Submission + - Kim Dotcom extradition order signed (stuff.co.nz)
sushi writes: Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has told Kim Dotcom, the former Mega Upload owner, that New Zealand will deport him to the US.
Comment Spotify (Score 2) 148
Spotify uses OGG (as well as AAC, depending on your client)
https://support.spotify.com/us/artists/article/audio-file-formats/
Australian Stats Agency Goes Open Source 51
jimboh2k writes "The Australian Bureau of Statistics will use the 2011 Census of Population and Housing as a dry run for XML-based open source standards DDI and SDMX in a bid to make for easier machine-to-machine data, allowing users to better search for and access census datasets. The census will become the first time the open standards are used by an Australian Federal Government agency."
Open Source Developer Knighted 101
unixfan writes "Georg Greve, developer of Open Document Format and active FOSS developer, has received a knighthood in Germany for his work. From the article: 'Some weeks ago I received news that the embassy in Berne had unsuccessfully been trying to contact me under FSFE's old office address in Zurich. This was a bit odd and unexpected. So you can probably understand my surprise to be told by the embassy upon contacting them that on 18 December 2009 I had been awarded the Cross of Merit on ribbon (Verdienstkreuz am Bande) by the Federal Republic of Germany. As you might expect, my first reaction was one of disbelief. I was, in fact, rather shaken. You could also say shocked. Quick Wikipedia research revealed this to be part of the orders of knighthood, making this a Knight's Cross.'"
Feed Leopard does / does not use ZFS, part III: it does! (kinda) (engadget.com)
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Storage
Hopefully this is the last time we'll be forced to post on this topic, but we're not holding our breath: now InformationWeek -- which quoted an Apple executive this morning stating the polar opposite -- is reporting that Sun's ZFS file system IS in fact included in Leopard, albeit with a number of huge caveats. According to a company spokesperson seeking to clear up Brian Croll's "misstatement," while HFS+ continues to be the primary system used in OS X, ZFS has been coded in as a latent, "read-only option available from the command line." An IW reader claims to have accessed the system through Disk Utility's Erase menu, and states that "ZFS is only available on non-boot drives on Sun systems, so this is also the case for Leopard" -- seemingly reinforcing Croll's later assertion that Apple is really only "exploring it as a file system option for high-end storage systems with really large storage." So there you have it: Sun's Jonathan Schwartz wasn't pulling our leg after all, even if ZFS fanboys won't be pleased with the (presumably) final word on this.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Comment GMail greasemonkey scripts causing gmail lockout? (Score 2, Interesting) 512
... so yesterday I installed greasemonkey with the gmail delete script.
Today I'm locked out of gmail for a suspected breach of T&C. (yep, a 'lockdown in sector 4!')
I contacted gmail and they have unlocked me, but I wonder if it's related?
Today I'm locked out of gmail for a suspected breach of T&C. (yep, a 'lockdown in sector 4!')
I contacted gmail and they have unlocked me, but I wonder if it's related?
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