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Submission + - Sony selling off VAIO computer business (theverge.com) 1

Submitted by Kensai7
Kensai7 writes: Confirming reports from earlier in the week, Sony has announced plans to sell off its VAIO computer division to a Japanese investment fund. Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) will take control of the operation for an undisclosed fee, and Sony will "cease planning, design and development of PC products." For a variety of reasons "including the drastic changes in the global PC industry," Sony says "the optimal solution is to concentrate its mobile product lineup on smartphones and tablets and to transfer its PC business to a new company."

Submission + - ReactOS 0.3.16 has been released (reactos.org) 1

Submitted by jeditobe
jeditobe writes: The ReactOS Project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.3.16. A little under a year has passed since the previous release and a significant amount of progress has been made. Some of the most significant include completion of the CSRSS rewrite and the first stages of a shell32 rewrite. 0.3.16 is in many ways a prelude to several new features that will provide a noticeable enhancement to user visible functionality. A preview can be seen in the form of theme support, which while disabled by default can be turned on to demonstrate the Lautus theme developed by community member Maciej Janiszewki. Another user visible change is a new network card driver for the RTL8139, allowing ReactOS to support newer versions of QEMU out of the box. Release images can be found in the usual spot here.

And for those of you that have not heard of it yet, the project is running a Kickstarter campaign in the form of the Thorium Cloud Desktop. If you want to help the project raise the funds to hire multiple full time developers and bring ReactOS to a state where it can be used for day to day activities, then please spread the word and put up a few bucks to back us.

Submission + - Gates returns to Windows 7 after being unable to install the Windows 8.1 upgrade 3

Submitted by Artem Tashkinov
Artem Tashkinov writes: According to rumors Bill Gate's first day at his office in Redmond turned out to be a complete disaster mixed with ostensibly curse words no one had expected from him. He tried to install the Windows 8.1 upgrade but the updater failed continuously asking to reboot the PC. Microsoft's new C.E.O. Satya Nadella who came to help resolve the situation couldn't sort it out. In the end Gates said he would be returning to Windows 7 for the foreseeable future.

Submission + - Bill Gates Spends First Day Back at MS Failing To Install Windows 8.Reverts to 7 (newyorker.com) 1

Submitted by JeffClune
JeffClune writes: Bill Gates’s first day at work in the newly created role of technology adviser got off to a rocky start yesterday as the Microsoft founder struggled for hours to install the Windows 8.1 upgrade.

The installation hit a snag early on, sources said, when Mr. Gates repeatedly received an error message informing him that his PC ran into a problem that it could not handle and needed to restart.

After failing to install the upgrade by lunchtime, Mr. Gates summoned the new Microsoft C.E.O. Satya Nadella, who attempted to help him with the installation, but with no success.

While the two men worked behind closed doors, one source described the situation as “tense.”

“Bill is usually a pretty calm guy, so it was weird to hear some of that language coming out of his mouth,” the source said.

A Microsoft spokesman said only that Mr. Gates’s first day in his new job had been “a learning experience” and that, for the immediate future, he would go back to running Windows 7.

Comment Re:popcorn at 11 (Score 1) 198

by jawtheshark (#46133709) Attached to: First New Generic Top Level Domains Opening
I have several .lu domains... Nobody ever flinches when I use them. Well some are quite surpised if I dictate my email as firstname@surname.lu but they're never surprised about the .lu part, just that it's actually possible to have such an email.
Country TLDs are quite popular outside of the US.

Comment Bad luck? (Score 1) 5

by jawtheshark (#46036777) Attached to: Bosch
Strange, I've got a washing machine and a dryer from Bosch. Never had a single problem with them. All the appliances (oven dishwasher, cooking plate) at the apartment were Bosch also. The fridge was a Zanussi, but mainly because Bosch didn't have one that fit. In the new kitchen, everything is Siemens, but that's basically the same.

I would bet on bad luck. We do tend to get the high-end (most expensive) versions, though.

Also, scumbag repairmen tend to do exactly that. I had exactly this happen on a problem with my spanking brand new boiler. The crap the guy spewed. I got the guys from warranty and they knew what they did. Never calling that repair guy ever again.

Comment Re:Uh? (Score 1) 408

by jawtheshark (#46025415) Attached to: Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access
Easier? That's in the eye of the beholder. I think it's easy, as ssh is part of my daily work routine any way.

If you think remembering port numbers is so hard, you have totally totally overlooked that I said that Remmina does this for you. You don't need to specify a single port in there (assuming you use the default ones). Just fill in your ssh server and the name of the remote machine, set what resolution you like. Done.

Is it a nicely packaged solution? No! Does it work and is it relatively secure. Yes.

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