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Submission + - Google Chrome OS Leaks (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by selven on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @08:58PM

selven writes: The browser for Google's upcoming Chrome operating system has been accidentally put up for download, and some people got it before it was taken down, and it is now freely available on the internet. The browser is a somewhat reskinned version of Chrome with some key new features — a clock and a (nonfunctional in the leaked build) wireless internet utility at the top right, suggesting that the browser will take up the entire screen in the OS.

If you are interested in trying out the browser, you can find it here, although only Debian and Ubuntu users can install the package.

Submission + - W3C web standards

Submitted by

ve3oat

on Thursday June 11, 2009 @09:54AM

ve3oat writes: "Why doesn't the /. website conform to W3C standards? Given the level of enlightenment within the /. community, I would have expected that /. itself would strive to support such an obvious goal as web standards. Is it just that /. doesn't support the W3C and conforms instead to a different standard?"

Submission + - Microsoft Out of (MS) Money (bnet.com)

Submitted by bizwriter on Thursday June 11, 2009 @08:55AM

bizwriter writes: As proof that a combination of a large bank account and persistence aren't everything, Microsoft is discontinuing its Microsoft Money consumer software, effectively surrendering to the market after unsuccessfully trying to dominate this software niche for more than a decade.

Dell To Offer Open Source Bundles 84

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @03:08PM from the part-of-the-years-long-water-testing-project dept.

ruphus13 writes "Dell has been offering Linux-based machines for a while, especially its Server-class machines. Now, Dell has decided that there are several open source applications that are ready for mainstream consumers. From the post, 'While we've all been speculating about whether Dell is working on Android netbooks, the computer hardware and software vendor was busy bundling open source applications to offer to small- and medium-sized business customers looking for low-cost alternatives to commercial software. The pre-configured "SMB-in-a-box" software is only available in the US for now, but Dell expects to launch a similar offering in Asia by the end of 2009... Although no specifics have been given about which apps are included in Dell's first bundle, it is aimed at the retail sector.' It is going to be interesting to see what Dell picks as the 'must-have' applications for the SMB market."

Electric Pool 3

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 02, 2009 @02:14PM from the accident-waiting-to-happen dept.

I really mean no splashing this time.

Submission + - Dell's Android smartphone "coming next month&# (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by

Barence

on Friday January 30, 2009 @03:53AM

Barence writes: "Dell is expected to launch its new smartphone as early as February. The device will run on either Google's Android or Windows Mobile, and will include a touchscreen similar to the iPhone's, according to reports. However, one person who might not welcome a call from Michael Dell is Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Dell boss was given a public dressing down by Putin after he patronisingly offered to help Russia's IT industry. "We don't need any help. We are not invalids," Putin snapped before offering a veiled insult to Dell's box-shifting business."

Apple Introduces "MacBook Wheel" 268

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @10:27AM from the future-is-now dept.

CommonCents noted an Apple announcement a few hours before the anticipated keynote. He says "Apples' latest must have gadget does away with the keyboard. With the new MacBook Wheel, Apple has replaced the traditional keyboard with a giant wheel."

Comparison of Nine Ruby Implementations 75

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @11:52AM from the shades-of-corundum dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Zen and the Art of Programming published a new version of The Great Ruby Shootout, which was aimed at testing the performances of multiple Ruby implementations. On the benchmark table this time around are Ruby 1.8 (on GNU/Linux and Windows), Ruby 1.9 (aka Yarv), Ruby Enterprise Edition (aka REE), JRuby 1.1.6RC1, Rubinius, MagLev, MacRuby 0.3 and IronRuby. The results of this comprehensive comparison show that for this set of benchmarks, Ruby 1.9.1 is almost 5 times faster than the notoriously slow Ruby 1.8. Is Ruby finally going to be acceptably fast?"

