For the past 5-6 months I've been using a MacBook in my office and at home a I've a laptop which dual boots between Windows Vista Home Premium and Ubuntu Ultimate Edition 1.8 64 bit. So I thought, I could write something comparing these three operating systems. First, I would like to start with Linux or more accurately GNU Linux.

Both models each serve the specific needs and circumstances of the environment where the software is to be deployed. And such needs and circumstances ultimately determine what factors are relevant and applicable, and whether certain advantages and disadvantages of the open source or commercial software model should be given more weight and consideration in determining the approach for that implementation and deployment.

Yahoo has banned its staff from "remote" working. After years of many predicting working from home as the future for everybody, why is it not the norm? When a memo from human resources dropped into the inbox of Yahoo staff banning them from working from home it prompted anger from many of its recipients.

A conversation about the benefits and drawbacks of Yahoo's new policy Twice a month, a panel of dads discusses a topic of the moment. For today's conversation, they discuss benefits and drawbacks of working from home. Part one of the discussion is below; parts two and three are here and here.

There are strong arguments in favour of remote or teleworking. Time saved not having to commute into a central office can translate into higher productivity, better quality of life, and give people with families more flexibility over how they organise their time.

Hotel chain Mandarin Oriental has confirmed that credit card data has been stolen in a hack attack on the company's network. The data went astray from card processing systems in the company's hotels in the US and Europe. Mandarin Oriental has not said exactly how many hotels were hit nor how much data has gone missing.

Users of the Amazon-owned video game streaming service Twitch have been instructed to change their passwords amid fears the site has been hacked. Twitch told users that their names and phone numbers were among the details feared to have been leaked. It said it had deleted passwords, which were encrypted, and disconnected users' accounts from Twitter and YouTube.

British Airways' air-miles accounts, the coding site GitHub and the work chat service Slack have all been hit in the latest wave of cyber-attacks. The firms have all notified their users of the incidents, which varied in approach and do not appear to be connected.

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Buying a goat online....this ecommerce site is a great example of enterprise in developing countries. "EthioGift provides the fastest and most reliable gift delivery service in Addis Ababa. Remember your familly and friends backhome on holidays (such as Fasika, New Year, Genna etc.) as well as on important private occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, weddings etc."

During the latest UK election - a Facebook group was setup to support a political party called the Liberal Democrats into Power. This group had similar success getting a particular record to the top of the UK charts.

We want to tell the story of the Egyptian revolution with the same tools that helped share it with the world in realtime. We want #18DaysInEgypt to be a crowd-sourced interactive documentary of the events in Egypt from #Jan25 to #Feb11.

Community clinics are turning technologically savvy. Spurred on by federal funds, they are adopting electronic health records at rates exceeded only by HMOs. Community health centers once had the lowest rate of electronic health record use. Only 8 percent had them in place in 2006. Today, community health centers have the second-highest rate of use.

An electronic health record (EHR) is an evolving concept defined as a systematic collection of electronic health information about individual patients or populations. It is a record in digital format that is theoretically capable of being shared across different health care settings.

A database management system (DBMS) is system software used to manage the organization, storage, access, security and integrity of data in a structured database.

As one of the oldest components associated with computers, the database management system, or DBMS, is a computer software program that is designed as the means of managing all databases that are currently installed on a system hard drive or network.

Internet addiction is a "clinical disorder", says The Daily Telegraph. The newspaper quotes a leading psychiatrist who suggests that "obsessive internet use is a public health problem, which is so serious it should be officially recognised as a clinical disorder".