Comment Accept Jury Duty (Score 5, Insightful) 466
Just a reminder to ACCEPT jury duty if you get called. It is one of the best ways to directly affect how things work in the U.S.
Submission + - IBM refuses to certify Oracle Linux
Andrew writes: "IBM has thrown a spanner in the Oracle Linux works by refusing to certify that IBM's software portfolio will run and be supported on Oracle Linux. If IBM applications turn out to be incompatible with Oracle Enterprise Linux then it will be up to Oracle to resolve any issues that arise.
http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?t ype=comktNews&storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070 223:MTFH11324_2007-02-23_21-00-19_N23330134&pageNu mber=0&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=HybArt-C1-Arti clePage2
This statement is unlikely to help Oracle sell Linux subscriptions to businesses who use any of IBM's large software portfolio."
http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?
Windows For Warships Nearly Ready 387
mattaw writes "The Register is carrying the sanest and balanced article on Windows deployment in UK warships that I have read to date in the public domain.
As an ex-naval bod myself we have long considered that this is potentially a REAL problem. The main issues are the huge amount of unrelated code that is imported with the kernel and the need for incredibly fast response times."
Journal Journal: Coming coming Internet revolution in science
The Internet may soon change how the cognitive and social sciences are conducted, much in the way the open source movement has changed software, wikipedia has changed information gathering, etc. In the traditional lab-based model, scientists pay a small number of people to be subjects, subjecting them to a lot of testing. (By "a lot", I mean typically 1 hour, but it can last much longer.) The experiments are very carefully controlled in the lab.
Now, as bandwidth has increased dramatically, it i
Submission + - VMware attacks Microsoft?
An anonymous reader writes: On Monday VMWare will release a white paper detailing its concerns with license changes on Microsoft software that may limit the ability to move virtual-machine software around data centers to automate the management of computing work. This was reported by Steve Lohr of the New York Times in an article published on February 24, 2007. Two choice quotes: "Microsoft is looking for any way it can to gain the upper hand," said Diane Greene, the president of VMware. ... "This seems to be a far more subtle, informed and polished form of competitive aggression than we've seen from Microsoft in the past," said Andrew I. Gavil, a law professor at Howard University. "And Microsoft has no obligation to facilitate a competitor."
