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Submission + - How Is VirtualBox Doing? (phoronix.com)

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: Phoronix notes how it has been a long time since last hearing of any major innovations or improvements to VirtualBox, the virtual machine software managed by Oracle. This comes while VMware is improving its products on all platforms, and KVM, Xen, Virt-Manager, and related Linux virtualization technologies continue to advance as well. Is there any hope left for a revitalized VirtualBox? It has been said that there is only four paid developers left on the VirtualBox team at the company, which is not enough manpower to significantly advance such a complex piece of software. The v4.3 series has been receiving some maintenance updates during the last two years, but that's about it.

Comment Re: why google keeps microsoft away (Score 2) 280

by jones_supa (#48938343) Attached to: Microsoft To Invest In Rogue Android Startup Cyanogen

Awesome. Can you please fix the biggest annoyance of android: if I place a call and immediately lock the screen the screen gets unlocked automatically when the call gets connected. That means if I put it in my pocket after I initiate the call it may hangup or go mute it whatever.

That's the main reason I went back to iPhone. Thanks!

Well, did you contact Google about this issue? They are a company that sometimes even responds to feedback.

Comment Re:I wish they'd fix the missing functionality (Score 1) 148

by jones_supa (#48938087) Attached to: LibreOffice Gets a Streamlined Makeover With 4.4 Release

Guys, please write bug reports about such limitations, it might just be the next step to fix.

Agree.

Here's the link to their official bug tracker: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/. Seems to be a quite active place, so one might even have some level of success in getting their issue fixed.

Open source usually comes with the luxury of open bug trackers -- use them!

Submission + - How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft

Submitted by HughPickens.com
HughPickens.com writes: James B. Stewart writes in the NYT that in 1998 Bill Gates said in an interview that he “couldn’t imagine a situation in which Apple would ever be bigger and more profitable than Microsoft" but less than two decades later, Apple, with a market capitalization more than double Microsoft’s, has won. The most successful companies need a vision, and both Apple and Microsoft have one. But according to Stewart, Apple’s vision was more radical and, as it turns out, more farsighted. Where Microsoft foresaw a computer on every person’s desk, Apple went a big step further: Its vision was a computer in every pocket. “Apple has been very visionary in creating and expanding significant new consumer electronics categories,” says Toni Sacconaghi. “Unique, disruptive innovation is really hard to do. Doing it multiple times, as Apple has, is extremely difficult." According to Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson, Microsoft seemed to have the better business for a long time. “But in the end, it didn’t create products of ethereal beauty. Steve believed you had to control every brush stroke from beginning to end. Not because he was a control freak, but because he had a passion for perfection.” Can Apple continue to live by Jobs’s disruptive creed now that the company is as successful as Microsoft once was? According to Robert Cihra it was one thing for Apple to cannibalize its iPod or Mac businesses, but quite another to risk its iPhone juggernaut. “The question investors have is, what’s the next iPhone? There’s no obvious answer. It’s almost impossible to think of anything that will create a $140 billion business out of nothing.”

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: When and how did Europe leapfrog the US for internet access?

Submitted by rsanford
rsanford writes: In the early and middle 90's I recall spending countless hours on IRC "Trout-slapping" people in #hottub and engaging in channel wars. The people from Europe were always complaining about how slow their internet was and there was no choice. This was odd to me, who at the time had 3 local ISPs to choose from, all offering the fastest modem connections at the time, while living in rural America 60 miles away from the nearest city with 1,000 or more people. Was that the reality back then? If so, what changed, and when?

Submission + - D-Link Routers Vulnerable To DNS Hijacking 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: At least one and likely more D-Link routers as well as those of other manufacturers using the same firmware are vulnerable to remote changing of DNS settings and, effectively, traffic hijacking, a Bulgarian security researcher has discovered. Todor Donev, a member of the Ethical Hacker research team, says that the vulnerability is found in the ZynOS firmware of the device, D-Link's DSL-2740R ADSL modem/wireless router. The firmware in question is implemented in many networking equipment manufactured by D-Link, TP-Link Technologies and ZTE, he noted for Computerworld.

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