Comment Re:Open office != MS Office (Score 1) 421
If they would only fix the "arrow" cursor to a "cross" in Calc I would be happy.
Bookmark Several WHOIS Servers Hacked. (unibia.com)
California To Create Public Animal Abuser Registry 404
An anonymous reader writes "California legislators are moving forward with plans to create a public, online, animal abuser registry identical in function to the public sex offender registry. Is this the slippery slope to further government mandated lists and registries?"
Bookmark How to Setup a Reverse Proxy with Squid (unibia.com)
Bookmark Why You shouldn't Write Your Application in .NET (unibia.com)
Comment Just Ignore, Manipulation in Progress (Score 1) 268
This is "News" meant to manipulate the confused and clueless. Mod it down and move on....
Burglar Nabbed By Backup Program 98
Bruce Perens writes "A Berkeley, California, burglar engineered his own arrest, and that of his girlfriend, when he stole a laptop and used it as his personal computer. He didn't realize that the laptop had an automatic backup program, and that the photos he took were being copied to his victim's backup repository. Berkeley police recognized him, and his location, from the photos."
Comment What is it with the iPhone Hype? (Score 1) 226
Every time someone does something on the iPhone it becomes news. Their is nothing special about a device doing something it was designed to do.
Submission + - Remote Kill Flags Surface In Kindle (keionline.org)
PL/SQL Guy writes: "It appears that the Kindle has a number of "remote kill" flags built in to the hardware that, among other things, allow the text-to-speech function to be disabled at any time on a book-by-book basis. According to the Knowledge Ecology International site, "Beginning yesterday, Random House Publishers began to disable text-to-speech remotely. The TTS function has apparently been remotely disabled in over 40 works so far." But what no one at Amazon will discuss is what other flags are lurking in the Kindle format: is there a "read only once" flag? A "no turning the pages backwards" flag? Until this "evil Easter egg" issue is resolved, I won't be buying a Kindle."
Comment Re:Ekiga (Score 1) 338
Proprietary binary only client that relies on a proprietary third party service, don't like the idea of that...
Yeah, but it's the only multi-platform solution that is reliable, works out of the box, has a pretty simple to use interface and is easy to setup and use.
Until the Open Source community can deliver something equal to or better than Skype, I and most people will continue to use Skype.
