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Journal Journal: The Daylight Saving Time redefinition is a major PITA 8

Journal by Degrees
Gad! I'd love to bill Congress for the time I'm wasting on this turkey. We'd be up in the several thousand dollars now, and climbing.

So the nice thing for me is that Novell listened to their customers in Indiana year before last, and extended the GroupWise schema to include the particulars of DST start and end dates. If your GroupWise is modern, Novell has a tool that can tell which of your appointments are fouled up (if any), and it can adjust them.
Book Reviews

Character Design For Mobile Devices 35

Posted by samzenpus from the design-time dept.
Aeonite writes "According to the Introduction, Character Design For Mobile Devices is 'the first book on the designs, the technologies, the issues, and the techniques behind character design for mobile devices and games.' Unfortunately, what could have been an interesting and unique coffee table book suffers from an unclear message, poor design, bad editing, and an authorial voice that is rather too present at times, and too oblique at others." Read below for the rest of Aeonite's review.
Software

Open Source Network Management Beats IBM and HP 100

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the slow-and-steady-going-for-the-win dept.
mjhuot writes "Last week SearchNetworking.com announced their Product Leadership Awards for 2007. It was a pleasant surprise to see an open source project, OpenNMS, win the Gold in their Network and IT Management Platforms category. OpenNMS beat out the established players of Hewlett-Packard's OpenView and IBM's Tivoli. This was based on a user survey of all IT solutions, not just open source; it demonstrates that open source software is indeed making inroads into the enterprise."
User Journal

Journal Journal: Work In Progress: A Time of Danger

Journal by christurkel
I have split off a Time of Danger now; changing where Sylvia ends up in an effort to streamline the overall plot and solve a nagging world issue I had.
Sylvia is with the Sea Elves now getting an info dump.
Education

Submission + - How the Open Source Movement Is Changing Education

Submitted by
ftblguy
ftblguy writes: "MIT's Open CourseWare program provides a great example of how the open source movement is rapidly changing education. The Online Education Database also lists Project Gutenberg, Wikipedia, Linux, Firefox, and Google as some of the other open source in education success stories. Open source and open access resources have changed how colleges, organizations, instructors, and prospective students use software, operating systems and online documents for educational purposes. And, in most cases, each success story also has served as a springboard to create more open source projects."
Movies

Submission + - Movie Firms Working on Digital Film System

Submitted by aniyo~
aniyo~ writes: Tired of being turned away at the theater box office when a movie's sold out? Unhappy there's no art-house theater in your neighborhood to cater to your hoity-toity theatrical tastes?Those days could be ending, say representatives of Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment and a company called Digital Cinema Implementation Partners.
Google

Vint Cerf on Net Security, Hacking, and Acting 45

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the internet-hams dept.
ancientribe writes "Father of the Internet Vint Cerf talks candidly in an article on Dark Reading about his being a Googler, and the biggest problems with Internet security and what he sees as the most promising solutions. He says that he's only done a little casual hacking, and that the term 'hacker' no longer comes with the honor it once did. Cerf also reveals in this personal look at the Internet icon that his real dream was to be an actor."

Feed News: Game Industry -1 Penny Arcade -0 (penny-arcade.com)

From feed by pennyarcadefeed
Gabe: Well we had ourping pongmatch with Sucker Punch last Friday and I must say things did not go well for us. The Sucker Punch Rockets lived up to their studio's name and left us with a big old purple shiner. Already there is talk here in the office that our glorious victory march through the game industry is now looking more like a trail of tears.
Censorship

Journal Journal: RIAA kills internet radio

Journal by Reavantos
I am A internet radio DJ for DNDRadio.com (ddo.mmoradio.com) and i want to bring to your attention that the RIAA is at it again. this time, they are killing internet radio! "direct qoute from our website" The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced its decision on Internet Radio royalty rates, rejecting all of the arguments made by Webcasters (an MMORadio) and instead adopting the "per play" rate proposal put forth by SoundExchange (a digital music fee collection body created by the RIAA).

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