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Comment Re:British Commonwealth Apples & Oranges (Score 1) 51

Take action to change that!

http://www.liberal.ca/open/

The Liberal Open Government Initiative will:

        * Immediately restore the long-form census;
        * Make as many government datasets as possible available to the public online free of
            charge at opendata.gc.ca in an open and searchable format, starting with Statistics
            Canada data, including data from the long-form census;
        * Post all Access to Information requests, responses, and response times online at
            accesstoinformation.gc.ca; and
        * Make information on government grants, contributions and contracts available through
            a searchable, online database at accountablespending.gc.ca.

For complete details, please read the PDF policy brochure. http://lpc.ca/opengov

(Disclaimer, I work as a developper for the party)

Education

Submission + - Wikipedia to add video (technologyreview.com) 1

viyh writes: "Wikipedia will soon be adding a video option, within two or three months, according to the MIT Technology Review.

"Within two to three months, a person editing a Wikipedia article will find a new button labeled "Add Media." Clicking it will bring up an interface allowing her to search for video--initially from three repositories containing copyright-free material--and drag chosen portions into the article, without having to install any video-editing software or do any conversions herself. The results will appear as a clickable video clip embedded within the article."

They will be requiring all video to use open-source formats. This is in hopes of getting content providers to open up their material to gain wider exposure on the Wikipedia website. There is also an in-browser editor that removes a lot of the headache often associated with any kind of video editing.

"Presently, the work flow is pretty atrocious" for people trying to download, convert, and edit video, says Dale, citing the notoriously confusing array of incompatible video formats now in use. With the new Wikipedia system, "people will be able to easily inject media into pages, in a way that wasn't possible before," says Michael Dale, a software engineer from Kaltura, the company assisting with development of the tools."

The Internet

Submission + - The Liberal Party of Canada announces support of N

bryxal writes: The Liberal Party of Canada, currently leading in most polls (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/06/01/federal-poll357.html) has announced yesterday that it supports Net Neutrality. http://www.liberal.ca/en/newsroom/media-releases/15947_liberals-speak-out-in-support-of-net-neutrality saying: "Internet management should be neutral and not be permitted for anti-competitive behaviour nor should it target certain websites, users, providers or legitimate software applications. We must protect the openness and freedom of the internet, and maintain competition to spur innovation, improve service levels and reduce costs to users."

Comment Re:R-Studio (Score 1) 399

I for one second the R-Studio. I used it and it worked well many times for me especially when dealing with broken RAID arrays. BUT I recently had to use UFS Explorer http://www.ufsexplorer.com/ because of a XFS partition and it was easier to use than R-Studio and supported more file systems, also their website has a whole bunch of tips as to how to identify what ordering the RAID drives are in for RAID 5 arrays and such.

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