BaltikaTroika - Slashdot User

Comment It's about time! :) (Score 1) 1

by BaltikaTroika on Sunday July 08, 2007 @12:13PM (#19790067) Attached to: Dell Dimension 520N (Linux)

I'm absolutely amazed at how far Linux has progressed in the last few years. It truly is a viable alternative desktop OS. The biggest obstacle has always seemed to be laptops, so I was very glad to see Dell embrace Linux. It seems like the days of Linux on a laptop being a headache may actually be gone for good.

A few weeks ago, I was looking for an inexpensive laptop that would run Ubuntu with as few headaches as possible. Since Dell Canada doesn't yet offer pre-installed Linux, I decided to order a stock Dell Inspiron 1501. I had to walk through a HOW-TO or two, but everything worked well with very little effort.

Anyway, it was very nice to read your journal entry and see that Linux can actually work out of the box on these systems. This is actually a really big step!

Submission + - Microsoft using .ms TLDs - Get your own today!

Submitted by mqudsi on Saturday May 19, 2007 @02:58PM

mqudsi writes: Microsoft has started using the (Montserrat-assigned) .MS tld to power its Web 2.0 projects, starting with Popfly.ms. You can get your own if you really want, starting at 180 USD a pop... Any bets on how long before Microsoft threatens any and all .ms domain name owners with litigation?

Submission + - Indian retailers raided by Microsoft

Submitted by

slashthedot

on Saturday May 19, 2007 @12:59PM

slashthedot writes: "Microsoft caught some Indian retailers selling pirated copies by sending a dummy customer asking for a copy of Windows to be installed on their PC. The retailers say Microsoft products are too highly priced for Indian market, so many people won't be interested in buying original copies at that price. They even go on to say they are promoting MS software in this way.
One retailer was heard saying:
"Since we are are not charging anything extra for installing the software, it means that we are actually not trading in pirated software. For us this is just a sewa (selfless act) that we are offering to our customers. Besides, the pricing of their operating systems is way too high for the Indian markets."

More here "

Submission + - 13-year-old CEO steals the show at at TiECON 2007

Submitted by on Saturday May 19, 2007 @11:48AM

An anonymous reader writes: This 13-year old Silicon Valley CEO has a plan to change the way kids learn chemistry. He stole the show yesterday at TiECON 2007, the big entrepreneur conference held in Santa Clara, Calif. VentureBeat has the story and a video interview here — http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/19/elementeos-13-ye ar-old-ceo-highlight-of-tiecon/#more-12504

Submission + - Coming in June: Month of Search Engine Bugs

Submitted by

De Garmo

on Saturday May 19, 2007 @10:59AM

De Garmo writes: "A Ukranian hacker known as "MustLive" has announced plans for a Month of Search Engine Bugs project in June 2007. The plan is to shake out cross-site scripting bugs in the most popular search engines (think Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com) and publish details on these flaws. From the article: "[The] purpose of this Month of Bugs is a demonstration of real state with security in search engines, which are the most popular sites in Internet. To let users of search engines and web community as a whole to understand all risks, which search engines bring to them. And also to draw attention of search engines' owners to security issues of their sites.""

Submission + - A Brief Look at Free Quake3 Engine Based Games

Submitted by

Thilo2

on Friday April 06, 2007 @10:59AM

Thilo2 writes: "As most of you probably know, id software released the Quake3 engine in summer 2005 under the terms of the GPL, which is now past over two years. Ever wonder what came out of it? Even though the engine is eight years old, just recently two independent projects have released fully featured multiplayers games, weighing in with downloads of about 550 megabytes each. Urban Terror and World of Padman, formerly modifications that required you to have the original Quake III Arena game, can now be played independently as stand-alone versions. Urban Terror combines realistic environments and weaponry with movement similar to Quake3. World of Padman on the other hand is a colorful shooter in comic style giving you fun weapons like water balloons and water pistols to shoot with. Last but not least there is Tremulous, a first person shooter with added real time strategy elements which has been out for quite some time now. Interesting to note, its game data is licensed under a CC license. All three games use an improved Quake3 engine from ioquake3, which has cleaned up the Quake3 source code since its release and made many improvements like OpenAL, Vorbis and SDL support, and thus are available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX. If you are willing to compile the engine yourself you can get support for even more platforms like Solaris or *BSD."

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