* Posts by Daniel B.

3134 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Oct 2007

Microsoft's data crunching baby hit with lawsuit

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I smell patent troll

Oh great. Another patent troll? What's next, a "system for storing data as an abstraction of columns and rows", followed by lawsuits against IBM for DB2, Oracle and Microsoft (SQL Server) ???

These software patents are getting stupider every day.

Three-alarm fire bakes Apple facility

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Source of fire

Someone had one of those overheating MacBooks with the defective Sony battery. iFire! iFire!

The IT Crowd goes west

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If they Americanize this...

What would happen to the 0118 999 881 999 119 725... 3 joke?

The US hasn't done the 118-xxx thing, and in their case, 911 *is* the emergency number.

I find the series kind of fun, but I prefer BOFH-like humor (IT guys exacting revenge on lusers) instead of humor based on taking potshots at geeks.

Sun quietly sets mobile middleware bait

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Security...

"and it has included high-level security protection based on SSL and Triple DES encryption"

I just almost spit my coffee out after reading "secure" and "Triple DES" in the same sentence. Please, can't we just dump the thing and switch to AES? DES isn't secure, adding three layers of DES doesn't sound like safe to me.

Other than that, Sun's proposal seems interesting ... except Blackberry's BES seems to have taken over this market already. They do use Java, so that at least does give Sun some credit.

Intel papers over remote attack chip flaws ahead of demo

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Javascript?

Ok, can somebody tell me how bad of an exploit this is, that something as inane as Javascript can trigger a HARDWARE exploit? Javascript isn't even compiled, let alone compiled into machine code!

I really, really wish to see this über-exploit code, but it seems Intel just paid off KK's silence. Bad.

Hadoop: When grownups do open source

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Oh yes you made my day

Bashing on Web 2.0 useless projects, the flashy wannabe companies, trashing Ruby on Rails and vindicating Java?

I feel *great* now. Keep it on! Enlighten the IT masses!!

Man buys $1,000 worth of iPhone pixels by accident

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9 people bought it?

Ok, 7 now ... but man at $999 a piece, that seems quite enough to liquidate my debt!

I should've milked the iDiots first...

BOFH: Smash + grab

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@BOFH on YouTube

Someone actually did it, it was called "Salmon Days", and predates YouTube. I think it didn't quite make it, though ... I only remember watching the first episode. In fact, this is the thing:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/08/salmon_days_is_spawned/

They did a second episode, and then I lost track of it. I think it didn't survive.

Net shoppers bullied into being Verified by Visa

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Re: Challenge-Response / Card Reader thingies

All Mexican banks are required, by law, to use OTP's since March 2007. However, it seems the banks failed to extend this scheme to the Securecode / VbV apps.

And the whole scheme seems to be discriminating against banks that *haven't* jumped in: one of my MasterCard CC is always declined in 3DSecure-enabled merchant sites. Oh well...

T-Mobile dates BlackBerry Bold launch

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Joke

Re: so we can say...

Yes, and when I get my hands on one of those BB 9000's I'll find myself saying "WARP SPEED!" before firing up the browser!

Analysts slam iPhone security and battery life

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iPhone security? Yeah, right.

"Apple is hopeful that third-party applications will come along to provide encryption services, and assured Gartner that an API exists to provide encryption."

... which I suppose will never be available as the official SDK disallows background applications. A true crypto app would be in the background, encrypting data before it's even stored! Blackberry's "Content Protection" is an example for this. Why Apple wouldn't have this integrated to the OS sounds like an oversight if they were intending to appeal to business people. Though the worst oversight is cut-and-paste ... come on, Apple practically *invented* the whole cut&paste thing! COMMAND-C, COMMAND-V, Clipboard are all Macintosh concepts, so much that Windows just copied the shortcuts (as Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V) and ditched the annoying shift-Insert, ctrl-Insert, shift-delete combos.

@Hans: "how exactly is the iPhone less secure than any other smart mobile, please?"

Have you ever used a Blackberry? It has crypto, "Content Protection" and there's even a PGP support pack for the thing! Plus, after 10 failed password attempts, the thing auto-destructs in a nice Mission Impossible fashion (ok, not as cool, but it does wipe all the data.)

