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Stories · 6

  1. Ask Slashdot: Tablet With Root Access By Default?

    Ask · Handheld · · posted by timothy · from the oh-you-want-everything dept. · 168 comments
    hweimer writes "I am looking for a small (7") tablet that comes with root access out of the box. I know, I could get one of the usual suspects and root it myself, but I don't want to waste my time in the process and end up voiding my warranty. Basically, I'd like to use it for web browsing, reading PDFs and accessing my e-mails via SSH (extra bonus for X11 forwarding). Any good suggestions, or should I wait for Tizen devices to hit the market?"

  2. All French Nuclear Reactors Deemed Unsafe

    Hardware · Power · · posted by samzenpus · from the what's-the-worst-that-could-happen dept. · 493 comments
    hweimer writes "A new study by a French government agency, commissioned in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, found that all French nuclear power plants do not offer adequate safety when it comes to flooding, earthquakes, power outages, failure of the cooling systems and operational management of accidents. While there is no need for immediate shutdown, the agency presses for the problems to be fixed quickly. France gets about 80% of its power from nuclear energy and is a major exporter of nuclear technology."

  3. OpenOffice Tops 21% Market Share In Germany

    Tech · Software · · posted by kdawson · from the camel's-head-and-neck dept. · 252 comments
    hweimer writes "A novel study analyzes the installed base of various office packages among German users. (Here is the original study report in German and a Google translation.) While Microsoft Office comes out top (72%), open source rival OpenOffice is already installed on 21.5% of all PCs and growing. The authors use a clever method to determine the installed office suites of millions of web users: they look for the availability of characteristic fonts being shipped with the various suites. What surprised me the most is that they found hardly any difference in the numbers for home and business users."

  4. Microsoft To Get Malware Bailout In Germany

    News · Microsoft · · posted by kdawson · from the you-broke-it-you-fix-it dept. · 226 comments
    hweimer writes "The German government plans on paying to set up a call center to help Windows users with malware infections. I think this has the effect of being a malware bailout for Microsoft, discouraging them and other software companies from writing better code and giving users little incentive to switch to more secure alternatives. How much government money is needed to run the call center is also not revealed." The call center, running in cooperation with ISPs (but not manufacturers), is envisioned to have a staff of about 40.

  5. Liberation Fonts Increase Interoperability For Linux Users

    Linux · Gui · · posted by timothy · from the yes-yes-gnu-slash-linux dept. · 99 comments
    hweimer writes "Most problems when opening Word documents under GNU/Linux are due to missing fonts. Therefore, Red Hat published a set of fonts metric-compatible with the Windows core fonts last year. However, there were some concerns regarding the licensing that prevented many other distros to ship them. We finally managed to settle these problems, leading to better document interoperability for all GNU/Linux users."

  6. SCO Stock In Danger of Delisting, Again

    Caldera · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the pennies dept. · 188 comments
    hweimer writes "In 2005, SCO got into delisting trouble because they failed to file their annual 10-K report in a timely manner. SCO seems to be headed the same way again for a different reason: the stock price is too low to meet Nasdaq's requirements. Quoting: '[W]hat can a company do to boost its share price? Besides stopping to burn money and come up with a working business model, I mean.'"