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Submission + - Open source from the White House (cnet.com)

mdda writes: In a move that shows that one of the highest profile recent adopters of open source really 'gets it', Whitehouse.gov has released Drupal modules developed in-house back to the community. The White House's announcement last October that it was transitioning to Drupal was a high-profile endorsement for the open-source software, and this latest news suggests that the move was more than a shallow PR stunt. Somehow, I now don't feel so bad about how my tax dollars were spent on revamping the Whitehouse site.
Iphone

Submission + - Android ported to iPhone (blogspot.com)

anethema writes: iPhone hacker planetbeing, from the iPhone Dev Team has successfully ported the Android OS over to the iPhone. He is doing it on a first generation iPhone, but others may be possible. The port is pretty functional, with data, voice, and many apps working, although it is running a bit sluggish and buggy at the moment, since there appears to be much work left.

Any donations of time, money, or code I'm sure would be appreciated.

Comment Re:Dear Nvidia - I've bought my last card from you (Score 1) 412

Agreed twenty times over. My users are all using ATI cards.

Even though they're running 2D apps on Windows, the price difference between ATI and Nvidia was practically zero for the features I needed - and the fact that I have a strong 'open' bias gave ATI the order.

Nobody lost but Nvidia. And even ATI may not realize that they made Windows sales because they freed their documents up.

Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 147

Actually, from what I dimly recall, they were on ~$100k, and demand a raise to ~$150k when they realized that what they were doing wasn't legit. They should have asked for a lot more (or quit, of course).

Comment Re:Some people just don't get it (Score 1) 213

Of course, any terrorist with a brain would start honey-pot terrorist plans on various different sites - and see which sites lead to 'men in black' turning up.

Similarly, how better to lower terrorists' guard than to say that there is a US inter-agency turf-war that means that there are no longer any US-sponsored honey-pot sites.

Comment Re:What is the price of tea in China? (Score 1) 343

... that giant trump card of calling said government's policies socialist ... ... (For the record, that's legitimately socialist, not the "Obamacare == teh socialists!!!111eleventyone!") ...

FWIW, in most of the world Socialist is not such an synonym for Evil that it is in the US : it's much more understandable to everyone to pull out the giant trump card of calling said government's policies totalitarian, or a police state. After all that's the root of the problem.

Apart from that, I'm in total agreement.

Comment Re:Look here: (Score 1) 368

MUST WATCH VIDEO to understand how scary a squadron of these could be in a crowded public space...

And the NRA supporters think that people with guns would help save the day?

Comment This is Art, no Doubt (Score 1) 372

It's stimulating a conversation.

Have a look at the "artist's" site. He's plainly got some interesting ideas.

In many ways, these ideas are more 'accessible' than a lot of classical 'pretty pictures'.

PS:
It's also interesting to me that this guy can survive, while producing less than 1 artwork per month...

Programming

The State of Ruby VMs — Ruby Renaissance 89

igrigorik writes "In the short span of just a couple of years, the Ruby VM space has evolved to more than just a handful of choices: MRI, JRuby, IronRuby, MacRuby, Rubinius, MagLev, REE and BlueRuby. Four of these VMs will hit 1.0 status in the upcoming year and will open up entirely new possibilities for the language — Mac apps via MacRuby, Ruby in the browser via Silverlight, object persistence via Smalltalk VM, and so forth. This article takes a detailed look at the past year, the progress of each project, and where the community is heading. It's an exciting time to be a Rubyist."

Comment Keepassx plus Unison (Score 1) 1007

This is another vote for keepass(x) - but with the addition of Unison to replicate the database everywhere you need it.

Redundancy makes the 'laptop stolen' problem less severe, since you still have your passwords backed up. I'm assuming that there's at least 1 other person here that doesn't really backup as often as they should...

Personally, I'm surprised that some people are advocating 'remembering them all' - I kind of assumed that everyone had a WiFi router, a machine with a root and root SQL pw, and a personal website, and PINs, and ... Also, what about the 'name of your first school teacher' questions : it's more secure if you don't answer correctly...

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