Over at ZDNet, Garrett Rogers is always pretty good about keeping tabs on Google. Recently he stumbled upon a new service that Google doesn't want the public to see quite yet because it was added to the robots.txt file. The robots.txt protocol is used to prevent web spiders and web robots (like what search engines use) from accessing certain parts

How many times have you plugged a device into your computer only to find out that the operating system doesn't have the drivers you need to run it? Depending on how new your operating system is you should find that device recognition is fairly good... Vista alone ships with over 19,000 drivers for devices that you use everyday.

The

When the "Get a Mac" campaign started back in 2006, most everybody (PC and Mac users alike) got at least a little chuckle out of the commercials. They were funny. At some point though, it started to get a little old. The PC guy is always the stuffy boring person in a suit and the Mac guy is always the "cool dude." When Vista came out, the commercials went from making general comparisons between PC's

In 1993 a project called Wine was started as a way to run Windows applications on Linux without using an emulator. Instead Wine serves as a compatibility layer that includes their own implementation of the Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL's) that make the Windows applications tick, and there has been a lot of reverse engineering done to get it to the current state.

It took over 12

Last week we wrote about how

When someone starts talking about working at Google, one thing that usually comes up is the 20% time. Google employees, engineers in particular, are supposed to be given one day per week to work on a project of their choosing. On the Google Jobs page it talks about "The Engineer's life at Google" and one of the perks they mention is just this. They say, "We offer our engineers "20-percent time" so that they're