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Submission + - MS petition to support Open XML

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From el reg, Microsoft is calling on the Great British public to join its campaign to get the XML Office format adopted as an international standard. The company has launched an online petition encouraging the British Standards Institute (BSI) to vote for ratification of the Open XML Format, used in Office 2007, 2003 and XP, as an official ISO standard. The BSI is an ISO member. I agree with the first commenter on this story: where can I sign a counter petition?
Yahoo!

Submission + - Yahoo's New Search Engine?

Submitted by
wdr1
wdr1 writes: "Born as a result of Hack Day, Yahoo has launched into beta a revamped search engine, alpha. According to their blog, it looks like it was done by a group of Aussies and allows concurrent searches of any system supporting Open Search RSS."
The Courts

Submission + - SCO goes for Groklaw. Again...

Submitted by beav007
beav007 writes: SCO has subpoenaed Pamela Jones of Groklaw again.

According to this article on TheRegister,

The attempted deposition will be seen by many as SCO's latest gambit to unmask Jones, who, it has claimed, to be in reality a group of IBM employees or an individual paid by IBM to portray SCO in an unfavorable light. Quoting press articles, SCO's action claims IBM "funneled" between $40,000 and $50,000 into Groklaw, which tracks the minutiae of SCO's cases against Novell and IBM. Also cited as proof of bias is the fact Groklaw is hosted for free on IBM servers at ibiblio.org. According to SCO, Jones has important information and has avoided its subpoenas by going on holiday.
Music

Submission + - Will AAC become next industry standard?

Submitted by
stivi
stivi writes: " BusinessWeek writes: "Apple's recent deal with EMI to sell DRM-free songs from the publisher's catalog on iTunes may clinch the iPod's AAC format as the industry standard". The article talks about possible reasons why AAC might marginalize WMA. There are plenty of players that can play AAC already. What would happen if more labels would follow the step of providing DRM-free music, possibly with higher quality?"
Windows

Submission + - Vista: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Submitted by
Lee Alexander
Lee Alexander writes: "I guess Vista reviews are now a little belated, but I believe that just like a fine wine, it's worth waiting a little longer before opening the bottle, in this case writing the review. I've been using Vista since last November and thought I'd share my personal opinion of it with the blogosphere. I took the plunge early on with all the pain that inevitibly happens with new software."
Media

The Best VHS Capture System Using Free Software? 85

Posted by Cliff from the preserve-your-shows-from-the-80s-and-90s dept.
mrcgran asks: "I have been trying to find the best solution to transfer VHS tapes to a digital format using Free Software only. I would like to lose as little as possible in the conversion, sampling optimally, minimizing noise and being in control of every step of the process. Storage is not a problem. I'm expecting to use around 5GB+ for each hour of raw captured footage." If you were going to build a VHS capture system using Free Software, how would you do it?
Software

Submission + - Still Using Webalizer?

Submitted by
hamesh
hamesh writes: "I can't believe how many folks and web hosts still use Webalizer. Good article with some recommended alternatives.

"...Webalizer is the default tool provided by most hosting providers (Any CPanel users out there? This means you!), not because it is particularly useful to their customers, but because it has several advantages for them over much better and more current tools. Namely, it's free, fast and light on your host's system resources. Meaning, they can include it with your hosting package and it scales nicely as they add more customers, all with no expensive licensing costs. What you probably aren't aware of is there hasn't been a new version and haven't been any updates to Webalizer since 2002."
http://seo.belchfire.net/search-engine-optimizatio n/dont-tell-me-youre-still-using-webalizer"
Security

Submission + - British hacker loses extradition appeal

Submitted by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo
Mordok-DestroyerOfWo writes: Gary McKinnon has lost his appeal against extradition to the US on hacking charges. The BBC News website profiles his history and his motives. To hear the US government tell it, Gary McKinnon is a dangerous man, and should be extradited back to America to stand trial in a Virginia courtroom. One US prosecutor has accused him of committing "the biggest military computer hack of all time". But Mr McKinnon has said his motives were harmless and innocent — he was, he says, simply looking for information on UFOs. Read on

Was he a 'bumbling nerd' as he says or were his motives more malicious?

Feed Verizon Wireless Slowly, Quietly, Backing Away From Misleading Claims Of Unlimit (techdirt.com)

From feed by techdirtfeed
For years, Verizon Wireless has been pushing its EVDO wireless internet service as "unlimited" -- but then cutting off users if they passed some unknown, unstated "cap." When pushed on this, a Verizon Wireless rep actually said "It's unlimited amounts of data for certain types of data." And... if you happened to go over a certain amount of total data, then they insisted you absolutely must have been using it for "other" types of data -- even if they had no actual proof. For a while it was thought that the cap was 10gigs, but later it was revealed that it was merely 5gigs of data per month -- which these days, really isn't all that much for some people. We've always wondered why no one ever hit Verizon Wireless with a false advertising suit over the claim of "unlimited," but it never happened. However, it appears that Verizon Wireless has been slowly backing away from the unlimited claim, and is now putting the 5gig limit into the terms of service. They still do use "Unlimited" in their press releases, but seem to be backing away from it in their ads. There's nothing wrong with limiting the total bandwidth that can be used, so as long as the company was clear about it. It's unclear why it took years for Verizon Wireless to decide that actually being (somewhat) honest about what it was selling was a good idea.

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