Comment Re:Stupid! (Score 1) 577
It might now. Take a look at ChromeOS.
Comment Re:Gratuitous subject (Score 1) 159
ZH72$uew36fwz*eiwJjewiwifaghe32^
WTF?! That's the combination to my luggage!
Comment Re:Very well written (Score 2) 505
Sounds interesting. Can I borrow your password? ( I swear I don't live in Tennessee. )
Comment Re:One word: (Score 2) 183
Is "One" the slovenian translation of the English word "Three"?
Comment Re:Hold on a second. (Score 1) 183
Do we even have confirmation that Samsung's tech support is India-based, or is this more FUD/speculation?
Comment Thoughts (Score 1) 466
Is it me, or does the writing suggest that he wrote every other letter spaced out, then went back in and wrote every other letter in the blanks?
Perhaps the parentheses indicate sets of letters where he did this...?
Comment Re:Hackers... (Score 2) 1200
The Gibson name was used because Clay or SGI wouldn't lend them their name, iirc.
Comment Re:This Is A Vote For Freedom (Seriously) (Score 1) 607
Infrastructure that wouldn't exist in the first place without sizable grants and monopoly assignment by our government.
So more like your sweat and our money.
Break up the area DSL/cable duopolies and force the lines to open up, then allow ISPs to kill off net neutrality in their area when there are at least 10 viable competitors, rather than two services that both suck.
Comment Re:I call no-way (Score 4, Funny) 270
Yeah, I had the same issue searching for scrotwm, a window manager I was checking the man page for.
Submission + - High flying supercomputer Blue Devil blimp (suasnews.com)
garymortimer writes: This fall, there’ll be a new supercomputer in Afghanistan. It’ll be floating 20,000 feet above the warzone, aboard a giant spy blimp that watches and listens to everything for miles around, says Gizmodo. The Air Force hopes it will stay aloft for as much as a week, nearly four miles up.
The $211 million “Blue Devil” blimp would be seven times the size of the Goodyear Blimp. A dozen different sensors could then “talk” to each other constantly. The supercomputer will crunch the data. The goal is to get that coordinated information down to ground troops in less than 15 seconds.
The $211 million “Blue Devil” blimp would be seven times the size of the Goodyear Blimp. A dozen different sensors could then “talk” to each other constantly. The supercomputer will crunch the data. The goal is to get that coordinated information down to ground troops in less than 15 seconds.
Submission + - OSI, FSF Collaborate Against Patent Threat To FOSS (thinq.co.uk) 1
Blacklaw writes: The Open Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundations — two organisations fighting for the same cause, but traditionally in very different ways — have joined forces in an attempt to prevent Novell patents falling into Microsoft's hands.
Novell, which ended months of speculation by announcing its acquisition by Attachmate in November of last year, made $450 million by selling 882 patents to a consortium known as CPTN — a group of technology companies including Apple, EMC, and Oracle, headed up by Microsoft — a move which the pair claim "represents a serious threat to the growing use of free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) throughout business, government, academia, and non-profit organizations worldwide."
Novell, which ended months of speculation by announcing its acquisition by Attachmate in November of last year, made $450 million by selling 882 patents to a consortium known as CPTN — a group of technology companies including Apple, EMC, and Oracle, headed up by Microsoft — a move which the pair claim "represents a serious threat to the growing use of free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) throughout business, government, academia, and non-profit organizations worldwide."
Submission + - Indian Company rolls out $100 computer (blogspot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: elLoka Techsolutions Pvt Ltd a Hyderabad based product design and manufacturing company that delivers Ultra Low Cost Computer Platforms(ULCCP), has come up with a palm-sized computer that is very cheap and consumes very little power. The computer consumes a measly 5W thus helping reduce a user's carbon footprint. Cost of the computer is Indian Rupees 5000 approx. $100. It runs a customized OS based on Linux. The computer is targeted at home users and people in villages where they face intermittent power cuts. Dubbed GreCo (for Green Computing), it can also run on solar power.
Submission + - First beta of Archipel, an XMPP based orchestrator (archipelproject.org)
Primalmotion writes: "Archipel is a new kind of open source orchestrator to manage virtualization. It uses libvirt to support a lot of different engines, and XMPP to provide with real time communication. VMs and hypervisors are shown as 'buddies' just like they were your friends in GTalk. It runs a small agent on hypervisors (written in python) and a web-based GUI written in Objective-j/Cappuccino (which is to javascript what Objective-C/Cocoa is to C) that allows to have the look and feel of a class-desktop application. The GUI runs under all OSes (able to run a decent browser) and can be deployed anywhere. Archipel is fully modular and provides with a XMPP management core and a set of modules. You also can use any Jabber client to communicate with your platform with normal chat. For example, you can send to a virtual machine a message like "Hey, can you reboot?" or "How are you?", and if something bad happens, you'll be notified as well."
Submission + - Will Ubuntu 11.4 includ LibreOffice?
yacovdrori writes: The nightly build for ubuntu 11.4 alpha included libreoffice as well as openoffice.
for the first time since libre office forked out of open office' ubuntu is adding the RC release to the distro.
does this mean Ubuntu is taking sides?
for the first time since libre office forked out of open office' ubuntu is adding the RC release to the distro.
does this mean Ubuntu is taking sides?
Submission + - Apple Joint Last In Transparency Study (guardian.co.uk)
krou writes: A new transparency study, which looks at the openness of IT companies and their responsiveness to possible environmental violations by their suppliers, placed Apple joint last in a list of 29 IT companies and firms. Hewlett Packard, British Telecom, Samsung, Sony, Siemens and Alcatel ranked highest. The report's authors, a group of 36 anti-pollution groups involved in the Green Choice Initiative, claimed in a statement that 'Behind their stylish image, Apple products have a side many do not know about – pollution and poison. This side is hidden deep within the company's secretive supply chain.' In their report, none of the companies forced their suppliers to disclose details about waste discharges, but Apple was worst at providing data or answering questions. One such example was last May 'when at least 62 workers fell sick after inhaling n-hexane used to clean touch screens at a Wintek electronics factory in Suzhou', which is believed to be supplying Apple. 'The managers at the Taiwan-owned plant reportedly switched to the noxious chemical – which can cause nerve damage for up to two years – apparently because it dried more quickly than alcohol, thus increasing efficiency.' The report's authors claim they tried for months to get information from Apple, but it refused to make any comment. Ma Jun of the Institute for Public and Environmental Affairs comments that 'This attitude means it is impossible to have any public supervision over their supply chain. Without that how can we trust them? When environmental violations become public knowledge, they should not use commercial confidentiality as an excuse for silence. This is different from other leading brands. Apple can say it is completely 'green' because it is a brand with no factory, but if it doesn't manage its supply chain, these are just empty words. Far from being the best on planet, it is bottom among 29 IT brands. Apple should be a leader. If it can move on this, it can change the whole industry.'
