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Comment No libraries or frameworks either (Score 1) 566

by ithyus on Thursday February 17, 2011 @10:43AM (#35231736) Attached to: Microsoft Bans Open Source From the Windows Market

“Excluded License” means any license requiring, as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of the software subject to the license, that the software or other software combined and/or distributed with it be (i) disclosed or distributed in source code form; (ii) licensed for the purpose of making derivative works; or (iii) redistributable at no charge.

Doesn't item ii prohibit the use of DirectX, .Net and ActiveX since all of those things were designed and licensed for the sole purpose of making "derivative works"?

Comment Re:slashvertisement (Score 1) 177

by ithyus on Saturday June 05, 2010 @05:36PM (#32471114) Attached to: MorphOS 2.5 Released, Supports More Old Macs

Well, if it is it's kind of amusing. The /. community is all about tinkering with toys both old and new. But if we're going to revive an old machine for the purposes of tinkering, we're not going to pay money to do it. Seriously, most of us live in our mom's basements (or should probably be stored there for the benefit of society). Do you really think we have money laying around?

What Free IDE Do You Use? 1055

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @02:41AM from the ides-of-may dept.

postermmxvicom writes "I program only occasionally and mostly for personal interest. I went to update my favorite free IDE, Dev C++, yesterday and noticed that it had not been updated since 2005! I went looking for other free IDEs and came across Code::Blocks and Visual Studio Express. I work from a Windows machine, use C++, and make mostly console apps; but have written a few Windows apps and D3D or OpenGL apps. I wanted to know what free IDEs you use and recommend. What do you like about them? What features do they lack? What about them irritate you (and what do you do to work around these annoyances)? For instance, when I used Visual C++ 6.0 in college, there was an error in getline that had to be fixed, and the code indenting in DevC++ needed to be tweaked to suit my liking."

Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? 1397

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 02, 2009 @07:20PM from the just-no-more-muppets-please dept.

jfruhlinger writes "If you use a Unix machine, it probably has a funny name. And if you work in an environment where there are multiple Unix machines, they probably have funny names that are variations on a theme. No, you're not the only one! This article explores the phenomenon, showing that even the CIA uses a whimsical server naming scheme." What are some of your best (worst?) naming schemes?

Should Apple Give Back Replaced Disks? 446

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 24, 2007 @01:53AM from the consider-it-a-trade-in dept.

theodp writes "As if having to pay $160 to replace a failed 80-GB drive wasn't bad enough, Dave Winer learned to his dismay that Apple had no intention of giving him back the disk he paid them to replace. Since it contained sensitive data like source code and account info, Dave rightly worries about what happens if the drive falls into the wrong hands. Which raises an important question: In an age of identity theft and other confidentiality concerns, is it time for Apple — and other computer manufacturers — to start following the practice of auto mechanics and give you the option of getting back disks that are replaced?"

Researchers Sour on Vista Service Pack 1 Performance 339

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 23, 2007 @01:42PM from the bit-of-a-bore dept.

Stony Stevenson passed us a link indicating that a group of researchers has described Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as basically a performance dud. Researchers from the Devil Mountain Software group is claiming that a series of in-house benchmark tests showed that users hoping to receive a speed boost from the update will be disappointed. "Devil Mountain ran its DMS Clarity Studio framework on a laptop Barth described as a "barn burner" -- dual-core processor, dedicated graphics, and either 1GB or 2GB of memory -- to compare performance of the SP1 release candidate that Microsoft released last week with the RTM version that hit general distribution last January. The Vista RTM was not updated with any of the bug fixes, patches or performance packs that Microsoft has pushed through Windows Update since the operating system's debut. 'One gigabyte, 2GB [of memory], it didn't make a difference,' said [CTO Craig] Barth. 'SP1 was never more than 1% or 2% faster.'"

CA Bill Limits Skin Implantation of RFID Chips 275

Posted by Zonk on Monday June 25, 2007 @01:49AM from the wasn't-super-worried-but-thanks-just-the-same dept.

twitter writes with a link to a ZDNet blog entry about a piece of legislation submitted to the California state senate. Drafted by Democratic Senator Joe Simitian, its purpose is to ensure that employers cannot require the implantation of RFID chips as part of employment. It is meeting with scorn from the American Electronics Association. "'Our bottom line is we're opposed to anything that demonizes RFIDs,' she said. 'The technology has been in existence for more than 50 years. It's in more than 1.2 billion ID credentials worldwide. ... We've not seen a single showing of ID theft or harm,' said Roxanne Gould, vice president for California government relations for the American Electronics Association, a high-tech industry group."

