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Submission + - Why you have to stay away of "Locked Bootloaders" and DRM software (iturbide.com)

Submitted by martiniturbide on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @01:12PM

martiniturbide writes: I want to share my personal experience with "Locked Bootloaders" and DRM software, and why you have to stay away from it. This is a short post about my experience with the "Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 1" and how DRM software combined with the locked bootloader are making some models of this tablet useless after a software brick, forcing you to pay for a new motherboard.

Submission + - eComStation 2.2 Beta Released (ecomstation.com)

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martiniturbide

on Monday March 25, 2013 @12:38PM

martiniturbide writes: "Today Mensys released the eComStation 2.2 Beta for subscribers. (eComStation is an OEM version of IBM's OS/2 Warp operating system). This marks with optimism the continuity of this platform and at the OS2world community we keep supporting the OS/2 users with updated news and user forum. It had been key for us to support open source software. Qt4, OpenJDK, OpenOffice, Firefox, CUPS had been ported but as a community we still need more interested developers on this platform. I hope that someday, as a community, we can create an full OS/2 open source clone."

Submission + - Preview: eComStation 2.2 Beta, the legacy of OS/2 lives on (techrepublic.com)

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martiniturbide

on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @05:48PM

martiniturbide writes: "Matthew Nawrocki wrote an article for techrepublic.com reviewing the forthcoming version of eComStation. eComStation is the evolution of IBM OS/2 operating system. Check this article Preview: eComStation 2.2 Beta, the legacy of OS/2 lives on"

Submission + - turns 1 liter of urine into 6 hours of electricity (ecogeek.org)

Submitted by martiniturbide on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @10:20PM

martiniturbide writes: uhm....

Submission + - Petition to teh Whitehouse to adopt Metric System (whitehouse.gov)

Submitted by martiniturbide on Thursday January 03, 2013 @09:04AM

martiniturbide writes: There is an on going petition at whitehouse.gov petition system for the US to adopt the Metric system. It is still behind the 20K goal to get a response.

Submission + - Genode OS Framework 12.08 runs on base ARM hardware, revives NOVA support (osnews.com)

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martiniturbide

on Friday August 24, 2012 @09:16AM

martiniturbide writes: "As posted on OSNews a new version (release 12.08) of Genode OS Framework had been released. It comes with the ability to run Genode-based systems on ARM hardware without an underlying kernel, vastly improves the support for the NOVA hypervisor, and adds device drivers for the OMAP4 SoC.
"Genode is a novel OS architecture that is able to master complexity by applying a strict organizational structure to all software components including device drivers, system services, and applications. The Genode OS framework is the effort to advance the Genode OS architecture as a community-driven Open-Source project. ""

Submission + - Trading Robot loose $440,000,00 in 45 minutes (huffingtonpost.com)

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martiniturbide

on Friday August 03, 2012 @05:11PM

martiniturbide writes: "Bugs cost money. On this case a trading robot made a little mistake that cost
440 millions. But don't worry, your money is safe again, a new trading robot was hired. "

Submission + - Apple won't carry an ebook because it mentions Amazon (boingboing.net)

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martiniturbide

on Sunday July 29, 2012 @08:45AM

martiniturbide writes: "Author Holly Lisle tried to publish her guide "How To Think Sideways Lesson 6: How To Discover (Or Create) Your Story’s Market" at Apple's iBooks store. It was reject first by Apple because it had "live links" to Amazon in her books. After complied to that it was also rejected saying "“No, no. The problem is the CONTENT. You can’t mention Amazon in your lesson.""

Submission + - Nvidia forums down due recent attacks (nvidia.com)

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martiniturbide

on Friday July 13, 2012 @09:54AM

martiniturbide writes: "Nvidia has suspended the operations of his forum due some suspicious activities. It says that third parties had gain access to usernames, emails, hashed passwords (with random salt value) and profile information"

Submission + - Star Trek Phase 2: "The Child" – Episode 4×07 TEASER is Online! (startreknewvoyages.com)

Submitted by martiniturbide on Monday February 06, 2012 @08:24PM

martiniturbide writes: The fan made Star Trek Phase 2: “The Child” – Episode 4×07 TEASER is Online. Here is the OFFICIAL release of The Teaser for “The Child”!! The full episode will be released very soon!

Submission + - Siri meets Eliza (jordanmechner.com)

Submitted by martiniturbide on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @10:10PM

martiniturbide writes: Jordan Mechner (Price of Persia game creator) paired iPhone's Siri with the program Eliza. The conversation is quite strange.

Submission + - Suspended Animation Earns FDA Approval (allgov.com)

Submitted by martiniturbide on Friday September 16, 2011 @10:21PM

martiniturbide writes: http://gammasquad.uproxx.com/2011/09/suspended-animation-fda-approved-human-trials-peter-rhee

Submission + - Apple provides false evidence against Samsung (google.com)

Submitted by martiniturbide on Monday August 15, 2011 @01:37PM

martiniturbide writes: Seems like Apple resized the Samsung Galaxy Tab picture when delivered the information to the Germany Court, to make the Galaxy Tab more similar to the iPad.

Submission + - Software Patent Debate - Aug 24, 2011 (computerhistory.org)

Submitted by martiniturbide on Monday August 08, 2011 @01:46PM

martiniturbide writes: The Computer History Museum is organizing an Software Patent Debate this Aug 24. "THE MOTION: SOFTWARE PATENTS ENCOURAGE INNOVATION" in favor of the motion is Bob Zeidman,a gainst the motion is Edward A. Lee. The audience will serve as jurors.......Bob Zeidman will be signing copies of his most recent book after the debate...WTF?

Submission + - Microsoft Open Source Strategy is Upside Down. (iturbide.com)

Submitted by martiniturbide on Thursday June 24, 2010 @01:03PM

martiniturbide writes: Last April I was on a Microsoft interoperability and Open Source conference in Ecuador (South America). On this conference Microsoft spread the word that they support Open Source Software and they do have an OSS strategy. But by checking their OSS Strategy I just felt something sour in my mouth, so I wrote this article to explain it.

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