Please create an account to participate in the Slashdot moderation system

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror

Submission + - Trump Admin Used Signal for War Plans and Included Journalist (theatlantic.com) 1

Submitted by josmar52789
josmar52789 writes: âoeThe world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen.

I [Jeff Goldberg], however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.â

Submission + - Microsoft Publisher Being Discontinued Next Year (microsoft.com) 1

Submitted by josmar52789
josmar52789 writes: In October 2026, Microsoft Publisher will reach its end of life. After that time, it will no longer be included in Microsoft 365 and existing on-premises suites will no longer be supported. Microsoft 365 subscribers will no longer be able to open or edit Publisher files in Publisher.
Software

Submission + - OpenOffice UI Design Proposals Published

Submitted by
Anonymous
Anonymous writes: "Today, various members of the OpenOffice.org community will be submitting their first revisions of proposals to the OpenOffice.org Call for Design Proposals to redesign the user interface of OOo. As part of Project Renaissance, attention is being drawn to the OpenOffice user interface, and it's "userfriendliness". Among the designs, is FLUX UI, which won an award at the Sun Microsystems Community Innovation Awards Program.

Anyone can, and is encouraged, to check out the proposals (scroll to bottom of page) and leave your comments so that the designers can improve their designs for the final deadline for proposal submissions to the community. Note, however, that not all submissions have been posted due to Timezone differences"

Comment What About Open Source? (Score 1) 526

by josmar52789 (#27241079) Attached to: Sun In Talks To Be Acquired By IBM

Major Open Source Contributions:

IBM >> Linux, Eclipse

Sun Micro >> Java, OpenOffice, NetBeans, Virtual Box, xVM, Glassfish, OpenSolaris, ZFS, MySQL

I'm sort of nervous and excited at the same time to thing what could happen to these products... Hands down, Sun Micro is one of the largest contributors to OSS - but has limited development in the past.

The IBM buyout could mean a GPL'ed ZFS and OpenSolaris, a complete xVM, and an improved MySQL.... Then again, it just might mean end of life for some things.... We shall see....

Security

Journal Journal: ClamWin Affected by a "Y2k9" Bug

Journal by josmar52789
Unfortunately, quite a few of our clients are experiencing a bug with ClamWin Anti-virus that seems to be caused by an inconsistency with the new daylight savings time and the end of the year. The fact that user's are not at work (on vacation) means that the software has missed scheduled scans and is now getting confused about running those scans with the end result of initiating up to 50 different instances of the scanner in order to complete those missed scans. Many users seem to be affected b

Comment Re:But isn't that the idea? (Score 1) 676

by josmar52789 (#26250907) Attached to: Michael Meeks Says OO.o Project is "Profoundly Sick"
You're right... I was the team leader for FLUX UI...

Coming up with a new UI concept is difficult, but sometimes there is a little negligence on the developer's part to actually implement the concept.

But I think that will be changing with Project Renaissance - mainly because everyone knows the UI is broken and needs a little TLC.
Government

Journal Journal: "Support the Free Software Movement" on Change.org

Journal by josmar52789
Change.org's new web application, entitled Ideas for Change in America, allows users to submit and vote on ideas brought forth by the American people. Currently, in the Technology Policy area, an idea entitled "Support the Free Software Movement" is currently in 9th place - it has a nice write-up about Richard Stallman and the movement as a whole. Head on over and let our new President know how much we want free so

Comment Re:Open Source Solutions (Score 1) 348

by josmar52789 (#26077679) Attached to: Best Open Source Alternatives To Enterprise Apps
I really don't think I could compare the built-in tools of Win XP and Vista to that of an open source application like Z-zip, which is constantly maintained to provide the most secure and optimal archiving experience. Plus, from what I can tell, 7-zip provides far better compression than Winzip or the Win XP and Vista solutions.

Comment Open Source Solutions (Score 4, Informative) 348

by josmar52789 (#26076549) Attached to: Best Open Source Alternatives To Enterprise Apps
OpenOffice instead of MS Office

7-zip instead of WinZip

Alfresco for document management and workflow

Zimbra (or Google Apps) instead of Exchange

Firefox instead of IE (yeah, you'll save money by not having to remove all the magically installing spyware)

MySQL or PostgreSQL instead of MSSQL (come on people, open source is about choice - use whatever open source dbms you want and quit fussing!)

xTuple instead of Quickbooks (great enterprise-class accounting/sales/CRM/inventory software that can truly rival the "polished quality" of Quickbooks with pretty much the same features)
Communications

Journal Journal: Sharp's Open Systems Architecture for Copy/Print/Fax

Journal by josmar52789
For those of you involved with document management and archives, I just found out that Sharp has introduced a feature on their line of business machines called "Open Systems Architecture". It's basically a series of software implementations written in Embedded Java that let a business create their own interfaces that deliver digital content over SOAP, XHTML, XML, and all that jazz. What's amazing is tha
The Courts

Submission + - Judge Rules Man Cannot Be Forced to Decrypt HD (cnet.com) 3

Submitted by
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier has ruled that forcing someone to divulge the password to decrypt their hard drive violates the 5th Amendment. Border guards testify that they saw child pornography on the defendant's laptop when the PC was on, but they made the mistake of turning the laptop off and were unable to access it again because the drive was protected by PGP. Although prosecutors offered many ways to get around the 5th Amendment protections, the Judge would have none of that and quashed the grand jury subpoena requesting the defendant's PGP passphrase. A conviction is still likely because prosecutors have the testimony of the two border guards who saw the drive while it was decrypted."

Slashdot Top Deals

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. -- Jean Giraudoux

Close