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Submission + - Windows Home Server released (apcmag.com)

Submitted by

Thomas Nybergh

on Saturday July 21, 2007 @01:45PM

Thomas Nybergh writes: "Windows Home Server, based on Windows Server 2003 Small Business Edition "minus the Exchange mail server", has been released. Will the new category of Home Server hardware, combined with presumably easy to understand support for multi-disk redundancy be the ultimate backup solution Normal People and Very Small Business have needed for a very long time? And/Or will this end up being yet another, even worse supply of always available Windows machines for botnet owners to zombify? Should the industry focus more on the already existing kind of scaled down, energy saving NAS boxes rather than more or less full scale PCs running Windows Server with a silly limit on the amount of users?

On a sidenote, I've used normal pc hardware running Debian's rolling testing release as a multi purpose home server for everything from GNU Screen powered IRC, downloading ahem.. Linux install disc ISOs, NFS and Samba sharing and web serving for some time, and it simplifies a lot of things. But what amazing new uses for this new kind of for server use dedicated consumer products (perhaps running a more suitable OS), can Slashdot users think of? Especially a few product generations from now, when commodity home server hardware might support hotswappable devices and perhaps even different interfaces for interacting with your physical home, there must be something cool one could do with a server, right?"

Submission + - Etch: release date lost in the future?

Submitted by

ThunderHammer

on Monday March 12, 2007 @05:57PM

ThunderHammer writes: "January and February are long gone with always more than 100 release critical bugs. Only in the last few weeks an energic drop can be seen and brings a little more hope (at the moment is anywhere near 70 bugs). Long development cycle often involve (long) delays and is, in general, a good paradigm for stability, testing and reliability but doesnt look like an unprofessional "when it's done" approach? Do fixed deadlines make sense in cases like this?"

Submission + - McAfee says Vista's StickyKeys could be misused

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Monday March 12, 2007 @04:43PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "A Windows feature designed to simplify computing for disabled users could be misused in Vista, a McAfee researcher reported Monday. Attackers could use this feature, called StickyKeys, to trick a user into launching unauthorized software on the Vista machine. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/031207-mcafe e-says-vistas-stickykeys-could.html"

Submission + - Another example of RIAA legal incompetence

Submitted by

UnknowingFool

on Monday March 12, 2007 @04:37PM

UnknowingFool writes: "In another move of legal brillance, the RIAA asked for a default judgement on January 25th in the case of Atlantic vs Boggs "on the ground that Defendant has failed to appear or otherwise respond to the Complaint . . ." The court denied the motion because the defendant did appear before the court a month earlier on December 20. What makes the motion appear so boneheaded is that not that the RIAA lawyers seemingly forgot that the defendant appeared, it is that defendant, representing himself at the time, appeared in person before the court while the RIAA phoned in, a move that the court admonished. The transcript seems to show that judge is sympathetic to the defendant in the case.

The Court: You're not here looking at Mr. Boggs, but I doubt seriously he's doing this. . . these titles don't seem to go along with Mr. Boggs persona."
"

Submission + - USA Today adds social networking features

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05, 2007 @07:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: The online version of USA Today has undergone a major redesign, adding a bunch of social features to allow readers to create a profile, write a blog, comment and vote on articles, upload images (citizen journalism-style), and send each other messages. The general response throughout the tech-blogosphere has been positive, but, perhaps unsurprisingly, many USA Today readers seem resistant to change. In response, ZDNet's The Social Web argues that old media needs to "resist the urge to roll out any or all 2.0-style social features — just because they can — but should first think long and hard about what added value they want to bring to readers, and what they can expect in return. Sure, social features are a commodity, but community isn't and never will be."

Microsoft Wanted To Drop Mac Office To Hurt Apple 479

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 05, 2007 @06:16PM from the airing-the-dirty-laundry dept.

Overly Critical Guy writes to mention that more documents in the Iowa antitrust case have come out. This time, it's revealed that Microsoft considered dumping the Mac Office Suite entirely in a move to harm Apple. "The email complains at poor sales of Office, which it attributes to a lack of focus on making such sales among reps at that time. It describes dumping development of the product as: 'The strongest bargaining point we have, as doing so will do a great deal of harm to Apple immediately.' The document also confirms that Microsoft at the time saw Office for the Mac as a chance to test new features in the product before they appeared in Windows, 'because it is so much less critical to our business than Windows.'"

Submission + - Adobe Flash 9 on x86_64

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05, 2007 @05:23PM

An anonymous reader writes: Adobe has made many, understandable, excuses as to why Flash Player will not be released for Firefox x86_64 any time soon. Their technical support has urged users to simply use a 32-bit browser in the meantime. Well, for any slashdotters like myself that don't like the idea of having to choose between a pure 64-bit system and You Tube or Newgrounds, stop worrying. NSPluginWrapper, for Linux/x86_64, NetBSD and FreeBSD, is a cross platform compatability extension for many cannot do without 32-bit web plugins such as "Acrobat Reader (5.0.9, 7.0.1), DejaVu Libre (3.5.14), Flash Player (7.0, 9.0), Linux JPEG 2000 (0.0.2), Mplayerplug-in (2.80, 3.25), [and] Real Player (10.0.5)" in their most recent beta Version 0.9.91.3.

Submission + - Inside Second Life's Data Centers

Submitted by

Mitch Wagner

on Monday March 05, 2007 @05:11PM

Mitch Wagner writes: "InformationWeek strips Second Life naked and exposes its pink, quivering flesh. We caress its pulsating bosom with our lusty eyes. In other words, we go inside the data centers and describe the 2,000 servers running Debian Linux and MySQL that keep the virtual world running. Also: Contrary to rumor, Linden Lab, the company that develops and maintains Second Life, has not yet decided whether to open source the server, although they do plan in some fashion to allow other companies to host their own SL servers."

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