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Comment Yay! Fixing 100 Paper Cuts! (Score 4, Informative) 320

by ziggamon2.0 on Monday July 13, 2009 @05:20AM (#28673775) Attached to: Shuttleworth's Take On GNOME 3.0, Coordination with Debian

So, it finally happened! A major effort by a distro to fix one hundred really small but irritating bugs. Also known as polish. This is what Ubuntu needs, and to be fair has been quite good at. Just fixing more and more of the tiny annoyances is what creates a well-rounded desktop. On the other hand, they are introducing Gnome Shell, which while probably cool, will certainly introduce a couple of hundred new paper cuts!

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flaunchpad.net%2Fhundredpapercuts

Comment Re:Good luck with that... (Score 1) 107

by ziggamon2.0 on Sunday June 28, 2009 @01:47PM (#28505365) Attached to: The Video Bay, Now In Beta

Well, me personally - wouldn't that be the natural development of web browsers in general? Integrated file-sharing for objects larger than 100 MB, including streaming. Now that would be an interesting step in the piracy debate!

Comment Re:So this implies... (Score 5, Funny) 390

by ziggamon2.0 on Sunday June 28, 2009 @01:26PM (#28505171) Attached to: Judge Thinks Linking To Copyrighted Material Should Be Illegal

And since half the articles are dupes, Slashdot is infringing on itself and must self-destruct!

Comment Don't RTFA! You could charged as an accomplice. (Score 1) 390

by ziggamon2.0 on Sunday June 28, 2009 @01:22PM (#28505123) Attached to: Judge Thinks Linking To Copyrighted Material Should Be Illegal

By clicking the link you create incentives for other stealing pirate swine to put up more links. And then all is lost!

Microsoft to Buy 5% of Facebook Valuing at $10bn 216

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @11:19AM from the wish-i-had-a-billion-dollars dept.

l-ascorbic writes "The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is poised to buy 5% of Facebook for $300 million to $500 million, valuing the company at up to $10 billion. Microsoft already handles advertising for the site."

Comment Re:EULAs are not meant to be read (Score 1) 666

by ziggamon2.0 on Friday June 08, 2007 @05:14AM (#19435061) Attached to: Man Sues Gateway Because He Can't Read EULA

We need a new moderation: +1, recursive...

Linux Now 25% of Dell's Server Business 88

Posted by Zonk on Friday June 09, 2006 @10:28AM from the prodigious-penguins dept.

Sam Haine '95 writes to mention a ZDNet article discussing Linux's place in the server market, at least for Dell Computers. Linux now makes up over 25% of the company's server business, and has become such a standard that they only need to confer with Red Hat for some 10% of service calls. From the article: "Linux and open source have been a blessing for Dell as it has struggled to make an impression, other than as a desktop and laptop supplier, in enterprise computing, According to Martin Hingley, vice-president of the European Systems Group at analysts IDC, part of the problem for Dell in the enterprise is that 'people don't like partnering with Dell.'"

IT Meets the World Cup 204

Posted by Zonk on Friday June 09, 2006 @09:54AM from the tech-lends-a-foot dept.

daria42 writes "Looks as if there are some mad soccer fans at ZDNet ... they have compiled a guide to some of the IT systems behind the soccer World Cup. 'What does it take to design, build and operate an advanced, fault-tolerant IP network while the whole world watches?' one of the articles asks. Another looks at how broadcasters have beefed up their infrastructure as they prepare for an influx of fans desperate for information, while another looks at one of the upcoming matches: FIFA vs. Hackers."

X.Org Releases First Modular Source Roll-Up 176

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 22, 2006 @08:01PM from the not-to-be-confused-with-the-fruit-variety dept.

NewsForge is reporting that X.Org has released their first modular roll-up release. From the article: "All X11R7.0 derivative ("modularized") releases divide the source code into logically distinct modules, separately developed, built, and maintained by the community of X.Org developers. This concentrates and accelerates development time, supporting continuous modification, testing, and publication of each module.The new modular format offers focused development, and rapid and independent updates and distribution of tested modular components as they are ready, freed from the biennial maintenance release timetable."

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