O’Reilly: Inside RIA

Well as I suspected, there is a much larger percentage of our readers using non Windows operating systems. The results show that over 20% use some flavor of Linux, over 47% are using OS X, and the remaining 30% or...

I went and did a little digging around and found that the stats below are about the average of what I was seeing. This particular sample was snagged from http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp. However, I have a feeling that our audience will have...

A couple of months ago, I got a brand new Dell laptop. To future-proof it, I ordered it with enough RAM that it needed 64-bit Windows to fully use all that muscle. So, once my in-house IT department (AKA my wonderful husband) installed Windows 7 on it, I fired it up for the first time and went through the process of setting it up to connect to the servers at work. Oops! I immediately had a problem. The Citrix client that the company I work for provides for download and installation won't even install to 64-bit Windows, and according to Server Guy (yes, that's his official title), the 64-bit clients it does make require an upgrade to the servers.