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Comment Re:seen some bad shit. (Score 0) 683

by Heart Driven on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @03:58AM (#29197907) Attached to: Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline

I once worked for a Belgian reseller company using PROGRESS. Every procedure was build on top of another and they were all using one user authentication procedure. One day the authentication server was down and no one could log in, causing the company to be down all night (they had an Australian subdivision using their program as well) with huge losses as a result. A quick fix was introduced, replacing the 100-line authentication script: DEFINE OUTPUT PARAMETER opSuccess AS LOGICAL. ASSIGN opSucces = 1. They forgot about it and only weeks after they fixed it.

Comment Re:How much modification (Score -1) 93

by Heart Driven on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @09:18AM (#28939809) Attached to: Android Applications Soon To Run On MIPS32 Chips

So my wireless Cisco router can run android now? Most of these devices have no ability to install an OS because they don't have a hard drive AFAIK...

Comment Emotional bonding? (Score 1) 50

by Heart Driven on Thursday May 21, 2009 @06:35AM (#28037389) Attached to: Sony Pondering Downloadable Game Rental Service For the PSP

I wonder: who's interested in this kind of throw-away gaming? I like to buy games for the sake of playing them over a long period of time. I still have my GameGear and all of my games for it.

JaikuEngine Gets Open Sourced 41

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 15, 2009 @10:43AM from the free-and-clear dept.

volume4 writes "The switch has been flipped and Jaiku has been moved to App Engine. Google will no longer be developing Jaiku, so the code and the future of Jaiku is in the hands of the open source community. From the Jaiku blog: 'Today, we are open sourcing the Jaiku code base under the Apache License 2.0. The code is available as JaikuEngine on Google Code Project Hosting as of now. Anyone can set up and run their own JaikuEngine instance on Google App Engine.'" We discussed Google's purchase of Jaiku in 2007, and their subsequent decision to halt development a few months ago.

Citrix XenServer Virtualization Platform Now Free 259

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 23, 2009 @04:01PM from the gateway-drugs-and-other-business-models dept.

Pedro writes "Citrix announced today that they are giving away their Xen OSS based virtualization platform XenServer with all the goodies included for free. The big highlights are XenMotion, which lets you move VMs from box to box without downtime, and multi server management. The same stuff in VMware land is $5k. They plan to sell new products for XenServer and also the same stuff on Microsoft's virtualization technology called Hyper-V. It will be interesting to see what VMware does. The announcement comes the day before VMware's big user event VMworld."

AP Considers Making Content Require Payment 425

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 23, 2009 @02:30PM from the you-see-there-is-this-thing-called-web-2.0 dept.

TechDirt is reporting that the Associated Press is poised to be the next in a long line of news organizations to completely bungle their online distribution methods by making their content require payment. While this wouldn't happen for a while due to deals with others, like Google, to distribute AP content for free, even considering this is a massive step in the wrong direction. "Also, I know we point this out every time some clueless news exec claims that users need to pay, but it's worth mentioning again: nowhere do they discuss why people should want to pay. Nowhere do they explain what extra value they're adding that will make people pay. Instead, they think that if they put up a paywall, people will magically pay -- even though the paywall itself is what takes away much of the value by making it harder for people to do what they want with the news: to spread it, to comment on it, to participate in the story. Until newspaper execs figure this out, they're only going to keep making things worse."

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