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http://thelinuxway.blogspot.com/2007/10/ten-absolutely-stupid-quotes-by…
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ten_Absolutely_Stupid_Quotes_By_Steve_Ballmer

NEC has announced the NEC SX-9 claiming it to be the fastest vector computer, with single core speeds of up to 102.4 GFLOPS and up to 1.6TFLOPS on a single node incorporating multiple CPUs. The machines can be used in complex large-scale computation, such as climates, aeronautics and space, environmental simulations, fluid dynamics, through the processing of array-handling with a single vector instruction. Yes, it runs a UNIX System V-compatible OS."
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/25/236200&from=rss

hozzaszolasokbol:
Re:GFLOPS? TFLOPS? (Score:5, Funny)
What's with these new fangled measurements.
I'd like to know what it is in Libraries of Congress per Jiffy

As reported by Tectonic, South Africa's new Mininimum Interoperability Standards (pdf) for Information Systems in government (MIOS) explain the new rules for which data formats will be used by the government; according to that document, all people working for the South African government must be able to read OpenDocument Format documents by March, and the government aims to use one of its three approved document formats (UTF-8 or ASCII plain text, CSV, or ODF) for all its published documents by the end of 2008. A definition of 'open standard' is also included that appears to rule out OOXML at present (requiring 'multiple implementations', among other things that may also rule it out)."
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/25/1638209&from=rss

1. Cost
2. Resources
3. Performance
4. No bloatware
5. Security
6. Dual booting
7. Installation
8. Reinstalling the OS
9. Keeping track of software
10. Updating software
11. More security
12. No need to defrag disks
13. A wealth of built-in utilities

a lista vegigolvasaas nem mentesit az eredeti cikk elolvasasatol :)

http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5836989728.html

She asked me a simple question that I didn't have the answer to, "If Linux is free, and has all these wonderful features and benefits, then why can't Microsoft [who get's paid] build an operating system with good features, stability, and is usable?"
http://www.patchshorts.com/node/6
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_Jeolousy_My_Wife_Switched_to_Ubuntu

The BBC must deliver an online TV catch-up service that lets users of all computers download programmes, the corporation's regulators have said.

It comes after the BBC said a download service for Mac and Linux users was not 100% definite and would depend on cost.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7047381.stm

print "Prime" if (1 x shift) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/

http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/athens-pm/2003-January/000033.html

http://www.blimptv.net/mostpopularV1.html

"Systems and methods for transacting business over a global communications network such as the Internet," the patent describes a method "for conducting business transactions over the Internet, allowing buyers to reduce the price of the selected product/service based on the buyer's performance during a collateral activity."

Yes, this is a business process patent.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/03/performance_pricing_sues_google…
http://www.google.com/patents?id=3X8VAAAAEBAJ&dq=6978253

http://warpedvisions.org/2006/12/30/ten-things-linux-distros-get-right-…
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ten_things_Linux_distros_get_right_that_Micr…

CIO Magazine reports something that many of us take for granted, but which little data has previously been available to support:

The open-source development process is much, much faster at fixing bugs than the proprietary-software development process. Days faster, in fact.
CIO's Esther Schindler reports:

According to a survey commmissioned by BMC and conducted by Forrester analyst Carey Schwaber, the average time to resolve an application problem is 6.9 days for enterprise developers and 6.7 days for software vendors. Ten percent of those problems take 10 days to solve, says the report. Developers spend just over an hour documenting the problem; and, if given that hour back, they'd use it to create enhancements to the application they are working on....

http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Firefox_v_s_Opera_v_s_Internet_Explorer_PIC

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/09/newbie-help-map.html

Open source software is booming: here we round up over 480 open source applications for you to use or build upon.

Feel free to add more apps in the comments.
http://mashable.com/2007/09/23/open-source/

"You can try to avoid open source, but it's probably easier to get out of the IT business altogether. By 2011, at least 80% of commercial software will contain significant amounts of open source code..." After this lead-in, in which open source seems to be regarded as some kind of communicable disease, the rest of the article outlines a perfectly rational plan for developing an open source strategy.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/20/1648209&from=rss

http://frankmash.blogspot.com/2006/03/linux-commands-funny-linux-comman…
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Funny_but_real_linux_commands_and_results

% cat "food in cans"
cat: can't open food in cans

% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.

% "How would you rate Quayle's incompetence?
Unmatched ".

% Unmatched ".
Unmatched ".

% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].

% ^How did the sex change operation go?^
Modifier failed.

% If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.

% make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.

% sleep with me
bad character

Make sure you have ‘beep’ installed.

Now, open up a terminal, and paste this in:
while true; do sleep $(($RANDOM/1000)) && beep -f 2000 -l $(($RANDOM/100)) ; done

Lock your terminal and go to lunch. When you get back from lunch, just CTRL+C to stop the annoyance.

Until next time!

-LightningCrash

(No I’m not a BOFH….most of the time.)
http://icanhaslinux.com/2007/09/17/annoy-your-coworkers-linux-style/

http://www.top10virals.com/viralvideos/installing-windows-vista.html

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_May_The_Source_Be_With_You_PIC
http://digg.com/linux_unix/PIC_Un_XXX

bednarz writes "IBM has added a twist to its new commitment to help OpenOffice.org battle Microsoft Office by donating code that was originally derived in part from a Microsoft-developed technology. IBM's iAccessible2, code-named Project Missouri, is a specification for technology used to help the visually impaired interact with Open Document Format (ODF)-compliant applications and was developed in part using Microsoft Active Accessibility (MAA). 'When the specification was donated to the Linux Foundation, Oracle, Sun, and SAP committed to help with future development. Mozilla is committed to incorporating it into its Firefox browser, and vendors GW Micro and Freedom Scientific will also use it in their own screen reader products. In addition, Project Missouri has won accolades from the American Association of People with Disabilities, the American Foundation for the Blind, and the National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science.'"
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/155223&from=rss

hairyfeet writes "Bruce Byfield of Linux.com has just posted his third Office shootout between Microsoft Office and Open Office. This is the first version comparing the new Microsoft Word 2007 with Writer from the latest version of Open Office. The verdict: while Microsoft Office beats Open Office in a few categories, overall Open Office wins — but by not as large a margin as in the past."
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/2049204&from=rss

Got to see this to believe it. Yes, it's authentic!

http://digg.com/linux_unix/OOXML_nice_little_standard_PIC


http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2007/05/19/T20_32_07/

With a new licensing model, software maker QNX tries a balancing act between the open source and commercial world. The company says it does not intend to change its business model - it just reacts to a changing reality.

The company opens the access to its Neutrino RTOS and establishes a new hybrid licensing model. "Basically, as long as someone uses our software for training and education purposes, or to try things out, he can get it for free. Even hobbyists can use it freely. For commercial use however, users still have to pay license fees", explained QNX Vice President Marketing, Dave Curley.
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201805505

The classic UNIX magic poster by Overacre was distributed at past USENIX conferences and featured a white bearded wizard with UNIX related things around him..