Comment: So.. (Score 1) 799
We might actually nuke a gay baby whale for Jesus?
Comment: Re:How about a garbage collector appreciation day? (Score 1) 232
You assume that other professions don't have "appreciation days" when, in fact, they do. Also, you appear to think that SAs believe that they are more deserving than other professions. While I don't doubt that there are plenty of admins out there that hold an arrogant view like that, I also believe that the majority of professional sysadmins don't. I don't begrudge my boss bosses day, or our administrative assistant's secretaries day. It's just nice to be appreciated.
Is trixbox Pro bad for the community?->
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An anonymous reader writes "Recently a company called Fonality bought the trademark rights to trixbox, which used to be called Asterisk@Home. Now they've released a product they call "trixbox Pro" which, unlike other Free and Open Source vendors who also have a commercial offering, is a completely different, closed source codebase that is based on their PBXtra product, and not based on what up until now has just been known simply as "trixbox."
This doesn't sit well with me for a variety of reasons, but I'd like to get the opinions of Slashdot community members on this. They appear to be operating within the letter of the GPL, but not the spirit. Are they going to plow the profits made on trixbox Pro back into trixbox Pro and ignore the community that uses and supports what they're now calling trixbox CE? Obviously there's no way to predict that, but we can certainly make an attempt. Have other vendors gone down this path and still made good on their community responsibilities? Any spectacular failed attempts?"
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This doesn't sit well with me for a variety of reasons, but I'd like to get the opinions of Slashdot community members on this. They appear to be operating within the letter of the GPL, but not the spirit. Are they going to plow the profits made on trixbox Pro back into trixbox Pro and ignore the community that uses and supports what they're now calling trixbox CE? Obviously there's no way to predict that, but we can certainly make an attempt. Have other vendors gone down this path and still made good on their community responsibilities? Any spectacular failed attempts?"
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Commodore's new gaming PC - specs revealed
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steven williamson writes "Following on from the press release earlier today announcing new details for Commodore's range of gaming PCs, the spec for have been revealed before CeBIT 2007 in Hanover launches tomorrow. HEXUS.gaming have gatecrashed the show early and have a full list of what we can expect.
So we all got excited over the news that Commodore are entering the gaming PC market, but what we've all been gagging to know is what the spec of these new PCs will be...
Check out the full list : here"
Video On Demand - and DRM
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Harry Palm writes "So — what would it be like to work in the on-line Video Delivery business? Check out this job description from
DICE.COM The position is in the City of Brotherly Love.... :-) And check out the their rack (server rack that is) http://www.nationala-1.com. If you dig around a little bit.. you find out that they also run a company known as: VODCONCEPTS.com. Read a little about their DRM Hosting service ... they claim over 40,000 titles as of March 2006.
Would this get you out of the basement? "