Gopal.V - Slashdot User

Flash for Mobile phones is dead!-> 0

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Gopal.V

on Wednesday November 09 2011, @08:34AM

Gopal.V writes "Adobe is recognizing what was a square peg for a round hole and killing Flash for mobile devices. But they're not going away, instead shifting focus towards the more capable (but same 'ol, same 'ol) Air platform for mobile devices. But the brief interlude at least will help the HTML5 bandwagon gain some traction & finally agree on some codecs and not just the markup. And perhaps, just perhaps the authoring tools (unfortunately, what's there other than Adobe Edge?) will catch up too."
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KDE Conf India-> 0

Submitted by Gopal.V on Tuesday December 28 2010, @10:41AM

Gopal.V writes "KDE India has announced it's hosting conf.kde.in, a five day long event in March to introduce & promote contributions to KDE from India. Should be an interesting effort to push the youth of India towards writing more free & open software, especially on the desktop where it desperately needs some love."
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Youtube Outage, groans the cricket fans ...-> 0

Submitted by Gopal.V on Thursday March 25 2010, @07:35AM

Gopal.V writes "Youtube is down right now, serving out a 503 status page. It wouldn't be a big deal for most, except for the timing of the outage.Indian Premier League being streamed live (well, delayed by a bit) on youtube. So on an afternoon when Bangalore is playing a match, youtube just went down. Has youtube been IPL-dotted, because the local ISP has lifted bandwidth limits on this youtube channel."
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World Sleep day - how many hours have you? 0

Submitted by Gopal.V on Friday March 19 2010, @10:54AM

Gopal.V writes "* 4 hours
* 6 1/2 hours
* 8 hours
* 9 hours
* I am Uberman
* The coffeemachine's broken"

The Internet Freedom Act of 2009-> 0

Submitted by Gopal.V on Tuesday October 27 2009, @04:18PM

Gopal.V writes "Jon Stewart took up the cause of Net Neutrality in last night's daily show episode. Even though daily show was a little biased, the topic under discussion was John McCain's Internet Freedom Act of 2009 which is essentially a death knell for net neutrality. US being pretty much the central routing hub of the entire internet, this will certainly affect everyone everywhere. Please note that the video is not advised for anyone who likes Unicorns."
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CCC Create a rogue CA certificate-> 0

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t3rmin4t0r

on Tuesday December 30 2008, @11:48AM

t3rmin4t0r writes "Just when you were breathing easy about Kaminsky, DNS and the word hijacking, by repeating the word SSL in your head, the hackers at CCC were busy at work making a hash of SSL certificate security. Here's the scoop on how they set up their own rouge CA, by (from what I can figure) reversing the hash and engineering a collision up in MD5 space. Until now, md5 collisions have been ignored because nobody would put in that much effort to create a useful dummy file, but a CA certificate for phishing seems juicy enough to be fodder for the botnets now."
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Google Native client: x86 on the web-> 0

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t3rmin4t0r

on Tuesday December 09 2008, @07:42AM

t3rmin4t0r writes "Google has announced Google native client which is enables x86 native code to be run securely inside a browser. With java applets already dead and buried, this could mean the end of the new war between browsers and the various javascript engines (V8, Squirrelfish, Tracemonkey). The only question remains whether it can be secured (ala ActiveX) and whether the advantages carry over onto non-x86 platforms.The package is available for download from its Google code site. Hopefully, I can finally write my web apps in asm."
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ESR to Fedora: Goodbye !

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t3rmin4t0r

on Wednesday February 21 2007, @06:08AM

t3rmin4t0r writes "Some what suddenly, Eric S Raymond has bid good bye to Fedora. Many of his comments are probably valid — but rather than his decision to leave for Ubuntu, the praise for the new Canonical/Linspire deal (for Click-n-Run and proprietary codecs) will probably prove to be more controversial."

Yahoo! launches Pipes

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t3rmin4t0r

on Thursday February 08 2007, @12:43PM

t3rmin4t0r writes "Yahoo! has launched Pipes, a unixy way of remixing web content — in a somewhat "leg bone connected to the ankle bone" fashion — with connectors and filters/mutators, ending up with something very similar to the shell way of doing things, except with a cool javascript designer which faintly reminds you of ye olde Java Studio.

If you don't like content from Y! or flickr, this supports feeds from google base, which should make things interesting for real estate data at least. The tool definitely has a "Go forth and write your own aggregators" feel to it, rather than directly hooking into mashup land. As far as I'm concerned, I can finally create a pipe which filters out all the angst-ridden self-loathing out of blog feeds."

Apple granted patent on ORM

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t3rmin4t0r

on Thursday October 26 2006, @05:42AM

t3rmin4t0r writes "Apple has just been granted patent #7,127,474 by the USPTO. The idea is the basis and concept for a large number of ORM sub-systems in J2EE or Ruby on Rails. Even though I expect Sun and others to pay a royalty to apple, it raises some interesting contradictions for rails shipping with Leopard. But still you can't argue with the relevance of the patent.

And for the fear of tainting ORM developers — please do NOT RTF PATENT if you are one. Just say No! to software patents."