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MS Awarded "Best Campaigner Against OOXML" 190

Posted by kdawson on Monday October 01, 2007 @09:06PM from the pull-gun-aim-at-foot-pull-trigger dept.

HansF writes "Microsoft itself is the surprise winner of the FFII's Kayak Prize 2007, offered by the FFII in its call for rejection of Microsoft's OOXML standards proposal. The software monopolist is honored as 'Best Campaigner against OOXML Standardization.' FFII president Pieter Hintjens explains, 'We could never have done this by ourselves. By pushing so hard to get OOXML endorsed, even to the point of loading the standards boards in Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy, and beyond, Microsoft showed to the world how poor their format is. Good standards just don't need that kind of pressure. All together, countries made over ten thousands technical comments, a new world record for an ISO vote. Microsoft made a heroic — and costly — effort to discredit their own proposal, and we're sincerely grateful to them.'" If Microsoft doesn't send a representative to claim their 2500-Euro prize at the FFII General Assembly in November, FFII will give the money to Peruvian earthquake relief.

Torvalds On Pluggable Security Models 216

Posted by kdawson on Monday October 01, 2007 @07:40PM from the plain-speaking dept.

eldavojohn writes "The KernelTrap highlights an interesting discussion on pluggable security models including some commentary by Linus Torvalds. While Torvalds argued against pluggable schedulers, he's all for pluggable security. Other members were voicing concerns with the pluggable nature of the Linux Security Model, but Torvalds put his foot down and said it stays. When asked why his stance was different between schedulers and security, he replied, 'Schedulers can be objectively tested. There's this thing called 'performance,' that can generally be quantified on a load basis. Yes, you can have crazy ideas in both schedulers and security. Yes, you can simplify both for a particular load. Yes, you can make mistakes in both. But the *discussion* on security seems to never get down to real numbers. So the difference between them is simple: one is hard science. The other one is people wanking around with their opinions.'"

Best Way to Build a Searchable Document Index? 216

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 01, 2007 @05:36PM from the build-a-better-boss-trap dept.

Blinocac writes "I am organizing the IT documentation for the agency I work for, and we would like to make a searchable document index that would render results based on meta tags placed in the documents, which include everything from Word files, HTML, Excel, Access, and PDF's." What methods or tools have others seen that work? Anything to avoid?

Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST 435

Posted by kdawson on Sunday September 30, 2007 @07:57AM from the does-anyone-really-know-what-time-it-is dept.

Jasper Bryant-Greene writes "Although a tzdata release that includes New Zealand's recent DST changes (2007f) has been out for some time, Debian are refusing to push the update from testing into the current stable distribution, codenamed Etch, on the basis that 'it's not a security bug.' This means that unless New Zealand sysadmins install the package manually, pull the package from testing, or alter the timezone to 'GMT-13' manually, all systems running Debian Etch in New Zealand currently have the incorrect time, as DST went into effect this morning. As one of the last comments in the bug report says, 'even Microsoft are not this silly.' The final comment (at this writing), from madcoder, says 'The package sits in volatile for months. Please take your troll elsewhere.'"

Journal Journal: Strange Unregistered Domains

Journal by gbulmash on Monday February 26, 2007 @10:05PM

Every once in a while, I go hunting for odd domains that are still available. For example, if you believe that junk e-mail is caused by the spirits of dead aliens, you might want to register spamintology.com. It's available (or was when I wrote this) and it's one of 25 I found while wasting some time today.

Comment this calls for something that can handle this... (Score 1) 116

by get-the-build on Wednesday September 20, 2006 @09:45PM (#16150927) Attached to: Setting up Linux in an Inner City Public School?

this presents a problem that I faced putting Linux onto a Server ( yess..... its a server that anybody can get to.) It was ... 12 years old last spring... and it Worked with KDE 3.2 and a few other things. here's the specs:
399 Mhz Solaris/tru64 processer
3 gig drive
ATI Radeon pro (8 Mb vid mem) @ XVGA
mouse / kb
ether ( 10/100 EtherLink XL )

it ran ooo in 48 secs.

Jobs' Glass Elevator Locks in Group Customers 335

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @10:09AM from the different-kind-of-technology-lock-in dept.

Juha-Matti Laurio writes "Not eight days after Apple's new New York flagship store was unveiled, Stevie Jobs' fantastical glass elevator began acting a bit wonky, first opening and shutting its doors, then finally sealing in its passengers on the upper level. Apple store employees worked their hardest to release the bunch, but eventually the NYPD had to be called; the elevator's hydraulic system had to be drained. Close-up picture included to the source story as well."

Microsoft Responds To 360 Hackers 170

Posted by Zonk on Thursday May 18, 2006 @10:29PM from the get-off-my-lawn dept.

Microsoft would like to remind you that hacking your console most definitely voids your warranty. From the Eurogamer article: "Modified consoles, Microsoft added, 'will not be eligible for technical support, and the user's warranty will be voided ... the protection of intellectual property rights is a high priority for Microsoft and our partners, one that significantly and positively impacts economic growth, technological innovation, and most importantly, the confidence of customers who count on the integrity and quality of their products.'"

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