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Microsoft cloud beta bugging users in final weeks -> 0

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jbrodkin

on Friday June 10 2011, @02:16PM

jbrodkin writes "Microsoft's Office 365 cloud service is expected to lift the beta tag later this month, but users are complaining about multiple problems, including the requirement to use PowerShell in order to import contacts into a global address list and create useful email aliases. Users are also having trouble creating SharePoint sites, syncing calendar events with Windows mobile phones and getting notifications about undelivered email. An HP veteran and industry analyst who is testing the service says "if they are moving out of beta at the end of June, then I'm surprised.""
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MuseScore makes Open Goldberg Variations available-> 0

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rDouglass

on Wednesday June 01 2011, @11:24AM

rDouglass writes "MuseScore, the open source music notation project, has created a new edition of Bach's Goldberg Variations, and a set of online tools that facilitates the public scholarly review of the work. The review period is intended to help the MuseScore team identify any problems with the score. The score can be viewed and played in the browser. Annotations and discussions for each part of the score enable review and corrections. Downloadable versions include MuseScore, MusicXML, MIDI, mp3, or PDF. Video scores (YouTube videos that are synchronized to play with the score) let the score be viewed in the context of individual performances. MuseScore is a partner in the Open Goldberg Variations Project, a crowd-funded effort to place a definitive score and recording of the work into the public domain in such a way as to make them widely and freely available, without usage restrictions (Creative Commons Zero). German pianist Kimiko Ishizka will produce the studio recording of the work later this year. Funding continues on Kickstarter until June 3, 2011."
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Eight PHP IDEs Compared 206

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 03 2010, @11:32AM
from the colonic-extraction dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Rick Grehen provides an in-depth comparative review of eight PHP IDEs: ActiveState's Komodo IDE, CodeLobster PHP Edition, Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT), MPSoftware's phpDesigner, NetBeans IDE for PHP, NuSphere's PhpED, WaterProof's PHPEdit, and Zend Studio. 'All of these PHP toolkits offer strong support for the other languages and environments (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL database) that a PHP developer encounters. The key differences we discovered were in the tools they provide (HTML inspector, SQL management system) for various tasks, the quality of their documentation, and general ease-of-use,' Grehen writes.'"

Comment: Re:trap (Score 3, Insightful) 344

by MynockGuano on Thursday September 10 2009, @03:44PM (#29382037) Attached to: Microsoft Launches Its Own Open Source Foundation

With Windows I can just point out the "Designed for Windows X" logo and my customers will get devices that work every. single. time.

Normally, I wouldn't nitpick to this degree, but you seemed to place great emphasis on this point. Are you saying that you've never encountered a Windows user complaining that their printer just "stopped working?" It seems to me that every nontechnical person I know has expressed this frustration to me at one time or another.

Comment: Re:nightmares (Score 1) 495

by MynockGuano on Wednesday September 02 2009, @11:46PM (#29295313) Attached to: Microsoft Pushes For Single Global Patent System

Why is it always assumed that--for instance--pharmaceutical patents, technological patents, and software patents all have to follow the same patent law?

Wouldn't it be best to tailor the law to what's practical in each particular field?

Comment: Re:Kudos to Nokia (Score 1) 263

by MynockGuano on Tuesday September 01 2009, @08:41AM (#29272461) Attached to: Nokia Makes LGPL Version of PyQt

I wouldn't say we're better off for having GTK, or at last we're not better off having GTK be as popular as it is. Choice is good, but Linux would be much further toward acceptance on the Desktop with one main GUI toolkit.

We'd be better off had GTK completely killed off QT, or if it hadn't been created at all. We ended up with the worst possible outcome. I can't think of anything that could slow down Desktop Linux development more than two major competing DEs duplicating each other's efforts.

What makes you think that there wouldn't be two major competing DEs, both using the same toolkit? KDE and Gnome are different enough, philosophically, that we'd likely still have both.

Comment: Re:is it actually a phone? (Score 1) 621

by MynockGuano on Friday August 28 2009, @08:34AM (#29229309) Attached to: Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution

If you followed the global mobile news you would know about mobile-review already. But most in the US don't know shit about anything except RIM, Apple and Motorola.

Truth be told, I don't follow them, either. The summary leads one to believe there's an interesting technology article somewhere in there, but there really isn't anything of the sort (which is probably why I don't find mobile phones very compelling in the first place--for such a potentially-important class of technologies to be hindered by some inexplicable need to be tied to a phone service does not make sense to me).

Comment: Re:Shoot down at 10,000 feet is easy (Score 5, Funny) 200

by MynockGuano on Wednesday August 26 2009, @09:45PM (#29211303) Attached to: High-Tech Blimps Earning Their Wings

I hate to pop your balloon (pun intended) but 10,000 feet is not that high. In World War 2 the Germans had anti-aircraft guns that could easily get to much over 20,000 feet. Many cheap modern shoulder held anti-aircraft missiles can easily shoot this high and a blimp would be easy to hit. It might be safe from small arms fire but a few small holes wouldn't hurt it much. An anti-aircraft missile is another matter.

True.
Blimpin' ain't easy.

Comment: Re:Apple's iTMS may beg to differ (Score 2, Informative) 451

by MynockGuano on Wednesday August 26 2009, @09:12PM (#29211037) Attached to: US Fed Gov. Says All Music Downloads Are Theft

That's still no reason to falsely accuse someone.

Some people might not be bright enough to distinguish from actual downloading
of some sort and streaming from some site like Hulu or Pandora. How does Pandora
or radio streams fit into this particular bit of government propaganda?

Both are blocked outright on DoD networks, along with all other mainstream music/video distribution sites, so no worries.

Comment: Re:is it actually a phone? (Score 2, Informative) 621

by MynockGuano on Friday August 21 2009, @11:14AM (#29146547) Attached to: Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution

I tried to RTFA, but apparently the author assumes that I spend day and night reading his website and know the story behind all his half-alluded-to technologies. The only bit of coherent information I was able to garner from that pile of misspelled words, glued together with condescension, was how great the author thinks he is for being all "insider" and stuff.