Drizzle plans to wash away DBMS past

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Deja Vu

"Specifically, Drizzle does not have stored procedures, views, triggers, query cache and prepared statements."

Oh great ... it seems like the mastermind(s) behind Drizzle seem to be the bad lot from the MySQL team. You know, the ones that said "We don't need no steeeenking transactions!" and proceeded to give DBA wannabe's a broken mindset for years to come.

The "transactions are for losers" mindset from the MySQL team was precisely what made me back off and return to PostgreSQL for serious apps. Of course, there are worse "creations" out there, like MUMPS...

Why flying cars are better than electric ones

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Safety, Roads and Cities

"This is a bit like saying "those opposed to nuclear power on safety grounds are forgetting that future nuclear power stations will be 100% safe thanks to future Super Awesome Nuclear Safety Technology". You can make *anything* make sense by, not to put too fine a point on it, making shit up."

Isn't this basically the description for those "Pebble-Bed Reactors"? Ok, maybe not 100% safe, but the design being one with self-shutdown capabilities built into it screams of pretty good safety.

@Big_Boomer: While I do think PIRT is a pretty nice solution (in fact, the concept is shown in "Minority Report" as a mag-lev system), I don't think moving companies OUT of the cities is a solution. I'd rather live closer to the city center, have my job at the city center and thus save time with shorter commuting distances. I'd say that a pretty good system would be:

Home -> PIRT -> Subway -> PIRT -> Work

where the Subway basically would cut over traffic on the long distances involved. Of course, having your workplace or home near a subway station would be even better ;)

Depp for Dark Knight follow-up

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Re: Realism

The Penguin was kind of well handled in the "Batman Returns" movie; being a malformed child which had penguin-like hands. There are more difficult characters to match the "realism" frame; think about Mr. Freeze for example.

As for the Riddler ... isn't Jim Carrey's Riddler basically the same thing? The "Adam West Batman" was full of camp, and Batman 3 & 4 were ruined because JS decided to go for the campy angle, instead of the dark/serious tone of the Tim Burton films.

As for Johnny Depp ... I don't know, but I think the Pirates of the Caribbean "saga" has ruined my image of him, and a batman movie isn't the best place for Capt. Jack Sparrow.

Open Wi-Fi network wraps Mumbai man in bomb blast probe

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se-Q-rity

Hm.. so this is why you should secure your wireless networks!

However, WPA might not be the full solution, so I'd add MAC filtering, and walling off the AP into a "public" area, and requiring logging on to a VPN for actual internet access. Only then you will get real security...

Spammers, Cuil, and the rescue from planet Google

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Re: Altavista!

"Does anyone remember when www.altavista.com was the first big web search engine?"

True AltaVista pioneers would remember that the actual site was www.altavista.digital.com and it actually ran on DEC equipment. ;)

Damn, I basically kept on using AltaVista even after Google started dominating the game. I did the google-switch sometime around 2001.

NASA: The Moon is not enough

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Space, the final frontier

It's easier to build the Enterprise in space than in Earth! ;)

Truly the "Mars is more interesting" camp haven't thought that by setting a permanent moon base, we're actually setting a milestone for the actual Mars trip! As someone else mentioned, I'd rather master the Earth-Moon trip before going further away.

Moreover, the Mars manned missions did point out something about building the Mars-bound spaceship in space, then sending it on its way. The Moon looks like a better place to do something like that.

And that "better things like war, hunger, climate change" argument is trite. There is far more money being spent in *doing* war than space exploration; this directly causes hunger. Stop spending in war, funnel all that into other needs and you'll get the problem solved!

Even without 3-Jesus Phone, Apple busts revenue records

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Apple isn't gaining market...

It's MikeRoweSoft *losing* market. OEM's were stupid enough to hammer Vista into consumers; they did it so well that people just stopped buying PC's. Then, when Average Joe wants to buy a new PC, well... they're forced to change to either crappy Vista, or MacOSX (Linux isn't quite there yet for the average user). Suddenly the Mac doesn't seem that bad anymore... you'd have to re-learn everything with Vista anyway!

BAA 'invented green superjumbo' to OK Heathrow plans

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Re: As I've said before...

