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http://www.ams-ix.net/technical/stats/

Microsoft has finally responded to the resolutions concerning OOXML (or 662 of them at any rate). The only problem? The JTC1 NBs who are deciding OOXML's fate have to download 662 individual PDFs from a slow, password-protected server; and many have had trouble getting the password. Don't misunderstand the ECMA's intent, though: there would have been 662 OOXML files if they had wanted to make it hard for people to read and criticize the responses. Thanks to the Internet, other interested parties have put all 662 resolutions online in a searchable, taggable format and are requesting that everyone interested help examine them. That means you, Slashdot.
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/04/0310208&from=rss

poenok:

Girls and Windows

* Both have a great UI.
* Both consume large resources and do less work.
* Both crash unexpectedly.
* Both are not easily portable on different architectures (environment).
* Both can't work on low resource architectures (environment).
* Both are costly to maintain.
* Both give mostly unexpected outputs.
* Both their working often contradicts with their documentation.
* Both are easily prone to viruses (rumors and doubts) and they (viruses) do spread very fast in windows based networks.
* In spite of all above disadvantages, both are liked.

Boys and Linux

* Both have an average UI.
* Both are robust.
* Both are highly secure.
* Both can be easily modified to support new concepts/features.
* Both are efficient.
* Both are easily portable to any architecture (environment) no matter how low the resources are.
* You can easily guess the output for your input (in Linux just open its code, for boys they are mostly transparent by nature).
* Both provide large support for development (work environment).
* Both are poorly documented.

http://www.marcofolio.net/other/girls_windows_boys_linux.html

A new report on P2P traffic finds significant differences in the kind of content downloaded in Europe and the Middle East. It also finds that nighttime P2P use can take up 95 percent of all Internet bandwidth, and that 20 percent of that traffic is already encrypted. Welcome to the new arms race.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84508004@N00/2071553948/

Following on from the success of the Google Summer of Code program, Google is pleased to announce this new effort to get young people involved in open source development. We've teamed up with the open source projects listed here to give student contestants the opportunity to learn more about and contribute to all aspects of open source software development, from writing code and documentation to preparing training materials and conducting user experience research.

If you're a student age 13 or older who has not yet begun university studies, we'd love to see you help out these projects. In return, you'll learn more about all aspects of developing software - not just programming - and you'll be eligible to win cash prizes and the all important t-shirt! You will, of course, need your parent or guardian's permission to participate where applicable.
http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/

http://my.mmoabc.com/article/Michael/2193/Geek-Culture.html?login=no

ha valaki nem jonne ra magatol
md5 tores:

http://www.hackaday.com/2007/11/26/google-as-a-password-cracker/

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/26/1341239&from=rss
a lenyeg a hozzaszolasok:

I guess Ballmer's not satisfied anymore with throwing chairs at people. He's decided to add Siberian exile to the mix.
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In Soviet Russia...
... data center cools you.
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This is where Google defectors will go...
"So Bob, we hear you're thinking about taking a job with Google. That's great. But, we'd like to make you an offer to stay. Just put this blindfold on, and we'll take you on a short plane ride to your new office. We believe you'll end up staying the rest of your life."
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Is that where Microsoft is sending employees who run Linux at home now?
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Honestly
I know you guys are hopeful but I really doubt Microsoft will open Windows.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=2042029…
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Torvalds_On_Where_Linux_Is_Headed_In_2008
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/26/0650224&from=rss
pl:
InformationWeek: In your opinion, where does Linux shine versus Windows? Reliability? Virtualization?

