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Submission + - Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 Downgradable to XP

Submitted by

nandemoari

on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @10:10AM

nandemoari writes: "Not only will users be able to keep Windows Vista, but they'll be able to step back in time two generations, all the way to XP. "We will offer downgrade rights from Windows 7 to Windows XP in the same way we did with Windows Vista," a Microsoft rep said. Insiders speculate that the right to use this time machine might be reserved for those purchasing licenses for only two versions of Windows 7 — Ultimate and Professional. However, that's not yet been confirmed."

Submission + - AP Ultimatum: Share Your Revenue or Face Lawsuits (nytimes.com)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @08:42AM

eldavojohn writes: "The Associated Press is starting to feel the bite of the economic recession and said on Monday that they will "work with portals and other partners who legally license our content and will seek legal and legislative remedies against those who don't." The are talking about everything from search engines to aggregators that link to news articles and some sites that reproduce the whole news article. The article notes that in Europe legislative action has blocked Google from using news articles from some outlets similar to what was discussed here last week."

Comment Re:Office Space clearly had an impact (Score 1) 100

by krisak on Friday April 11, 2008 @04:04PM (#23040358) Attached to: Cybercrime Is a Franchise Model That Scales

The limit is somewhere around $1200 for reporting. So casinos lately really aren't as useful for money laundering.

Unless the casino is in on it. You lose a lot of cash there, you don't need to report it. They then contract out to a company you own.

Not much of that left in Vegas these days, though.

Submission + - How would you refocus linux development?

Submitted by buddyglass on Saturday August 25, 2007 @10:53AM

buddyglass writes: The majority of Slashdot users are no doubt appreciative of linux in the general sense, but I suspect we all have some application or aspect of the platform that we wish was more stable, performant, feature-rich, etc. So my question is a hypothetical one: if you were able to devote a "significant" number of resources (read: high-quality developers) to a particular app or area of the kernel, and were able to set the focus for those resources (stability, performance, new features, etc.), what application or kernel area would you attempt to improve, and what would you focus on improving?

Submission + - Unix Admin's Unit of Production? 4

Submitted by RailGunSally on Saturday August 25, 2007 @10:24AM

RailGunSally writes: I am a (strictly technical) member of a large *NIX systems admin team at a Fortune 150. Our new IT Management Overlord is a hardcore beancounter from Hell. We in the trenches have been tasked with providing "metrics" on absolutely everything from system utilization to paperclip recycling. Of course, measuring productivity is right up there at the top of the list. We're stumped as to a definition of the basic unit of productivity for a *nix admin. There is a school of thought in our group that holds that if the PHBs are simple enough to want to operate purely from pie charts and spreadsheets, then we should just graph some output from /dev/random and have done with it. I personally love the idea, but I feel the need for due diligence, so I put the question to the Slashdotters: How does one reasonably quantify admin productivity?

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