Posted: 20 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT

I can remember so clearly the exact day my mind became open sourced. It was a crisp and sunny November day in 1973. After class in middle school, I called up my best friend, Bruce Jordan, and asked, "Can I come over to play now?" Bruce replied, "Sure." I jumped on my red, one-speed Schwinn bicycle and biked like mad the two miles over to Bruce's house. I arrived happily breathless.

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AMD Reports First Quarter Results

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 12:00 AM PDT

AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced revenue for the first quarter of 2012 of $1.59 billion, net loss of $590 million, or $0.80 per share, and operating loss of $580 million. The company reported non-GAAP net income of $92 million, or $0.12 per share, and non-GAAP operat...

Is vendor lock-in costing Helsinki 3.4 million Euros per year?

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:00 AM PDT

A report on the City of Helsinki's pilot project for the use of OpenOffice in the public administrations leaves the public with more questions than answers. The city trialled the Free Software productivity suite on the laptops of council members for ten months in 2011. The suite enjoyed high approval rates among its users. When the pilot was finished, the City produced a report stating that the costs of migrating the entire administration to OpenOffice would be very high.

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HTML Reporting help

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 03:01 PM PDT

I have a small script that pulls 4 lists from Active Directory each
morning, one for PCs added to the domain, PCs removed, Servers added,
Servers removed. Each list is contained in a string variable:
$strComputersDeleted, $strComputersAdded, $strServersDeleted,
$strServersAdded. The output in each sting, if there is any, looks