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Lenovo is clearing interested in distributing Linux. Which distro? You vote.

http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=98
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Lenovo_Interested_in_Linux_Opens_Poll_for_Di…

i'm tired of losing time and money hacking my 100% standard code to work in a half-assed browser. digg this if you want to help get a massive shift away from IE compliance and if you won't tolerate their lack of standards anymore, IE 5, 6 AND 7 are to blame.
http://productofdivorce.com/noie/
http://digg.com/programming/Digg_this_if_you_re_tired_of_IE_costing_you…

Linux is not a free version of Windows. The two systems differ not only visually, in the graphical user interface the user sees, but also functionally, as is frequently discussed, and legally to boot, which is constantly emphasized by the Free software community. The differences between them are so fundamental that drawing a comparison between them is nearly impossible. There are so many moot points that they could make up a very long list.
http://polishlinux.org/linux/windows-vs-linux-architecture-part-i/
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Windows_vs_Linux_Architecture_part_I

"It turns out there's an interesting correlation between Transparency International's 'corruption perceptions index' and voting behavior in ISO's OOXML decision. Countries with a lower score (more corruption) on the 2006 CPI were more likely to vote in favor of OOXML, and those with a higher score were less likely. According to the analysis, 'This statistics supports with a P value of 0.07328 the hypothesis that the corrupted countries were more likely to vote for approval (one-tailed Fisher's Exact test). In other words, simplified a bit: the likelihood that there was no positive correlation between the corruption level and probability of an approval vote, that is, this is just a random effect, is about 7%.' Of course, correlation doesn't prove causality."

http://www.askreamaor.com/microsoft-and-windows/reasons-why-microsoft-i…

http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/08/30/shift_a_eulogy_1.html

http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/08/30/shift_a_eulogy_1.html

The largest company involved in the market for embedded Linux operating systems, tools, and professional services has acquired a Romanian device software services provider for $1.4 million. Wind River said Comsys employs 52, and has domain expertise telecom, mobile, and aerospace and defense.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3276690875.html

o get OOXML standardized by ISO. First off, New Zealand has voted "no" on the question. In Sweden, after the uproar following the "yes" vote there, a Microsoft representative has admitted buying Swedish OOXML votes (link in Swedish — follow the Read More... link below for some translated quotes). Computerworld has also picked up the Sweden story. Finally, from Hungary, reader ens0niq writes that the Minister of Economy and Transport has sent a letter to the General Director of the Hungarian Standards Institution requiring that the June 25 "yes" vote be re-done because of irregularities. Our correspondent notes, however, that many Microsoft partners have joined the voting committee in the meanwhile, so the result could be a replay of Sweden's experience.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/30/1323216&from=rss

The day is fast approaching when the comment and voting period for ISO/IEC DIS 29500, the draft ISO specification based upon Microsoft's Office Open XML formats, will either be approved or not. As Sept. 2 comes closer, Microsoft appears to be stuffing the ballot boxes of some countries' ISO organizations while open-source and standard organizations are firing back with furious words.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2810967760.html

I started to take it upon myself to speed up the boot process of my secondary workstation, but I decided I needed a way to quantitatively measure the boot process. I wanted to document my results in a way that could be reproduced, and I wanted to be very methodical in the process.
http://lightningcrash.blogspot.com/2007/08/making-ubuntu-boot-in-19-sec…

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1364

A prominent technology research firm forecasts 75% compound annual growth rate for Linux in smartphones through 2012, making it the fastest-growing OS in the sector. By 2012, Linux is expected to power nearly a third of all smartphones, and have shipped in nearly a third of a billion phones.
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_the_Fastest_Growing_Smartphone_OS
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9422438794.html

Around 560,000 students in 33 German Universities will soon be running SuSe Linux Enterprise Desktop Platform!
http://digg.com/linux_unix/33_German_Universities_Migrate_to_Suse_Linux
http://www.linuxwins.com/
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/08/28/226420/german-univers…

A major European vendor of city-wide traffic management systems is porting its flagship traffic light controller to Linux and real-time Java. Signalbau Huber says its Actros controller will better meet safety-critical requirements after moving to Sysgo ELinOS/PikeOS 4.1 with Aonix's PERC real-time Java runtime.
Currently, Signalbau Huber's Actros controller is based on Debian GNU/Linux 3.2.
[...]
Lock describes Signalbau Huber as one of Germany's two largest traffic managment system vendors. He said the company's systems are used in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Poland, Warsaw, and Benelux, among other European locations.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2015665496.html

Crop circles are a fascinating subject. Whether you believe they're created by artists in the middle of the night, visiting extraterrestrials, both, or neither, there's no doubting that crop formations are frequently beautiful and remarkably diverse.

If you look at a lot of crop circle formations, you'll see many of the same underlying geometric ideas appearing over and over.Because of this regularity, Zef Damen has ben able to produce detailed, step-by-step geometric reconstructions of many formations.
[...]
creating a symbolic shorthand notation that could capture the geometric essence of crop formations. This led to the language described here, which I call Crop.
http://glassner.com/andrew/cg/research/crop/crop.htm

pl:

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1342

sexy USB storage-ot


http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/swarovski_usb.php

"Singapore Airlines will be rolling out the A380 superjumbo on October 26th, and a surprise awaits in the seat of every passenger: their personal Linux PC, running Red Hat. In addition to running the in-flight entertainment, passengers can also use a full copy of StarOffice, and there's a USB slot for importing/exporting documents or plugging in your own keyboard/mouse. Screen size is 10.6" (1280x768) in economy, 15.4" in business and a whopping 23" in first class (along with free noise-canceling headphones). The system is already available on current B777-300ER planes and will also be outfitted on the upcoming B787 Dreamliners."
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/26/1735203&from=rss

http://www.wickedmeanposters.com/samples/firefox

http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9766449-16.html

szamitogeppel feliratozott toast-ot:

http://computerworld.name/strangest-printer-in-the-world/

"Stephane Rodriguez, a reengineering specialist who became popular for his article on MS Office 2007 binary data, now comprehensively debunks Microsoft's new Open XML format. With small case studies he demonstrates the impossible challenges third-party developers will face. His conclusion: it is 'defective by design.' Next week members of the International Standard Organization are likely to approve the format as a second official ISO standard for office documents, even though most nations have submitted comments. Rodriguez claims he is 'not affiliated to any pro-MS or anti-MS party/org[anization]/ass[ociation].'"
[+] microsoft, ooxml, defectivebydesign, office, standards
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/25/2219202&from=rss

http://mashable.com/2007/08/26/firefox-themes/

We might think about open-sourcing some of the very lowest layers (of the framework) so that the APIs (application programming interfaces) are available, and people could build on the kernel.

https://jazz.net/pub/index.jsp
http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9765667-16.html

igen, azok ott CPU-k ;)

http://matttovey.blogspot.com/2007/08/in-march-2007-project-to-upgrade-…
http://digg.com/hardware/CPU_Desk_Made_From_Several_Hundred_Old_CPUs_Pi…