I still wonder why people insist on moving into neighborhoods in the "final approach/takeoff" line for major airports. Come on!

Third plutoid christened 'Makemake'

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@Echowitch

"Ah but the name of Enterprise as a ships (or in this case shuttles) name is quite normal. The Royal Navy has had several ships called Enterprise over the centuries. Although I agree that I don't think NASA were thinking of that when they named her."

Oh, but that shuttle was named after _the_ Enterprise alright. There was a campaign back then to ensure that was done. Too bad it was only a prototype, so it never got into space.

BSA: Software piracy's 'tragic' impact on US society

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@A J Stiles, I agree!

Living in a country very much like theotherone's description (average income for a family is around $500/mo) I agree that the best solution would be to swap out for free software. However, Mexico's culture on "pirate" stuff is so ingrained, people would still pirate software even the BSA had police powers. The "we can't fund the cops!" argument can't fight the "why pay for something I can get cheaper/free?" mindset, especially when your pricing schemes are way above compulsive buying prices.

By the way, the BSA hasn't done any "piracy lawsuits" lately, as they recently LOST one of them against CCC (Mexican company) who they tried to manhandle into admitting they had pirated software. Guess what: they didn't.

That said, I'd rather see the country switching to open sourced software. Some areas have already done so: Mexico City's government, some small&medium businesses, and at least one university ditched Office for OpenOffice.

US PS3 sales surge

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So the PS3 sells well now...

It seems like the PS3's gaining traction at last. Of course it is MGS4, but it isn't just that: the price is now around something I can actually pay for... except I'm still cash-strapped, so I might buy the thing by December.

A lot of PS2 gamers were holding out to MGS4, me being one of them. I've been losing interest with games lately; it seems that SquareEnix has gone mostly downhill after, well, they turned into SquareEnix. My favorite RPG's seem to have died (Xenogears/Xenosaga, Suikoden?) and I've outgrown most FPS games. Come on, the FPS games haven't really done any groundbreaking achievement since Half-Life (interactive environment), Red Faction (I can ride vehicles!), or Doom3 (d00d! I can actually use the computers now!). Halo wasn't even a blip, its only contribution was an annoying health system, a "two weapons max" inventory and "c00l" graphics.

Brown's aide, Mata Hari and the BlackBerry

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Oh please tell me it was encrypted...

There's a nice feature called "Content Protection" in the BlackBerry. It should be "on" at all times, ensuring your data will be encrypted. I just wish the SD Card crypto was easier to use; currently there is no easy way to bulk-decrypt .rem files as the USB mass storage mode doesn't do that. So some people, like me, won't enable "Media card encryption".

But if "Content Protection" was enabled, there's nothing to worry about; the data's secure enough. The Address book might not be encrypted, but at least contact info isn't as sensitive as e-mails...

iPhone 2.0 unlock tool released, tested

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@Henry Blackman

The problem is that some stuff won't ever run as intended if released through the official method: Apple blocked some system calls / functions in their developer API, and the license restricts you even further on what is allowed; hence no Java (can't run bytecode), no IM (can't run in background) and no ROMs. So naturally, iPhone users will want to run the unrestricted apps, which require jailbreaking.

I wonder why Apple went down this road instead of doing something like Symbian signed, or RIM's "restricted calls" policy: some libs require the accessing module to be signed by RIM. However, Apple just states "you can't do it" flat out.

Japan kicks off electric car format war

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GM 0wned? Thanks for killing EV1

So GM doesn't look so bright like it did when the EV1 program got axed. Had they continued that venue, maybe we would have a Li-Ion car by now! Or something else...

I'd love a fully-electric car, but given I live in an apartment block, I just can't get a 100 meter power cable to plug my car at night ... and that is assuming I were able to actually run the cable down to the underground parking lot.

US cyberspying fears hang over Beijing Olympics

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Look into the mirror...

"Spying techniques outlined in the advisory, which wasn't made public, included copying the contents of laptop hard disks at border crossing or in hotel rooms and "loading spyware" onto BlackBerry mobile devices, the Wall Street Journal reports."

