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Programming

Submission + - Torvalds pans Apple with 'utter crap' putdown

Submitted by SlashJoel
SlashJoel writes: According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Linus Torvalds didn't mince words when asked to compare Apple's Leopard with Windows Vista. Speaking at the linux.conf.au conference, Torvalds said, "I don't think they're equally flawed — I think Leopard is a much better system, but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary." Obviously he had much kinder words for Linux; is Apple's file system really that much worse than Windows and Linux?
Operating Systems

Submission + - Torvalds pans Apple with 'utter crap' putdown

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An anonymous reader writes: From The Age:

Apple's much-touted new operating system, OS X Leopard, is in some ways worse than Windows Vista, says the founder of the Linux open source project, Linus Torvalds.

Torvalds was in Melbourne last week for the linux.conf.au conference and was invited to pass judgement on OS X versus Windows Vista in a wide-ranging interview.

"I don't think they're equally flawed — I think Leopard is a much better system," he said. "(But) OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary."

Comment Extra revenue from experiment not accounted for : (Score 1) 562

by erfmuffin (#21261373) Attached to: 38% of Downloaders Paid For Radiohead Album
What about the payment from the marketing company who paid for access for the sales information and our user data, and the consequent revenue raised by selling this data back to the music industry. I'll bet it's not insignificant, marketing data is big business and nobody want's it more right now than the music and related industries.
Data Storage

Submission + - Data storage administrators go on trial (computerworld.com)

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Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: "Just as e-mail retrieval played a central role in the $1.58 billion judgment in favor of Ronald Perelman against MorganStanley, U.S. companies are more likely today to find themselves in the cross hairs of lawsuits and at risk of e-discovery legal challenges, according to a series of Computerworld stories. More than 60% of organizations have been ordered by a court or regulatory body to produce corporate e-mail or other electronic documents, according to new research."
United States

Submission + - Highway 35W Collapses into Mississippi (wcco.com)

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dcapel
dcapel writes: "In what has been called the worst engineering disaster in decades, a bridge of highway 35W, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has collapsed into the Mississippi. The collapse took place during late rush-hour traffic, so an estimated 50 cars were on the bridge at the time. There is no evidence for terrorist involvement, but an engineering or safety flaw of immense proportions must have been involved. As someone who was working only blocks away at the time, this happened entirely too close to home."
Privacy

Submission + - Australia to ban P2P

Submitted by Karl_R
Karl_R writes: The guys at whirlpool.net.au have posted a story about a U-tern by the Australian Federal government.

"The federal government has shocked industry by rushing a bill through parliament that will compel ISPs to block all P2P traffic. It is a back-flip on a promise made just weeks ago that the government would move ahead with its filtering plans using PC-based parental controls, which, at the time, it argued would provide flexibility for internet users. (source whirlpool.net.au)"
User Journal

Journal Journal: Slashdotted... my life is complete.

Journal by erfmuffin
Today is the 8th of May. Before I left work yesterday, I ASKed SLASHDOT about a spam issue I was working on. The following day at work, I realise my post has come and gone.. I missed it! Four years of rejected posts and I finally get accepted.. and I miss it! Well ... as there were no links (other than my homepage) I wasn't subjected to melting servers, notoriety, or death by flames. Maybe next time eh.

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