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Submission + - Is this the biggest rip-off ever built on open source? (itnews.com.au) 2

Submitted by littlekorea on Thursday February 06, 2014 @04:50PM

littlekorea writes: Australia's weather bureau has racked up bills of $38 million for a water data system, based on Red Hat Linux, MySQL and Java, that was originally scheduled to cost somewhere between $2 million and $5 million. The Bureau's supplier, an ASX-listed IT services provider SMS Management and Technology, did a good job of embedding itself in the bureau, with all changes having to be made by the original consultant that built it. Smells fishy?

Comment Re:Not a kernel problem (Score 1) 108

by Metal_Militia on Thursday December 05, 2013 @03:31AM (#45605587) Attached to: Valve Joins the Linux Foundation

By SDK I mean the tools, the havok physics engine, the unreal engine, the cry engine and so on.

Well, Crytek is already porting its 3d engine :-)
http://www.geek.com/games/crytek-is-porting-cryengine-to-linux-1562557/

Comment Re:Gnome is cool but .. (Score 1) 86

by Metal_Militia on Thursday April 04, 2013 @08:06AM (#43356247) Attached to: GNOME2 Fork MATE Desktop 1.6 Released

not at all, just try tmux :-)

Comment Re:Keep 'em Coming (Score 1) 128

by Metal_Militia on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @04:43PM (#42195733) Attached to: AMD Introduces New Opterons

Esxi could also be already embedded on the motherboard / installed on an internal usb drive or sdcard.
Having hot swappable hard disks, today, is not really necessary.

Comment Re:And that will also mark (Score 1) 378

by Metal_Militia on Saturday November 10, 2012 @10:29AM (#41942031) Attached to: GNOME 3.8 To Scrap Fallback Mode

you can adapt it to fit in a pretty underpowered ( for today standards) netbook
http://www.tomas-m.com/blog/19139-Slax-7-release-candidate-1.html

Comment Re:uses? (Score 3, Informative) 97

by jeremy_white on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @08:40AM (#41816483) Attached to: CodeWeavers Announces Flock the Vote Software Giveaway

Yes, Wine really is coming along nicely. It's been a very long hard fight, but an amazing range of things work, and it's just going to keep getting better.

Note that Wine has a sponsor - CodeWeavers - and we have collectively dumped at least $20 Million on Wine through the years. Wine is hard.

We do all of that that $59.95 at a time, with the support of people who understand what we do and who choose to support us. I think this is amazing and powerful and wonderful, and I am deeply grateful to everyone who does support us.

I just wish more people knew the details and understood why PlayOnLinux and stock Wine work so well these days. My ducky demise will not be in vain if just one more person discovers CrossOver goodness :-).

Cheers,
Jeremy

Comment Re:how to correct it immediately (Score 1) 306

by Metal_Militia on Thursday September 13, 2012 @01:39PM (#41325763) Attached to: Ubuntu NVIDIA Graphics Driver: Windows Competitive, But Only With KDE

define "wrong fucking place" please.

Comment Re:A few months ago (Score 1) 159

by Metal_Militia on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @04:57PM (#40848121) Attached to: KDE Announces 4.9 Releases

It's probably a Kubuntu fault. I use extensively KDE from Debian Sid on a crappy Dell laptop (4 gb of ddr2 ram, integrated intel graphic, a pretty basic core 2 duo from the 2008), with Firefox (lots of tabs open, heavy modern javascript crap loaded), a python ide, an awful ica client, messaging clients and a gargantuan number of Konsole tabs open. With kde 4.8 i'm almost always well below 3 GB of ram used. With more than 30 days of uptime. Disclaimer: the first thing i do to a fresh kde install is to disable nepomuk :-)

Comment Re:Irrefutable fact (Score 1) 386

by Metal_Militia on Monday May 21, 2012 @06:14PM (#40070377) Attached to: Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla

Hulk > The Thing

Comment Re:Everyone gets same deal as Nokia? (Score 1) 293

by Metal_Militia on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @02:56PM (#37110192) Attached to: Microsoft Exec Responds To the Google-Motorola Deal

if Google went away, Android would continue.

Hahah no it wouldn't. Nobody else is providing any code to android. Nobody else is even allowed. All the default apps (like gmail, market, maps, the browser) are closed source.

The browser is 100% open (but i suppose you haven't even seen the AOSP sources, let alone analyze the code for the browser) For the other apps, you're right, they're absolutely closed. But if Google went away, what could you do with a client for their now-offline services? :-)

Comment Re:Bad omen? (Score 1) 303

by Metal_Militia on Thursday November 25, 2010 @04:20PM (#34344894) Attached to: New Windows Kernel Vulnerability Bypasses UAC

So Microsoft is essentially PREVENTED from giving you a serious firewall or anti-malware application with their OS.

It's not prevented from writing good code :-)

Comment Re:Propaganda (Score 5, Informative) 141

by Metal_Militia on Thursday February 11, 2010 @05:19AM (#31097292) Attached to: Experts Closing In On Google Attack Coders

*Chromium* runs on Linux. Chrome doesn't exist for Linux.

http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=linux Seems official Chrome to me (at least is what the package says).

HTC Dragging Feet On GPL Source Release For "Hero" Phone 181

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 16, 2009 @02:45PM from the something-about-defecating-where-you-eat dept.

Squiff writes to mention that despite being based on the Open Handset Alliance's Android platform and using several open source components, HTC are effectively refusing to release the source for the GPL parts of their "Hero" Phone code, saying that they are "waiting for their developers to provide it." It has been called an "object of lust," it's beating the iPhone for awards, and it seems to be the first Android phone that really is "the phone to have," to hear some people tell it. It has also just become available in the US after a June release in Europe.

Submission + - HTC refuse to release gpl sources for 'Hero' phone (ipetitions.com)

Submitted by Squiff on Friday October 16, 2009 @07:59AM

Squiff writes: It's been called an 'object of lust' http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/23/htc-hero-review/ and has been beating the iPhone for awards http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1220535/HTC-Hero-beats-Apple-iPhone-T3-Gadget-Awards.html as the first Android phone that really is 'the phone to have'. It has also just become available in the USA having been released in Europe in June. Unfortunately, despite being based on the Open Handset Alliance's Android platform and using several open source components, HTC are effectively refusing to release the source for the GPL parts of the code, citing that they are 'waiting for their developers to provide it' http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=569288&page=3. A petition has gone up today too http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/herokernel/index.html. They are ignoring their customers and their legal responsibilites, will they (can they?) ignore the Slashdot effect?

Disney Buys Marvel For $4B 423

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 31, 2009 @10:27AM from the wolverine-with-mouse-ears dept.

whisper_jeff writes "Disney has announced they will be purchasing Marvel. 'Building on its strategy of delivering quality branded content to people around the world, The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment, Inc. in a stock and cash transaction, the companies announced today.'"

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