Comment mixed feelings (Score 1) 1

by dspolleke on Thursday May 24, 2012 @08:31AM (#40098653) Attached to: MS Office for iOS & Android by November

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.

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

Submitted by pcritter on Thursday May 24, 2012 @07:33AM

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.

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

Submitted by

nk497

on Thursday May 24, 2012 @05:31AM

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."

Comment Re:No thanks. (Score 1) 332

by dspolleke on Monday January 16, 2012 @08:29AM (#38712370) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release

Next time better ask the question at www.iccm.org or just refrain from mentioning your faith.. apparantly it brings out the worst in some people

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

Submitted by alphadogg on Monday October 24, 2011 @08:40AM

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.

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

Submitted by UgLyPuNk on Monday November 01, 2010 @07:28AM

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

by dspolleke on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @07:26AM (#33202262) Attached to: Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations

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 Developer Knighted 101

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday May 02, 2010 @06:02PM from the knights-who-say-free dept.

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 Re:Good plan from my experience, except hardware p (Score 2, Funny) 261

by dspolleke on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @07:55AM (#31920842) Attached to: Good, Portable "Virtual" Linux Distro?

according to Bill Gates you need 640k maximum ..

Comment my two cents (Score 2, Interesting) 1146

by dspolleke on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @05:56AM (#28954085) Attached to: Navigating a Geek Marriage?

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

by dspolleke on Thursday July 23, 2009 @06:04AM (#28793213) Attached to: Cable Management To Defeat Clutter?

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)

Microsoft Asks Fed For Bailout 346

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @08:41PM from the too-big-to-fail dept.

snydeq writes "Microsoft requested on Tuesday some $20 billion in bailout funds from the federal government, claiming that as the company controls an overwhelming share of the OS market, it is too big to fail. Low adoption rates for Vista, the ensuing ad campaign trying to convince people that they really do like Vista, and the increased need for development resources to rush Windows 7 to market to make people forget about Vista have necessitated the bailout, the company said. 'We want to make it absolutely clear that this is not a crisis of mismanagement,' said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in a prepared statement. 'This is simply a crisis of dollars — a crisis of not having enough dollars coming our way.'"

The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn 933

Posted by timothy on Monday December 29, 2008 @08:55AM from the in-a-perfect-world-the-topic-would-not-arise dept.

BenFenner writes "Two out of the three Virginia judges involved with Dwight Whorley's case say cartoon images depicting sex acts with children are considered child pornography in the United States. Judge Paul V. Niemeyer noted the PROTECT Act of 2003, clearly states that 'it is not a required element of any offense under this section that the minor depicted actually exists.'"

Comment Re:Spanish and English (Score 1) 386

by dspolleke on Monday December 29, 2008 @07:20AM (#26256429) Attached to: Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors?

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...

Comment Re:FP (Score 1, Interesting) 3709

by dspolleke on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @09:43AM (#25639317) Attached to: Barack Obama Wins US Presidency

the first black US president.. The rest of the world is ok with coloured people in office for centuries now.. A dutch Poet / commedian said this morning: Africa congratualtes America with their first black president.. The have had many black presidents.. now all they need is food.. But ot react to what it will mean for the nation.. I say "what nation" My country is not really affected. McCains and Obama's foreign policy will not be very different from each other.. I hope Obama understands that with great power comes great responsibillity.. And as the president of the most infoluencial country in the world he should know that his responsibility does not end at the border OR at the Oil wells...

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