sbutton - Slashdot User

Comment Re:are you serious? (Score 2) 81

by sbutton on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @08:44AM (#65599548) Attached to: US Spy Chief Gabbard Says UK Agreed To Drop 'Backdoor' Mandate for Apple

That's interesting to know. I've been looking for a tech news site which is a little bit more unbiased. I'm British, but they all seem to be "Orange Man Bad!". Anyone know one which just gives me the interesting tech news? The Register used to be good, but they have also gone in this direction. I guess such a place doesn't exist?

Comment Re:Taking over what?? (Score 1) 126

by sbutton on Monday November 07, 2022 @05:35AM (#63031183) Attached to: Wired Hails Rust as 'the Viral Secure Programming Language That's Taking Over Tech'

Should I take from this that my 18 year old son would be better off learning Assembly Language compared to SQL, as it's more popular and going up whereas SQL is less popular and going down? My gut feeling would be "No, don't do that". (PS. I started my career in assembly language - although not x86 but something much more obscure*, and it took a very very long time to get anything useful done).

* ICL System 25 if you are interested.

Comment Re:so what (Score 5, Funny) 372

by sbutton on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @08:46AM (#42449675) Attached to: Chromebook Takes Top Place In Laptop Sales On Amazon

Linux IS the operating system of the future... and it always will be.

The State of Munich's Ongoing Linux Migration 203

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 28, 2009 @03:56AM from the es-geht-immer-noch dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "The Munich decision to move its 14,000 desktops to Free Open Source Software created a big splash back in 2003 as news circulated of the third-largest German city's defection from Microsoft. When it was announced in 2003, the story garnered coverage even in the US, such as an extensive article in USA Today on-line. Currently, about 60% of desktops are using OpenOffice, with the remaining 40% to be completed by the end of 2009. Firefox and Thunderbird are being used in all of the city's desktop machines. Ten percent of desktops are running the LiMux Debian-based distro, and 80% will be running LiMux by 2012 at the latest. Autonomy was generally considered more important than cost savings, although the LiMux initiative is increasing competition in the IT industry in Munich already. The program has succeeded because the city administration has been careful to reach out to all stakeholders, from managers down to simple end users."

Comment I'll stick with BitTorrent, thanks. (Score 1) 259

by sbutton on Monday December 17, 2007 @09:55AM (#21725102) Attached to: BBC iPlayer Welcomes Linux (and Macs)

Which allows me to watch what I want, when I want using xbmc on my TV thank-you-very-much.

I really don't get why the BBC think I would want to stream to my Mac, when I can already download whatever I want and watch it on the Mac, the TV, the iPod or wherever. OK, most people probably don't realise this yet but this is the technology they are competing with in my world.

And if I want to keep the episode of Space Pirates or some film which has been aired on terrestrial TV for the kids to watch at some point in the future, I don't want the BBC deciding that I've kept hold of it for more than 7 days and therefore they have the right to delete it from my hard drive. This is a step back from what I was able to do (and almost everyone did) using a VCR.

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