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Comment Re:Yeah. (Score 1) 605

by jim.hansson (#30609722) Attached to: Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights?
already done, so big project so even development area for that one project is split into 4+ areas so one developer should not be able to crash the whole system for all developers. still one developer can still do so much damage that when one group of 10+ developers are sitting around doing nothing because a screwup one of them did, it still cost a lot of money.

Comment Re:Yeah. (Score 1, Offtopic) 605

by jim.hansson (#30608116) Attached to: Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights?

plus the fact that developers are going to cause less harm than average users

As a developer and former sysadmin. I think are wrong there, I know that if I have a bad day at work and don't think one extra time before pressing enter och commiting I could wreck a much bigger havoc compared to a normal user that uses some gui that ask "are you sure" and they would not even think of doing some of the things I may do because they do not have the same know how. I think as a developer and sysadmin that developers are the most dangerous people to have running around with more privileges than needed. A developer that whips together a bash script for fast fix ending up in "rm -rf /"

Submission + - Email on Death Row - Again (emailserviceguide.com) 1

Submitted by mvip
mvip writes: It's time to prematurely mourn the death of email again: the Wall Street Journal article Why Email No Longer Rules is making the rounds online. Fast Company provided a fast response highlighting the technical shortcomings of trying to replace email with Facebook and Twitter (where do the attachments go?). Email Service Guide points out that Facebook and Twitter are ineffective for one-of communications. But with Google Wave around the corner, is the end near for email this time around?
IT

Submission + - Ubuntu Linux Adds Private Cloud Backing (infoworld.com)

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snydeq
snydeq writes: "Canonical's Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition will include private cloud capabilities, thanks to support for the open source Eucalyptus project, InfoWorld reports. Available for free download on Oct. 29, Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition will introduce Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, an open source cloud computing environment based on the same APIs as Amazon EC2. Users will be able to set up 10 to 15 private servers, leveraging the same capabilities they would use with Amazon, thereby allowing them to take their applications off the Amazon cloud and put them instead into a private cloud, or vice versa."
Nintendo

Submission + - Next Nintendo handheld to be NVIDIA Tegra powered (pcper.com)

Submitted by Vigile
Vigile writes: When you sell over a 100 million handheld gaming systems, everyone wants to be involved in your success; just ask Nintendo. As a company with many different obstacles in its path, NVIDIA could definitely use the boost in revenues that would come from partnering with a company like Nintendo on a handheld system and it looks like the Tegra processor will make that happen. The NVIDIA Tegra processor is an SoC that runs a set of ARM cores, a GeForce-based graphics core and an HD video processor capable of 1080p output that would definitely give the current Nintendo DS/DSi systems a performance boost inline with the Sony PSP. The "Nintendo TS" as it has been dubbed will apparently be ready for a late winter 2010 release and should put a spark in the mobile gaming market and give Nintendo's developers the power to bring higher quality games to the platform.
Science

Submission + - The End of Moore's Law (insidescience.org)

Submitted by BuzzSkyline
BuzzSkyline writes: Physicists have found that there is an ultimate limit to the speed of calculations, regardless of any improvements in technology. According to the researchers who found the computation limit, the bound "poses an absolute law of nature, just like the speed of light." While many experts expect technological limits to kick in eventually, engineers always seems to find ways around such roadblocks. If the physicists are right, though, no technology could ever beat the ultimate limit they've calculated. At the current Moore's Law pace, computational speeds will hit the wall in 75 years. A paper describing the analysis, which relies on thermodynamics, quantum mechanics and information theory, appeared in a recent issue of Physical Review Letters.

Submission + - Brein forges document in Pirate Bay court case (brokep.com)

Submitted by aaardwark
aaardwark writes: According to overwhelming evidence from Peter Sunde, forged evidence has surfaced in the Netherlands Pirate Bay court case. Brein has denied forging the evidence, but forgot to fix the pdf footers. The document was supposed to prove a connection between Fredrik Neij and Reservella. This was needed to add the company to the defending parties without having to pay the 60.000 euro legal fees for the first part of the trial. Since an investigation has shown the current defending parties did not own The Pirate Bay.

