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jcatcw writes: Microsoft's Office Open XML was rejected by the International Standards Organization today. To be accepted as a standard, a proposal must pass two hurdles, and this one failed both of them. Now, Microsoft will have to respond to negative comments and hope it can get a positive vote in early 2008. In the meantime, MS may be losing revenue to open source competitors, according to Computerworld.
Google Code for Educators, announced during Google's Faculty Summit last month, offers tutorials, sample course content, video lectures, and a Curriculum Search tool that focuses on Web-based materials from computer science departments worldwide.
Apple bumped up its Mac mini with faster Core 2 Duo processors and larger hard disks, but left the system otherwise unchanged in this modest refresh to its entry-level Mac.
Tiber writes: "The website Troop Ideas is looking for people with military experience (either currently serving or with some insight) to share their ideas for tech improvement and process streamlining. They are looking for ideas which they can implement which will make the troops lives easier, safer, or more efficient. The way it works is that someone submits an idea, Gestalt (I do not work for them) will whip up a proof of concept, then things are presented to the brass. Try to fit a thinking cap under your helmet!"
I am feeling its just about time again to make a contribution to the GPL community.
This article explains how to set up a nearly spam free SMTP server.
I hope youll enjoy it.
http://gerstmann.net/How2BlockSpam.html
Marcion writes: "Some handy Japanese guy called Hamachiya discovered a bug in Internet Explorer. Under certain conditions, an asterisk when used as a wildcard can crash IE as soon as the user attempts to go to another webpage. Feel free to add the code to your stylesheet too!"
Ant writes: "Linux.com reports that during the opening keynote at this week's LinuxWorld Expo, kernel developer Andrew Morton called for more assistance in testing the Linux kernel from users, and predicted that virtualization would be the big thing for the next few years of kernel development..."
An anonymous reader writes: I am curious as to what other tech sites all the other Slahdot users read on a very regular basis. I for one read Slahdot, Endgadget and a number of others but am curious as to what everyone else reads when they are looking for their daily fill of tech news. Any suggestions?
Bearhouse writes: Picked this up via doggdot, so sorry if dupe. Anyways, there's been some discussion here about Automatix, with some liking it, and others (predictably) not. Interesting — if rather brief — critique here:
http://mjg59.livejournal.com/77440.html
So, do people agree? What are the better alternatives?
exeme writes: Ubuntu developer Matthew Garrett has recently analysed famed Ubuntu illegal software installer Automatix and found it to be actively dangerous to Ubuntu desktop systems. In a detailed report which only took Garrett a couple of hours he found many serious, show-stopper bugs and concluded that Ubuntu could not officially support Automatix in its current state. Garrett also goes on to say that simple Debian packages could provide all of the functionality of Automatix without any of the problems it exhibits.
MojoKid writes: "Western Digital took a bit longer than expected to finally release a desktop drive larger than 500 Gig, but their first release,
the Caviar SE16 WD7500AAKS looks to be an impressive rendition of new advancements in hard disk perpendicular recording technology. This new 750G WD drive
gave Seagate's 7200.10 equivalent a run for its money and beat it in every performance test shown at HotHardware. Also, with storage prices so low right now, the 750G monster weighs in at a svelte $0.33/GB or better, with current street prices falling below the $250 range.""
An anonymous reader writes: The FTC is allowing people to voice their concerns and opinions on the private sector's use of SSNs (Social Security Numbers). The page to voice your comments can be found here:
https://secure.commentworks.com/ftc-SSNPrivateSect or/
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