Comment Poor guy! (Score 1) 293
James Woods is doomed!
Submission + - Developer Job Growth Slows in North America
narramissic writes: "New research from Evans Data Corp. finds that by 2010 North America will account for 18% of worldwide software developer jobs, down from 23% today, further documenting the trend of software development work shifting away from the U.S. It is worth noting, however, that there are still 'elements of software development,' including Ajax, that are strongest in the U.S., says John Andrews, president and chief operating officer of Evans Data."
Submission + - Command-line PHP? Yes, you can!
An anonymous reader writes: Learn how to debug PHP code from the command line and examine the strengths of PHP as a shell scripting language unto itself. Give PHP a chance on the command-line interface, and you may find that it has become your new favorite shell-scripting tool. There's really nothing stopping you from using PHP as your Swiss Army knife for almost any given programming project.
Submission + - What's missing from Vista's "official apps"
PetManimal writes: "Microsoft has just released a list of 800 applications it says are "officially supported" on Windows Vista. What's special about this list, however, are the programs that are not included:
Another area in which Vista has found to be lacking is gaming, as discussed earlier on Slashdot."Popular Windows software that is conspicuously missing from Microsoft's list includes Adobe Systems Inc.'s entire line of graphics and multimedia software, Symantec Corp.'s security products, as well as the Mozilla Foundation's open-source Firefox Web browser, Skype Ltd.'s free voice-over-IP software and the OpenOffice.org alternative to Microsoft Office
Submission + - Google to charge for web apps
zakkie writes: "According to BBC News, Google is to start charging businesses for guaranteed availability and more features in the web apps like Gmail. The article suggests the timing is bad for Microsoft and their release of Office 2007, and is a "shot across their bows"."
Submission + - The Perfect Desktop - Part 1: Fedora Core 6
hausmasta writes: "With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the first of a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Fedora Core 6 in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfect_desktop_fedo ra_core6"
http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfect_desktop_fed
Submission + - Call from 'anywhere'... from anywhere!
Butcher writes: Network World talks about a new service called Whooptones which lets you add backgrounds to your phone calls — backgrounds that let you create the illusion that you're somewhere else. Just think — now you can cover up your Saturday night at home reading Slashdot with a call to your friends — just activate the party background and scream into the phone "SORRY, CAN'T HANG WITH YOU TONIGHT!" That's it — you're done, they think you're cool, and you can go back to Slashdot! (I know, unrealistic example because Slashdot on a Saturday night is already cool.)
There's even more. Whooptones also lets you 'inject' sounds by pressing the buttons on your phone — sounds that you select from the library or create yourself. How about greeting the customer care rep after your 25 minutes on hold with chain gun fire.
Some other cool features: it works with any phone (cell, fixed), voice recognition for dialing contacts, click-to-call, and ability to create your own private sounds as well as publish some for others.
There's even more. Whooptones also lets you 'inject' sounds by pressing the buttons on your phone — sounds that you select from the library or create yourself. How about greeting the customer care rep after your 25 minutes on hold with chain gun fire.
Some other cool features: it works with any phone (cell, fixed), voice recognition for dialing contacts, click-to-call, and ability to create your own private sounds as well as publish some for others.
Submission + - Contracts required for training dollars?
Rev Cacher writes: Since certifications make you more valuable, it seems reasonable that a company would want to protect their investment in your education. Does your company require that you sign an agreement to stay there for a certain period of time prior to sending you to certification classes? What is a reasonable time? Does it depend on how much is being spent on the class, such as you must stay for X months for every $1000 spent on you?
Visual Basic on GNU/Linux 383
jeevesbond writes "The Mono Project announced that it has developed a Visual Basic compiler that will enable software developers who use Microsoft Visual Basic to run their applications on any platform that supports Mono, such as Linux, without any code modifications."
Ballmer Repeats Threats Against Linux 470
daria42 writes "Steve Ballmer has reissued Microsoft's patent threat against Linux, warning open-source vendors that they must respect his company's intellectual property. In a no-nonsense presentation to New York financial analysts last week, Microsoft's chief executive said the company's partnership with Novell, which it signed in November 2006, "demonstrated clearly the value of intellectual property, even in the open-source world.""
Submission + - Eric S. Raymond switches from Fedora to Ubuntu
kRemit writes: Eric S. Raymond announced that he switched from Fedora Core to Ubuntu Edgy Eft for his workstation on the Fedora dev mailing list (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list /2007-February/msg01006.html), because of numerous issues ranging from dependency-hell to the "culture of Fedora" — especially the apparent decision to give up the struggle for desktop-marketshare.
Submission + - Chain-mail could connect wearable gadgets
MattSparkes writes: "Microscopic chain mail has been made by US researchers, which could ultimately be used to create textiles with sensors and other electronics built in. The links are about 500 microns across, and the fabric has a similar tensile strength to nylon. It can be bent around any shape and stretches to increase its length by one-third, and readily conducts electricity. Microchip-scale electronic components could perhaps also one day be built directly into the links of the chain-mail."
Submission + - Which Embedded Linux Distribution?
Abhikhurana writes: I work for a company which designs a variety of video surveillance devices (such as MPEG4 video servers). Traditionally, these products have been based on proprietory OSs such as Nucleus and VxWorks. Now we are redesigning a few of our products and I am trying to convince my company to go down the Linux route. Understandably, our management is quite sceptical about that and so I was asked by our CTO to recommend a few RTOSs which have mature Networking stacks and which work well on ARM platform. I know that there are many embedded linux based distributions out there. There are commerical ones such as Montavista, LynuxWorks, free ones such as uclinux, muLinux and some Linux like distros such as Ecos, but which is the most stable and best community supported embedded Linux distribution out there?
