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  1. Re:This is great for those with poor signal, too! on Google Hangouts Gets Google Voice Integration And Free VoIP Calls · · Score: 1

    T-Mobile offers WiFi calling IF you use their baked-in software. Doesn't work with my Nexus 5, so I'm really looking forward to GoogleVoice integration.

  2. Re:Why not Houston? on Google Fiber's Austin, Texas Rollout Confirmed · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because Austin, like KC, owns its own electric utility. That makes it way easier to string fiber along the power right of ways. Plus, yeah, Austin is cool.

  3. OpenVista on Switching Hospital Systems to Linux · · Score: 5, Informative
    Really want to save money? And a whole lot of Tums? Screw McKesson's kludgeware.

    OpenVista is the open source version of the VA's VistA program, deployed at over 1500 sites worldwide. You can also grab it for free from http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvista.

    Yes, you can get professional training, installation and ongoing support for it:

    http://medsphere.org/

  4. Re:Nice Work on How One Small Business Switched to Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Of course he expected the new configuration to be supported seamlessly...

    Ubuntu did.

  5. In newspeak... on London 2006, Meet London 1984 · · Score: 1

    ... there is no word for "change the channel."

  6. But can Pogo work under Linux? on How Much Java in the Linux World? · · Score: 1

    Sure, there's lots of Java out there, and it all seems to work fine on Linux. Except for Pogo.com, whose games insist that I don't have Java installed.
    And yes, it's really Java, not JavaScript.
    Anyone know which of several jre's or jdk's will work? The Pogo folks don't seem to want to provide an answer.
    I'm running Fedora Core 2 with Mozilla 1.6.

  7. It runs on everything I have on What Keeps You Off of Windows? · · Score: 1

    Not being wealthy, and having a family to support, means I don't have disposible income to spend on the latest hardware. Linux runs on my 800MHz Celeron, my 200MHz dual Pentium, my 200MHz single Pentium, my 150 MHz Pentium laptop, and my 486 Dx2 based laptop (a stripped-down Debian install).

    The newest Windows incarnation wouldn't even install on most of this stuff, if I could afford it, and I'd still have to buy software to run my web server, database, DNS, mail server, graphics apps, etc, etc...

    Equally important is the fact that I don't have to deal with spyware and trojans.

    Cheap AND effective!

  8. Get the Learning Perl book (Llama) on Programming For Terrified Adults? · · Score: 1

    I found Learning Perl to be one of the easiest programming books I've ever read. Highly recommended, and she can progress from there or not, as she likes. It's one of those rare books that's entertaining , fairly easy to master, and yet leaves you capable of doing something useful.

  9. Political XML on Tim Bray on Microsoft Office · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Looks like M$ has found a way to placate those various governments that are beginning to insist on open file formats for data storage.

  10. Re:What about the big picture? on Soybean Powered Harley · · Score: 1

    Run your farm machinery on the soybean oil you produce...

  11. The Millennium Jet Website is... on NASA Tests Flying Scooter For Commercial Take-Off · · Score: 1
  12. Geek Stuff on Ask Slashdot: Geek-Friendly Business Accessories? · · Score: 1

    I recently got a cool shirt as a gift -- a polo-style shirt featuring Marvin the Martian with the caption "As a matter of fact, I am a rocket scientist."

    You can get it at the Warner Brothers store in the local mall...

  13. Only about 8,000 -- but... on American Programmers are Slackers · · Score: 2

    Those 8,000 lines were almost all Perl. How many lines of C to do the same thing?

    Feel free to multiply by 5

  14. Only Simple Apps? on Gates: "Linux will have Limited Impact" · · Score: 1

    Hmm. According to this, Mr. Bill thinks the browser is more complicated than a useable word processor or spreadsheet... methinks not.

    And I guess he considers a few very successful open source projects as simple apps -- like Apache, which has been kicking his butt all over the internet, and Sendmail...

  15. That's absurd. on Gates: "Linux Can't Compete" · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it Ellison that had a comment on medical embedded systems running Windows? Something to the tune of a heart monitor running Windows being a product that creates its own customer base...