Submission + - Dell begins their largest layoff ever. 3

Submitted by cyphercell on Thursday August 02, 2007 @02:59PM

cyphercell writes: Dell has begun their largest series of layoffs ever. This morning at about 10:00am more than two hundred employees at Dell's Roseburg Oregon Call center found out that they no longer had jobs. Sparking what appears to be the beginning of year long run of layoffs for the company. http://www.newsreview.info/article/20070802/NEWS/7 0802014

Refuting local suspicions of malice Dell spokesman David Frink states:

... the closure has nothing to do with a lawsuit filed by employees of the Roseburg center in February, claiming Dell violated federal and state wage and hour laws.
http://www.newsreview.info/article/20070213/NEWS/7 0213020

and later says

...plans to reduce employment worldwide by 10 percent at the end of May.

Their plans to reduce employment can be found here:
http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business /stories/technology/06/01/1dell.html

Here are some highlights:

Dell set to shed 8,800 workers...

Dell has 82,200 permanent workers, including 18,000 in Central Texas, and 5,300 temporary workers worldwide. The layoffs are expected to affect both groups...

In its last large-scale layoffs, Dell cut more than 5,000 jobs in Austin after the high-tech bust in 2001.

...many of the layoffs could come in Central Texas, where Dell is headquartered. In a March 29 report to clients, Goldman Sachs analysts said Dell might reduce the work force at its test and assembly facilities in the U.S. and Malaysia.

Submission + - Favorite nerd webcomic

Submitted by

delirium of disorder

on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @09:50PM

delirium of disorder writes: "Favorite nerd webcomic?

Penny Arcade
Userfriendly
PvP
xkcd
Ctrl+Alt+Del
Megatokyo
indexed
Joy of Tech"

Submission + - Has Windows Data Execution Protection(DEP) helped?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @08:25PM

An anonymous reader writes: It has been about two and half years since Microsoft shipped XP Service Pack 2, which enabled software DEP and also supported the NX-bit for hardware-enforced DEP.

The software-enforced DEP was well known in 2004 for being part of the reason that SP2 was slower than SP1, especially on cache-limited CPUs. I myself have begun turning DEP off in the BOOT.INI file on older systems.

The question: Has DEP ever stopped anything, or is it just more useless overhead? I note that I haven't seen Microsoft mention DEP in any recent advisories and Windows continues to be exploited(like last weeks ANI Cursor bug) by system-level holes that DEP was supposed to catch.

Submission + - How to get your Windows PC owned by a cursor

Submitted by

Mother

on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @06:56PM

Mother writes: "A practical demonstration on how to get your Windows PC owned by an animated cursor. An animated spongebob cursor would make the experience more humiliating, but nevertheless, the video is worth a watch: http://www.offensive-security.com/movies/ani/ani.h tml"

Submission + - Why do smart people disagree on peak oil so much?

Submitted by

Prof. Goose

on Monday April 02, 2007 @11:11AM

Prof. Goose writes: ""There continues to be considerable disagreement on both the timing and the magnitude of Peak Oil, though last week's US GAO report(pdf) should be helpful in shrinking that gap. Part I of this 3 part series summarized some of the recent discussion of why some are very concerned about Peak Oil and others are relatively unconcerned. We also discussed why there needs to be a clear definition of Peak Oil so that policymakers discuss 'apples and apples'. This post will continue to examine areas of disagreement between the two camps, and will particularly focus on what I perceive to be the largest disconnect in energy, financial and government circles — that of the difference between gross and net production of finite sources."

Here's a link: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2367"

Submission + - Are stored procedures bad?

Submitted by on Monday April 02, 2007 @08:50AM

An anonymous reader writes: I use stored procedures all the time; if not for anything else, but just for the isolation it provides between the business logic and data management. And that's was school taught me! But I was just going through Frans Bouma's article and it shattered all my beliefs. If not all, atleast a few of Frans's points are undeniable. It's an old article and I believe it dates back to 2003 so I'm sure someone would have figured what is best.

Submission + - OMG Ponies

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