Alphager - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Is that so? (Score 3, Informative) 685

by Alphager on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @03:48AM (#24012841) Attached to: Some Developers Leaving Google For Microsoft

Where testers don't get to touch it until it's ready for testing?

The later a bug is found the costlier it is to fix it. And if your projects run late (who are we kidding: WHEN your projects run late) the first two things to be cut down are documentation and testing. Do daily automated testing and you find many errors before they become critical.

Submission + - Firefox Memory Hogging Is Due to Fragmentation (pavlov.net)

Submitted by A beautiful mind on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @10:19AM

A beautiful mind writes: It has been long claimed by users that Firefox leaks memory, and on the other hand the developers claimed the number of leaks are minimal. It turns out both groups were right. Stuart Parmenter, one of the authors of the RAMBack extension started investigating and found out that the issue is memory fragmentation. He discovered that while loading about:blank uses 12,589,696 bytes of memory in the test he performed (image), after exercising Firefox with different websites and then clearing the caches with the help of the RAMBack extension the picture is wholly different: "Our heap is now 29,999,872 bytes! 16,118,072 of that is used (up 4,634,208 bytes from before... which caches am I forgetting to clear?). The rest, a whopping 13,881,800 bytes, is in free blocks!"

Submission + - Massive chair migration spotted over Redmond

Submitted by Anne Honime on Monday September 17, 2007 @06:23AM

Anne Honime writes: The European first degree court has backed the European Commission today, reports The register. Microsoft has been fined 497 M for anti-competetive pratice, and this fine will be definitive unless Microsoft form an appeal within 2 months, with a catch : they will be restricted to appeal on legal grounds as factuals one are now considered established. Further reported by elreg, Microsoft has entered a spinning spree. Beware of the chairs !

Submission + - Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal

Submitted by

Kugrian

on Monday September 17, 2007 @05:55AM

Kugrian writes: "Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position."

Submission + - Microsoft loses antitrust appeal in Brussels (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by

chris_sawtell

on Monday September 17, 2007 @05:36AM

chris_sawtell writes: "The Guardian is reporting that: "The European commission today hailed a key ruling by the court of first instance, Europe's second-highest court, that upheld its March 2004 decision to fine Microsoft a record 497m (£345m) $US690m for abusing its dominance of the software market and force it to share critical information with rival companies.

"After securing a comprehensive victory in its nine-year battle with Microsoft, Brussels is now free to pursue other high-profile cases against hi-tech companies such as Intel and has emerged as the world's leading antitrust authority. The company founded by Bill Gates will have to alter its business model as it faces stiff competition on new markets from the likes of Google and Apple."

Submission + - MS loses European anti-trust case (europa.eu)

Submitted by

Tom

on Monday September 17, 2007 @05:27AM

Tom writes: "The court has spoken in Microsoft's case against the EU anti-trust commission, and the result is even more damaging to the monopoly company than analysts expected.
The court upholds all major decisions of the commission, including the record half a billion Euro fines. Most importantly, it smacks down MS entire defense line of "we can't make interoperability possible because we need to protect our copyrights and patents"."

Submission + - OMG Ponies

Submitted by jibjibjib on Saturday March 31, 2007 @10:53PM

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Feed Apple, Google join forces for 'ultimate phone' (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Saturday March 31, 2007 @10:52PM

Spherical challenge

Exclusive Apple and Google have abandoned their individual mobile phone projects for a joint venture, The Register has learned.

Submission + - Police Shut Down LAN Tournament

Submitted by

Sibko

on Saturday March 31, 2007 @10:34PM

Sibko writes: "17 year old Zach Wigal, a Saline High School student, spent 9 months organizing a Halo 2 LAN tournament that was to be held on March 20th, spending $650 of his own money to help launch the event. He had talked to school officials, printed fliers to help advertise, and had parents and teachers agree to be chaperones. Everything was fine, until his father called the local police to inquire about the availability of a uniformed officer. This raised concerns with departmental community coordinator Ritchie Coleman who serves on the Southeast Michigan Chapter of the Parents TV Council.

"I'm not saying boycott the game, I just think that kids 17 and under playing an M-rated game for money is not something appropriate for the high school,'' Phillips said.
Due to the police involvement just four days prior to the event, it had to be shut down."

Submission + - Death of the cell phone charger

Submitted by

jerthebear

on Saturday March 31, 2007 @08:24PM

jerthebear writes: "How much money could you make from a technology that replaces electrical wires? A startup called Powercast, along with the more than 100 companies that have inked agreements with it, is about to start finding out. Powercast and its first major partner, electronics giant Philips, are set to launch their first device powered by electricity broadcast through the air.

Link to story"

Journal Journal: Mozilla Foundation sues Microsoft over tabbed browsing 149

Journal by Alphager on Saturday March 31, 2007 @06:28PM

According to the german tech-site heise.de, the Mozilla Foundation is suing Microsoft over the use of tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer 7.
The Mozilla Foundation owns the patent 5,160,296 through one of their developers (Solomon Katz, a former Opera dev) and has begun suing Microsoft in Mountainview, California.
The Foundation wants that MS imediately

Submission + - VoIP Enumeration Technique

Submitted by

hackathology

on Saturday March 31, 2007 @06:29AM

hackathology writes: "This article displays several VoIP enumeration technique that can be used to pentest in a VoIP environment."

Submission + - Python Elegance and Warts

Submitted by IdaAshley on Saturday March 31, 2007 @04:05AM

IdaAshley writes: Python has greatly increased its number of syntactic features and built-in functions and types, making it no longer a language that experienced programmers can pick up "in an afternoon." This article discusses the new features that have been added to Python, and weighs in on which ones are truly valuable and which just add unnecessary complication.

Submission + - UK "data rape" centres open tomorrow

Submitted by on Sunday March 25, 2007 @04:51PM

An anonymous reader writes: 26th March, or ID-Day marks the opening of the first interrogation centres in the UK. Anyone applying for, or renewing a passport will have to surrender to data rape, fingerprinting, digitised face and iris scans.

All those who signed the official e-petition (propaganda mailing list) received an e-mail from Tony Blair, including reassurances that the database will go ahead and all its glorious biometric data will be fully open to fishing expeditions.

Submission + - Are Beryl and Compiz are about to reunite?

Submitted by

**loki969**

on Sunday March 25, 2007 @03:29PM

**loki969** writes: "It seems that Beryl and Compiz are about to reunite. According to an email on beryls dev-ML, most devs seem to be looking forward to reuniting the effort of developing a decent 3D desktop for Linux, even though Beryl has forked off Compiz not too long ago because of dissension about the chosen MIT license of Compiz. And it seems that they already found a name for this new project: Coral"

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