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Submission + - Linux Ported to Dingoo A320

Submitted by Busshy
Busshy writes: Linux has arrived on the Dingoo, a console that was recently released in Asia (Bundled with emulators for 16bit consoles)and looks like the bottom half of a DS Lite and has an XMB that closely resembles those that PSP and PS3 owners are used to. Homebrew Coders have already ported ScummVM, PRBoom (Doom Engine) to Dingoo Linux.
Windows

Submission + - The elusive, royalty-free patent licence for Mono (itwire.com)

Submitted by what about
what about writes: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25215/1090/1/0/ ItWires writes: How difficult or easy is it to obtain one of the much-touted "royalty-free, reasonable and non-discriminatory" licences for Microsoft patents that are part of a technology like Mono?
Judging by the frequency with which references are made to such licences by those who back Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza's bid to create an open source clone of Microsoft's .NET development environment, it's surprising that no-one has ever ventured to test this claim.
Linux Business

Submission + - Aussie prisoners escape lock-in with Ubuntu 2

Submitted by Ambush
Ambush writes: Shameless self-plug... A prison in Canberra Australia is deploying another 30 transparent desktops running Ubuntu Linux for use by their inmates. This will supplement stage-1 of a network comprising of Ubuntu servers and desktops which my company recently deployed. Prisoners have extremely limited access to email and web browsing, as well streaming media, educational applications, etc. More info here.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - West Point Maxes Security by Minning Windows.

Submitted by
twitter
twitter writes: "Line up, maggots! Uncle Sam is going to keep you away from Windows and honor code violations.

Colonel Joe Adams from the United States Military Academy at West Point has a solution [to your security problems] ... he said recruits at the New York academy line up in the corridors outside their rooms in their barracks every Saturday morning for a notebook inspection or "IT SAMI".

The college teaches Ada ("because you can't cheat at Ada"), C++, Python and Java, he said. And it standardised on FreeBSD: "We love it, it's the key to our success". Col Adams said the college uses Windows "as little as possible".

Did I hear you say Vista?! Drop and give me 20! #@$%!"

GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - RMS on Alex Jones

Submitted by
antisocialbutterfly
antisocialbutterfly writes: "Stallman discusses Net Neutrality & Internet 2 with Alex Jones... video description:

"Richard Stallman is the founder of the Gnu Project, launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for "GNU's Not Unix"), and thereby give computer users the freedom that most of them have lost. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. He is the principal or initial author of GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, the GNU Debugger GDB and parts of other packages. He is also president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZWKXNo_vA0"
Microsoft

Submission + - 'Bridge to Microsoft' Gets Federal Stimulus Funds 2

Submitted by
theodp
theodp writes: "Among the first to benefit from the investment in roads and bridges through Obama's stimulus plan is Microsoft, which has $20B in the bank. Local planners have allotted $11M to help pay for a highway overpass to connect one part of Microsoft's wooded campus with another. Microsoft will contribute almost half of the $36.5M cost; other federal and local money will pay the rest. 'Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates could finance this out of pocket change,' griped Steve Ellis of the Taxpayers for Common Sense. 'Subsidizing an overpass to one of the richest companies in the country certainly isn't going to be the best use of our precious dollars.' Ellis called the project 'a bridge to Microsoft,' alluding to Alaska's infamous 'Bridge to Nowhere'."
Math

Submission + - Data Mining Moves to Human Resources

Submitted by
theodp
theodp writes: "Just when you thought annual reviews couldn't get worse, BusinessWeek reports that HR departments at companies like Microsoft and IBM are starting to use mathematical analysis to determine the value of each employee. At an undisclosed Internet company, analysis of (non-verbal) communications was used to produce a circle to represent each employee — those determined to generate or pass along valuable info were portrayed as large and dark-colored circles ("thought leaders" and "networked curators"), while those with small and pale circles were written off as not adding a hell of a lot. "You have to bring the same rigor you bring to operations and finance to the analysis of people," explains Microsoft's Rupert Bader. Hey, who could argue with what Quants did for finance?"
Windows

Submission + - Dvorak Ditches Windows. (slashdot.org) 1

Submitted by
twitter
twitter writes: "The man who once said, "there is no way that Vista will be a flop" and then hated Vista so much he promissed to switch to Linux if M$ did not scuttle Vista, has become a GNU user of Ubuntu. He's full of praises for hardware recognition, performance, applications and many other practical issues. Welcome to freedom John, I know you will be a happy user. If you think Ubuntu's live CD is cool, you should see Knoppix or Ubuntu."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Shoots Own Foot in Iceland (yaxic.org) 1

Submitted by
David Gerard
David Gerard writes: "The Microsoft Certified Partner model is: an MCP buys contracts from Microsoft and sells them to businesses as a three-year timed contract, payable in annual instalments. Iceland's economy has collapsed, so 1500 businesses have gone bankrupt so aren't paying the fees any more. But Microsoft has told the MCPs: "Our deal was with you, not them. Pay up." The MCPs that don't go bankrupt in turn are moving headlong to Free Software. Taking most of the country with them. (Warning: link contains salty language and vivid imagery.)"
Microsoft

Submission + - Cascading Failure of M$ Licensing Revenue?

Submitted by
twitter
twitter writes: "Iceland has been hit harder by the economic downturn than most countries and Microsoft MVPs are in particular distress. They broker long term licenses to business and collect revenue on an annual basis. When things are fine, this protects M$ from the failure of one or two businesses. When things are bad the MVP goes under, making it difficult for M$ to collect revenue from surviving businesses. Is this a systemic weakness in M$'s business model that we will see elswhere?"
Microsoft

Submission + - UAC whitelist hole in Windows 7

Submitted by
David Gerard
David Gerard writes: "Microsoft tried to make Vista secure with User Access Control (UAC). They relaxed it a bit in Windows 7 because it was such a pain in the backside. Unfortunately, one way they did this (the third way so far found around UAC in Windows 7) was to give certain Microsoft files the power to just ... bypass UAC. Even more unfortunately, one of the DLLs they whitelisted was RUNDLL32.EXE. The exploit is simply to copy (or inject) part of its own code into the memory of another running processes and then telling that target process to run the code, using standard, non-privileged APIs such as WriteProcessMemory and CreateRemoteThread. Ars Technica writes up the issue, proclaiming Windows 7 UAC "a broken mess; mend it or end it.""
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Skull-fucks Iceland's Economy, Contracts (yaxic.org)

Submitted by
hesa
hesa writes: "Microsoft has made a business out of selling licenses to run software that can be copied at no marginal cost, this everybody knows. Essentially, they manufacture software, but their product isn't computer code, it's legal code. Contracts."

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