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Submission + - Trump Admin Used Signal for War Plans and Included Journalist (theatlantic.com) 1

Submitted by josmar52789 on Monday March 24, 2025 @01:19PM

josmar52789 writes: âoeThe world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen.

I [Jeff Goldberg], however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.â

Submission + - Microsoft Publisher Being Discontinued Next Year (microsoft.com) 1

Submitted by josmar52789 on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @10:46PM

josmar52789 writes: In October 2026, Microsoft Publisher will reach its end of life. After that time, it will no longer be included in Microsoft 365 and existing on-premises suites will no longer be supported. Microsoft 365 subscribers will no longer be able to open or edit Publisher files in Publisher.

Submission + - OpenOffice UI Design Proposals Published

Submitted by

Anonymous

on Monday May 11, 2009 @10:30AM

Anonymous writes: "Today, various members of the OpenOffice.org community will be submitting their first revisions of proposals to the OpenOffice.org Call for Design Proposals to redesign the user interface of OOo. As part of Project Renaissance, attention is being drawn to the OpenOffice user interface, and it's "userfriendliness". Among the designs, is FLUX UI, which won an award at the Sun Microsystems Community Innovation Awards Program.

Anyone can, and is encouraged, to check out the proposals (scroll to bottom of page) and leave your comments so that the designers can improve their designs for the final deadline for proposal submissions to the community. Note, however, that not all submissions have been posted due to Timezone differences"

Comment What About Open Source? (Score 1) 526

by josmar52789 on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @10:30AM (#27241079) Attached to: Sun In Talks To Be Acquired By IBM

Major Open Source Contributions:

IBM >> Linux, Eclipse

Sun Micro >> Java, OpenOffice, NetBeans, Virtual Box, xVM, Glassfish, OpenSolaris, ZFS, MySQL

I'm sort of nervous and excited at the same time to thing what could happen to these products... Hands down, Sun Micro is one of the largest contributors to OSS - but has limited development in the past.

The IBM buyout could mean a GPL'ed ZFS and OpenSolaris, a complete xVM, and an improved MySQL.... Then again, it just might mean end of life for some things.... We shall see....

Comment Google (Score 1) 776

by josmar52789 on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @04:08PM (#27156315) Attached to: Favorite on-screen calculator?

Google

Comment Re:But at what cost? (Score 2, Interesting) 79

by josmar52789 on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @04:06PM (#27156281) Attached to: Sun To Include SSDs On Server Motherboards

Um, I think we just read "what this buys you" Reduced bottlenecking, faster read/write... I'd like to see this on cheaper hardware...

Journal Journal: ClamWin Affected by a "Y2k9" Bug

Journal by josmar52789 on Friday January 02, 2009 @05:09PM

Unfortunately, quite a few of our clients are experiencing a bug with ClamWin Anti-virus that seems to be caused by an inconsistency with the new daylight savings time and the end of the year. The fact that user's are not at work (on vacation) means that the software has missed scheduled scans and is now getting confused about running those scans with the end result of initiating up to 50 different instances of the scanner in order to complete those missed scans. Many users seem to be affected b

Comment Re:But isn't that the idea? (Score 1) 676

by josmar52789 on Sunday December 28, 2008 @02:55PM (#26250907) Attached to: Michael Meeks Says OO.o Project is "Profoundly Sick"

You're right... I was the team leader for FLUX UI...

Coming up with a new UI concept is difficult, but sometimes there is a little negligence on the developer's part to actually implement the concept.

But I think that will be changing with Project Renaissance - mainly because everyone knows the UI is broken and needs a little TLC.

Journal Journal: "Support the Free Software Movement" on Change.org

Journal by josmar52789 on Friday December 19, 2008 @09:55PM

Change.org's new web application, entitled Ideas for Change in America, allows users to submit and vote on ideas brought forth by the American people. Currently, in the Technology Policy area, an idea entitled "Support the Free Software Movement" is currently in 9th place - it has a nice write-up about Richard Stallman and the movement as a whole. Head on over and let our new President know how much we want free so

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