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Submission + - Microsoft eOpen site down for nearly a week so far (microsoft.com)

Submitted by

mauriceh

on Sunday December 13, 2009 @02:27AM

mauriceh writes: "Since last Monday, Dec. 7th, the Microsoft eOpen license website has been mostly "Down for Maintenance".
When we do not see this message, we still do not see most of the normal functionality.
As this is Microsoft's main channel for managing and installing licenses for products such as Server, and fo open License products for business,
this makes the company effectively "closed for business" !
Attempts to connect to:
https://eopen.microsoft.com/
Are redirected to:
https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter/sitemaintenance.html
For those who wish to activate Microsoft Business Solutions software need to obtain Software Registration keys,
and these also can not be obtained, as the site:
http://www.microsoft.com/BusinessSolutions/MBSRegistration
does not resolve, instead one gets a Microsoft Search page when we attempt to go to the Registration Keys site!
Telephone calls to their support numbers for the licensing program yield either busy signals, or a message saying one should "call back later!!"

Submission + - FreeBSD 7.1 released 1

Submitted by ByOhTek on Monday January 05, 2009 @10:14AM

ByOhTek writes: FreeBSD 7.1 has been released today. You can get it here, with the standard release notes and hardware notes. Amusingly, RC2 was released on Christmas — given the multi-week/month steps between the beta/rc releases, this was a rather quick transition.

I'm looking forward to upgrading my notebook and desktop, though my server will stick with 6.2, since I like to keep the uptime.

Some interesting features:
* The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for amd64 and i386 architectures. The ULE scheduler significantly improves performance on multicore systems for many workloads.
* A new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client.
* Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices.
* The cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command have been added, providing an API for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and assignment.
* KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3.
* DVD-sized media for the amd64 and i386 architectures

and there are the usual security/multimedia/hardware updates.

Submission + - A Brief Discussion on RAID Configs

Submitted by TomSlick on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @02:22AM

TomSlick writes: Michael Chu, the guy behind Cooking For Engineers and lead architect at Fanpop, writes a lot of pointless stuff on his blog, but, today, he posted an interesting summary of popular RAID configurations. His post is easy to read and fairly well written, plus, as a bonus, he explains how to remap a drive letter in Windows Vista to a specific folder (on his RAID). Hint, it's the same as Windows XP, Windows 9x, and DOS.

Submission + - Your cell phone number is no longer unlisted (wisebread.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @12:52AM

An anonymous reader writes: According to the Seattle Times, a locally-owned company named Intelius is putting together a cell phone directory that is supposed to be accurate. It costs $15 to search for an individual's cell phone number. That's right — for $15, your cell number can be given out to anyone. You might not have heard of Intelius before, but they are one of those companies that touts their services in background checks. You may have seen ads or received spam emails warning you to do a background check on your date? That's Intelius. They also purchased a small company that does a lot of background check work for employers.

Submission + - Pirate Bay earns 20,000 Euros a day (rixstep.com) 2

Submitted by on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:57PM

An anonymous reader writes: controverisal pro-piracy website the piratebay likes to portray itself as an innocent hobby site that provides a free index without censorship, but recent facts show that the site is earning up to 20,000 Euros per day from its advertising. Taking in money on this scale puts a different slant on the motives behind the Swedish filesharing site, and could open up the runners of the site to prosecution for profiting from copyright infringement.

Submission + - Open-source charity only accepts $1 donations! (aglobalobligation.org)

Submitted by

David Kellam

on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @01:37AM

David Kellam writes: "A Global Obligation is a new charity seeking donations online to build schools. Everything from the blueprints to the lesson plans will be open source under the openEducation project. To top it off, we only want $1. We won't even let you donate more!"

Submission + - Microsoft Admits Vista Failure

Submitted by

mnath77

on Saturday April 21, 2007 @05:27PM

mnath77 writes: ""With two overlapping events, Microsoft admitted what we have been saying all along, Vista, aka Windows MeII, is a joke that no one wants. It did two unprecedented things this week that frankly stunned us... "What happened is the OEMs revolted in the background and forced Microsoft's hand. This is a big neon sign above MeII saying 'FAILURE'. Blink blink blink. OK, MeII won't fail, they have OEMs whipped and threatened into a corner, it will sell, but you can almost hear the defectors marching toward Linux. This is a watershed..." http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39 087"

Submission + - News must be at least 50% Doubleplusgood

Submitted by Nymz on Saturday April 21, 2007 @04:19PM

Nymz writes: Russian journalists today learned of new rules regarding free speech (the acceptable type). Namely that 50% of reports about Russia must be positive (the government perspective type), and that criticism of Putin is considered extremism (the land you in jail type), and that America must be portrayed as an enemy (the elimination of free speech type). Expect these new rules to be applied liberally (the coming soon to online speech type). New York Times article.

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