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+ - German Ministry of Education throws away PCs for 190,000 € due to infection->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "German IT magazine Heise reports (original in German) that the Ministry of Education in Schwerin had a Conficker virus infection on 170 machines, that was dealt with by simply throwing them on the trash. Other German authorities have now decided that "the approach taken is not up to the principle of efficiency and economy" and that the 187,300 Euro invested in this radical form of virus removal were inappropriate. The ministry had earlier estimated the cost of cleaning their desktops and servers by more conventional means to 130,000 Euro."
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+ - Inventor of OpenFlow SDN Admits Most SDN Today is Hype->

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes "Every networking vendor today is talking about Software Defined Networking (SDN). The basic idea is that the control of the underlying networking hardware is abstracted by software. Martin Casado helped to come up with the whole topic with his 2005 Stanford thesis. Eight years later after selling his startup Nicira to VMware for $1.2 Billion, Casado sees the term SDN meaning everything and nothing to all people.

"I actually don't know what SDN means anymore, to be honest," Casado said. Casado noted that the term SDN was coined in 2009 and at the time it did mean something fairly specific. "Now it is just being used as a general term for networking, like all networking is SDN," Casado said. "SDN is now just an umbrella term for, cool stuff in networking."

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+ - Spanish regional desktop to switch 40,000 desktops to its own Linux distro->

Submitted by Bismillah
Bismillah writes "From the "Linux on the desktop is dead" department: the Extremaduran government hopes to save 30 million euros by going to with Linux, and has already rolled out some 85,000 penguinised systems before.

The migration project is based on a long-term plan for Extremadura to move to open source, published in October last year."
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Comment: Re:Overhyped (Score 1) 124

by zachie (#43049305) Attached to: Google Publishes Zopfli, an Open-Source Compression Library
I disagree. The practical utility is a function of the number of downloads you get per compression operation, the cost of CPU time, and the amount of money that can be saved in bandwidth reduction. I can see how this can be an improvement to serve static content. For example, assuming browsers incorporate the capability to decompress it, lowering the bandwidth of Youtube by ~3% is an achievement.

Comment: Re:India (Score 1) 409

by zachie (#42014469) Attached to: Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes
Fair enough. I still do think you were extremely unlucky. You hit a nerve because Catalans are getting tons of hate from Spaniards lately, since we are getting very serious about seceding from Spain. If anyone is curious, here's a couple vids explaining what's going on from the perspective of an American.

Comment: Re:India (Score 1) 409

by zachie (#42010517) Attached to: Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes
What you are describing here is an anecdote. This is not the norm in Catalonia by any means, as your post tries to convey. In fact, it is rather the opposite. Especially, when ~50% of Catalans' mother tongue is Spanish. Foreigners even complain that they find it hard to learn Catalan, because Catalans automatically switch to Spanish for them, assuming it will make communication easier. I really don't get the reason why you felt compelled to post this. Either you know you are lying (because you live here or have been here for long enough to know better) or you had unbelievably bad luck in your visit here (which I find, well, sort of unbelievable).

Someone is speaking well of you. How unusual!

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