Comment mythtv popularity contest... (Score 1) 753
mythtv needs to do a popularity contest like debian does with packages.
Open source ratings, heh.
Submission + - Rodriguez slaughters Open XML
Elektroschock writes: "Stephane Rodriguez, a reengineering specialist who became popular for his article on MS-Office 2007 binary data, slaughters Microsoft's new Open XML format. With small case studies he demonstrates the disadvantages for third party developers. His conclusion: It is 'defective by design'. Next week members of the International Standard Organisation are likely to approve the format as a second official ISO standard for office documents. However, most nations submitted comments. Rodriguez claims to be "not affiliated to any pro-MS or anti-MS party/org/ass"."
Submission + - Vista Windows Genuine Advantage(WGA) is down (microsoft.com) 1
z3razerviper writes: "It appears that Vista's Windows Genuine Advantage seems to be down causing all sorts of problems for Vista users trying to download patches for their shiny OS. Oddly enough things get much less shiny when WGA disables Aero and other features once it decides your copy of Vista is invalid.
Microsoft WGA Vista Forum: http://forums.microsoft.com/Genuine/"
