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Comment Re:Another reason... (Score 1) 1030

by Slorv (#41134385) Attached to: Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking

>The most annoying thing about these latest versions of Windows is that there appears to be this new class of user with control that supersedes than the owner of the hardware.

I couldn't agree more. Beeing a mac guy since 6.05 I'm reluctantly realizing that while I haven't yet seen any evidence of a super root in OS-X 10.7 and up unless we actively turn certains functions off we're loosing control over our HW and SW there aswell. And don't come talking about protecting the end-user.

Linux in the other hand ...

Comment Employer != owner (Score 2) 467

by Slorv (#39017273) Attached to: Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy?

>The problem is: my employer has an IP policy that states that anything I do while under their employ is theirs, even when I'm off the clock

Maybe I misunderstand but is that claim even legal?
For them to claim ownership of products of all your thoughts while you are working a normal dayjob for them?
What if you were to write a song in an evening, would they own that to?

Beeing an emplyee is beeing a person who sells work during, mostly anyway, eight hours a day to an employeer. Your employer is not your owner.
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - Playstation 3 glitch fixed; due to erroneous leap (itworld.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A quick update on the widespread Playstation 3 glitch. As of tonight (Monday, March 1st) the problem has resolved itself. I powered up the PS3 to find the clock was set to April 29th, 2020, but once I went into the system menu and and set the system to set the date and time via the internet I got an accurate date. That seems to be the test of whether your PS3 is 'fixed' or not; Sony says you should be all set.
PC Games (Games)

EA Shutting Down Video Game Servers Prematurely 341

Posted by Soulskill from the sixty-dollar-yearly-fee dept.
Spacezilla writes "EA is dropping the bomb on a number of their video game servers, shutting down the online fun for many of their Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 games. Not only is the inclusion of PS3 and Xbox 360 titles odd, the date the games were released is even more surprising. Yes, Madden 07 and 08 are included in the shutdown... but Madden 09 on all consoles as well?"
Wireless (Apple)

Macs With 3G — More Connectivity, More Problems 73

Posted by Soulskill from the multi-mobilization dept.
narramissic writes "In a recent blog post, Josh Fruhlinger muses on the possibility of 3G radio receivers turning up in future Mac notebooks (as foretold by Apple job postings and the mention of WWAN hardware in Snow Leopard beta releases). 'At first glance,' says Fruhlinger, 'this seems like a reasonably awesome idea.' But will the target market be willing to take on the additional telecom charge? 'And, more to the point,' he says, 'most of us have gotten accustomed to the idea of one Internet connection per household, shared with a wireless router. The latter idea could be covered by a router that connects to the Internet over a 3G connection — something like the MiFi hotspot. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple had such a thing in the pipeline, an Airport station (Airport Mobility?) that didn't need to be plugged into the wall. That would explain the search for 3G experts, anyway.'"
Operating Systems

Europe Funds Secure Operating System Research 376

Posted by kdawson from the software-heal-thyself dept.
narramissic writes "A Dutch university has received a $3.3 million grant from the European Research Council to fund 5 more years of work on a Unix-type operating system, called Minix, that aims to be more reliable and secure than either Linux or Windows. The latest grant will enable the three researchers and two programmers on the project to further their research into a making Minix capable of fixing itself when a bug is detected, said Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a computer science professor at Vrije Universiteit. 'It irritates me to no end when software doesn't work,' Tanenbaum said. 'Having to reboot your computer is just a pain. The question is, can you make a system that actually works very well?'"

Comment Re:Ok Joomla fans, sell me (Score 1) 78

by Slorv (#26961939) Attached to: Joomla! Web Security

We have some 50+ Joomla sites set up for all kind of groups from student projects and research documentation to plain courses in web design for testing.

The framework works great for our needs. I can't think of anything we haven't been able to do, neither function wise or design wise. But yeah the very square section/categories thing is the first we skip.

The only immidiate negative thing I can think of is the stuborn use of tables even in the smallest of modules. That makes details in your design pretty locked down. Also because of this many Joomla sites will look the same.

We use mod_placehere by Eike Pierstorff extensively since with it we can have multiple content areas active thru the sites. Very useful.

If you know only the smallest of PHP and css making your own template is very easy.

I've been thru most other open CMSes aswell, drupla, Typo3, all of those. But we tend to return to Joomla as soon we just want the pages up.

Sadly many oldstyle one-html-file-per-page people seems to have a hard time getting the concept of CMSes, though that has nothing to do with Joomla per se.

There are a number of free (as in beer) and commercial addons. The commercial ones are not always the best. So if you have special needs browsing around usually pays off.

Good luck!

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