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Submission + - Amazon Patents 1 + 1 = 2

Submitted by

theodp

on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @02:49AM

theodp writes: "The USPTO has issued Amazon a brand spanking new patent for Determining Page Numbers of Page Images, a process which the e-tailer explains involves 'extracting all numbers that are exactly one different than a number found on an adjacent page'."

Submission + - Microsoft Pressures Testers After Software Leak

Submitted by

narramissic

on Friday April 13, 2007 @03:52PM

narramissic writes: "ITworld reports that Microsoft is 'taking tough measures to find out who leaked a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Home Server to The Hotfix.net blog.' The software preview was posted on the site by a user named 'Richard' soon after it was released to a small group of testers.

In an e-mail to MVPs whose names contain 'Richard,' Kevin Beares, the Windows Home Server community lead at Microsoft, wrote: 'For right now, you have no access to the beta until I can find the Richard who posted the WHS (Windows Home Server) CTP on this site.... I will work with the Connect Admin team to determine which one of you is the real culprit of this leak.'"

Submission + - How to get started in OSS?

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @02:40PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "I know this probably gets asked a lot, but a lazy search of Slashdot did not reveal a quick answer. How does a young and relatively inexperienced programmer get started helping out on an open source software project? Are there good projects to cut your teeth on and learn the ropes before going on to more obscure projects?"

Submission + - Software Calculator?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09, 2007 @10:32PM

An anonymous reader writes: There are simple software calculators like the calc.exe and Abakus and there are more complex/expensive alternatives like matlab and Mathematica. I'm looking for a more friendly and/or more useful software calculator. Not too particular about software licenses or cost, i'm just looking for alternatives. What would you recommend for graphical or text based software calculator?

Submission + - Sourceforge used for non-FOSS?

Submitted by

einhverfr

on Monday April 09, 2007 @09:11PM

einhverfr writes: "Recently the argument over SQL-Ledger's change of license has taken an interesting turn. Apparently people who feel that this is no longer open source or free software have filed a complaint with Sourceforge asking that the project's mailing list and hosting be shut down. Sourceforge's response seems to be that since the developer isn't actually hosting the packages on Sourceforge anymore, that this is within the terms of use. Some seem to note that this would allow any proprietary software vendor to use Sourceforge for non-Free projects as long as they don't actually host the downloads there. What do you think? Where should the line be drawn?"

Submission + - Firefox closing in on Explorer in SMB market

Submitted by thefickler on Sunday March 11, 2007 @08:17AM

thefickler writes: Mozilla's Firefox browser is closing in on Internet Explorer's market leading position in the small-to-medium business (SMB) market, according to a survey by Toronto-based online time tracking and billing provider, FreshBooks, of 140,000 of its SMB customers. Firefox's browser market share was up by 1.35 percent in February 2007 to 38.95 percent while Internet Explorer's share dropped by 0.73 percent to 56.95 percent

Submission + - Prehistoric Men Liked Big Behinds, Researchers Say

Submitted by

acgrissom

on Saturday March 10, 2007 @06:55PM

acgrissom writes: "Continuing with the trend of presumptuous historical reconstruction, Polish researchers claim that cave men from 15,000 years ago were much more interested in a developed posterior than in any other area of the body. This is based on the unearthing of several figurines which show developed posteriors, and which conspicuously lack heads.

http://www.express.co.uk/news_detail.html?sku=1356 "

Submission + - BBC lose all their original footage of 911

Submitted by

Kerago

on Saturday March 10, 2007 @05:48PM

Kerago writes: "The head of news BBC World, Richard Porter, recently disclosed in the BBC World editors blog http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/02/part _of_the_conspiracy.html, that the BBC has lost all of its original 911 footage. Mr Porters response to questions about how this could happen, who was responsible and when this would be reported to the public can be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/03/part _of_the_conspiracy_2.html This has been kept extremely quiet in the UK media so far."

Submission + - Hans Reiser up for trial

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10, 2007 @01:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: According to German IT news site http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/86524 , Hans Reiser will soon be up for trial.