Oh, like the Border guards do entering the US? At least the Chinese don't think everyone is a terrorist. Though they might take an interest if you enter china with Falun Gong symbols... or 'Free Tibet' T-shirts... but then again, you'd expect the same suspicions entering the US with a "BIN LADEN LIVES! DIE INFIDELS!" T-shirt!

SCO ordered to pay Novell $2.5m Unix royalties

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Oh yes!

I just want to point out that $2.5million is very short of what SCO should be reamed with. However, there's still the IBM case ...

MWAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA

[Annoying attempt at excessive MWAHA deleted - Ed]

Salesforce.com pulls plug on Sun's flagship Unix servers

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So they're IDIOTS

Gaaah! Substituting big oxen with 1024 chickens isn't "the way forward!" If my former boss were reading this article, he would be laughing his ass off the screen!!!

As much as I like Linux, Solaris as an OS and Sun's hardware is pretty stable, secure, and not-another-Intel-based-crap-hardware. If I already have something as big as an E25k ... I'm not about to dump it in favor of Intel-based shite.

Flames, as those who took this decision will BURN IN HELL!

Baptist church in assault rifle giveaway

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Dead Vulture

I have to say it...

PRAISE THE LORD .... AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!!!!!!

The Vulture was mistaken by an infidel.

Gadgets safe from global airport anti-piracy plan

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So its bollocks, then

"ACTA will seek to crack down on large-scale illegal disc production - impounding 50,000 dodgy copies of Hancock found in a shipping container, for instance"

I wonder who would be so stupid to *ship* 50k counterfeit DVD's, as its easier, cheaper and less-risky to just burn 'em at the "sales point".

The Top Ten 3G iPhone beaters

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Hey, why isn't any BlackBerry there?

My BB 8300 (the Curve) is actually decent, the only thing lacking would be GPS (no use for this), support for playlists in the media player (oops?), and no *video* camera. Other than that, I'm pretty much OK with the thing.

And it doesn't have that evil Windows Mobile OS. (I've yet to try a Symbian-powered phone.)

MS takes Windows 3.11 out of embed to put to bed

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Re: Did somebody mention Netware??

Oh yes. It was my first PC network, Novell 3.x if I remember well. Oh the fun when the coax cable faulted in some odd location, it was hell to search that. However, NE2000/NetWare Ethernet wasn't my first network ... that would've been AppleTalk. Back then, it was a nice thing to have, as we were mostly Mac users at my home, and it let us share our printers; though I did find an issue about folder-sharing not being available until System 7. (And System 6 had the "client-side support".) Of course, I found out the limitations of AppleTalk/LocalTalk years later when I tried to transfer 30-Mb files over it. Uggggh!!!

As for Windows 3.11 ... I hated it back then, I kept my MS-DOS 6.2/Win 3.1 combo up until Win95 was released. I don't know why, but the "jump" to MS-DOS 6.22 b0rked MS Backup, changed "Doublespace" into "Drivespace" AND BREAKING COMPATIBILITY; so jumping to that would have rendered a metric assload of my drives unreadable. (I know there was some odd patent problem back then, but coudn't they at least give us a "migration path"???)

Anyway, neither me or my Dad were too convinced on 3.11, same look, same crap, and we were all using Macs with System 7 anyways. (Which incidentally, could run in our old Mac Plus.) My few games for PC ran in DOS; the Mac was my gaming platform, alongside my C-64 =)

South African survives exploding fridge attack

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Joke

Wrong setting on fridge!

I think the guy had one of those 'intelligent' fridges; so when he set the 'ice' configuration, the fridge proceeded to 'ice' his user!

Shrinking Sun under the gun

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Don't let the Sun go down...

These are one of the few guys who are actually still investing in the Unix and non-x86 areas. I don't want them to die, and their hardware is definitely the best in the mid-range/high-end area, second only to mainframes. I'd hate to see them go down! And as Ishkandar just mentioned, they've always been good on the techie aspects.

I've worked on their E25k boxen, and those beasts won't go down unless somebody does something really bad on the hardware. Uptime/availability on those mammoths are something any Wintel server would only dream about.

iPhone apps hit the racks at the iTunes store

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Re: What no Java?

