I’m working on will deploy to Linux, I’ll sometimes develop it on Windows first. Why? Because on Windows, an open source component is likely to come with an installer that just works.

DenverPost.com - “Hi, I’m a Mac. I am way cool.”
“PC, that little wireless router you use to connect to the Internet runs a variety of Linux. When you search with Google, you’re dealing with a Linux cluster. Most web servers run Linux. I’m in a lot of places. If I shut down, both of you guys would be in a world of hurt.”

Man boots Mac OS X on Asus UMPC, shoots video | Reg Hardware
Apple’s Mac OS X has been successfully used to boot up an Asus R2H ultra-mobile PC (UMPC), which runs the operating system slowly but surely. To minimise claims that all the still photography is faked, the start-up process has been captured on video.

Windows 2000 Kerberos 5 (krb5 1.0) Interoperability
The Microsoft Windows® 2000 operating system implementation of the Kerberos version 5 protocol is designed for interoperability with other security services based on the MIT Kerberos version 5 reference implementation.

Windows 2000 Kerberos Interoperability
The Microsoft® Windows® 2000 operating system implements the standard Kerberos network authentication protocol to improve security and interoperability. While new to Windows, the Kerberos protocol is not new and has been implemented on a number of operating system platforms. This paper describes common scenarios for interoperability between Windows 2000 and other Kerberos implementations.

Planet Malaysia Blog - » How to join Fedora Core 6 Samba Server to Windows 2003 Active Directory?

Installing Apache PHP MySQL
PHP and MySQL are usually associated with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). However, most PHP developer ( including me ) are actually using Windows when developing the PHP application. So this page will only cover the WAMP ( Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP ). You will learn how to install Apache, PHP, and MySQL under Windows platform.

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