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Submission + - Oracle cans commercial OpenOffice (arstechnica.com) 2

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castrox

on Monday April 18, 2011 @04:43AM

castrox writes: "Oracle gives up on development of the commercial branch of OpenOffice. The reason appears to be the drain of mindshare from OpenOffice to the newly created, vendor neutral, LibreOffice fork. Control is to be handed over to the community. I guess we'll see the details to this handover in the coming days or weeks."

Comment Who are they trying to fool? (Score 2) 211

by frank_carmody on Friday April 15, 2011 @02:11PM (#35831198) Attached to: Rivals Mock Microsoft's 'Native HTML5' Claims

When they say stuff like this, what's the point?

Consumers don't know what html5 is and even if they did they wouldn't care. And developers, etc. know what they're saying is lies. So it's a lose-lose type of comment.

Comment I couldn't help but notice... (Score 0) 673

by frank_carmody on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @08:37AM (#35791790) Attached to: Japan Raises Nuclear Plant Crisis Severity To 7

... it's over 9 000!

Comment Re:Nothing is that important... (Score 1) 266

by frank_carmody on Friday April 08, 2011 @02:24PM (#35761026) Attached to: I back up personal files...

I'm completely with you, although it took me years to realize what you say is the correct way to think about this problem. Nonetheless, I put my 'cannot lose' stuff into the ol' Dropbox and that's it. Half-yearly I distribute my music library to a a few select locations around the globe. But to be honest, I would be upset for perhaps 30 minutes if it all disappeared.

Comment Re:My 2TB hard drive is so big... (Score 1) 160

by frank_carmody on Monday March 14, 2011 @10:30PM (#35487268) Attached to: 3TB Hard Drives Square Off Against Everything Else

Hoorah! I can finally re-purchase all my albums in 24-bit, so I can hear them the way Dr. Dre hears them! (j/k)

Comment Re:Related: ripping CDs to FLAC/CUE properly on Li (Score 1) 550

by frank_carmody on Sunday March 13, 2011 @11:05AM (#35471292) Attached to: Why We Should Buy Music In FLAC

Would I be correct in assuming that XLD is the OS X replacement for EAC? If not, what's my best option?

Comment rsync (Score 1) 417

by frank_carmody on Monday February 28, 2011 @12:16AM (#35335266) Attached to: Apple Asks Security Experts To Examine OS X Lion

Not specifically security related but does anyone have any idea what version of rsync has shown up in the beta? The version that ships with 10.6 is rather outdated so it'd be great if this (pretty important) tool were brought in line with where rsync is now.

Bill Gates Is More Admired Than the Pope 470

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @09:50AM from the he-can-afford-more-hats dept.

walterbyrd writes "Americans admire Bill Gates more than the Pope, the Dalai Lama and even Glenn Beck. The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist was named the fifth most admired man of 2010, according to the latest USA Today/Gallup poll."

Intel Intros 310 Series Mini SSDs 122

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @11:17PM from the judge-them-by-their-size-do-you dept.

crookedvulture writes "Intel has added a couple of tiny 310 Series solid-state drives to its storage lineup. Measuring just 51 x 30 x 5.8mm, the mini-SATA SSDs are about a tenth the size of a standard notebook hard drive. Impressively, their performance ratings track with full-sized SSDs. Intel is pushing the 310 Series as a solution for dual-drive notebooks that combine solid-state and mechanical storage to give users the best of both worlds. Next-gen notebooks just got a little more interesting."

4chan Has Been DDOSed 710

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @10:11AM from the happens-to-everyone dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to the 4chan status page all of the 4chan boards have been DDOSed and are down."

Mozilla Posts File Containing Registered User Data 154

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @06:14AM from the heads-up dept.

wiredmikey writes "Mozilla yesterday sent an email to registered users of its addons.mozilla.org site, letting them know that it had mistakenly posted a file to a publicly available Web server which contained data from its user database including email addresses, first and last names, and an md5 hash representation of user passwords."

Comment Terence McKenna spoke a lot about this (Score 3, Informative) 250

by frank_carmody on Sunday December 26, 2010 @03:32AM (#34669008) Attached to: The Animal World Has Its Junkies, Too

Have a listen to his 'Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge' (tape 4 from memory) for a very nice exposition of the Santa Claus/psychedelic reindeer juxtaposition (e.g. red & white Amanita mushrooms that live under Xmas trees, toy-making elves, Lappland, flying reindeer).

The Animal World Has Its Junkies, Too 250

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 26, 2010 @03:09AM from the entire-mountain-covered-in-snow dept.

Phoghat writes "Research scientists have used many animal species in investigating mind-altering drugs, but it may come as a surprise to learn that animals in the wild — from starlings to reindeer — also make use of psychoactive substances of their own accord. It seems that many of these species have a natural desire to experience altered states of consciousness, and man may well have found his way to some of his favourite recreational drugs by observing the behaviour of animals."

Google Unveils Beta Chrome OS Notebook 140

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @05:17PM from the wait-this-is-new-now dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Google has unveiled a beta version of its Chrome OS notebook, dubbed CR48. The device will have a 12.1-inch screen and full-size keyboard, as well as an oversized, clickable touchpad. It will also include world-mode 3G and 802.11 dual-band Wi-Fi. Google promised eight hours of active use and eight days of standby, as well as a webcam.Those hoping to get their hands on a Chrome OS device, however, will either have to wait until mid-2011 or obtain one through one of several Google-backed giveaway options. Google plans to release two, Intel-based Chrome OS notebooks from Acer and Samsung in mid-2011, with Verizon Wireless providing cellular connectivity which comes with 100MB of free data per month for the first two years. According to Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product management, CR48 is not and will not be for sale. All Chrome OS devices will be launched and priced by their partners, who will hold their own launch events in the future with more details."

Comment This is fantastic (Score 5, Interesting) 586

by frank_carmody on Saturday December 04, 2010 @08:56PM (#34446968) Attached to: WikiLeaks Starts Mass Mirroring Effort

I live in Thailand and WikiLeaks is blocked here for some ridiculous reason. The more the 'authorities' around the world try to squeeze the balloon, the more it bubbles out somewhere else. So this is golden for me. The more they are forced to host their site in a non-conventional highly-distributed way, the easier it becomes for the people of Thailand to access it.

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