Comment: Subtle ad? (Score 4, Funny) 225
"they may opt instead for Microsoft's Windows Phone software"
No one is going to do that.
Comment: Stop being so fucking full of yourself (Score 0) 203
Stop being so fucking full of yourself, and you may have a change.
If your project is actually rock star quality, open source or proprietary won't make a diffence.
Now let's get back to your 15ms of fame.
Comment: Trusted Source (Score 3, Interesting) 382
Neil Young made the same argument last month in Wired. The interviewer was a douchbag, so I'm not going to link to it, but Neil was right, and first.
Comment: It stopped being your private life (Score 5, Insightful) 550
It stopped being your private life when you posted it to the Internet.
Ubuntu TV Finally Gets a Close-Up 146
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timothy
from the it's-only-a-model dept.
from the it's-only-a-model dept.
Barence writes "Canonical has unveiled the first screenshots and details of Ubuntu TV. Plans for versions of the Linux distro for tablets, smartphones and TVs were unveiled last year, and now the television is — perhaps surprisingly — the first of those to arrive. 'It's a simple viewing experience for online video, both your own and routed over the internet,' Jane Silber, Canonical's CEO told PC Pro. Movie streaming services will be supported as well as live television broadcasts. Ubuntu TV will be integrated into television sets, but Canonical was unable to confirm any manufacturers. It will be released later this year."
Comment: Python (Score 1) 783
It's on the Playbook, and will be on the BB10 phones.
Comment: Still not a jailbreak. (Score 2) 60
It is a privilege escalation to a 'root' user, which in this context is equivalent to an 'admin' user.
In short, using an insecure backup/restore process, it changes the ability for root to login via ssh. No bootloader access, no 'jailbreak'. From there, all you get is what you could have done by developing an app.
As you could always load an app directly onto your Playbook, this is not all that impressive.
I have come to expect it from Crackberry, but though
Comment: Not 'rooted' (Score 4, Informative) 63
Remember this is QNX. This is a privilege escalation above the default 'devuser'. I still see nothing that indicates that the bootloader or anything of importance was 'rooted' in the same sense as an Android 'root' or and iPhone 'jailbreak'.
RIM PlayBook Tablet Jailbroken 63
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timothy
from the hardware-wants-to-be-free dept.
from the hardware-wants-to-be-free dept.
Trailrunner7 writes "A group of researchers is claiming that they've found a root exploit that enables them to jailbreak the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet made by Research In Motion. In a video demonstration of the jailbreak, one of the researchers shows off the ability to change the settings on a PlayBook and says that he also has the ability to install the Android Market app on the tablet."
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD 488
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timothy
from the or-on-a-floppy-disk dept.
from the or-on-a-floppy-disk dept.
gbl08ma writes "According to various sources, the ISO image size for the upcoming Long-Term Support Ubuntu version 'Precise Pangolin' will not fit on a regular CD, since the image size is expected to weigh around 750MB instead of the usual ~700MB. The idea is that users should either flash the image to a USB flash drive or burn it to a DVD. The extra room on the disc image could allow for integration of more GNOME3 components and Canonical applications. There was also a proposal to use a 1.5GB DVD image as the default download for Ubuntu 12.04."
Comment: This is based on analysts guesses (Score 4, Informative) 406
This is based on analysts guesses. Samsung didn't release any numbers.
Ubuntu Turns 7 244
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timothy
from the lots-of-work-and-much-success dept.
from the lots-of-work-and-much-success dept.
sfcrazy writes "Ubuntu, the world's most popular GNU/Linux based operating system is celebrating its 7th year today. Ubuntu was first released on 20 October 2004. In these 7 years Ubuntu has changed the GNU/Linux desktop segment by making it more useful for ordinary user." Besides the work that Ubuntu has done to popularize and polish the Linux desktop, and to present a humane entry point for non-guru users, it's provided a base for many other distributions (like Mint and Puppy) and helped make people realize just how powerful is the Debian infrastructure that Ubuntu itself launched from.
Comment: Initial list of apps (Score 2) 122
The initial list of apps is up at http://crackberry.com/research-motion-offers-free-premium-apps-customers-following-service-interruptions
Comment: Re:A bad quarter (Score 1) 341
Of course it is a problem. But it is not the end of the world. They have laid out a transition to QNX-based phones, and in the middle of than transition right now. Did they make mistakes last year with the pre-7 phones (underpowered, stagnant interface)? Yes they did, and this is a major part of their drop in overall market share.
This does not seem unrecoverable to me though.
Comment: Re:A bad quarter (Score 1) 341
The market has grown. Subscribers are actually up, as well phone sales.