Comment Re:Windstream too (Score 1) 225
Hey, thanks. I have windstream, too. I think I'll switch my DNS server links.
You're unlucky. I ran out of mod points yesterday. Other than this, they've been a great ISP, though.
Submission + - Navisite Massively Botches Datacenter Move (navisite.com)
9InchRails writes: "In a move to consolidate a newly acquired datacenter, web hosting provider Navisite shutdown, boxed and transported hundreds of servers, effectively stranding in excess of 200,000 web sites and authoritative name servers. This fiasco is in its fourth day as noted here and here. How could a company been so completely incompetent?"
Redmond's Heavy Guns Go After OpenSocial 148
jg21 writes "It is probably coincidental, but two responses to OpenSocial from well-respected members of the Microsoft blogging community have each in their own way come out against Google's OpenSocial initiative, Dare Osabanjo because in his view OpenSocial while billed as a standardized widget platform for the Web, actually isn't. And Don Dodge because his claim is that fifty million Facebook developers "don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care.""
Submission + - Leading global warming researcher accused of fraud
An anonymous reader writes: A leading global warming research, Wei-Chyung Wang at SUNY, has been accused of fraud in his research. The research was one of the main reasons that urban heat islands were considered to be insignificant for global warming studies. This could potentially mean that the global warming is not as large as previously thought. The researcher who discovered the fraud has previously published about other bogus research.
Journal Journal: LinuxWorld Denies University Students Entry
Is Linux turning its back on its roots?
I opened my inbox last night (5th August) to find an email dated 3 August from LinuxWorld Expo, which basically explained that because I had put on my registration form that I am a student, I would be denied entry to the showfloor at this year's event starting on 6 August 2007. I was in shock! Firstly, I have attended LinuxWorld five times since 2003 (three times in San Francisco and twice in London), and with the exception of last year when I was
Submission + - KDE 4.0 Beta 1 released. (kde.org)
dbhost writes: "Along with this morning's cup of coffee and log reviews, I discovered that the KDE team is moving forward with a long awaited beta release of KDE 4.0 beta release of KDE 4.0. The most interesting item I found in this article is that the file manager in KDE is being separated from Konqueror into a component called Dolphin. Also according to the announcement konsole has been treated to a number of improvements such as split view, and history highlighting."
Submission + - Replaceing the keyboard on your Acer Aspire laptop
zukae writes: If you ever manage to spill some liquid on your laptop keyboard, you will in most cases need to remove and replace the keyboard on your laptop. Service manuals are hard to come by, and they usually cost money.Here is a nice article describing this procedure on Acer Aspire 5610z laptop: http://zuka.blogspot.ba/2007/07/26/removing-raplac ing-the-keyboard-from-acer-aspire-laptop/
Submission + - The sad state of sound in Linux (blogspot.com) 1
Wertigon writes: Looks like atleast one coder has been driven insane by the aggravating difficulties of getting sound to work properly in his 'nix application. Coming from his blog:
Perhaps it's time to go back to OSS, now that it has become Open Source again?All this shows me is that ALSA is truly garbage, and a very bad idea from the ground up. If you want good sound support under Linux, the best, and sometime the only feasible option is to install the closed source OSS. With this, you always get mixing (even using the hardware mixer which ALSA doesn't always do), support for a dozen UNIX OSs, and finely tuned controls.
