Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

A worm in the ol’ Apple!

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

A global supply manager working for Apple has been charged in a US federal grand jury indictment for wire fraud, kickbacks and money laundering, and is also facing a civil suit from Apple itself.

According to a report by the San Jose Mercury News, 37 year old Paul Shin Devine of Sunnyvale, California was named in the 23 count indictment along with Andrew Ang of Singapore. (more…)

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Apple is ruthless

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

During last week’s iPhone leak saga, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, reached out to Gizmodo with a story: The morning of the iPad launch, an engineer showed Woz an iPad for two minutes. For this he was fired.

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Finding files using the command line

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

One of the things I like about Linux is the command line.

I have used nautilus, gnome-commander, konqueror, kommander, and dolphin to manage files in Linux and these file managers are great for what they do. But there are times when one simply wants to find a file when working on the command line without having to open a GUI application.
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Why Linux Looks Different Than Windows

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

One interesting comment I hear all the time, is that Linux distributions are not successful because, they don’t look enough like Windows. Apparently if someone completely copied the interface of Windows and slapped that on top of Linux, Windows users would migrate in droves and Microsoft would be bankrupt, well not really. Let me explain: (more…)

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