An Italian judge has ruled in favour of a consumer who asked for a refund because the Compaq notebook he had bought came pre-loaded with Microsoft’s Windows XP and Works 8.
The customer complained to HP that he had no choice but to buy the laptop with the Microsoft’s omnipresent operating system and application pre-installed. HP/Compaq initially refused to accept their customers complaint, so the he took them to court earlier this year. HP has been ordered to refund the customer €90 for XP and €50 for Works.
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Mac OS X Leopard comes with a built-in web server (Apache) and with PHP version 5 (5.2.4 to be precise). This makes OS X a great web development platform out of the box and it comes. While there are 3rd party Apache/PHP/MySQL packages like MAMP, XAMP it isn’t hard to get the native PHP and Apache working.
There is a great article on this here.
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Apple has reported that it sold 2 million copies of Mac OS X Leopard in its first weekend. Sales included copies sold at Apple’s retail stores, Apple Authorized Resellers, the online Apple Store, under maintenance agreements and bundled with new Mac computers. In comparison, it took the Cupertino-based Mac maker approximately six weeks to ship its 2 millionth copy of Mac OS X Tiger back in 2005.
You can read more at AppleInsider.
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Leopard has only been out a few days and already the hackers have come up with a way to install OS X 10.5 on a PC. Not a Mac but on a run of the mill PC.
To install it you will need a patched DVD of Leopard, the zip file containing the patch and a pen drive or USB Flash Drive formatted as FAT32. You need a PC with an Intel CPU with at least SSE3.
As OS X is designed only for Apple hardware most of your hardware like sound …

Since this is getting international press coverage we would be negligent not to mention it here… Today is the day of Mac OS X 10.5 (AKA Leopard).

If you have been living under a rock for the last 3 months and don’t know what Leopard is they you can see more here. Apple also have a guided tour video.
Now for the blurb… Leopard is the most impressive Mac OS X version yet and has over 300 new features. To run it you will need a Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC …

If you were with your eyes on this, you may already know that on the compiz community forum the first stable version of Compiz-Fusion, that is 0.6.0 has been released. But if you happen to use debian unstable, aka sid, you may want to add to your repositories that of “shame“, whose packages work well, in my case with the speedy, shiny, always up-to-date rolling-release distro called sidux.
This release includes:
Compiz Plugin sets (plugins are split into three packages according to their
usefulness and stability):
compiz-fusion-plugins-main:
This is the main plugin set, fully supported …

Asus has revealed that Microsoft has agreed to provide the Taiwanese vendor with a version of Windows Vista that can be pre-installed on their diminutive notebook called the Eee PC.
Asus has told Register Hardware on Friday that with a “little optimization”, Windows XP can be installed on the machine and still leave the EeePC’s solid-state storage with enough room for apps. An Asus spokesman has revealed that Microsoft have already contacted the company to discuss the development of an Eee PC-friendly version of Vista.
There seems to be some skepticism about …

Seems Google’s on a roll to give gifts to good nerd-kiddies this season, and they started early. Following the recent Gmail storage space increase, now we get the long-awaited IMAP support. The support pages have been updated and although not everyone has the feature yet, I am sure it won’t be too long. This is obviously a lot better than POP3 as you don’t have to sync mail all the time, and if you say move an e-mail into a folder in Outlook, it also gets labeled in Gmail, the …

If you’re an Amazon associate (if not, go ahead an become one), you can earn 20% commission on MP3 downloads from Amazon. There are currently over 2 million songs from 180.000 artists sold in DRM-free format on Amazon’s new MP3 downloads store.
This offering is valid through December 31st, when the commissions will go down to only 10%, so make that money while you can! More details on Amazon’s associate blog.
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Today Apple announced the official release date and prices for the next version of OS X codenamed Leopard. In the announcement Steve Jobs was happy to point out that “And everyone gets the ‘Ultimate’ version, packed with all the new innovative features, for just $129.” which was a swipe of Windows Vistas and its many versions.
However not quite everyone will get OS X 10.5 for $129. The price in the UK for OS X 10.5 will be £85 and in the Republic of Ireland it will cost 129 Euros.
The current …