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Submission + - Is Internet Explorer 6/7 support actually required (frozenrails.eu) 3

Submitted by k33l0r on Tuesday February 09, 2010 @01:49PM

k33l0r writes: Following Google's announcement ending support for Internet Explorer 6, has me wondering whether we (web developers) really need to continue providing support for IE6 and 7?

Especially when creating web sites intended for technical audiences, wouldn't it be best to end support for obsoleted browsers? Would this not provide additional incentives to upgrade?

Recently I (and my colleagues) had to decide whether it was worth our time to try and support anything before IE8, and in the end we decided to redirect any IE6/7 user-agent to a separately set up page explaining that the site is not accessible with Internet Explorer 6 or 7. For us this was easy once we saw from our analytics that under 5% of visitors to the site were using IE at all.

Have you had to make choices like this and, if so, what was your reasoning behind the decision?

Comment Re:Guess It Is Back To Lighttpd + FastCGI (Score 1) 616

by whitmer on Thursday January 03, 2008 @05:32AM (#21892600) Attached to: Rails Bigwig Rails on Rails Community

I'm not making any argument against Mongrel technically. I was trying to soft play it, but here's the hard version: Do you really want a piece of code in your software stack from a guy that is a loose cannon like that?

No worries, Zed does not maintain Mongrel anymore. See Mongrel's attributions page (http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/attributions.html) for current team. Therefore, you don't have to be worried about loose cannons developing your favorite HTTP library and server. (Mongrel is actually a fantastic piece of software written)

Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License 1972

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 03, 2007 @11:56AM from the living-your-life-with-principles dept.

NMerriam writes "Michael Righi was arrested in Ohio over the weekend after refusing to show his receipt when leaving Circuit City. When the manger and 'loss prevention' employee physically prevented the vehicle he was a passenger in from leaving the parking lot, he called the police, who arrived, searched his bag and found he hadn't stolen anything. The officer then asked for Michael's driver's license, which he declined to provide since he wasn't operating a motor vehicle. The officer then arrested him, and upon finding out Michael was legally right about not having to provide a license, went ahead and charged him with 'obstructing official business' anyways."

25th Anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 310

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 23, 2007 @07:43AM from the never-even-seen-one dept.

Alioth writes "Twenty five years ago today, Sinclair Research launched Britain's most popular home computer of the 1980s — the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Costing about one third of the price of its rivals such as the Commodore 64 while having a faster CPU and a better BASIC interpreter, the machine sold well in many guises throughout the 1980s and had more than a staggering 9,000 software titles. The machine may well have done well in the US too, had Timex — the company building the machine under license in the US — not already been in financial trouble and about to fold. The machine was also extremely successful in Russia, although not for Sinclair Research — because the Russians made dozens of different clones of the machine, and did so right into the mid 1990s. The machine still has a healthy retro scene, including the development of new commercial software by Cronosoft, and new hardware such as the DivIDE, which allows a standard PC hard disc or compact flash card to be connected to the machine."

Submission + - IBM reveals new virtual Linux environment

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jenwren1010

on Monday April 23, 2007 @07:27AM

jenwren1010 writes: "http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1428.html IBM has just announced the availability of an open beta version of its virtual Linux environment to enable x86 Linux applications to run without modification on POWER processor-based IBM System p servers. Designed to reduce power, cooling and space by consolidating x86 Linux workloads on System p servers, it will eventually be released as the roles off the tongue 'IBM System p Application Virtual Environment (System p AVE).'"

U.S. Cities Don't Make the Intelligence Cut 350

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @10:12PM from the the-most-common-elements-in-the-universe-are-hydrogen-and-stupidity dept.

coondoggie writes "For the second year running, no U.S. city has made the list of the world's top Intelligent Communities of 2007, as selected by global think tank Intelligent Community Forum. The ICF selects the Intelligent Community list based on how advanced the communities are in deploying broadband, building a knowledge-based workforce, combining government and private-sector "digital inclusion," fostering innovation and marketing economic development."

E-Passport Cloned In Five Minutes 259

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 17, 2006 @08:50PM from the if-more-proof-were-needed dept.

Last month a panel of EU experts warned that the e-Passport's security is "poorly conceived", and in fact a week later a British newspaper demonstrated a crack. Now another researcher has shown how to clone a European e-Passport in under 5 minutes. A UK Home Office spokesman dismissed it all, saying "It is hard to see why anyone would want to access the information on the chip."

Novell Dumps the Hula Project 440

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 28, 2006 @04:51PM from the wonder-why? dept.

asv108 writes, "On the Hula general mailing list today, it was announced that Novell is no longer providing full-time developers to Hula. While the project will continue, it appears that Novell is not committed to developing a viable open-source alternative to MS Exchange. The Hula project was announced in February 2005 with much fanfare."

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