Same here, seems like the iPhone's too "good" to have Java. Never mind that any self-respecting Smartphone out there has some kind of Java support, like the BlackBerry.

Apple's stance with Java is even more stubborn than anything Microsoft has ever done. Sheesh.

File system killer leads police to wife's bones

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Re: Windows ME?

"I was expecting a slew of comments wishing 25 years of brutal anal rape on him, administered by large sadistic men in orange jump suits."

Nah. That I wish upon Icahn, if he gets to do his own first-degree murder of Yahoo!

Sadly, I truly hoped for Reiser to be innocent, but he actually did it. Sad, as it only propagates that "CompSci dudes are weirdo serial killerz!" perception...

Blind spot - the trouble with optical drives

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You'll take my tape drive out of my cold, dead hands

I've seen over and over these grand "tape vs. optical" discussions. After having lost something around 5Gb of data due to disc rot, I am skeptical of any kind of optical storage. The closest I ever came near something like that would have been the Magneto-Optical band, which was an actually reliable technology. However, my dad was who had the final word back then, and he chose the hideous iomega Jaz drive. Guess who lost a crapload of data; and I wasn't immune to that either. I had a 300Mb backup that my dad decided to move over to one of those cartridges, and all the data went bye-bye. Though most of the stuff I lost was because of those other cartridges, the Iomega zip ones. Remember them???

Meanwhile, the tape camp has gone from DDS-1, DDS-2, DDS-3, DDS-4 up to DAT 72; and all those tape drives are backwards-compatible. While I don't own one myself, I did have access to one, and some of my backups are actually in DDS-4 cartridges. Some of these backups have already outlived my first ill-fated batch of CD's.

SSD's are nice, but they sometimes go crazy, so I'm not quite sure about using them for backup storage. But they are very nice for moving data :)

Google and the End of Science

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Correlation vs. models?

If these "theories" were true, about doing everything by correlation, then we would conclude that:

1 - Storks *do* bring babies to the world,

2 - Global Warming is caused by Pirates.

Why? Because if you "only analyze the data you got", you'll find a correlation between ups and downs of population and stork numbers during WWII, and you'll see that the number of pirates at sea has dropped while the global mean temperature has gone up.

How to be an instant Web me-2.0 developer

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Oh no...

I wasn't having a nightmare. Web 2.0 is truly full of crap calls! If you want to have fun, try disabling JavaScript .. or doing 'fun' things like pressing stop while the page is loading. Some sites will barf completely if the javascript stuff doesn't fully load... which happens a lot, just check the CommunityServer forum section at thedailywtf.com, and revere the "tinyMCE not defined" errors.

The basic problem is that the HTTP/HTML combo was originally concieved as a WORM system (Write Once, Read Many) with limited interaction (POST forms) but stateless.

Then somebody either tried to imitate the reliable client/server apps, or the 3270 terminals, and the highway to hell^H^H^H^H Web2.0 was born...

Google out-visions Jobs on Mac roadmap

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Mac OS X

true, the "X" stands for 10, but they've done that redundant thingy, like the "PIN Number", "MAC Code" and similar repeating acronyms. I wouldn't be surprised, however, if they either do a funny jump into "Mac OS X 11.1", or do a Sun and start using the second version placeholder as the "big release", dropping the numeric 10.

Wait, I think they're already doing it... they're already using 10.4.x, 10.5.x as their numbering scheme, they just haven't actually dropped the "10" from the release versions.

(Ok, Sun hasn't done so either, you can still see that Java 6 is actually 1.6, and Solaris 10 is SunOS 5.10 if you look very well.)

Google evaporates Docs and Spreadsheets cloud

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Web-based software failure shocker!

So it seems like some people found out just why Web 2.0 "desktop" apps will never replace the good-old native desktop apps.

Office, OpenOffice and such will always work even if you're in the middle of nowhere and without an internet connection. Remote storage is nice, but having it as your only storage option is as bad as having local files with no backup.

Flames, because that's how all your files will go up if you don't back them up!

Wife-slaying Linux guru may have 'developmental disability'

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Is this some kind of 'Developer Syndrome'?

