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Submission + - Skype creating new mega-supernodes (skype.com)

Submitted by jbrax on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @11:03PM

jbrax writes: Peer-to-peer VoIP provider Skype is having problems staying online, and their engineers are now working hard on "creating new mega-supernodes as fast as they can." I wonder how much they possibly can remotely adjust their software to get more resources from their clients?

Comment Re:Microsoft Corp. today announced.. (Score 5, Informative) 102

by jbrax on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @07:35PM (#28447219) Attached to: Predicting SCO's Actions Post Bankruptcy

Exactly. In this video Eben Moglen explains why for Microsoft threatening is better than suing. So Microsoft prefers denying that they have anything to do with SCO... although they may do some business with them.

Submission + - Tracking the status of Office Open XML (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

hweimer

on Sunday September 02, 2007 @12:36PM

hweimer writes: "The ISO voting deadline on OOXML is drawing near, yet there are still many countries that haven't published their results so far. Finally, someone has started to put all the pieces together and maintains a scoreboard of all OOXML votes."

Submission + - Amazon to Open DRM-Free MP3 Music Download Store

Submitted by mtnlion1 on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @07:07PM

mtnlion1 writes: Amazon.com announced it will launch a digital music store later this year offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format from more than 12,000 record labels. EMI Music's digital catalog is the latest addition to the store. Every song and album in the Amazon.com digital music store will be available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM) software. Amazon's DRM-free MP3s will free customers to play their music on virtually any of their personal devices — including PCs, Macs(TM), iPods(TM), Zunes(TM), Zens(TM) — and to burn songs to CDs for personal use.

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060 &p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1003003&highlight=

Submission + - Linux: A Musician's OS?

Submitted by lazyeye on Monday May 07, 2007 @06:45AM

lazyeye writes: Keyboard Magazine has an in-depth article about the state of music production on Linux. While it does introduce Linux to the average musician, the article does get into some of the available music applications and music-oriented Linux distributions out there. From the opening paragraph:

You might think there's no way a free operating system written by volunteers could compete when it comes to music production. But in the past couple of years, all the tools you need to make music have arrived on Linux.

Submission + - Dell Joins Microsoft/Novell Pact

Submitted by

linuxrocks123

on Monday May 07, 2007 @06:30AM

linuxrocks123 writes: "It looks like Dell is joining Microsoft and Novell in their Linux patent pact. Dell is selling SuSE on servers, backed by Microsoft's Linux patent certificates. No response from Red Hat yet, but Dell claims to still be selling Red Hat servers despite the deal."

Submission + - The End of .Mac and Google Apps?

Submitted by mattnyc99 on Friday May 04, 2007 @05:08PM

mattnyc99 writes: In his weekly tech column for Popular Mechanics, Glenn Derene predicts that everyone will have a home server to network their house within 10 years—rendering Apple's .Mac accounts and Google's productivity software useless. As prices for products like HP's MediaSmart Server drop and as processing power becomes more pervasive, Derene says, "you'll ultimately need a centralized server—that high-powered traffic cop—to coordinate the non-stop exchange of information between your new multitude of devices." Do Slashdotters buy this trend-spotting? And would they buy one of these?

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