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The Media

Submission + - Assignment Zero: journalism by way of open source

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Jay Rosen
Jay Rosen writes: "Assignment Zero is a pro-am, open-platform reporting project. The investigation: crowd sourcing and peer production are a social trend growing well beyond tech. Why is this happening? Partners: NewAssignment.Net and Wired.com, with Newsvine From the essay: 'We're trying to figure something out here. Can large groups of widely scattered people, working together voluntarily on the net, report on something happening in their world right now, and by dividing the work wisely tell the story more completely, while hitting high standards in truth, accuracy and free expression?' Wired.com: 'We want out readers and our sources to be one and the same. We think it will make for better journalism.'"
Novell

Submission + - Novell: "Windows is cheaper then linux"?

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dyous87
dyous87 writes: "A recent article on ZDNet seems to claim that Novell had connections to a comment made about the total cost of ownership of Linux being more expensive then that of Windows. This connection will undoubtedly continue to anger the Open Source Community and bring about an even worse reputation to Novell who seems to have been blacklisted by some Linux users since it's deal with Microsoft a few months back."
Operating Systems

Submission + - Inside ReactOS

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Andareed
Andareed writes: "Alex Ionescu, a lead developer of ReactOS (an open-source, source and binary compatible clone of Windows NT) recently gave a talk on the internals of ReactOS. In this talk, Ionescu also discusses how ReactOS is nearing complete kernel compatibility with Windows Server 2003. Interestingly, Ionescu hints that there are no plans for ReactOS once the kernel has been completed."
Bug

Submission + - blackhole.securitysage.com RBL rejects everything

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Sellam Ismail
Sellam Ismail writes: "The RBL blackhole.securitysage.com seems to be rejecting everything. Does anyone know what's going on? I only found out after half a day of no e-mail at all and then sending test messages from Yahoo! mail to my server and checking the reject message for errors.

Might be useful for others to know about this so they can take corrective action.

I hope this is actually news."
Novell

Journal Journal: Novell: "Windows is cheaper then linux"?

Journal by dyous87

A recent article on ZDNet seems to claim that Novell had connections to a comment made about the total cost of ownership of Linux being more expensive then that of Windows. This connection will undoubtedly continue to anger the Open Source Community and bring about an even worse reputation to Novell who seems to have been blacklisted by some Linux users since it's deal with Microsoft a few months back.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Ranking corporate apologies for data breaches

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BobB
BobB writes: "These companies deeply regret those data breaches that put your social security numbers and other personal info at risk. A look at the evolution of these apologies and rankings of how sincere the apologies were, from Choicepoint to Boeing to TJX. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/031407-wider -net-apologies-letters.html and http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/031407-wider -net-apologies.html"
OS X

Submission + - Leopard could attract Windows switchers

Submitted by MacAddict
MacAddict writes: Prudential Equity has raised its rating and target price on Apple stock. Analysts there now see Apple as an 'overweight' stock, raising the target price 20 per cent, from $100 to $105. Prudential cites expectations of higher Mac sales, better margins and new product launches — including a widescreen, flash-based video iPod in the second half of the year — as catalysts for better performance from Apple. The 27 March announcement of Adobe CS3 is likely to generate a spike in sales of Apple's professional Macs, Prudential said. "Given that Microsoft's Vista has not been very well received by the consumer, a successful Leopard launch could drive more consumers to shift form Windows-based PCs to Macs," said the analysts, according to MacNN. Prudential's analysis emerges as Banc of America analyst Keith Bachman speculates that the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard will add $200 million to Apple revenue this year, observing that the Mac OS X user base now sits at 22 million users. http://www.macworld.co.uk/business/news/index.cfm? newsid=17406
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft: Format War is Over

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jeevesbond
jeevesbond writes: "Microsoft Office program manager Brian Jones, whose work has centered around the Open XML document format, now says the so-called format war with OpenDocument is officially over. The winner, he says, is both.

"I think at this point we can really move onto more productive and collaborative discussion and admit that we are no longer in any sort of "file format war."
My translation: Sharepoint (and its tight integration with Office 2007) is what's important now, something FLOSS has no equivalent for."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Vista, IE7 Banned By U.S. DOT

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Citing concerns over cost and compatibility, the top technology official at the federal Department of Transportation has placed a "moratorium" on all in-house computer upgrades to Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system, as well as Internet Explorer 7 and Office 2007, according to a memo obtained Friday by InformationWeek. In a memo to his staff, DOT chief information officer Daniel Mintz says he has placed "an indefinite moratorium" on the upgrades as "there appears to be no compelling technical or business case for upgrading to these new Microsoft software products. Furthermore, there appears to be specific reasons not to upgrade."
Data Storage

Submission + - Disk drive failures 15 times what vendors say

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jcatcw
jcatcw writes: "A Carnegie Mellon University study indicates that customers are replacing disk drives more frequently than vendor estimates of mean time to failure (MTTF) would require.. The study examined large production systems, including high-performance computing sites and Internet services sites running SCSI, FC and SATA drives. The data sheets for the drives indicated MTTF between 1 and 1.5 million hours. That should mean annual failure rates of 0.88%, annual replacement rates were between 2% and 4%. The study also shows no evidence that Fibre Channel drives are any more reliable than SATA drives."

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