Torvalds: I think the real strength of Linux is not in any particular area, but in the flexibility. For example, you mention virtualization, and in some ways that's a really excellent example, because it's not only an example of something where Linux is a fairly strong player, but more tellingly, it's an example where there are actually many different approaches, and there is no one-size-fits-all "One True Virtualization" model.

http://imbadev.com/20-wallpapers-for-linux-lovers/

The MPAA created the "University Toolkit", a modified version of Xubuntu Linux for universities. However, they made no effort to rebrand it and the site http://universitytoolkit.org/ does not provide any link to download the sources. Is the MPAA violating copyright and Canonical's trademark http://www.canonical.com/legal ?
http://digg.com/linux_unix/MPAA_violating_copyright_and_trademarks_in_X…
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/11/mpaa_university_tool…
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Yes you read right. it’s possible to install Linux on Gmail. Richard Jones wrote some python that allows you to mount Linux within Gmail. You can use all kinds of Unix commands to communicate with Gmail like ls, rm, grep, cp, etc. it’s an ongoing project in development but it’s very cool and allows you basically a 2gb virtual drive of sorts. You’ll need to have libgmail and FUSE at hand to make it work properly. libgmail communicates with Gmail while FUSE provides the filesystem. Give it a shot, it looks like it’s progressing very nicely.
http://linux.wordpress.com/2007/11/24/cool-run-linux-on-gmail-kinda/

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/22/181242

http://digg.com/tech_news/Meditation_The_Geeky_Way_Pic

OS Family Count Share %
Linux  	  426  	85.20 %
Mixed 	   34 	 6.80 %
Unix 	   30 	 6.00 %
Windows     6 	 1.20 % 
BSD Based   2 	 0.40 % 
Mac OS 	    2 	 0.40 %
Totals 	  500  100%

http://www.top500.org/stats/list/30/osfam

http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/11/12/asus_ecobook_re.html

http://www.tuxbrothers.net/wallpapers/index.html

http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/index.html

What would it take to build a better mobile phone?

A commitment to openness, a shared vision for the future, and concrete plans to make the vision a reality.

Welcome to the Open Handset Alliance™, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies who have come together to accelerate innovation in mobile and offer consumers a richer, less expensive, and better mobile experience. Together we have developed Android™, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.

We are committed to commercially deploy handsets and services using the Android Platform in the second half of 2008. An early look at the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) will be available on November 12th.

We reported Thursday on the gPC going on sale at Wal-Mart, a $199 bare minimum PC that runs a Linux package by the name of gOS. Unlike some initial reports suggested, this isn’t the long fabled Google Operating System, but the folks behind it most definitely had Google on their mind.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/04/gos-where-computers-are-headed/

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/30/apple-2-million-copies-of-leopard-so…

If you're a proprietary software vendor glutting yourself on the success of decades past, yes. By all means keep doing what you're doing. But if you're looking for rapid growth opportunities (i.e., 30% CAGR), open source is the way to go, to the tune of $22 billion, according to Gartner (and IDC)

Interestingly, this number jumps to $41 billion if you add in the $19 billion that enterprises will invest in internal open-source development instead of wasting it on proprietary software licenses, according to Morgan Stanley:

http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9806036-16.html

Microsoft is not directly mentioning Vista demand while they brag about how much money they made last quarter, because sales fell. "[Microsoft] shipped approximately 28 million copies of Vista in the latest quarter ended September, or 9.3 million copies per month. Though the Windows developer pointed to 27 percent growth in business licenses and noted that many home users were buying the more lucrative Vista Home Premium or Ultimate editions, the rate represents a decline from the 10 million per month reported early in summer."
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/28/1646220&from=rss

Linus Torvalds once found a segmentation fault in the universe.

Linus Torvalds can run kill -9 and kill Chuck Norris.

Linus Torvalds doesn't die, he simply returns zero.

Linus Torvalds first written program had artificial intelligence.

Linus can divide by zero.

Linus Torvalds runs Linux on his wristwatch and toster.

Linus Torvalds doesn't receive error messages.

There is no theory of probability, just a list of events that Linus Torvalds allows to occur.

Linus Torvalds does not sleep. He hacks.

Linus surfs the web using nothing but netcat.

Linus Torvalds can play 3D games in his head by interpreting the source code in real-time.