Comment Clarification (Score 1) 643
TOY-level (iPad / Android) tablets are a fad.
LAPTOP-REPLACEMENT-level ($1200 / 4+GB ram / 2.5+ghz proc) tablets that run full OSs (Windows / OS X / Linux / etc) are the future.
Comment You don't have to develop something to own IP (Score 1) 194
Owning the IP to something has nothing to do with if you actively developed it or not. There are companies that do nothing but buy/sell/manage IP without actually developing anything.
Comment A link would have been nice (Score 4, Informative) 164
Here's the direct link to go read about it if you don't want to go through the networkworld blogspam article: http://www.open-xchange.com/
The "Server edition" is $1300, and they make you open a blind link to a PDF to figure that out.
Here's a handy feature matrix but noticeably absent is the free "community edition": http://oxpedia.org/index.php?title=OX_Product_Matrix
Also, the activesync thing (oxtender) is completely non-free and only available in the licensed versions.
Comment Memory Utilization on Windows (Score 0, Redundant) 366
Right now I have MORE tabs open on firefox than I do on Chome. Firefox is using ~220MB private bytes, Chrome is using
This is OK on my development machine here, because I have 8GB, but I could see where someone with only 1-2GB might not like Chrome. It would constantly cause paging.
BioWare On Building a Community For Dragon Age 34
Ray Muzyka, co-founder of BioWare, sat down with Gamasutra to discuss upcoming RPG Dragon Age: Origins, as well as some of the features they're working on for release alongside the game. In particular, they are interested in building a framework for players to show off their characters and share stories about the gameplay they encounter.
"We're creating a community site that's going to enable the fans to get revved up about what each other is doing. They're showing their choices and consequences to friends. Even though it's single-player, you can still reveal those choices to each other and have fun doing it. It enables some of that stuff that occurs anecdotally amongst friends at the water cooler: 'Hey, did you play this yet? Did you go this way?' 'No, I didn't run into that. I did it this way.' 'Really? I didn't run into that at all!' You can meet people who are across the world and enable them to see those kinds of things, too, which I think will lead to a lot of fun discussion and collaboration in the community."
Comment The shark has been jumped (Score 1) 453
Time to move on to something better (and less biased) than Wikipedia. When someone can arbitrarily allow or block my edit, it's not really "the encyclopedia that everyone can edit".
Comment Re:Does anyone actually use Second Life? (Score 1) 198
You'd be surprised.
Comment Re:Not too bad..... (Score 1) 577
It actually looks quite normal in the latest Opera Weekly Build.
Get it at http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/
Get it at http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/
Classic Star Wars Trilogy Finally on DVD 673
chinton writes "From starwars.com: 'In response to overwhelming demand, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release attractively priced individual two-disc releases of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Each release includes the 2004 digitally remastered version of the movie, as well as the original theatrical edition of the film. That means you'll be able to enjoy Star Wars as it first appeared in 1977, Empire in 1980, and Jedi in 1983.'"
Journal Journal: Sveasoft illegally uses OpenWRT 2
Ok I admit it, I have been lazy recently.
Not much had happened in the WRT scene in a while.
OpenWRT now has a great Web-Interface, DD-WRT got better on a daily basis while Sveasofts lost all its developers except James and the quality of their firmware releases declined even more.
Journal Journal: Freeman 1.04 released 1
The new version of Freeman (1.04) is now available for download!
Last time Sveasoft apparently had unintentionally released an unprotected binary on which Freeman 1.02 was based. This time Sveasoft didn't make the same mistake, the MAC protection had to be hacked and removed.
Kudos to the people responsible for that!
Journal Journal: Talisman hacked by unknown group - on mirrors now 3
It was bound to happen. After pissing of the entire open source community with their scam, it was only a matter of time until Sveasoft's latest baby - Talisman - would be hacked and made public.
Journal Journal: Alchemy 1.0 released to the public 5
Sorry for not updating this journal in a while. On April 21st, Sveasoft decided to drop work on Alchemy and release it to the public as it is. It is called final and it should be somewhat stable.
Also, after not releasing any source code to the subscribers for 5 months, they finally made the Alchemy sources available.
Both files will appear on the mirrors shortly.
Journal Journal: Tag-free Sveasoft Alchemy pre7a 11
Hello everybody,
thanks to two fellow suppliers I had the chance to make a tag-free version of Alchemy pre7a. You may notice the name change, apparently Sveasoft decided that having seven release candidates durin a feature freeze is a little embarassing.
This version, as always, has been tested before release. Please read the included text files for further information, post questions or comments in this forum thread
Journal Journal: Sveasoft sending DMCA notice to Google, Inc 8
Looks like James is doing everything he can to twist the truth. Check out this DMCA copyright violation notice he sent to Google, Inc.
I know it is dated October 2004 but I didn't hear/read about it until today. What's next?
I know it is dated October 2004 but I didn't hear/read about it until today. What's next?
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