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World's Best Resignation Letter?

Microsoft Connect, home of Microsoft's betas including Vista has some interesting CSS values. The first line in the .css is commented "fix for the IE 1px-off margin error", followed by a value called ".StupidIEMarginHack ".

Even Microsoft Designers Have Problem with IE

Microsoft's delay culture has carried over to the Virtual Server team with an update to the server slicing product being pushed back to "early 2007."

Microsoft adds Virtual Server to delay parade

Ide is, ide is;))

Outsourcing industry generated $23.4 bln for India by ZDNet's ZDNet Research -- India's $23.4 bln outsourcing industry accounts for most of the country's software and services industry, which makes up nearly 5% of GDP. The industry employs 1.2 mln workers, has sparked a consumer revolution in India, and is accelerating at more than 30% a year. India produces 3 mln college graduates every year, including nearly 400,000 [...]

VNUNet is reporting that a company called InPhase Technologies claims they have successfully recorded 515GB of data per square inch to capture the record for highest data density. From the article: 'InPhase promised to begin shipping the first holographic drive and media later this year. The first generation drive has a capacity of 300GB on a single disk with a 20Mbps transfer rate. The first product will be followed by a family ranging from 800GB to 1.6TB capacity.'"

Holographic Storage Crams in 0.5TB Per Square Inch

Google is contemplating a move to join the Eclipse Foundation in some capacity. Greg Stein, an engineering manager in the open-source group at Google and chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, told eWEEK that Google has considered joining Eclipse and has talked with Eclipse's executive director, Mike Milinkovich, about the possibility.

2005 4. negyedévben (a redhat pénzügyi éve Feb. 28-ig tart) a profit $27.3 millió volt $11.8 millióról emelkedett fel 1 év alatt. A bevétel $78.7 millió, $57.5 millióról emelkedett.
Így a Redhat éves forgalma: 278.3 millió, profitja $79.7 millió.
Red Hat 4Q profit soars on revenue boost

This tutorial shows how to configure a MySQL 5 cluster with three nodes: two storage nodes and one management node. This cluster is load-balanced by a high-availability load balancer that in fact has two nodes that use the Ultra Monkey package that provides heartbeat (for checking if the other node is still alive) and ldirectord (to split up the requests to the nodes of the MySQL cluster)...
How To Set Up A Load-Balanced MySQL Cluster

"In their search for patterns, mathematicians have uncovered unlikely connections between prime numbers and quantum physics. The gist is that energy levels in the nucleus of heavy atoms can tell us about the distribution of zeros in Riemann's zeta function - and hence where to find prime numbers. This article discusses this connection, and introduces two physisicts who tell us 'why the answer to life, the universe and the third moment of the Riemann zeta function should be 42.'"
slashdot:// 42 *IS* The answer to Life, the Universe and Zeta

An anonymous reader wrote to mention a Washingtonpost.com article about an increase in attacks against IE users via a critical, unpatched flaw. The bug allows software to be downloaded to the vulnerable PC even if the only act the user takes is browsing to a web site. From the article:

A Microsoft március 15-én kérvényezte (de csak most lett nyilvánoss információ), hogy csatlakozhasson a the INCITS/V1 Technical Committee-hez. Ami nem más, mint az OpenDocument szabványosításával foglalkozó testület. Ezzel végleg befellegzett a saját Microsoft "nyilt" XML szabványosítási javaslatnak.
OpenDocument forever;)
Vannak olyan találgatások, hogy a Microsoft a csatlakozással az OpenDocumentet akarja tönkretenni (Piszkos Fred barátsága öl, butít és nyomorba dönt;)
Microsoft joins OpenDocument group

ZTL is the easiest way to setup your back office infrastructure. If you need mail server, file server or domain controller - ZTL is perfect for you. ZTL brings together stability of Linux, security of Trustix with simple web-based interface at an affordable price.
ZTL allows you to perform administrative tasks without any special knowledge. If you need to setup a server for your office, and do not have prior experience in doing it - ZTL is for you.
Zero Touch Linux (ZTL)

"Gizmag is reporting that a team of German and Japanese scientists have collaborated to shatter the world record for data transmission speed. From the article: "By transmitting a data signal at 2.56 terabits per second over a 160-kilometer link (equivalent to 2,560,000,000,000 bits per second or the contents of 60 DVDs) the researchers bettered the old record of 1.28 terabits per second held by a Japanese group. By comparison, the fastest high-speed links currently carry data at a maximum 40 Gbit/s, or around 50 times slower."

slashdot://New Data Transmission Speed Record

poenok onnan:
>(equivalent to 2,560,000,000,000 bits per second or the contents of 60 DVDs)
Wow, converting to MPAA units that's 300 years of jail time per second! Smokin!

