Comment Re:SubjectsSuck (Score 1) 204
It's easy to be first to do something if you place enough arbitrary restrictions on what that something is.
Hey, you're the first user in this thread whose user id starts with 15680 to say THAT.
Comment Re:Labels do harm to the Artists ? (Score 1) 244
Personally I find it amazing that we still need "labels" and "publishers" for anything nowadays.
Think of production costs. All the money the production of a full album costs must come from somewhere. Traditionally, the labels do the funding.
Comment Re:If microsoft controls the 'keys' (Score 1) 809
Aside from the fact you can turn it off ( for now )
What if new PCs start shipping with this turned on by default?
Linux distros/*BSD/Random-Recovery-Tool are going to have a hard time convincing people to first go to the BIOS and turn it off.
What if Microsoft Windows refuses to start unless it is turned on, so the choice is either run Windows OR (this is an exclusive OR) run Linux/*BSD/Whatever. Those who use Windows as their primary OS sure don't want to switch any more.
In-Depth Look At HTML5 150
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner offers a four-part series devoted to the new features of HTML5. Each article examines the evolving spec in-depth, focusing on canvas, video, audio, and graphics for display options, including the <canvas> and <video> tags, Scalable Vector Graphics, and WebGL; local data storage, including Web Storage, Web Database, and other APIs designed to transform Web pages into local applications; data communications, for cross-document messaging, WebSockets, and other HTML5 APIs that improve website and browser interactivity; and forms, for increasing control over data input and validation."
Comment One method for all (Score 2) 735
void dwim(void);
Internet Not Really Dangerous For Kids After All 445
Thomas M Hughes writes "We're all familiar with the claim that it's horribly dangerous to allow our children on to the Internet. It's long been believed that the moment a child logs on to the Internet, he will experience a flood of inappropriate sexual advances. Turns out this isn't an accurate representation of reality at all. A high-profile task force representing 49 state attorneys general was organized to find a solution to the problem of online sexual solicitation. But instead the panel has issued a report (due to be released tomorrow) claiming that 'Social networks are very much like real-world communities that are comprised mostly of good people who are there for the right reasons.' The report concluded that 'the problem of child-on-child bullying, both online and offline, poses a far more serious challenge than the sexual solicitation of minors by adults.' Turns out the danger to our children was all just media hype and parental anxiety." Those who have aggressively pushed the issue of the dangerous Internet, such as Connecticut's attorney general Richard Blumenthal, are less than happy with the report.
Microsoft Bids To Take Over Open Document Format 256
what about sends in a Groklaw alert warning that, by PJ's reading, Microsoft may be trying to take over ODF via a stacked SC 34 committee. The article lists the attendees at an SC 34 meeting in July and gives their affiliations, which the official meeting materials do not. (The attendees of the October 1 meeting, which generated a takeover proposal to OASIS, are not known in full.) "Why do I say Microsoft, when this is SC 34? Look at this ... list of participants in the July meeting in Japan of the SC 34 committee. The committee membership is so tilted by Microsoft employees and such, if it were a boat, it would capsize ... Of the 19 attendees, 8 are outright Microsoft employees or consultants, and 2 of them are Ecma TC45 members. So 10 out of 19 are directly controlled by Microsoft/Ecma ... [I]f the takeover were to succeed, SC 34 would get to maintain ODF as well as Microsoft's competing parody 'standard,' OOXML. How totally smooth and shark-like. Under the guise of 'synchronized maintenance,' without which they claim SC 34 can't fulfill its responsibilities, they get control of everything." A related submission from David Gerard points out that BoycottNovell has leaked the ISO OOXML documents, which ISO has kept behind passwords.
Comment /etc under SVN control (Score 1) 71
About 2 years ago, we've introduced SVN to check in and keep control over our config files in /etc on our rootserver.
It allows us to see when, what and - given the administrator provided this information when the file was committed - WHY changes have been applied. That's pretty important in an environment, where up to 9 administrator have access to the files.
Saves you from losing precious configurations and allows for easy rollback if a certain configuration change doesn't work. You can even use your config on more than one server. Use branches and switching files for configs that are host-dependant.
On the downside, this system only works if all administrators commit their files immediately after the change and document the reason for changing.
bye,
Settel
It allows us to see when, what and - given the administrator provided this information when the file was committed - WHY changes have been applied. That's pretty important in an environment, where up to 9 administrator have access to the files.
Saves you from losing precious configurations and allows for easy rollback if a certain configuration change doesn't work. You can even use your config on more than one server. Use branches and switching files for configs that are host-dependant.
On the downside, this system only works if all administrators commit their files immediately after the change and document the reason for changing.
bye,
Settel
Submission + - ScummVM Ported to Nintendo Wii
Croakyvoice writes: Rodolfo Portillo has released a port of ScummVM
for the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Gamecube. ScummVM is a program which allows
you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games like Simon
the Sorcerer, Broken Sword and Flight of the Amazon Queen. You will have to use
SD
Load to run this on your console.
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