Comment Re:Don't be an idiot (Score 1) 547
This is one of the most insightful slashdot comments I read in years. Someone had to stop this IANAL whining.
Let us introduce another abbreviation, LINASB or Lawer Is Not A Silver Bullet.
Comment Re:Blackhole all of Russia (Score 1) 140
Hm... you sould like someone who has not been in Russia for ages
Comment Boys, you all forget one thing (Score 3, Funny) 235
The story is about the Europe where governments subsidise the solar panel use by giving enormous tax cuts to the buyers of solar panels and even going as far as providing 0-interest credits.
This insane amount of state intervention spawns corruption in the production and supply of the solar panels, which explains such high prices.
Comment Re:The most amazing part of this whole story is... (Score 1) 397
That's a good plan for a nation-wide strike.
Comment For the sake of god! (Score 3, Informative) 242
Guys, there is a dozen of Linux distros is Russia. AltLinux is the most known, but there are also ASPLinux, Linux XP and a military classified .
All the distro developers and lots of system integrators are in the battle for the state funding right now, so do not expect to know now what will the Russian national OS be tomorrow.
Comment Re:There is only one keyboard (Score 1) 523
I had the Unicomp keyboard (AFAIR, the 102-keys model) as a birthday gift four or five years ago and it is still looking new, although I use it at work every day.
Comment Re:Too Expensive these days (Score 1) 85
AFAIR, they still have the basic version for free.
Submission + - LAMP optimisation in a virtualized environment?
Sam Lowry writes: There are tons on tutorials all over the net about LAMP optimizations on dedicated hosts. Now, can anyone suggest approaches to the the optimization on the virtual servers running on Xen or something similar?
EU Gives Microsoft 8 Days Until Fines 537
kaysan writes "European Commissioner Neelie Kroes has presented Microsoft with an ultimatum: Before Thursday next week, Microsoft must hand over all secret information on Windows protocols to its competition. Should the company choose to ignore this demand, it will be severely fined. Microsoft's history with EU fines so far amounts to approximately Euro777.5 million. Both linked websites are Dutch, but then again, so is EU commissioner Neelie Kroes."
