Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Oct 2005 21:08 UTC, submitted by Vai777
Microsoft on Thursday said that an investigation by Korea's antitrust watchdog could lead to the withdrawal of Windows from the country, or to delays in introducing new versions of the OS there.
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RE: CONVICED MONOPOLIES DESERVE NO WARM FUZZIES
by on Sun 30th Oct 2005 03:43
in reply to "CONVICED MONOPOLIES DESERVE NO WARM FUZZIES"
Member since:here was their care for you when you had systems locking up with blue screens, programs crashing over and over, patch after patch applied with no end to remote exploit "bugs" in sight?
Of course, you're right. Microsoft doesn't care about me, neither does Apple. Nor does any corporation for that matter. Heck, MS and Apple give about as much of a shit about me as the company I bought gas from the last time I filled up. Reality check - corporations care for their bottom line, and that is about all. For better or worse, it's the reason they exist.
The fat anti-open source Western pig would rather roll around in his SUV and giggle about his shitty Windows box
And don't forget about listening to Britney Spears and watching Desperate Housewives. And while we're classifying lemmings, what about those who shop at Wal-Mart, or have ever eaten at a fast-food joint (hey, you did say fat, didn't you?)
than activate his mind and use a real, free operating system.
To activate their minds, some people find God, and ... well, some people find open source. And they say open source isn't a religion ...
News
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/08/10 23:34 UTC
"The 'Llano' processor that AMD described today in an ISSCC session is not a CPU, and it's not a GPU - instead, it's a hybrid design that the chipmaker is calling an 'application processor unit', or APU. Whatever you call it, it could well give Intel a run for its money in the laptop market, by combining a full DX11-compatible GPU with four out-of-order CPU cores on a single, 32nm processor die."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/08/10 19:38 UTC
"The scuttlebutt is that IBM seemed perfectly content to wait until May to launch the Power7-based Power Systems servers, but something changed and compelled the company to move up the announcement of its first machines using the eight-core processor to today. Big Blue is not in a habit of explaining its motives or its timing for product launches, but it seems clear that IBM wanted to get out in front of a whole lot of processor and systems launches that are expected between now and the summer."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/08/10 19:33 UTC
Mozilla has announced that they are going to drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger definitively. "Mac OS X 10.4 was released in April of 2005 and a lot has changed since then," Josh Aas writes, "We would like to take advantage of more modern technologies on Mac OS X and 10.4 support has been a hindrance. Where we can work around supporting 10.4, doing so consumes valuable time and effort. Neither Chrome nor Safari has to deal with this."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/05/10 23:46 UTC
"The ancient bug was discovered by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy in January 2010 and involves a utility that allows newer versions of Windows to run very old programs. Mr Ormandy has found a way to exploit this utility in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 as well as Windows Vista and Windows 7. The patch for this vulnerability will appear in the February security update. Five of the vulnerabilities being patched at the same time allow attackers to effectively hijack a Windows PC and run their own programs on it."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/05/10 21:50 UTC, submitted by tyrione
"Today, Clang completed its first complete self-host! We built all of LLVM and Clang with Clang (over 550k lines of C++ code). The resulting binaries passed all of Clang and LLVM's regression test suites, and the Clang-built Clang could then build all of LLVM and Clang again. The third-stage Clang was also fully-functional, completing the bootstrap."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/05/10 21:43 UTC
With all the virtualization schemes running on top of Linux, how do they exploit the underlying kernel for I/O virtualization? The answer is virtio, which provides an efficient abstraction for hypervisors and a common set of I/O virtualization drivers. Discover virtio, and learn why Linux will soon be the hypervisor of choice.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/05/10 21:41 UTC
"The Mono Project releases the first preview of Moonlight 3.0, giving application developers a first look at the open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight 3 technology for the Linux platform." Sadly, it's still Firefox-only.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/04/10 23:13 UTC
"In a definitive defeat for film studios - and in a first case of its kind worldwide - Australia's Federal Court has ruled that ISPs have no obligation to act on copyright infringement notices or to disconnect subscribers after receiving multiple letters. If copyright holders want justice for illegal file-sharing, they need to start by targeting the right people: those who committed the infringement."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/04/10 23:12 UTC
Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, an advocate of Web 2.0, used Twitter early Thursday to announce his resignation. He was named CEO in 2006 as Sun faced a switch in strategic direction away from proprietary systems and toward open source code, including its valued Solaris 10 operating system. "Today's my last day at Sun. I'll miss it", he said in a tweet to his followers, reported the New York Times on its Web site at 1:12 a.m. Thursday. He added a bit of haiku: "Financial crisis, Stalled too many customers, CEO no more."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/04/10 17:18 UTC
"The venerable GNU Image Manipulation Program is undergoing a significant transformation. The next major release, version 2.8, will introduce an improved user interface with an optional single-window mode. Although this update is still under heavy development, users can get an early look by compiling the latest source code of the development version from the GIMP's version control repository."
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I'm sick of people saying "give the bea$t a chance"
where was their care for you when you had systems locking up with blue screens, programs crashing over and over, patch after patch applied with no end to remote exploit "bugs" in sight?
It's so much bullshit and the people in the East aren't stupid, in fact many of them are much smarter than a majority of Westerners.
The fat anti-open source Western pig would rather roll around in his SUV and giggle about his shitty Windows box than activate his mind and use a real, free operating system.
The stupid have inherited the Earth, but not for long.