I've wondered for some time if there is some kind of mental disorder amongst hardcore developers causing extreme behavior: Theo de Raadt and his Linux-bashing, that Kip guy who went on "raging landlord" mode, and Reiser well... even if he *didn't* kill his wife, he did quite a good job on tampering evidence.

Maybe its like the math guys, to be a true genius, you gotta be crazy (see Fourier, or more recently John Forbes Nash.)

ISO certifies Adobe's PDF

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PDF!

Good. Actually, PDF's basically the only format I know that is standard enough to be read by both official Adobe Readers and the free versions (like xpdf). I've been using PDF's since the old PageMaker 4.0 days, which freely included the Acrobat Distiller (no need for the full Acrobat version!) Even when I was the only one using PageMaker, I could export to PDF and print the thing anywhere.

I think the reason PDF didn't really take off is because Office didn't include the Acrobat Distiller, and PageMaker didn't get much use outside the publishing areas... except for my dad & me, who used it for most documents. Fortunately, that gave me an edge in my highschool and early college research papers, the teacher was impressed at the mere looks of my paper and I got extra points for that. Oh well...

Is SproutCore worth the Flash and Java iPhone snub?

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Ruby? Meh.

Nice thing it was ... until I read 'Ruby'. Straight to the trashcan.

I just don't understand Apple's aversion to Java, its exclusion from the iBone is just idiotic. And why, oh why would they go for Ruby ??? I'd rather see Obj-C on the RIA iPhone apps than the horrible Ruby thingy. And I am *not* an Obj-C fan either! (In fact, I think ObjC is kind of Smalltalk disguised as C.)

That other Objective-J sounds better than this, though ... if only because it has _no Ruby_.

DoJ to probe Google Yahoo! deal

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DoJ! is! stupid!

The ones getting a DoJ probe should be Microsoft, not Yahoo/Google. In reality, the only place where Google might be a "monopoly" is in the search market; and that isn't a result of monopolistic activities, but actual efficiency by the Google search engine. Really, we would still be using Altavista if Compaq hadn't b0rked the interface after eating DEC.

If I were the DoJ, I'd be more concerned on the MSFT takeover; eating Yahoo! would give them a chance to force Silverlight unto all of us, which would nicely lock "the web" to IE/Windows once again. No thanks.

Google a broken hell for five-year-olds

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Returning? Yeah, right.

If I leave a company to jump ship, and then find said "ship" to be rotten, I'm jumping ship... somewhere else. Really, you don't just switch jobs for fun; usually there's something better on the other side. And this being Microsoft, there must be strong motivations to jump ship.

If so many guys actually "came back" to Microsoft, I'd think they're getting some big bonus, because that's the only way I'd return to a former job.

Trekkies to flip lids over Star Trek bottle opener

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Oooh err

Captain! Captain!

I'm trying to open the beer, but we just don't have the power!!!

BEA gets last laugh on Oracle app server

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Ok...

At least they're keeping the good application server alive - the one from BEA. I was fearing that OAS would kill WebLogic after this ... but it seems that won't happen.

Dell offers 'Windows Vista Bonus' to frightened customers

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@Christopher Emerson

Wait. WinXP not being a big leap from Win9x/ME??? I'd agree if you told that it wasn't a big leap from *win2000*. But win9x/ME were really graphical shells on top of DOS, even if they hid it underneath the flashy graphics.

Win2K came from the NT branch, which had boatloads of differences with the win9x branches: true multiuser environments, actual security and even a nifty POSIX subsystem for those UNIX die-hards. Hell... there's even an OS/2 subsystem somewhere.

In fact, Vista seems to the NT branch like ME looked to the win9x branch: same stuff, just crappier. If any MS OS is actually going for the win, it would be Win Server 2008. Given Vista's "performance" I might actually get this as my new OS, because even if I do work with Linux, I still need the windoze for other stuff, like games.

Granite Jesus, blessed be thy gneiss

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Oh no, not again...

Believe me, this is not the case of someone trying to cash in. These "images" appear everywhere, usually when there are bad times coming. Example: the Mexico City subway "image of the virgin". They even took out the tile and put a small shrine outside the subway station ... but all I see is rust on a tile. It seems more like a case of Rorschach Ink blots and people seeing what they want to see...