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Comment mixed feelings (Score 1) 1

Oh no! I will wake up at night because I dreamed about clippy on my android phone: "Looks like youre trying to make a phonecall" when i am navigating in my car.. But this is a whitespot in the market for Microsoft. But if they can make it work on android i would love to have it working on Linux.
Moon

Submission + - Neil Armstrong gives rare interview (cpaaustralia.com.au) 1

pcritter writes: In a rare coup for accountant's association CPA Australia, CEO Alex Malley interviews Neil Armstrong, whose dad worked as an Auditor, bringing him back 4 decades to the pinnacle of the space race. Neil reveals that "I thought we had a 90 per cent chance of getting back safely to Earth on that flight but only a 50-50 chance of making a landing on that first attempt". The 4 part video series is now posted on CPA Australia's website.
Education

Submission + - Google to fund British computer science teachers (pcpro.co.uk)

nk497 writes: "Last year, Eric Schmidt slammed British computer science teaching, saying the UK was wasting its computing heritage — since then, the Government has agreed to re-examine how the subject is taught. "Rebooting computer science education is not straightforward," Schmidt said. "Scrapping the existing curriculum was a good first step — the equivalent of pulling the plug out of the wall. The question is now how to power up." To help, Schmidt has now promised funding from Google to train 100 teachers as well as give classrooms Raspberry Pis, via charity Teach First."
Wireless Networking

Submission + - IT shops coping with overloaded 2.4GHz WiFi band (networkworld.com)

alphadogg writes: Of the 470,000 Wi-Fi connections made on a recent day at Abilene Christian University, fully 94% used the 2.4GHz band, representing an extreme example of how today's surging number of Wi-Fi clients is crowding the band least able to accommodate them. At ACU, this is not considered a problem, at least not yet. In part, that's because of careful wireless LAN design and capacity planning. And partly because a goodly percentage of mobile devices that can run on the alternative 5GHz band, do so: on that same day, 47% of the school's laptops and desktops, and two-thirds of its iPads cruised on 5GHz, via either 802.11a or 802.11n. Yet relatively few of today's Wi-Fi clients support 5GHz.
Games

Submission + - typewriter hacked to play Zork, responds to typing

UgLyPuNk writes: Typewriters that can type by themselves are one thing. Typewriters that can type by themselves and play Zork are totally different – the stuff that dreams are made of (at least the dreams of little girls who spent hours in front of a Commodore 64 telling the machine to GO NORTH and such).

Comment Big Brother (Score 1) 548

Finally canonical is showing it's evil side. Building revenue from selling support probarly does not cover the costs and datamining does. So expect this "feature" to be beafed up to collect (anonymous) statisctical data.. But hey, if you are savvy enough to install ubuntu, you can remove the package...
Open Source

Open Source Developer Knighted 101

unixfan writes "Georg Greve, developer of Open Document Format and active FOSS developer, has received a knighthood in Germany for his work. From the article: 'Some weeks ago I received news that the embassy in Berne had unsuccessfully been trying to contact me under FSFE's old office address in Zurich. This was a bit odd and unexpected. So you can probably understand my surprise to be told by the embassy upon contacting them that on 18 December 2009 I had been awarded the Cross of Merit on ribbon (Verdienstkreuz am Bande) by the Federal Republic of Germany. As you might expect, my first reaction was one of disbelief. I was, in fact, rather shaken. You could also say shocked. Quick Wikipedia research revealed this to be part of the orders of knighthood, making this a Knight's Cross.'"

Comment my two cents (Score 2, Interesting) 1146

My two cents:

1. Go geocaching. http://www.geocaching.com/ (be geeky outdoors) .. Outdoors, in nature, no books, no pc just you, your spouse and a gps. This will force you to interact, solve problems together which will teach you to solve YOUR problems together..

2. Do "the mariage course" http://relationshipcentral.org/ It almost ended my marriage but made it stronger in the long run. It is very practical because it is adapted to your needs. there are common theme nights where a subject is explained and then you discuss it together. every couple in our course enjoyed and had benefits from different subjects.

Comment clutterbegone (Score 1) 323

there was this instructable cable organiser http://www.instructables.com/id/The-IKEA-charging-box---no-more-cable-mess!-Very-e/ (a closed plastic box containing powersockets and had a few holes in it so you have a dust-proof container with just a few small adapter plugs coming out. The only problem i have with a solution like that is that you cannot individually switch te adapters on and off. But, if you build your own set of powersockets and add a powerswitch for every socket ( by british example ). you can save clutter and money (and heat for that matter) When i move i am planning to build a cabletree inside a PVC pipe (sewer / rainpipe)

Comment Re:Spanish and English (Score 1) 386

Tanenbaum (the creator of Minix, the main inspiration of Linus) is dutch.. In Amsterdam he is teaching in the CS department of the VU (Free (as in speech) university) http://www.cs.vu.nl/en/sec/index.php You can take a course here and travel europe in the same time. Dutch people speak english (as opposed to the french or german people) and spain is a 12 hour drive or a 2 hour flight. The UK is next doors.. on the other hand.. we only have one (1) starbucks in the entire country...
Networking

Cisco Turns Routers Into Linux App Servers 121

symbolset writes "InternetNews is reporting that Cisco's new Application eXtension Platform turns several models of Cisco switches into Linux application servers. With certified libraries in C, Java and Perl, developers will be able to use a downloadable SDK to build their apps. The AXP server is just another module in a Cisco switch running Cisco's own derivation of a modern Linux distro (Kernel 2.6.x) specifically hardened to run on that particular hardware. Modules will include up to 1.4-GHz Intel Pentiums with 2 GB RAM and a 160 GB hard drive."

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