And so it begins
Well folks, time to gear up.

We know what happens when the Germans and the Japanese collaborate ;-)

We are constantly adding new titles so check back often. Aim is to eventually have 1,000's of titles:

Red Hat has opened its knowledge base to the general public today. You no longer need to login to access it. "Red Hat Knowledgebase is a library of tips, troubleshooting advice, and current information updated daily by Red Hat technicians."

"Michael Robertson (of MP3.com, Linspire, SIPPhone, GizmoProject and MP3Tunes.com fame) is launching a Web-only competitor to Microsoft Office by creating a suite of applications replicating Microsoft Office look and feel. From the posting: "But ajaxWrite is just the start. We have a library of applications we have been working on to replace most of the standard PC software titles. Every week we will launch a new sophisticated program on Wednesday at 12:00 PST on ajaxlaunch.com. These programs will push the boundaries of what people believe is possible today with web-delivered software. These programs look and operate much like their traditional software cousins, but are cross-platform, loaded dynamically, and are available to users at no charge. I'm convinced if you try a few of these products you will understand how the software business will fundamentally change." ajaxWrite is the first launched product." AjaxWrite to "Compete" with MS Word

Novell boss Jack Messman is predicting that the open source operating system market will be reduced to two dominant suppliers in the next three to five years: Novell and Red Hat.
Novell predicts only two Linux distros will survive

LOL álmodnak. Persze majd megszünik a Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo,... ugyanmár. Az a nagyságrendileg 30 párhuzamos fő disztróból marad 5-6 az OK. de ezekre épülve megmarad a 300 specializált leszármazott disztró.

A 100$-os laptopon már évek óta meg az izmozás, és a tervezgetés, a szorgos kínaiak viszont inkább dolgoznak. Már 187$-os végfelhasználói árnál tartanak. A 100$-os tervezett ár 1milliós rendelési nagyságra áll, kis darabszámra 200$, vagy afeletti árat terveznek.
A 146$-os asztali PC-hez hasonlóan ebben is 64 bites Godson II processzor van, és előtelepített Linuxal szállítják.
Chinese vendor readies $187 Linux laptop, kicsit részletesebben: Rural laptop to cost $187, with Linux

ROTFLMAO

"This morning, I set out to file a bug report with Microsoft. All I wanted was a simple form on a web page to file a bug report for Outlook and Outlook Express." [...] "Fifty minutes, 35USD, and four humans later, I'd filed my first bug report with Microsoft. I don't think I'll be doing that again."
Want to file a bug with Microsoft? That'll be 35 dollars, please.

ha jol ertem, akkor egy disk problema miatti ujraboot.
clikk a képre

I'm an art professor, and last semester I embarked on an exciting new adventure by erasing Mac OS X from nearly all of the Macintoshes in our digital media lab and installing Ubuntu in its place.

I began seriously planning this change last school year, when I realized how fully the current feature sets of free software programs could satisfy the technical needs of the students in my classes. I decided that the time had come to teach our undergraduate art students about free software programs such as the GIMP, Scribus, and Quanta Plus, instead of proprietary programs such as Photoshop, QuarkXpress, and Dreamweaver.

A Novelltől rendelik meg a régi UNIX-ok kiváltására vásárolt Linuxokat.
Finnish defence ministry picks Linux

Ben Liblit doktori diszertációja a valós világban előforduló szoftver hibák megértése, és kijavítása címet viseli. A disszertáció vizsgálatai alapján az opensource nem amiatt jobb, mert több a beta teszter. Módszerében is jobb, tehát azonos mennyiségü beta teszter esetén is jobb eredményt produkál, mint a szokásos zárt szoftverfejlesztési módszer.Az ok: az opensource (devel ág) felhasználók random adatokon tesztelnek, míg a szokásos módszernél az összes lehetséges esetet próbálják végignézni, és "listából" dolgoznak. (vagyis az opensource Monte Carlo-val, míg a régi módszer lineáris módon tesztel).
A disszertáció azért került a figyelem középpontjába, mert megnyerte a Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2005 Doctoral Dissertation Award-ot.
slashdot hír itt.

Samsung has launched what it reckons its the world's first 32GB NAND Flash-based hard disk drive replacement unit. The company claimed the so-called "solid state disk" can access data three times faster than an HDD can and write files one-and-a-half times more quickly - though we don't know what HDD spec it was comparing its product to.

The SSD is a 2.5in form-factor product that operates at 5V and connects across a 66MHz Ultra DMA parallel ATA bus. Samsung said the unit consumes just five per cent of the energy it takes to run a hard drive.
Samsung unveils 32GB Flash-based 'HDD killer', slashdot:Hardware: 32 GB Flash Storage Drive Announced