Good Morning Silicon Valley

“There’s No Free Lunch — or Free Linux.” That was the title of SCO CEO Darl McBride’s keynote address at the Computer Digital Expo in Las Vegas back in 2003 and it signaled the start of a long legal siege. Earlier in the day SCO had announced plans to file suit against a large-scale user [...]

IBM’s OS/2 operating system died years ago and now the company is finally getting around to burying its remains. In an announcement broadcast today, IBM said it will stop selling the long-struggling 32-bit multitasking operating system in December and stop supporting it a year later. “We’re making official what has been going on for quite [...]

As if buying real estate in Atherton, California, weren’t trying enough already, now the Bay Area’s wealthy and reclusive have to compete with homesteading Googlers. Newly flush from the search leader’s ever growing share price, Google employees have apparently descended on Atherton, driving up the prices of the bucolic city’s $25 million tear-downs. In November, [...]

At long last, a way to watch two crappy reality TV programs simultaneously. On Thursday Sharp uncrated a “two-way viewing-angle LCD,” a display that presents different images depending on the angle from which its viewed. The LCD (photo), the first of its kind, sends the light from a backlight into right and left [...]

“The controller is pretty much for an adult audience.”
– Birute Tursa, director of operations for video game accessories firm NubyTech, foreshadows a new rating system for peripherals like his company’s new blood-spattered chainsaw controller for the PlayStation 2.

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The likelihood of layoffs at Hewlett-Packard has been a sword of Damocles hanging over the company ever since CEO Mark Hurd signed on (see “Oh geez! Has this brie been in Carly’s desk since she left?“). And now it seems the thread is about to break. According to Wall Street analysts, HP may announce the [...]

The System Administrator Song (Thanks Wes), Stealth Switches (Thanks Brian) and How to fail an exam (Thanks Paul)

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