Comment Re:This is why you have press people (Score 1) 279

by omz on Thursday October 15, 2009 @07:09PM (#29763941) Attached to: MS Says All Sidekick Data Recovered, But Damage Done

Well, to be fair, whoever said 'All data is lost' to the press should have been dragged out back and shot.

Just read the 10/10/2009 12:35 PM PDT official update from T-Mobile and Microsoft:

"Dear valued T-Mobile Sidekick customers:

[...] Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos – that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger."

The entire update is reproduced here ( the official site with the original text was replaced with a more recent update ).

Submission + - Governments warned about Office 2007 ODF support (odfalliance.org)

Submitted by omz on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @12:06PM

omz writes: The ODF Alliance has prepared a Fact Sheet for governments and others interested in how Microsoft's SP2 for Office 2007 handles ODF. The report revealed "serious shortcomings that, left unaddressed, would break the open standards based interoperability that the marketplace, especially governments, is demanding".

Comment PDF made with Mac OS, not KDE? (Score 1) 199

by omz on Sunday May 03, 2009 @01:52PM (#27807559) Attached to: Social Desktop Starts To Arrive In KDE

Mmmm. the PDF linked in TFA was created with "Apple Keynote 4.0.3"

Does it run on KDE ;-)

Comment Research paper made with TeX? (Score 1) 296

by omz on Monday February 23, 2009 @10:43AM (#26957243) Attached to: MS Publishes Papers For a Modern, Secure Browser

The metadata of gazelle.pdf ( full research paper ) reads:

Creator: TeX output 2009.02.19:1213
Producer: dvipdfm 0.13.2d

Ups... what happened with Office 2007 boys? ask for your free copy!

:-)

--omz

Comment answer: puppy linux (Score 2, Interesting) 660

by omz on Saturday September 20, 2008 @05:42PM (#25087885) Attached to: Fast-Booting Text-Editor Operating System?

"What is the fastest booting operating system out there that is still sufficient for editing text?"

certainly: Puppy Linux.

7 seconds and you are ready

Submission + - Rodriguez slaughters Open XML

Submitted by

Elektroschock

on Saturday August 25, 2007 @02:42PM

Elektroschock writes: "Stephane Rodriguez, a reengineering specialist who became popular for his article on MS-Office 2007 binary data, slaughters Microsoft's new Open XML format. With small case studies he demonstrates the disadvantages for third party developers. His conclusion: It is 'defective by design'. Next week members of the International Standard Organisation are likely to approve the format as a second official ISO standard for office documents. However, most nations submitted comments. Rodriguez claims to be "not affiliated to any pro-MS or anti-MS party/org/ass"."