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Quantum Computer To Launch Next Week

( anr | 2007. 02. 08., cs – 17:11 )

D-Wave Systems of British Columbia is all set to demonstrate a 16-qubit quantum computer. Simple devices have been built in the lab before, and this is still a prototype, but it is a commercial project that aims to get quantum devices into computer rooms, solving tricky problems such as financial optimization.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/08/1355255&from=rss

One Laptop Per Child Security Spec Released

( anr | 2007. 02. 08., cs – 01:18 )

The One Laptop Per Child project has released information about its advanced security platform called Bitfrost. Could children with a $100 laptop end up with a better security infrastructure than executives using $5000 laptops powered by Vista? 'What's deeply troubling — almost unbelievable — about [Unix style permissions] is that they've remained virtually the only real control mechanism that a user has over her personal documents today...In 1971, this might have been acceptable...We have set out to create a system that is both drastically more secure and provides drastically more usable security than any mainstream system currently on the market. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/07/2137233&from=rss

A svéd haderő linuxra vált.

( anr | 2007. 02. 07., sze – 11:41 )

[T]he Swedish Armed Forces has made the decision to migrate its servers from Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. [...] The decision to migrate to Red Hat was primarily based on its advanced security features, but additionally the strong support, ease of migration and compatibility with existing in-house software were important factors. FMLOG Servicedesk plans to extend its internal usage of Linux in the future.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/02/swedish_armed…

Titkos M$ emailok

( anr | 2007. 02. 04., v – 00:50 )

From the class action 'Comes et al. v. Microsoft' suit, some very enlightening internal Microsoft emails are now made public. Emails to and from Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Jim Allchin, etc all make for some mind blowing reading. One of my favorites is from Jim Allchin to Bill Gates, entitled 'losing our way,' in which Allchin states 'I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.'
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/03/1524250&threshold=4

French students to get open-source software on USB key

( anr | 2007. 02. 04., v – 00:27 )

French authorities will give out 175,000 USB memory sticks loaded with open-source software to Parisian high-school students at the start of the next school year.
The sticks will give the students, aged 15 and 16, the freedom to access their e-mail, browser bookmarks and other documents on computers at school, home, a friend's house or in an Internet café -- but at a much lower cost than providing notebook computers for all, a spokesman for the Greater Paris Regional Council said Friday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070202/tc_infoworld/85707

Novell could be banned from selling Linux: group

( anr | 2007. 02. 04., v – 00:26 )

The Free Software Foundation is reviewing Novell Inc.'s right to sell new versions of Linux operating system software after the open-source community criticized Novell for teaming up with Microsoft Corp.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070202/tc_nm/novell_linux_dc
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Novell_could_be_banned_from_selling_Linux_gr…
Az M$ barátsága öl, butít és nyomorba dönt. ;)

Ubuntu Vista

( anr | 2007. 02. 02., p – 10:44 )

My father heard about Vista coming on the news. Since he was interested in getting it, he asked me to obtain it and install it on his computer and he would give some cash in return. I told him I was going to do that, but instead I burned an Ubuntu CD and installed it.

Later, when he came home from work, I showed him his new "Vista" install, complete with the latest Office and Solitaire.

Well, it's been a few days since that and now he says Bill Gates is better than Steve Jobs and brags about how OS X on my iMac is obsolete compared to Vista on his PC.

I will continue with the prank for some weeks, after which I'll tell him the truth and give him back his money.
http://www.degredo.net/
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Father_impressed_with_ubuntu_thinks_it_s_Vis…

Az M$ másol, majd szabadalmaztat

( anr | 2007. 01. 28., v – 10:43 )

BlueJ is a popular academic IDE which lets students have a visual programming interface. Microsoft copied the design in their 'Object Test Bench' feature in Visual Studio 2005 and even admitted it. Now, a patent application has come to light which patents the very same feature, blatantly ignoring prior art.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/27/147243&threshold=4

Open Standards Planned For Next NASA Telescope

( anr | 2007. 01. 21., v – 15:01 )

"A NASA infrared space telescope called the 'James Web Space Telescope' is scheduled to be launched in 2013. The plan is that it will be built using open standards-based software designed to prevent problems caused when software programs developed by various agencies are incompatible with each other, as has been the case with the Hubble telescope.
Open Standards Planned For Next NASA Telescope

Homár: BSA, az örök mókamester

( anr | 2007. 01. 19., p – 17:12 )

KA elmeséli, hogyan áll át cége nyílt forráskódú szoftverekre, miután a Microsoft vérebe feleslegesen zaklatta öket. Ha valamire, akkor erre lehet jó a BSA, hiszen amúgy kevesen veszik a fáradtságot, hogy utánanézzenek, egy iroda túlélése tényleg megoldható ingyenes szoftverekkel:
http://index.hu/homar/index.php?p=3738&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Large FLOSS Study Gets the Real Facts

( anr | 2007. 01. 17., sze – 11:21 )

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/17/0113235&threshold=4

An even shorter Executive Summary:

(of pages 9-12 of the PDF article)
FLOSS role in the economy

* FLOSS applications are first, second or third-rung products in terms of market share in several markets
* FLOSS market penetration is also high
* Almost two-thirds of FLOSS software is still written by individuals
* Europe is the leading region in terms of globally collaborating FLOSS software developers
* (more details on specific role in Europe in paper)

Direct economic impact

* The existing base of quality FLOSS applications with reasonable quality control and distribution would cost firms almost Euro 12 billion to reproduce internally... code base has been doubling every 18-24 months
* This existing base of FLOSS software represents a lower bound of about 131 000 real person-years of effort that has been devoted exclusively by programmers... it represents a significant gap in national accounts of productivity
* Firms have invested an estimated Euro 1.2 billion in developing FLOSS software that is
* made freely available... represent in total at least 565 000 jobs and Euro 263 billion in annual revenue
* FLOSS-related services could reach a 32% share of all IT services by 2010, and the FLOSS-related share of the economy could reach 4% of European GDP by 2010
* (more statistics in the paper)

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