Comment Re:Jean-Louis Gassée was right!!! (Score 1) 170
It's an internet appliance!!
HP "innovates"
Comment Excellent (Score 3, Informative) 129
NetBSD 5 is out today & OpenBSD 4.5 is out tomorrow, it's going to be busy weekend for some. :D
Comment Re:OpenBSD (Score 1) 298
+1
CARP is definitely the way forward for scenarios like this.
Comment Re:It's revolutionary for windows (Score 1) 864
Nobody cares about "the core of the OS". Apart, perhaps, from the media industry that needs it to be locked down for them. What people care about is what applications you can run on it.
I can assure you from a sysadmins point of view, security & stability play a far bigger role.
Comment Re:It's revolutionary for windows (Score 1) 864
ok, but hasn't that been dropping over the last couple of years??
Comment Re:It's revolutionary for windows (Score 1) 864
try reading the whole sentence up to the comma ;)
Comment It's revolutionary for windows (Score 1, Insightful) 864
I guess the question is "is it too little too late?"
M$ lost quiet alot of their userbase to Apple & Linux, will they get those users to switch back for Windows 7??
The sad thing is that this release is just M$ playing catch up with other platforms packed with things they should have done a long time ago, if you compare it with other platforms it doesn't actually offer anything revolutionary in the core of the OS.
did it ever??
German Survey Company Loses 41,000 Survey Records 122
mister_woods writes "It's not just governments that lose private data. Germany's Chaos Computer Club (CCC) reports that market research firm TNS Infratest/Emnid has lost 41,000 private data records of their survey participants. By simply changing the customer ID number in the browser's address bar access could be gained to comprehensive survey results, including names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers and much more sensitive data. A CCC spokesman described this as 'unprofessional, grossly negligent and above all deeply worrying' and sees this loss as a vindication for its calls for strict regulations for public and private sector data collectors."
First Commodore 64 LAN Party 224
Leif_Bloomquist writes "The world's first Commodore 64 LAN party was held at the Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club 2008 Expo last weekend, where the new multiplayer C64 game NetRacer was unveiled. The setup consists of up to eight Commodore 64s with Ethernet cartridges and a central server written in Java running on a PC. The game is also playable over the Internet."