MS Releases New Media Player Firefox Plugin 191

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @04:25PM from the windows-only dept.

SilentChris writes "Microsoft today released a new Media Player plugin for Firefox that resolves the problems users of the older version were experiencing. According to the company's Port 25 blog, it's backwards compatible with Windows Media Player 6.4. The plugin is for Windows XP and Vista only, but if you have to watch WMV video at least it's less likely to crash your browser."

Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion 351

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 13, 2007 @07:00PM from the still-waiting-for-my-buyout-offer dept.

marvinalone writes "The New York Times reports that Google has purchased DoubleClick. That seems to be the conclusion to the speculation we've talked about earlier. From the article: 'Google reached an agreement today to acquire DoubleClick, the online advertising company, from two private equity firms for $3.1 billion in cash, the companies announced, an amount that was almost double the $1.65 billion in stock that Google paid for YouTube late last year.'"

Massive Spam Shot of "Storm Trojan" 260

Posted by kdawson on Friday April 13, 2007 @11:31AM from the storm-warning dept.

jcatcw writes "Postini has already counted nearly 5 million copies of the spam in the last 24 hours, and calculated that the run currently accounts for 87% of all malware being spread through email. 'Expect this to grow much larger,' a Postini spokesman said; 'It should top out at 60 million messages within the next 24 hours.' It's the largest attack in the last 12 months, and more than three times the volume of the two biggest in recent memory: a pair of blasts in December and January. The spam carries a ZIP file attachment posing as a patch with subjects such as Worm Alert!, Worm Detected, Spyware Detected!, or Virus Activity Detected."

Sun Releases ODF plugin for Microsoft Office 50

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 26, 2007 @09:04AM from the making-it-easier dept.

Verunks writes "Microsoft Word users now can easily import and export to the OpenDocument Format. The StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview, a plug-in for Microsoft Word 2003 that allows users of Microsoft Word 2003 to read, edit and save to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) is now available"

MS Seeks Patent For Repossessing School Computers 299

Posted by kdawson on Saturday February 10, 2007 @11:10PM from the what-were-they-thinking dept.

theodp writes "Microsoft has applied for a patent for 'securely providing advertising subsidized computer usage.' The application describes how face-recognition webcams and CAPTCHAs can be used in schools to ensure that computer users are paying attention to ads, and the recourse of 'disabling or even repossessing the computer' if they are not."

Google Releases 'Testing on the Toilet' 192

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday January 25, 2007 @08:17PM from the logging-off dept.

JasonK writes "Here's a type of Google launch you don't see every day: Testing on the Toilet. This is a service that has been apparently been running internally for several months and teaching developers about testing during their 'down time,' so to speak. Due to the wild success of the program inside of Google, they decided to start a blog where they will post these weekly episodes so that the rest of us can print them out and have our own reading on the can. Is this a step towards Google becoming more open about their development practices?"

Comment Re:True Story (Score 2, Insightful) 709

by ithyus on Friday January 19, 2007 @09:27PM (#17690422) Attached to: Mac OS X Versus Windows Vista, The Rematch

"I don't hate Microsoft because of Windows. I hate Microsoft because they made mediocre software the standard."

I think that about sums it up. Microsoft has been great at getting out a lot of products that its customers have asked for, the only problem is that they aren't always finished when they are released. Apple on the other hand usually releases fairly stable software or they at least keep working on it until it becomes stable, but on the down side they don't release as many products as Microsoft does.

Near-Future Fords to Feature Windows Automotive 441

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday December 30, 2006 @12:15PM from the clippy-is-my-copilot dept.

dpbsmith writes "The Detroit Free Press reports that a Windows Automotive software suite named Sync will be featured in some cars available Spring 2007, all 2008 Ford models, and Lincoln and Mercury models later. The software does not, apparently, run the engine or do anything directly connected with transportation. It will, rather, allow the user to 'use their vehicle as a computer in key ways, such as hands-free cell phone calls or downloading music or receiving e-mail.' Bill Ford and Bill Gates were reported as saying that having high-definition screens in vehicles, speech recognition, cameras, digital calendars and navigation equipment with directions and road conditions will set car companies apart from their competitors in the future. 'There are going to be those who have it and those who don't. And even those who get it later are going to be a generation behind,' Ford said."

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