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Norwegian Websites Declare War On IE 6 349

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 20, 2009 @05:32PM from the we-just-quit-testing-on-ie6 dept.

Eyvind A. Larre writes "A large and rapidly growing campaign to get users to stop using IE6 is being implemented throughout Europe. 'Leading the charge is Finn.no, an eBay-like site that is apparently the largest site for buying and selling goods in all of Norway (Finn is Norwegian for "Find"). Earlier this week, Finn.no posted a warning on its web page for visitors running IE 6. The banner, seen at right, urges them to ditch IE 6 and upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.' The campaign is now spreading like fire on Twitter (#IE6), and starting to become an amazing effort by big media companies to get rid of IE6! The campaign also hit Wired some hours ago."

Comment Not a scam when you donate (Score 2, Informative) 409

by HeaththeGreat on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @11:08AM (#26638833) Attached to: Umbilical Cord Blood Banking?

There are research institutions that will accept your donated cord blood. They don't bank the stuff privately just for you, but use it for ongoing stem cell research. They depend on cord blood donations, and there's not pain involved for mother or child. All you need to do is fill out about 1 sheet of paperwork (that's all we were required to do).

Rails and Merb Ruby Web Frameworks Merge 80

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @06:05PM from the flattened-red-gem dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Merb and Rails Core Teams today announced a major merger; the two projects will become one, and be released some time in Q2 of 2009 as Rails 3. This is great news for lots of folks who worried about the potential community fracture, as well as great news for all the developers who will now have an all-around better option for programming Ruby. Read more about the details in Yehuda's blog post, or at the Ruby on Rails blog."

Comment Re:Double-wrong (Score 1) 771

by HeaththeGreat on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @12:13AM (#25797345) Attached to: Why Developers Are Switching To Macs

First, you're just limited to 32-bit jdk 1.6. You just can't used 64-bit jdk 1.6.

Second, someone has released a different jdk 1.6 for the mac, which is now part of openjdk:
http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/

Comment Re:Cmd+Tab+Option (Score 1) 771

by HeaththeGreat on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @12:04AM (#25797269) Attached to: Why Developers Are Switching To Macs

Try maximizing a window on a mac. Minimize a window, then alt-tab back to that app. You get the app, with no window! You then get the 'pleasure' of moving the mouse to the menu bar, selecting the window menu, and hopefully finding the window you wanted.

If you've minimized a window, you can bring it back from the task-switcher. This only works for single-windowed apps (or apps with only a single window open).

When you've cmd+tabbed, keep the cmd button down, then press the option button, then release the cmd button while holding the option button. This will restore your window.

I agree that this is maximally stupid finger-gymnastics to have to do, but I was very happy to have it shown to me.

VMware Promises Multiple OSs On One Cellphone 90

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 10, 2008 @01:28PM from the just-make-sure-i-can-strip-it-off-if-i-want dept.

superglaze writes to tell us that VMware has announced a large effort behind their Mobile Virtualization Platform, promising the possibility of multiple operating systems on mobile devices. "The company described MVP as a 'thin layer of software' that will be embedded in handsets and 'be optimized to run efficiently on low-power-consuming and memory-constrained mobile phones.' Asked whether MVP would offer something different from the abstraction already provided by mobile Java, VMware's European product director Fredrik Sjostedt told ZDNet UK that MVP would require less recoding. 'If you want to have an application run on a Java-specific appliance, you need to code it for Java,' Sjostedt said. 'What we're introducing with MVP is an [embedded] abstraction layer below that, between the physical hardware and the software layer.'"

Journal Journal: Google gets personal with My Maps

Journal by panchi2131 on Thursday April 05, 2007 @09:27AM

Search engine giant Google is launching My Maps, a new feature of Google Maps that enables users to create custom maps for personal use or sharing through search. for more details click here http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11123/53/

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