They have to make money somehow, plus the ads that are generated don't have to be loaded locally, they could be streamed to the OS via some other method. I guess only time will tell.

Yesterday, Google (http://www.google.com) announced (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html) that they are entering the Netbook operating system market with the...

You're right tmpfs is a pretty good alternative (tmpfs is based on ramfs) but it isn't dynamically resizable. I do like the idea of tmpfs using swap for unneeded pages so indeed ramfs needs...

Most often, when someone talks about a filesystem or file system, they're referring to disk filesystems such as NTFS, FAT, ext2, ext3, ext4, ISO 9660 and many others but can also refer to network...

The cheap Netbooks you see advertised at discount stores might not turn out to be so cheap after all. If you see a Netbook advertised at $100 or less, beware--it will end up costing you many times...

Last evening, my friend Jason Perlow (http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow), IM'd me and told me to go to this link (http://download.cnet.com/Presto/3000-2094_4-10910300.html?tag=mncol) and download a...

If you recall, on April 11, I wrote "Linux Store Open for Business: A Fantastic Voyage (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4227.html)," where I told you that I wanted a Netbook for my anniversary. I...

As you probably have heard, Oracle bought Sun for $7.4 billion today. I'm no Larry Ellison fan, because frankly, I think he's a few cards short of a full deck but I think in the long run, this is...

@bbc1971 - Thanks.

@admoore - The cloud, for a clear definition--free of marketing fluff--read here: The Cloud is computer services, based on virtualization and commodity hardware, to provide...

A lot of companies are attempting to hitch their wagons to a star these days with a long layover in the Clouds. Big companies like Sun (http://www.sun.com), IBM (http://www.ibm.com), HP...

For some reason, I didn't experience an outage. Maybe it's because we have a major Google data center 40 miles from here.

So, Feedburner is dead to you. I've never used it and I won't now.

In the old days, a mere 15 years ago, we said that the amount of printed knowledge doubles every 10 years--now, with the Internet and fast computers, it probably doubles every 18 months. That means...

I think Stallman needs a day off. Cloud Computing, by whatever name it's known, is the future of computing.