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Archive for January 27th, 2008

The Arch Battle

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Well we won the battle and finally got sound after fighting it for 2 days, listen up if you are planning to install Arch and run into the same silly problem, I had to add a Sound Group to make the sound work, I was told that all I had to do was make sure [...]

Dead spy satellite falling from orbit - could hit Earth in late February or March

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

 
You’d hope contingency plans were in place. Wouldn’t you.
And heck I was worried about dying from old age, First a plane parts fall from the skies and kill some poor customer in a car dealership and now spy satellites are falling when will all the falling stop. Maybe Chicken Little was right after all. [...]

Commentary: ISO should kick OOXML off the standards bus

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

 
ECMA, the international IT standards association, recently published its responses to comments of the ISO National Bodies in response to Microsoft’s Office Open XML application for ISO standardization (the actual 2,293-page response is closed to the public). The ECMA proposals will be discussed at a Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) in Geneva after which the National [...]

Firefox and the Enterprise: An Uneasy Fit

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

 
With a new CEO on board and a major update of its Firefox Web browser expected this year, Mozilla hopes to reinvigorate its campaign to pull users away from Microsoft’s still-dominant Internet Explorer software. However, the open source vendor continues to expend little energy on wooing IT managers to formally adopt Firefox for deployment [...]

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