Jim Fenton - Slashdot User

Comment: My system crashed too (Score 1) 480

by Jim Fenton on Friday January 02 2009, @01:56AM (#26297249) Attached to: Anyone Besides Zune Owners With New Year's Crashes?

My Fedora 8 machine (kernel: 2.6.26.6-49.fc8) crashed around midnight UTC as well. Last syslog message was at 23:40:07 UTC so it may have not happened at exactly midnight; it would be unusual not to have something logged for 20 minutes. When I got to the machine, it was completely unresponsive; couldn't get it to do anything but reboot. The hardware has been very reliable and it's on a UPS.

I have seen a thread on linux.debian.user about this happening on Debian.

Before someone points it out, yes, I know that support for Fedora 8 goes away in a week or so.

Inconsistencies in Apple's iPhone app criteria-> 0

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Jim Fenton

on Tuesday December 30 2008, @12:28AM

Jim Fenton writes "Some developers are running into inconsistencies in Apple's approval process for iPhone applications. One such developer has written an open letter to Al Gore (who is on Apple's board) asking whether his rejection, in which a cartoon of Barack Obama was considered to "ridicule public figures" and "may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod Touch users," should be blocked because it is political. Nevertheless, political applications like the Obama campaign application and potentially objectionable applications like iFart, both very successful, have been approved. Will developers move to other platforms to avoid the uncertainty in Apple's approval process?"
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