Comment Simply.. (Score 1) 674
..show them the numbers. Microsoft Windows' security flaws since 1995 vs that of Linux
Comment asdf (Score 1) 68
.......just when i thought Oslo couldn't become a shittier place to live (i'm half serious, hate that placE)
Submission + - Who gets the unfinished software?
zaunuz writes: What happends to unfinished software, mainly consisting of bits and pieces of perl-code, if the company you wrote it for goes bankrupt? This might be the case where i currently work. For the past year i have been in charge of a fairly big project, but due to poor economical planning higher up in the system, it is quite possible that the company will die before me and my team are finished. If this happends, we would like to continue the project on our own, since it is fairly close to completion, and it would suck to just scrap what we've invested so many hours and cups of coffee into. The creditors are most likely to be the new owners of the code, however, do the creditors care about unfinished code? Afterall, first they'd have to understand what it does. After they've done that, they'd have to finish it themselves. Has anyone else experienced a similar situation?
Submission + - The ASUS Eee PC: A Closer Look
Krishna Dagli writes: "The Eee PC priced at $199 similar to the OLPC project.
http://www.hothardware.com/printarticle.aspx?artic leid=981
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http://www.hothardware.com/printarticle.aspx?arti
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Submission + - divining the actual users who've viewed a webpage
Darkshin writes: "Um I will be honest this is a fool's errand.
Please don't think little of me for asking what I am about to ask but first : reason.
I blog quite a bit on *sigh* myspace. I posted a blog and then went into the "manage my blog" it had been less than thirty seconds and i already had 4 views...30 secs later it was eight. I checked back an hour later and one more viewing had occurred. However I thought it wierd that my PROFILE views had not gone up even once for all 9 of my blog views. So these "viewers" directly had to go into my blog bypassing the profile...(i think; there could be a coding aspect i am unaware of...)
But my question is this...Is there any code that I can use to place a special counter in the HTML to not only track the # of views but relay the users ID of the viewers? And for the ID not just the IP or whatever but the actual myspace user...but I think I should need both because a viewer need not necessarily be a myspace registered user...
Any and all help is most welcome I am a complete Noob when it comes to CS but I am learning...I mean come on it's my chosen major.
Thank you"
Submission + - New Patent for keyboard video game control
deathy_epl+ccs writes: It's not real clear whether this guy's patent on controlling a video game using nothing but a keyboard's arrow keys is just a protest, a statement against the broken nature of the USPTO, or whether he genuinely believes he's managed to get a license to print money with the award of the patent, but we can at least take comfort that it wouldn't be likely to survive being challenged.
I first read about this over at GameSetWatch
I first read about this over at GameSetWatch
Submission + - "Spam King" pleads guilty in U.S. federal
Monty writes: As previously reported by Cmdr Taco in February, 2006 (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/28/14 41229) looks like Adam Vitale finally decided to plead guilty (http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN 1120537620070611) to violation of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 in federal court in New York City. Is his cohort Moeller next?
Submission + - Victory In My Battle Against A Feed-Scraping Thief (madkane.com)
Mad Kane writes: "A personal story about my successful battle with a content-stealing site, including a handy content protection resource list.
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2007/06/11/victo ry-in-my-battle-against-feed-scraping-content-thie f-4comedycom/"
Submission + - Open Source Is All About Choice, Isn't It? (devx.com)
AlexGr writes: "From Allan McNaughton (DevX):
If you are an open source ISV seeking to offer your customers more choices, you should seriously consider supporting Microsoft Windows as a deployment option. Allan McNaughton explores some of the reasons that make partnering with Microsoft so compelling.
Developers love choice. And open source developers have choice aplenty. There is a veritable avalanche of technologies that can be used to build open source applications. Of these technologies, the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) has emerged as one of the most popular open source development and deployment platforms. Open source ISVs who embrace LAMP technologies (SugarCRM for example), have gained legions of volunteer developers who contribute time, energy, and ideas (although for every open source success story there are hundreds of projects that never gain critical mass).
http://www.devx.com/MicrosoftISV/Article/34632?trk =DXRSS_ENTR"
Submission + - Selling a software company
TogetherGirl writes: I'm a partner in a small software company that sells 7 software products worldwide. We have been in business for about 5 years and each year sales have increased nicely.
Because of different philosophies / interests / opinions, we have decided to part ways. We have all agreed that it is best to sell the company or all products to a third party and hence, distribute the proceeds according to share ownership.
Since there is interest in our products by our competitors, we are trying to determine what is the best multiple of gross product sales to be used in calculating the 'selling price' of the company or all of the products.
I know there is no exact science but what is the average multiple (of gross sales) used to determine the asking / selling price of a software company?
Can anyone point out some good examples of companies being bought for around $1 million USD?
Thanks
Because of different philosophies / interests / opinions, we have decided to part ways. We have all agreed that it is best to sell the company or all products to a third party and hence, distribute the proceeds according to share ownership.
Since there is interest in our products by our competitors, we are trying to determine what is the best multiple of gross product sales to be used in calculating the 'selling price' of the company or all of the products.
I know there is no exact science but what is the average multiple (of gross sales) used to determine the asking / selling price of a software company?
Can anyone point out some good examples of companies being bought for around $1 million USD?
Thanks
Submission + - Hatred for PHP -- in the case of Ruby's Matz (rubyist.net)
An anonymous reader writes: I know you believe in the Programmer Hierachy, right? Here's one real world example. Matz, the author of Ruby, posted a blog entry about a bad design of PHP. It began in another guy's blog entry... That guy found out that there is a strange behavior in PHP's round function, and he guessed why it happened in very funny way. Then Matz took it seriously and he said... "Well, this is totally impossible design of programming language, but can PHP user trust the language with such a bad sense of it?? I fee very sad."
I hear a lot of the word of "Love" in Ruby community recently. Isn't it a nice way to love your neighbor huh?
eg: Here's Google Translation of Matz's blog. the diary of hnw — the strange round function of PHP on Matz's blog on May 27, 2007
I hear a lot of the word of "Love" in Ruby community recently. Isn't it a nice way to love your neighbor huh?
eg: Here's Google Translation of Matz's blog. the diary of hnw — the strange round function of PHP on Matz's blog on May 27, 2007
Submission + - IT gurus are top marriage material in India (bbc.co.uk)
snkmoorthy writes: "Rafia Khatoon is a mother on a mission.She's looking for a good matrimonial match for her 28-year-old Rakshi."I want an IT professional," she says, "preferably someone based in London, or someone who has the opportunity to work overseas in the future."
For the IT professionals who have spent years labouring under nicknames such as nerd, geek or computer whiz — and those are the nicer ones — this attention comes as a pleasant surprise.
They've hardly ever been seen as the most glamorous of types. Often stereotyped as hard working and intelligent — and well, just a little bit boring — they're not often seen as the ideal mate."
