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Slashback: Rendering, Munich, Clones
How to impress users. chjones writes "The bug that crashes Mozilla with simple HTML has been fixed in the latest nightly build. This was previously mentioned in a Slashback in response to a similar bug in Internet Explorer. No nightly build of IE appears to be available."
Quiet but sterile, or silent and deadly? JerryKnight writes "With the wider availability of TouchStream keyboards, such as at ThinkGeek, I wonder if these great devices are used by anyone else besides me. Since the last story over a year ago, Fingerworks has made quite a few improvements, such as many firmware upgrades and the (currently still Beta) Gesture Editor. Does anyone else find the gesture/mouse benefits to outweigh the headache of learning zero-force typing?"
Would you like to play a game? bigattichouse writes "When I read the piece on using gaming to keep your brain moving, it reminded me of several articles on coders needing 'ramp-up' time to get into coding. I put together a small freeware game PortaLogica as a preliminary attempt to create a game that would help stimulate coding-related-thought. The game is played using schematic logic gates, and trying to get inputs to match outputs. I'd love to flesh it out a bit more (like writing a KDE or Gnome version)..."
Offically official.
Alexander Schatten writes "Although Steve Ballmer interrupted his holiday to try to change the decision of the Munich politicians, after some weeks of discussion Munich decided today to change all 14.000 PCs, Notebooks to Linux. Servers as well as Clients!
One of the main reasons was to avoid a too close binding to specific vendors. A wise decision, one will confirm, especially as Munich is one of the biggest cities in Germany and might be an example for other cities. For more details see: SuSE or heise.de (both in German)"
Buy it while it's legal. An anonymous reader writes "Remember Bunnie Huang? He's the MIT student who first hacked the Xbox. He wrote a book that was supposed to be published by a well-known publisher, but the publisher chickened out, afraid of Microsoft's wrath. Bunnie isn't so scared, however. He's publishing the book himself. The book, "Hacking the Xbox," can be purchased from his website. I just saw Bunnie on TechTV, and he's offering a 20 percent discount to TechTV viewers (Scroll to bottom of article to see the coupon code)."
The famous Finnish art of the insult. scotch51 writes "I followed the links to the Raelians website on Friday after ./ reported Linus Torvalds comparing the amazing SCO lawsuit to the Raelians claims of amazing (bio)technological achievements. Today, wanting to show a friend the Raelians rather pretty twist on the Star of David for their own logo, I see that all pages I'd visited yesterday report blank. "Reveal codes" on every page I visited yesterday reveals only: html body /body /html. Guess that's one way to deal with being slashdotted, or were they perhaps hacked?"
Obviously they don't want to pay huge bandwidth bills, thanks to slashdot. Maybe slashdot should have the courtesy to email anyone they want to link to, since they're so proud of the effect they have.
it won't be here amongst the soul DOWt whoredoggIEs of the felonious kingdumb. you can bet your.asp on that won.
lookout bullow. the corepirate stock markup felon's 'candle' is burning at both ends, in a gale force wind of change. consult with yOUR creator. don't get fooled again.
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Ok, I studied all of the available documentation today for the SCO lawsuit, and as a Harvard-pedigreed lawyer, I regret to say that the Linux community is flat-out screwed.
Novell clearly transferred the rights to give copyright to IBM - I have friends at Novell's legal department that provided me with the text. Fortune 500 companies using Linux have reason to be scared - SCO has MUCH case law on their side, which I will not cite so as not to point back to my Novell source, but it is almost CERTAIN that any corporate users of Linux will end up paying either SCO or Novell (Novell depending on whether they choose to pursue it) royalties. "Free", not as in beer or speech, but as in paying a king's ransom to SCO, I guess.
A dark day for Linux indeed.
What bugs me most about this is all the flak that CIO's that backed Linux are going to get from the suits. Glad I didn't, and to future CIO's, you shouldn't either.
Linux is entirely Un-American. I hope SCO can stop the communist-like OS. Terrorists use linux, linux must be destroyed. WinXP is better anyway.
Wow. What a funny lie.
"Sufferin' succotash."
can't tell you what they'll be 'named', but there'll be LOTs of them.
winux come to mind. might find a weigh to make a few billyonerrors on that won? lookout bullow.
STFU, you twat.
It also doesn't help with teaching logic or starting up your brain in the morning, after all the usual aim is to minimise either the cost (by using cheaper gates and as few as possible) or the delay (by using faster gates and as few in series as possible) plus you can always make something more complicated whereas there is a 'best' solution (possible a few) using cheaper/faster as the metric.
Also if you want to flesh it out more posting the damn source on your web page would be a good start, "source available on request" just means I won't bother wasting my time...