Comment You've received your marching orders (Score 1) 247
All of you (non-commercial) people on the tweetspaces
Did they learn nothing from the whole "Santorum" debacle?
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Comment Define "long term" (Score 1) 58
We're all used to the summaries leaving out important information, but if you're going to write a whole article focusing on the "Long Term Support" you should be expected to at least mention what "long term" means for the project in question. (Apparently, 2 years.)
Comment Re:And KDevelope is what exactly? (Score 5, Informative) 48
There is a huge amount of FOSS that has an entire "front" web page that tells people in exquisite detail what changes have been made, who contributed, how others can get involved and what bugs are outstanding without ever mentioning what the hell the project does, or what benefits it brings the world. This just adds one more to the tally.
It's not the project's fault that the submitter/editors linked to the release notes rather than the main page.
From the main page:
"KDevelop is a free, open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Max OS X and other Unix flavors.
It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages.
It is based on KDevPlatform, and the KDE and Qt libraries and is under development since 1998."
So, your statement about "adding one more to the tally" of projects that do not "mention what the hell the project does" is incorrect.
Though, I would agree with the sentiment higher up, that editors really should be including a brief summary on many of these things, even though I knew what the project is, myself.
Submission + - Virtualbox 3.0 announces opengl/Direct3D support (virtualbox.org)
Submission + - VirtualBox 3.0 Released (virtualbox.org)
royallthefourth writes: VirtualBox 3.0 was released today. In addition to numerous other fixes and feature additions, it includes experimental support for OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 9 on Windows guests. This sort of 3D support is a first for freely available virtual machines on Linux.
Submission + - Mummified Hadrosaur found in North Dakota
sheepweevil writes: A high school student in North Dakota has happened upon an extremely rare discovery: a 'mummified dinosaur' which contains soft tissue as well as bones."The 25-foot-long hadrosaur found by Tyler Lyson in an ancient river flood plain in the dinosaur-rich Hell Creek Formation is apparently the most complete and best preserved of the half-dozen mummified dinosaurs unearthed since early in the last century, they said."
Submission + - Yahoo! Architect Wants To "Fix" HTML
An anonymous reader writes: Web 2.0 Journal brings to our attention Yahoo! Architect Douglas Crockford's latest ideas to fix HTML. Not a fan of HTML 5, which is still just an Editor's Draft and not endorsed by W3C yet, Crock puts forward ten ideas that in his view would provide extensibility without complexity, adding that the simplification of HTML he is proposing would reduce the cost of training of web developers and incorporates the best practices of AJAX development. [From the article: "The problems with HTML will not be solved by making it bigger and more complicated. I think instead we should generalize what it does well, while excising features that are problematic. HTML can be made into a general application delivery format without disrupting its original role as a document format."]
Submission + - What's the best way to recycle old tech in the US?
Tim Danhamn writes: SmartPlanet.com, a green-focussed Web site, has put up an article about the best way to recycle your old tech, including local recycling centers and reusing old technology in other ways. I'm about to upgrade to a new PC and I have a lot of old radios, MP3 players and other electronic goods lying around the house. The article though is mostly about solutions in the UK, so I want to know what the best way to recycle old tech in the US is?
Submission + - Ubuntu Landscape Client, Against Ubuntu Promise? (blogspot.com)
gQuigs writes: Canonical released the Ubuntu Landscape Client a while ago but it is still not publicly available. It has been available to Enterprise users of Ubuntu for some time, and is one of their selling points. Does this not violate the promise that enterprise versions will be free?
I filed a bug (linked in link). I ask Slashdot, An I overreacting?
http://gquigs.blogspot.com/2007/11/am-i-overreacting.html
I filed a bug (linked in link). I ask Slashdot, An I overreacting?
http://gquigs.blogspot.com/2007/11/am-i-overreacting.html
Submission + - Researchers Create Robotic Pied Piper Roaches 2
Gre7g writes: "To do that, they would need a rogue roach to infiltrate the herd. "One way to get them," Halloy says, "would be to create mutants somehow, with abnormal behavior. But we don't have a genetic institute for cockroaches." Instead, the researchers recruited some engineers to build them roach robots that would slip into the crowd and manipulate it from within."
Submission + - Possible backdoor found in RNG standardizedby NSA (schneier.com) 1
kfz versicherung writes: "Defining algorithm for random numbers is one of the hardest fields in mathematics. We all know Microsoft failed miserably, even Linux (pdf) and SSL had their fair share of troubles. But now Bruce Schneier tells us the Strange Story of Dual_EC_DRBG, one of four random number generation algorithms standardized by the NSA (pdf). While on first look just slower than the other three, Dan Shumow and Niels Ferguson showed at Crypto 2007 that the algorithm contains a weakness that can only be described a backdoor. Their presentation showed that the constants used have a relationship with a second, secret set of numbers that can act as a kind of skeleton key. If you know the secret numbers, you can predict the output of the random-number generator after collecting just 32 bytes of its output."
Submission + - Gene Simmons: College Kids Killed Music Industry (reuters.com)
drcagn writes: "Gene Simmons has blasted 'college' kids and claims that they have destroyed the music industry, with the labels also to blame for not properly suing them out of existence when they had the chance. When asked about Radiohead and Trent Reznor's recent support of a different direction in music distribution, he says "that's not a business model that works. I open a store and say 'Come on in and pay whatever you want.' Are you on fucking crack?" When asked about music being free and making money off of merchandise, he says, "The most important part is the music. Without that, why would you care?" even though earlier in the interview he brags that he believes that KISS's merchandise is more profitable than Elvis's or the Beatles'."
Submission + - Canadian penny to cost Toronto $47,680 4
owlgorithm writes: The Royal Canadian Mint is demanding the city of Toronto pay $47,680 for using a picture of a Canadian penny in campaign advertisements for setting aside money for municipalities. The mint is also seeking compensation for the city's use of the phrase "one cent" in the campaign.
Submission + - Microsoft Declares Old File Formats "Less Secu
Nail writes: In the KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938810
Microsoft's web site states:
"After you install Office 2003 SP3, some Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, Microsoft Office Word 2003, and Corel Draw (.cdr) file formats are blocked. By default, these file formats are blocked because they are less secure. They may pose a risk to you."
I think they MEAN to say that Microsoft Office 2003 cannot open these old file formats in a secure way, but I don't work for them, so it is difficult for me to say.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938810
Microsoft's web site states:
"After you install Office 2003 SP3, some Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, Microsoft Office Word 2003, and Corel Draw (.cdr) file formats are blocked. By default, these file formats are blocked because they are less secure. They may pose a risk to you."
I think they MEAN to say that Microsoft Office 2003 cannot open these old file formats in a secure way, but I don't work for them, so it is difficult for me to say.
Submission + - Apple to shut current users out of boot camp
aws910 writes: It looks like Apple is going to shut current boot camp users out when they release OSX 10.5(leopard), according to this article. The boot camp homepage corroborates this, saying(on the right sidebar) "To continue previewing Boot Camp after September 30, click the Download Now button above to install the latest version of Boot Camp Beta. You do not have to reinstall Windows. This new beta license will allow you to continue using Boot Camp until Mac OS X Leopard is available (expected October 2007).". I do respect Apple for this, though... unlike their rival, at least they properly labeled their beta as "beta".
