Alyyx - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Programmers? (Score 1) 1139

by Alyyx on Tuesday August 05, 2008 @04:14PM (#24485907) Attached to: California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL

In this case wouldn't you need not only the change in pay rate but also a way to track the difference between what they should be making and the minimum wage that they get, so that can be payed once the budget is passed. This would take a programmer.

Submission + - Red Hat to Enter the Desktop Market

Submitted by

head_dunce

on Friday August 03, 2007 @11:18AM

head_dunce writes: "It looks like Red Hat is going to release their Global Desktop Linux in September and give Ubuntu a challenge for the Linux desktop market. I'm a little confused by the article though, it claims Red Hat Global Desktop "would be sold with a one-year subscription to security updates." Shouldn't the security updates be open, and the customer support be subscription based?"

Submission + - Mac users' Internet experience to remain seamless 2

Submitted by thefickler on Thursday August 02, 2007 @05:00PM

thefickler writes: Mac users will continue to see the Internet as it was intended, thanks to the renewal of a font licensing agreement between Microsoft and Apple. At TypeCon2007 Microsoft and Apple announced they have renewed their font licensing agreement, giving Apple users ongoing use of the latest versions of Microsoft Windows core fonts.

Back in 1996 Microsoft started the "Core fonts for the Web" initiative. The idea of this initiative was to create a a standard pack of fonts that would be present on all or most computers, allowing web pages to be displayed consistently on different computers. While the project was terminated in 2002, some of the fonts defined as core fonts for the web have gone on to become known as "web safe fonts", and are therefore widely used by Internet developers.

Submission + - Point and click Gmail hacking at Black Hat (tgdaily.com)

Submitted by

not5150

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:51PM

not5150 writes: "Using Gmail or most other webmail programs over an unsecured access points just got a bit more dangerous. At Black Hat, Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, showed how to capture and clone session cookies. He even hijacked a shocked attendee's Gmail account in the middle of his Black Hat speech."

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