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How To Make Money With Free Software 81

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 03, 2008 @09:14AM from the coin-of-the-realm dept.

bmsleight writes "The Dutch Ministry of Finance organized an architecture competition to design not a building, but rather the new 5-Euro commemorative coin. The theme was 'Netherlands and Architecture'. The winning design was made 100% with free software, mainly Python, but also including The Gimp, Inkscape, Phatch, and Ubuntu. The design is amazing — the head of Queen Beatrix is made up of the names of architects based on their popularity in Yahoo searches (rendered in a font of the artist's own devising). In the end the artist, Stani Michiels, had to collaborate closely on location with technicians of the Royal Dutch Mint, so all the last bits were done on his Asus Eee PC. Soon, 350,000 Dutch people will use and enjoy the fruits of free software."

Comment Re:Another fashionable addition for PHP: (Score 1) 523

by Welsh Dwarf on Monday October 27, 2008 @05:31AM (#25524581) Attached to: PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist

One word for you: inline

There, that takes care of your overhead.

If you need 15 variables passed, than you probably need to:

a) Regroup them into logical constructs
or
b) Ask yourself why your code is using 15 unrelated bits of data and clean your algo up.

Sorry, but there is no place (outside asm) that a goto should be used. It's just a bug waiting to happen.

Submission + - iPhone has a built-in spyware module? (blogspot.com)

Submitted by pilok22 on Wednesday July 18, 2007 @08:19AM

pilok22 writes: Russian underground hackers released a white paper with analysis of iPhone firmware. They found a very suspicious function which can steal all personal information from an iPhone.

Submission + - British courts uphold BPIF protectionism

Submitted by

Alain Williams

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @08:23AM

Alain Williams writes: "The BBC reports that online retailer CD-Wow must pay £41m to British record companies after breaking a deal to stop selling illegally imported but legally bought cheap albums in the UK."

Submission + - Asked to install Pirated Software, what do you do?

Submitted by

on Thursday May 03, 2007 @09:15AM

An anonymous reader writes: I am an IT professional, and due to budget constraints, I have been told to install multiple copies of MS Office, despite offering to install OpenOffice, and other OpenSource Office products. Even though most of the uses are for people using Excel like a database, or formatting of text in cells, other programs are not tolerated. I have been over ruled by our controller, to my disagreement. Other than drafting a letter to the owners of the company on how I disagree with the policy, what else can I do? I would never turn them in, but I am in tough place by knowing doing something illegal. I want to keep my job, but disagree with some of the decision making on this issue.

Submission + - deliciously illegal web colors

Submitted by

nezmar

on Thursday May 03, 2007 @09:01AM

nezmar writes: "I created and put on del.icio.us a palette of web-colors corresponding to the infamous sixteen "illegal" digits comprising the AACS key."

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