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Comment It's not gonna happen! (Score 1) 333

Intel and Microsoft do have the same interests and earn a lot of money because of their relationship. What has ARM to offer against that? Mobile phones? Who wants Windows on his phone anyway? Or Linux? Nokia with Symbian still do have lead there simply because they deliver what the customer wants.

Comment Re:Ok, start the flames (Score 1) 592

Well, this consumergroup received thousands of complaints about Vista. Microsoft already allowed business users to downgrade to XP and De Consumentenbond want that for the private users too. After Microsoft denying this they could expects this action despite their hastily constructed website with additional information gathered from everywhere on their different sites.

Feed Turkey Lifts YouTube Ban (wired.com)

An official for Turk Telekom says the court is lifting the block on YouTube, imposed because of videos insulting to the founder of modern Turkey. By the Associated Press.


Security

Submission + - A more secure OS X before Leopard

Sebastiaan de With writes: "I've made a how-to from tips by Jay Beale on the last DEFCON Security conference and some own security tweaks to improve the overall security of your OS X. Make sure some default settings that can allow for vulnerabilities are set properly, and tune your firewall rules. A more advanced follow-up is coming soon."

Feed Dream Casting Watchmen (wired.com)

The graphic novel that changed comics forever may enter production this summer. But who's in the picture? That's up to you. Post your dream -- or nightmare -- cast on Underwire.


Communications

Submission + - What is your internet speed?

sbstreater writes: "I clicked on submit a Poll and got here.

The internet is getting faster very quickly, so it's hard to find up-to-date info:
what is your (actual in practice rather than quoted by supplier) internet download (and upload) speed?

less than 128kb/s
128kb/s-256kb/s
256kb/s-512kb/s
512kb/s-1Mb/s
1Mb/s-2Mb/s
2Mb/s-4Mb/s
4Mb/s-8Mb/s
8Mb/s-16Mb/s
16Mb/s-32Mb/s
32Mb/s-100Mb/s
greater than 100Mb/s"

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