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Super Fast but Super Ugly

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Professor Joel Adams and the student Tom Brown at the Calvin College have built their own super computer made out of standard components.
It has a capacity of 26.25 gigaflops and it’s size: it fits on your desk!

The components can be bought in practically every computer part dealer so you to can build one.
The computer is […]

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The OOXML voting all over again

Friday, August 31st, 2007

The voting on OOXML in Sweden has been ruled as invalid by SIS themselves and a new vote is around the corner
So it’s official, SIS ruled the voting about the OOXML question as invalid where the pro OOXML side won.
But the interesting thing is that this didn’t happened because of the major criticism towards the […]

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Microsoft accused of rigging the OOXML vote

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Sweden voted yes for OOXML, or was it Microsoft themselves that rigged the voting?.
When SIS held the vote whether OOXML becomes a new ISO-standard or not in Sweden, 24 new member companies signed up so they could vote - majority Microsoft partners
The Swedish blogger Marcus Rejås who paid 17000 SEK to vote against OOXML found […]

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Skype is acting sneaky on your computer

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Skype users are reporting that skype is acting strange on their computers accessing files it shouldn’t be supposed to do
They reported that is reading files on the system like /etc/passwd, firefox-profile, plugins and other plugins as well.
The discovery was made by users using the AppArmor and strace while running Skype 1.4.x.
It seems skype is conducting […]

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Enemy Territory, Quake Wars as Linux beta

Monday, August 27th, 2007

The game Enemy Territory, Quake Wars is now available for Linux as beta version.
It’s estimated that it will hit the stores in a month

The linux beta version is unfortunately only available for a closed group and the rest of us Linux users will have to wait until the end of september/ early October.
However if you […]

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