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Google Docs Aims At Microsoft Office Live 95

Posted by Zonk from the ready-steady-edit dept.
mikesd81 writes "Channel News reports that Google took an important step forward Monday in its rivalry with Microsoft Office Live, reporting that Google Docs will allow users to edit word processing documents offline. Google said users of its Google Docs word processing application can use Google Gears to save and then edit documents without being connected to the Internet. 'The offline capability will be limited to word processing documents, though the company plans to add it to spreadsheets and presentations in the future.'"

Make Linux "Gorgeous," Says Ubuntu Leader 688

Posted by CmdrTaco from the also-crash-less dept.
OSS_ilation writes "They say beauty is only skin deep, but when it comes to Linux and the free software movement, people like Mark Shuttleworth think looks have an important part to play. On his blog and an article on SearchOpenSource.com, Shuttleworth and a slew of open source end users say that the look and feel of open source is also a matter of wider acceptance among enterprise players who are used to Windows, yet crave Mac OS X and the functionality of Linux. 'If we want the world to embrace free software, we have to make it beautiful,' Shuttleworth said. "We have to make it gorgeous. We have to make it easy on the eye. We have to make it take your friend's breath away.' With the early success of Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, Shuttleworth and company may be onto something."

Google's Secretive Data Center 391

Posted by CmdrTaco from the thats-way-more-than-twelve-cpus dept.
valdean wrote in with a NYTimes article about Google which says "On the banks of the windswept Columbia River [in Oregon], Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing. But it is hard to keep a secret when it is a computing center as big as two football fields, with twin cooling plants protruding four stories into the sky...' What's the goal of this new complex? Expanding Google's raw computer power. It's one more piece in the Googleplex, the massive global computer network that is estimated to span 25 locations and 450,000 servers.'

Comment Re:NAT is about a lot more than low address reserv (Score 2, Informative) 589

by alefbet (#13810802) Attached to: The exhaustion of IPv4 address space
Now matter how many addressed IPv6 supplies, we will run out eventually, and much sooner than we expect.
Based on my calculations, with the surface of the earth at 510 million square kilometers, and with IPv6 addresses at 128 bits (that is, about 256,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0 addresses), there are about 300,000,000,000,000,000,000 addresses per square inch of the earth's surface. I don't think we need to worry about running out anytime soon. It's like realizing that eventually we'll have a Y10K bug, but none of our current hardware will be around for it.

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