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Submission + - Major win for The Pirate Party in recent election

Submitted by mvip on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @11:49AM

mvip writes: In the recent Swedish election for the EU parliament, The Pirate Party made a home run. With 7.1% of the Swedish votes, The Pirate Party secured at least one of Sweden's 18 seats in the parliament. CNet writes "The European elections attracted 43.8 percent of the Swedish voters, which is on par with the European average. Apart from the Pirate Party, which became the fifth biggest party in the elections in Sweden, the Greens were the big winners gaining 10.9 percent resulting in a fourth position and two seats in the parliament. "

Submission + - Review of Safari 4's Fresh Developer Tools (playingwithwire.com)

Submitted by

Siker

on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @02:24PM

Siker writes: "Apple's Safari web browser was upgraded to version 4 yesterday and with it came an update to the developers tools first introduced in Safari 3.1. The new version is set to give Firefox's FireBug plugin some very serious competition. Not only does the Development environment look and perform very well, it's also very full featured."

Submission + - Serious sharing bug in Google Apps? (playingwithwire.com)

Submitted by

mvip

on Monday June 08, 2009 @07:33PM

mvip writes: "Security bugs in Google Apps is nothing new. PlayingWithWire writes about a new bug in Google Apps. This time about it relates to sharing. "Today when I logged into Google Docs I discovered that I had a new document. With Google Doc's collaboration feature, this is nothing shocking. [...] When looking closer I saw something really interesting. The document was shared with 'Everyone.'""

Comment Re:This is Ironic, right? (Score 2, Informative) 361

by mvip on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @03:34AM (#28178707) Attached to: When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails

Simple. It's a hosted VPS. We don't own or operate the core server.

Comment Re:This is Ironic, right? (Score 4, Informative) 361

by mvip on Monday June 01, 2009 @10:05PM (#28176753) Attached to: When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails

We're working on it. The irony is that this is the only server that is still running as a VM (because it is a hosted VPS).

Submission + - When VMware fails, go to jail (playingwithwire.com)

Submitted by

Siker

on Monday June 01, 2009 @08:08PM

Siker writes: "Email transfer service YippieMove ditches VMware, switches to FreeBSD jails: 'We doubled the amount of memory per server, we quadrupled SQLite's internal buffers, we turned off SQLite auto-vacuuming, we turned off synchronization, we added more database indexes. We were confused. Certainly we had expected a performance difference between running our software in a VM compared to running on the metal, but that it could be as much as 10X was a wake-up call.'"

Comment KDE finally found its way home... (Score 1) 513

by mvip on Wednesday January 23, 2008 @11:27PM (#22162896) Attached to: KDE Goes Cross-Platform, Supports Windows and OS X

...to Windows. That's what it's always been struggling to look like anyways.

Submission + - Hacker Community's iPhone Unlock Tested, Works (playingwithwire.com)

Submitted by

Siker

on Saturday September 15, 2007 @12:08AM

Siker writes: "Playing With Wire has tried the newly released Unlock software by the iPhone Dev Team on a new iPhone. The verdict is that it works and that it works well, if with some effort: "if you feel confident with your technical abilities, and you don't feel confident in AT&T's cell phone abilities, this is the tool you've been waiting for.""

Submission + - Building a modern IT infrastructure for < $3,00 (playingwithwire.com)

Submitted by

mvip

on Monday August 20, 2007 @05:00PM

mvip writes: "This article talks about how to build a modern IT infrastructure from scratch with a sub-$3,000 budget. It's not the first article about saving costs using Open Source and Linux, but a slightly different approach using LTSP. The article goes through how to build an IT infrastructure from scratch with 10 clients and 1 server for $3,000 without having to settle for low performance and obsolete software."

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