VA Linux Now VA Software

g2g was among the people who noticed that Slashdot & OSDNs parent, VA Linux Systems has changed its name to VA Software. vasoftware.com is the new domain as I guess they are focusing on SourceForge and OSDN. On the upside, I guess newspapers will stop calling the company 'Linux' all the time.

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No tiny gray fonts, please!

[digitect]

Ah, yes. Another hardcoded font size in a press release.

Question: Why is it that press releases, documents that we are sure companies want everybody to read, continue to hard code web page font sizes to about 6pt, in a light shade of gray?

Answer: Management and marketing types write press releases with MS Word and are too busy playing golf to simply open the URL in their browser to verify that the web monkey did his job. They are not concerned enough about their company to follow through on the basics.

I have to say, RedHat (an unabashed Linux company, I might add) is a pleasant exception to this rule. Check out one of their press releases.

Perhaps attention to "details" such as font sizes in HTML-format press releases also give us an idea of a company's ability to follow through with the technical aspects of its core business functions as well.

WooHoo.

[VA Software]

I'm alive.

~~Wayback machine~~

[wiredog]

Remember when guys with the user names "CmdrTaco", "Hemos", and "CowboyNeal" used to post comments here? I wonder whatever happened to those guys? You never hear from them anymore.

I hope Rusty gets kuro5hin back up. Bet he'll be more anal about backups after this. One of the things I like about k5 is that it reminds me of what /. was a few years ago.

CO2 vs Oxygen

[tenor]

If the planet is increasing its CO2 to the point where plants can thrive (which they can't yet, they need water for that), then you could seed plants on Mars, and then wait a couple hundred years for the plants to take over. Once the plants take over, there will be sufficient O2 in the air (plant waste byproduct) for humans.

I don't know if Mars's gravity is strong enough to actually keep the atmosphere from leaking, but hey, it's a start. Since oxygen is a heavier molecule than carbon, it might increase the surface pressure as well.

I am not an environmental scientist, so take all that with a grain of salt. I do, however, read a lot of science fiction, which as we all know is an acceptable substitute for actual learning.