The content of the link, Babelfished and slightly polished, reads as follows:

The namesake and creator of the file systems ReiserFS and Reiser4, Hans Reiser, will probably have to appear in front of a California court shortly, due to the accusation of murder. Reiser has been behind bars since the middle of October 2006, after his wife Nina at the end of of Septembers living in separation disappeared without trace. In house and car of the Linux programmer traces of his wife's blood were found.

Although the police could not find a corpse, the judge found that there are sufficient reasons to believe that Reiser must have been at least involved in the disappearing of his wife. For example is still missing the passenger seat of Reisers car, which was removed short time after Nina Reisers disappearing. Reisers lawyer assumes now within the next 90 days officially accusation is raised against its mandator.

Submission + - Stallman to step down as Emacs maintainer

Submitted by

davids-world.com

on Sunday March 04, 2007 @05:00PM

davids-world.com writes: "Richard Stallman is planning to step down as head maintainer of the GNU Emacs project. In an e-mail to fellow Emacs developers, he today asked for candidates to succeed him. RMS wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor in 1975 at MIT's AI Lab. Seen by many as the founder and chief advocate of the free software movement, Stallman has also been actively involved in Emacs' development. GNU Emacs 22, due soon, will be the first major release of the editor since 2001."

Submission + - Is MySql is changing the rules?

Submitted by sygin on Saturday December 30, 2006 @07:09PM

sygin writes: There is a recent item that is causing me some concern.

"As you might noticed there are no recent MySQL Community versions available for download from MySQL Download Area This applies both to binaries (which is expected with new polices) but also to the source files which were promised to be available."

I know that many Linux distributions release their own builds of the latest source, but this new direction still has me thinking. Add to this the fact that although the latest version is 5.0.30 and I can only download the 5.0.27 Windows binary from the official MySQL download page. The source for the latest version can be found here, but I have no experience when it comes to building MySQL for Windows.

I fear for the future accessibility of this database system. When companies chase money the rules seem to change. I now realize that the PosgreSQL camp could be correct when they say that PosgreSQL is the way to go, although it is not as good for some applications (or is it?).

I have been using MySQL for a long time, and I know how to make it work for me. It works well on Linux and Windows platforms and it is very efficient. I feel comfortable in my ability to administer it. What is the real story behind MySQL, should I still use it for future projects or take the plunge and learn PostgreSQL?

Submission + - AT&T promises net neutrality

Submitted by lpq on Saturday December 30, 2006 @03:34PM

lpq writes: In order to get the FCC's approval to merge, AT&T has agreed to `Network Neutrality'.

"In a bow to backers of ``network neutrality,'' AT&T agreed to refrain from charging companies such as Google premium fees for faster subscriber access." — Bloomberg.

Submission + - MySQL versions unavailable for download

Submitted by indraneil on Saturday December 30, 2006 @01:37PM

indraneil writes: Peter Zaitsev reports in his blog that MySQL has started hiding the binaries from their MySQL Download Area.
He reports "This applies both to binaries (which is expected with new polices) but also to the source files which were promised to be available."
The blog has some further conjectures on MySQL Enterprise Version and how MySQL is now out to encash on its software. You can continue to download the sources from MySQL FTP Site

Submission + - CIO study finds Linux ready for prime-time

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 30, 2006 @04:40AM

An anonymous reader writes: Nearly half of all enterprises will be running mission-critical business applications on Linux in five years' time. That's according to survey of IT directors, VPs and CIOs carried out by Saugatuck Research, which questioned 133 businesses worldwide. http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?news ID=7681

Submission + - Saddam hanged at dawn

Submitted by

thecybernator

on Saturday December 30, 2006 @03:31AM

thecybernator writes: "BAGHDAD, Dec 30 (Reuters) — Saddam Hussein was hanged for crimes against humanity at dawn on Saturday, a dramatic, violent end for a leader who ruled Iraq by fear for three decades before he was toppled by a U.S. invasion four years ago. "It was very quick. He died right away," one of the official Iraqi witnesses told Reuters, saying the ousted president's face was uncovered, he appeared calm and said a brief prayer as Iraqi guards walked him to the gallows and put the noose round him. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30803181 .htm"

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