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Slashback: Sidekick Justice, Free WebTV, Office Patent
Justice for stolen Sidekick victim. chroma writes "Remember the stolen Sidekick from a few days back? When the girl uploaded photos of herself to T-Mobile's service and bragged on IM about having the stolen PDA? Well, after creating a webpage that gathered 400,000 links in less than two weeks, and much runaround from the NYPD, justice has finally been served: the perpetrator has been arrested and the PDA returned. Further information is also available from The New York Times."
Free WebTV test a hit. An anonymous reader writes "Disney has said that their recent ABC free WebTV was a real hit with viewers and advertisers alike. Shows posted on the site received more than 11 million hits in the first month alone. From the article: 'An online exit survey posted the first week of the two-month trial showed that 87 percent of respondents could recall the advertisers that sponsored the episodes they watched. That compares with typical ad recall of about 40 percent for commercials viewed on television, industry sources said.'"
SUSE 10.1 release postponed. An anonymous reader writes "According to a confidential memo, the next release of both the server and desktop versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 will be delayed. The delay is apparently to allow Novell 'to address final issues with our new package management, registration, and update system and also fix the remaining blocker defects.' From the article: 'SUSE has a new update and package management system, which has not worked well in its initial release in the free, community OpenSUSE 10.1 release. Unfortunately, even after a recent set of fixes was released, SUSE's update and new program installation system is still giving many users trouble.'"
Microsoft loses Office patent appeal. xwipeoutx writes to tell us ITNews.com is reporting that Microsoft has lost their appeal in US Federal court over a judgement handed down saying they violated a patent by Guatemalan inventor Carlos Armando Amado. The original judgement stipulated that Micosoft was to pay Amado $6.1 million for violating a patent covering a means to link spreadsheets and databases.
Paypal fixes their phishing hole. Juha-Matti Laurio writes "News.com is providing new information to the previous PayPal XSS hole and reporting that the hole is now fixed." From the article: "By exploiting the flaw, attackers were able to redirect people from a PayPal Web page to an online trap located in South Korea, a representative for the service said. The page actually has a real PayPal URL, but hosts malicious code that presents a message warning members that their account had been compromised. It then redirects them to a 'phishing' Web site."
If TiVo really wants to fill the gap caused by ad-skipping, they should create interactive ads that viewers can poke and prod.
Sadly, Paul Verhoeven holds the patent on that one.
I'm in the same boat as you (I don't use Suse), however I'd like to point out that it is still at number 2 on Distrowatch. Apparantly someone's still interested.
What's the ugliest part of your body? Some say your nose, some say your toes, but I think it's your mind. -Zappa
In 2005, Microsoft was told to pay Amado $US6.1 million for violating Amado's patent, which covered technology to link spreadsheets and databases.
You mean they just thought of that last year?
It was the first time that Microsoft had updated its software for purely legal reasons.
It may have been the first time Microsoft had to update the software for legal reasons, but lest we forget the antitrust case. The settlement of United States v Microsoft did not require Microsoft to change any of its code, although Microsoft did have to make its own concessions. The article makes it seem like it's Microsoft's first run-in with the courts.
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Our decesion to go with Suse has nothing to do with the quality or killer app of the OS. It's ok, nothing super special. However, we are a mostly netware shop. We got all our Suse licenses for free including support and didn't have to pay a penny more. I'm guessing other Novell shops are in a similiar situtation. This was REALLY smart of them, otherwise we'd probably have just gone with Debian. But it was just as expensive to go with Suse (free) and at least this way we get support on the off chance we need it. Also, a lot of propierty vendors support Suse and Redhat. Last, OES seems to just run on a regular SLES 9 install. Once we lose our Netware boxes to OES it will be nice just to have Suse Linux across the board (meaning consisant internal adminitration documentation for things like network configuration, printing, and other things that are the same for every server).
If an officer ever threatens to taze you, say you have a pacemaker.
You can now have SUSE and be completely OSS. Just download CD 1-5. CD 6 holds the non-OSS stuff as does the various DVDs.
http://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version
If you want those as a DVD, you can use makeSUSEdvd to make a DVD. (You can even add your own RPMs, like MPlayer or libdvdcss to your own DVD with makeSUSEdvd)
http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
I think Paul Verhoeven and JMS both have to give propers to David Cronenburg, who came up with the idea of very interactive TV in the '80s with Videodrome.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
let's not forget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_O'Donnell,_Jr Kevin O'Donnel, who wrote ORA:KEL ( Berkley Books, August, 1984). A lot of likeminded ideas arose in that era *sigh*.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Mac OS X is fully POSIX
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a *NIXObama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
If you want to read the Sidekick story without having to log in at the NY Times, the same reporter (Nicholas Confessore) has written another article, delivered up by the good folks over at the International Herald Tribune.
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Phoenix, Boston, Little Rock, see a pattern?
The FBI now believes that throw-away cellphones are now the primary communication mechanism for terrorist cells in the United States, as they are disposable and generally untraceable.
How hard was that to google?
https://bugzilla.novell.com/buglist.cgi?query_for
I used to be a long time Suse user but as you pointed out they have a few problems to iron out.
Linuxquestion's suse forum has long discution related to the way yast workse these days.
I'm testing ArchLinux rightnow. Installing KDE is a bit tricky . If you do go the archlinux rout qtpckg,srcpack and aurbuild are a must.
I have also used with kubuntu it's prity good. When I used it their were some odd problems most comparitively minor. One of the most irititating was that if I didn't "properly" quit amarock my CPU'd get peged at between 95% and 100%. Killing process didn't do anything-had to do a complete reboot. I think they fixed that though.