Comment Re:Not so fast (Score 2) 59
In Europe, most of power and phonelines are *below* ground. Unlike the US, which looks to me like a third world country.
Comment Re:What? (Score 5, Funny) 72
Are you English by any chance ? Belgians don't want warm flat dishwater.
Comment Re: £, Slashdot (Score 1) 36
You should have used â
Comment Re: Why bother changing the law (Score 1) 59
Donald, is that you ?
Feed news.com: Microsoft stumbles in Open XML standards vote (com.com)
Open XML fails to get majority needed to get ISO ratification, although the process can continue.
Feed The Register: Robot sailboats to race across Atlantic (theregister.com)
Seagull poo on solar cells is primary tech snag
In the Irish Sea off Wales this week, a new kind of robot is taking to the waves. For once, this is not a military kill-droid, nor a securo-pork powered surveillance machine. Instead, we are seeing the debut of the fully-autonomous sailboat, which uses its own software to navigate out at sea. For now the uninhabited windjammers will stay relatively close to home but, next year, their successors will race across the Atlantic.
Comment Re:Earplugs becoming more common pop concert s (Score 1) 687
The article was not about the *volume* of the music, but about the compression of the dynamic range. RTFA !
Feed The Register: Patch Tuesday update triggered Skype outage (theregister.com)
Mass reboot exposes VoIP network stability bug
Skype has blamed last week's prolonged outage on the effects of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday.
Submission + - IBM saves $250 million running Linux on mainframes (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: "Talk about eating your own dog food. IBM today will announce it is consolidating nearly 4,000 small computer servers in six locations onto about 30 refrigerator-sized mainframes running Linux saving $250 million in the process. The 4,000 servers that IBM will replace by making this change will be recycled by IBM Global Asset Recovery Services. This change will affect IBM's data centers in Poughkeepsie, New York, Southbury, Conn., Boulder, Col, Portsmouth, UK, Osaka, Japan, and Sydney, Australia. These six data centers currently take up over 8 million square feet, or the size of nearly 140 football fields.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/17998"