Submission + - First Swedish CC-licensed movie hits TPB (boingboing.net)

Submitted by Hattmannen
Hattmannen writes: Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing tells us about the first ever Creative Commons-licensed, feature-length movie to come out from Sweden. It's called Nasty Old People and premiered yesterday at The Pirate Bay.
The story:

"Member of a neo-Nazi gang, her day job is to take care of four crazy old people that all are just waiting to die. Her life becomes a journey into a burlesque fairytale, where the rules of the game are created by Mette herself. Mette is indifferent about her way of life, until she one night assaults a man, kicking him senseless. Waking up the day after, she realizes that something is wrong, and in company with the her crazy oldies she longs for respect and love. She can tell that the old folks are marginalized by the modern society, but together they create a world and a voice of their own."
The Media

Submission + - The Pirate Bay is sold, and on its way to legality (pcpro.co.uk) 1

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MattSparkes
MattSparkes writes: "A Swedish software firm is buying The Pirate Bay and turning it into a legal business. Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) has also bought peer-to-peer research firm Peerialism. The two purchases are expected to form the basis of a new, legal download service. It's a bold move, especially as it comes in the same week that the four founders of The Pirate Bay had their application for a retrial rejected by a Swedish court."
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Coders: Your Days Are Numbered (infoworld.com) 2

Submitted by
snydeq
snydeq writes: "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister argues that communication skills, not coding skills, are a developer's greatest asset in a bear economy. 'Too many software development teams are still staffed like secretarial pools. Ideas are generated at the top and then passed downward through general managers, product managers, technical leads, and team leads. Objectives are carved up into deliverables, which are parceled off to coders, often overseas,' McAllister writes. 'The idea that this structure can be sustainable, when the U.S. private sector shed three-quarters of a million jobs in March 2009 alone, is simple foolishness.' Instead, companies should emulate the open source model of development, shifting decision-making power to the few developers with the deepest architectural understanding of, and closest interaction with, the code. And this shift will require managers to look beyond résumés 'choked with acronyms and lists of technologies' to find those who 'can understand, influence, and guide development efforts, rather than simply taking dictation.'"
Programming

Submission + - SPAM: QT 4.5 Released

Submitted by
stoolpigeon
stoolpigeon writes: "QT 4.5 has arrived and is now available for download. This new release is quite significant due to licensing changes that now make it simpler to use QT in a wider range of products without cost as well as a number of new features. The latest version of Webkit is now integrated into the product. Qt 4.5 sees the introduction of QtBenchLib, a new component to make measuring the performance of the toolkit and checking for regressions easier. Mac developers who use Qt will note a major reworking of 4.5 on the Mac, now providing 64 bit support. QT Creator is a new IDE that looks to have combined a number of previously separate tools. And there is much more."
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The Internet

Submission + - The Case Against Web Apps (infoworld.com)

Submitted by
snydeq
snydeq writes: "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister offers five reasons why companies should re-consider concentrating their development efforts on browser-based apps. As McAllister sees it, Web apps encourage a thin-client approach to development that concentrates far too much workload in the datacenter. And while UI and tool limitations are well known, the Web as 'hostile territory' for independent developers is a possibility not yet fully understood. Sure, Web development is fast, versatile, and relatively inexpensive, but long term, the browser's weaknesses might just outweigh its strengths as an app delivery platform."

Comment Re:the clueless comment. (Score 1) 363

by jim.hansson (#25186231) Attached to: Australian ISPs Claim Net Neutrality Is an 'American Problem'
my home, a small village up in the swedish mountains http://maps.google.se/?ie=UTF8&ll=64.065312,14.146914&spn=0.009216,0.027595&z=15 We have really good connectivity there, 8/1 Mb adsl is the normal for something around 300 sek. there is talk about laying a new fiber all the way to the village and it will be possible to get a fiber all the way to your own house but it will cost. a picture from the center of the village. http://www.fiskevalsjobyn.nu/bilder/valsjn.jpg

a map with all the houses as dot's so you see how small this town really is
http://gfx.aftonbladet.se/multimedia/archive/00424/valsjobyn_424985w.jpg
the X marks the spot where one person was killed last year by a bear.

And NO talk about paying per GB.

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