Daily Archives: October 25, 2011

“7” Adoption Flattens

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Robert Pogson

2011-10-20 “over 450 million licences sold since launch” 2011-7-21 “over 400 million licenses and business deployments continue to accelerate” 2011-4-28 “fastest selling operating system in history with 350 million licenses sold” 2011-1-27 “over 300 million Windows 7 licenses” 2010-10-28 “a … Continue reading →

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Act to Amend the Criminal Code and Firearms Act Introduced in Canadian House of Commons

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Robert Pogson

see C19 41st Parliament 1st Session Some highlights: “12.1 A registration certificate may only be issued for a prohibited firearm or a restricted firearm.” “23. A person may transfer a firearm that is neither a prohibited firearm nor a restricted … Continue reading →

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Shopping in Romania

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Robert Pogson

I found a link to a retail establishment in Romania. The score: PCs with that other OS: 136 PCs with GNU/Linux: 42 PCs with FreeDOS: 140 PCs with MacOS: 6 You can argue that with such a high proportion of … Continue reading →

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Cuba

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Robert Pogson

I know of a group who visited Cuba recently. They found immense poverty. I thought to check out the statistics about IT: CONCEPT UM 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Number of existing computers M 300.0 377.0 430.0 509.0 630.0 … Continue reading →

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M$ – The Bad Citizen

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Robert Pogson

From M$’s last SEC filing: “NOTE 11 INCOME TAXES Our effective tax rates were approximately 21% and 25% for the three months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively. Our effective tax rate was lower than the U.S. federal statutory … Continue reading →

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State of Debian GNU/Linux

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Robert Pogson

Now that I have my server running again I fired up a virtual machine to play with Debian GNU/Linux: In a virtual machine of 512 MB RAM and 8gB storage, I did a standard desktop installation of Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze. … Continue reading →

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