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Submission + - UK Pirate Party seeking donations to fight legal threats against its TPB proxy (pirateparty.org.uk)

Submitted by azzy on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:14AM

azzy writes: The BPI (music industry body in the United Kingdom) has threatened legal action against leaders of the Pirate Party UK for their continued running of a proxy to ThePirateBay.

The Pirate Party UK is operating this proxy as a high profile fight against corporate-motivated censorship of the internet and is now raising money to help fight this legal action.

PPUK is aiming to assemble a legal team that is capable of putting together a case that will not only keep the proxy in place, but also settle the issues surrounding the arbitrary censorship of the web.

See also: https://torrentfreak.com/music-industry-threatens-to-sue-uk-pirate-party-over-pirate-bay-proxy-121210/

Submission + - TextMate 2 released as open source (macromates.com)

Submitted by DaBombDotCom on Thursday August 09, 2012 @01:36PM

DaBombDotCom writes: Allan Odgaard, the author of the popular text editor for Mac OS X, TextMate has posted on his blog:

"Today I am happy to announce that you can find the source for TextMate 2 on GitHub.

I’ve always wanted to allow end-users to tinker with their environment, my ability to do this is what got me excited about programming in the first place, and it is why I created the bundles concept, but there are limits to how much a bundle can do, and with the still growing user base, I think the best move forward is to open source the program.

The choice of license is GPL 3. This is partly to avoid a closed source fork and partly because the hacker in me wants all software to be free (as in speech), so in a time where our platform vendor is taking steps to limit our freedom, this is my small attempt of countering such trend."

Submission + - Reject ACTA, European Parliament trade committee recommends (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by Qedward on Thursday June 21, 2012 @06:44AM

Qedward writes: The European Parliament's trade committee, INTA, voted on Thursday not to postpone a crucial parliamentary vote on the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.

The committee also decided, by 19 votes to 12, to recommend to the Parliament that the trade deal be rejected. INTA is the lead committee examining the international agreement, and its recommendation will carry weight with the rest of the Parliament.

The Parliamentary plenary vote on the treaty is now scheduled for July 3.

Submission + - Ubuntu 11.10 Released (ubuntubuzz.com)

Submitted by ubuntubuzz on Thursday October 13, 2011 @10:40AM

ubuntubuzz writes: Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot for Final Officialy release and ready to download, Ubuntu 11.10 bring several changes that actually Good Looking !!

Comment Re:Its just sony (Score 1) 282

by kazade84 on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @12:02PM (#36167030) Attached to: PSN Up, And Then Down Again

Someone really needs to consolidate all the bad stuff Sony has done onto one web page. That way next time someone questions my adversity to all things Sony, I can just point at it.

Submission + - Mozilla Firefox 4 Released

Submitted by Shining Celebi on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @11:08AM

Shining Celebi writes: Mozilla has finally released Firefox 4, a couple months behind schedule. It features hardware accelerated graphics, UI performance improvements, a massive boost in Javascript performance, reduced memory usage, WebGL, a new HTML5 parser, App Tabs, tab grouping via the Panorama feature, bookmark and history syncing, and much more. Many users will also be happy to know the status bar has been more-or-less restored after Mozilla removed it in early betas. Firefox 4 scores over 3 times faster on Sunspider, V8, and Kraken.

Submission + - Can you run a PC mag/website on Ubuntu? (pcpro.co.uk) 4

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 10, 2011 @05:45AM

An anonymous reader writes: PC Pro is undertaking a one-day experiment where they're attempting to run their magazine and website entirely off Ubuntu. The editorial team are live blogging about their experiences of switching from Windows to Ubuntu all day, and also providing regular updates on PC Pro's Twitter account.

Comment You know that Internet 2 that everyone wanted? (Score 1) 120

by kazade84 on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @11:28AM (#34765220) Attached to: Smart Grid Brings Powerline Broadband Back?

There was a Slashdot post earlier about forking the Internet, and mesh networking was shot down pretty quick because of large distances between nodes. Could networking over powerlines be a solution?

Submission + - Is net neutrality about to disappear in the UK? (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Brave Guy on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @10:56AM

Anonymous Brave Guy writes: 'UK Culture minister Ed Vaizey has backed a "two-speed" internet,' reports the BBC. 'Mr Vaizey said ISPs must be free to experiment with new charges to help pay for the expansion in internet services. But critics warn the move could harm free speech and stifle innovation.'

Comment Re:Nothing to see here.. move along (Score 1) 370

by kazade84 on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @03:55PM (#33654750) Attached to: DX11 Coming To Linux (But Not XP)

Gallium3D is cross platform - you could write winsys layers for Haiku or whatever, but OSX is one of Wine's main targets and I don't see them shipping Gallium3D anytime soon. Unfortunately no, it's not going to make things any easier.

Comment Nothing to see here.. move along (Score 4, Informative) 370

by kazade84 on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @02:21PM (#33653472) Attached to: DX11 Coming To Linux (But Not XP)

This isn't really that exciting. Firstly it doesn't benefit Wine at all. Wine supports other platforms than Linux and other drivers than Gallium3D and Mesa and so this is useless to them, if that isn't enough the Wine source structure isn't built for this kind of swap out, specifically because Wine limits X interaction to a single DLL, winex11, and the WineD3D stuff doesn't have direct access to X. The Wine D3D developers have long said that a D3D state tracker won't help them.

Secondly, it's not gonna help porting games to Linux either. D3D is only one part of the DX API and a game does a lot more than just draw stuff. Arguably swapping out D3D for OGL is relatively straightforward in comparison to swapping out sound API, file IO API, network IO API, message handling, etc. etc. that's why some games allow you to switch between the graphics API.

Submission + - Europe embraces Open Document format (ffii.org)

Submitted by Elektroschock on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @06:48AM

Elektroschock writes: The European legislature has decided to support the open document format as to advance electronic business. It asks the European Commission take concrete steps to support the adoption of ODF 1.2 and its spread. Open Document is an open standard implemented in the latest incarnations of Microsoft Office, Open Office, Google Docs, Abiword and many other products.

Submission + - Windows 7 vs Ubuntu 10.04 (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by Barence on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @07:06AM

Barence writes: PC Pro has performed a comprehensive test of Windows 7 vs Ubuntu 10.04. They've tested and scored the two operating systems on a number of criteria, including usability, bundled apps, performance, compatibility and business. The final result is much closer than you might expect. "Ubuntu is clearly an operating system on the rise," PC Pro concludes. "If we repeat this feature in a year’s time, will it have closed the gap? We wouldn’t bet against it."

Submission + - HDCP possibly broken (engadget.com)

Submitted by allaunjsilverfox2 on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @06:55AM

allaunjsilverfox2 writes: Engadget reports that unknown persons/groups have broken the Master Key for HDCP. If true, it could have wide ranging implications for devices everywhere.

Submission + - Breaking : ARM Enters Laptop Market (itproportal.com)

Submitted by siliconbits on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @06:52AM

siliconbits writes: ARM's starting to look A LOT like AMD.... ITProPortal writes that "ARM has just announced a partnership with a Chinese company to produce 40nm SoC chips for netbooks, laptops and computers. The SoC uses a 2Ghz dual core Cortex A9 processor and consumes around 2w. The first products will be demoed at CES 2011 in Las Vegas. "

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