Ghandalfar - Slashdot User

Comment: Try open source web designs (Score 1) 377

by Ghandalfar on Sunday February 10 2008, @01:23PM (#22370758) Attached to: Web Graphic Design for Small Businesses

Open source web designs like http://www.oswd.org/ will allow you to build your site for "free" or at least give you usable contribution to work from.

Journal: Choke points for spam 0

Journal by ILikeRed on Saturday February 17 2007, @06:53PM

A large problem with spam is the collection of zombie systems (mostly Microsoft home computers) on residential broadband lines that act as relays for spam. Most of these users have simple firewalls supplied by their broadband providers that they never really configure that provide DNS proxy services, among other services. Is it not about time to start pressuri

Redhat joins Novell

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2007, @06:39PM

An anonymous reader writes "Redhat joined Novell and signed a deal with Microsoft."

MPAA Steals Code, Violates Linkware License

Submitted by

GRW

on Saturday February 17 2007, @05:28PM

GRW writes "TorrentFreak reports that the MPAA is using blogging software, called Forest Blog by web developer Patrick Robin, in violation of the "linkware" license. They have removed all links and references to the Forest Blog website, and have not purchased a commercial license. Is this a case of "Do as I say and not as I do"?"

Middlebury puts the beat-down on Wikipedia

Submitted by

ThePooka

on Saturday February 17 2007, @05:19PM

ThePooka writes "The Middlebury College History department has just said no to Wikipedia, at least as a source for students' essays. "(P)rofessors often say the Web site's freewheeling nature makes it too easy for errors to be introduced.""

Is Delphi the next Database dev platform.. again?

Submitted by santakrooz on Saturday February 17 2007, @02:20PM

santakrooz writes "Delphi's always been known as a solid database application development platform, it just had it's 12th birthday on Valentines day, and now the Delphi guys are coming up with a completely new database architecture. The interesting thing is that it's backward compatible, insanely extensible, single sourced between .NET and Wintel native code, and... and written completely in Delphi. Ok I know Delphi's written in Delphi and there are "wow" apps out there written in Delphi like Skype that Delphi guys always like to mention, there was a loosely supported Linux version, so my question is, what can't you do in Delphi? Or a better question is... what have Slashdot readers written in Delphi?"

commercial quantum computer demoed

Submitted by

Lord Sidious

on Wednesday February 14 2007, @05:00PM

Lord Sidious writes "A Vancouver startup, D-Wave Systems, claims to have demonstrated the world's first commercially viable quantum computer.

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb07/comments/1710"

New accelerator technique doubles particle energy

Submitted by ZonkerWilliam on Wednesday February 14 2007, @04:53PM

ZonkerWilliam writes "Plasma wake particle accelerators are making suprisingly quick advances. It was a just a little while ago we had Gev acceleration in 3cm; http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/0 4/0057225. Here they are capable of doubling the speed of electrons, in one meter. See the article for more information; http://www.physorg.com/news90682193.html"

Analyst: Vista might be good and bad for Mac

Submitted by thefickler on Wednesday February 14 2007, @04:36PM

thefickler writes "The launch of Vista could cut Mac market share in the short term, according to investment banking firm Piper Jaffray. However, the firm also said that some PC users might buy a Mac instead of upgrading to Vista."

YouTube Hands Over User Info To Fox 396

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 14 2007, @04:34PM
from the their-tube dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tech Crunch has an article about YouTube identifying and handing over a user's information after a request from Fox. 'Three weeks after receiving a subpoena from the U.S. District Court in Northern California, YouTube has reportedly identified a user accused by 20th Century Fox Television of uploading episodes of the show 24 a week prior to their running on television. That user, named ECOTtotal, is also alleged to have uploaded 12 episodes of The Simpsons, some quite old. Apparently Google and YouTube were willing and able to identify the owner of the username ECOTtotal, according to a report on InternetNews.com.'"