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Nvidia forges ARM chip for PCs and servers

Thursday 6th January 2011 01:21 GMT amehaye

Intel, in response:

We, eh, bought McAffee! Yeah!

Suck on this, world.

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Dubai assassins used email trojan to track Hamas victim

Wednesday 5th January 2011 20:26 GMT amehaye

Reality check

I am all against murdering of innocent people. But when the alternative is a nice mushroom and radiation cloud, well, better them dead than me.

Call it selfishness, call it my vulgar survival instinct... I don't mind.

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Silverlighters committed despite Microsoft's HTML5 love

Thursday 2nd December 2010 10:49 GMT amehaye

@AC

Silverlight is an absolute horror to install. Maybe on your dev machine it is easy, what with all the .Net v1,2,3,3.5 and 4 already installed. But on your average john-doe machine installing silverlight is a nightmare.

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Novell keeps Unix copyrights from Microsoft

Thursday 25th November 2010 10:27 GMT amehaye

Who cares about the copyright

It is the 650 software patents Novell sold to Microsoft that concerns me. More ammo to that gigantic anti-Linux patent troll.

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Windows 0day allows malicious code execution

Wednesday 24th November 2010 23:35 GMT amehaye

This is what you get

for bundling UI code in the kernel.

Repeat after me: I shall not incorporate UI/Shell/Explorer/other unneeded code in the kernel. Damn thing is hard enough to write securely as it is.

Tux, for getting this right from the start.

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Attachmate gobbles up Novell for $2.2bn

Tuesday 23rd November 2010 10:21 GMT amehaye

IP is not only copyright

There is this 'patent' thingy. I wonder if Novell could enrich Microsoft anti-Linux war chest by a few of these. Troll, for what Microsoft has devolved into.

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First official HTML5 tests topped by...Microsoft

Monday 1st November 2010 20:16 GMT amehaye

The triple-E, of course

Embrace, Extend... We are at phase 1 as it seems.

A thumb up, just for the chance that /this time it will be different/

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Israel to join list of 'adequate' data protection nations

Saturday 30th October 2010 12:24 GMT amehaye

Murder

I do not know if the Mossad is responsible for the assassination of Mabhuh. I wish they are. The guy earned it rightfully. I know from the comments here that Israeli blood is cheap in your eyes, so you might not care. But Mabhuh is responsible for kidnapping and murdering Israeli soldiers, among other acts of terrorism.

You condemn Israel for protecting itself. Maybe it makes you feel morally superior. Maybe you even think that you will not suffer from acts of terrorism. Live in your blissful ignorance as long as you can, because it does not really matter whether Israel exists or not. Sooner or later the fundamentalist Islam will come-a-knocking on your door. By then it will already be too late.

It is really easy to be all left winged and liberal when the matters affect somebody-else-life. I wonder how long you will remain in your attitude when the guys you love so much show you their true colors. It would have been funny, had it not been so sad.

Paris, because after all, she is smarter than some of you guys.

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Ubuntu 10.10: date with destiny missed

Monday 11th October 2010 10:35 GMT amehaye

Re. Partitions

Most users don't want to compile from source. So you are effectively suggesting to add bloat to the distribution.

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Stuxnet worm slithers into China, heralds alien invasion

Friday 1st October 2010 22:06 GMT amehaye

Nay...

I would rather fly in a plane powered by ZX81 rather then one powered by Windows.

But that's only me, I guess.

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Microsoft assembles unlikely band of brothers against patent trolls

Friday 1st October 2010 10:04 GMT amehaye

Sorry, can't hail the big patent troll

Wasn't it Microsoft who claims Linux and co. violate more than 200 patents, without even disclosing which patents these are?

First let them pay. Then reform the system.

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Mystery lingers over stealthy Stuxnet infection

Tuesday 28th September 2010 23:07 GMT amehaye

Digital fortress

"Only the truth will save you now."

Enter passcode:

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OpenOffice files Oracle divorce papers

Tuesday 28th September 2010 20:34 GMT amehaye

Re: VirtualBox

That would be problematic.

OpenOffice is licensed under GPLv3 which confers patent protection, so Oracle cannot sue the producers/distributors/users of the LibreOffice fork.

VirtualBox, on the other hand, is licensed under GPLv2 which does not confer patent protection:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/GPL

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Moses' parting of the Red Sea: New sim explains whole thing

Thursday 23rd September 2010 09:20 GMT amehaye

Re: @Graham

The wind died when they passed. No wind, no problem to pass. It takes a while for the water to come back, right in time to flush the pursuing army.

I still don't think that this actually happened, but it is a nice theory non the less.

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Microsoft takes Oracle side in Google Java-phone attack

Monday 20th September 2010 09:03 GMT amehaye

Interesting

If Google infringes Oracle patents, than so does Microsoft. They, too, have a virtual machine running a Java clone on their phones.

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Oracle offers Java distraction to Google fisticuffs

Friday 17th September 2010 09:10 GMT amehaye

GPL will not protect you

The OpenJDK is released under GPLv2, and not by accident. GPLv3 protects you from patent-infringement litigation. GPLv2 does not, and that is exactly why it was chosen for OpenJDK. So no uncertainty here - if you use Java Oracle can sue you.

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Microsoft: IE9 will never run on Windows XP

Thursday 16th September 2010 11:45 GMT amehaye

Embrace, Extend...

Enable security breaches through desktop integration. Nice.

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Die-hard bug bytes Linux kernel for second time

Thursday 16th September 2010 01:06 GMT amehaye

Re StrongType

Someone is *wrong* on the Internet. Right now, that someone is you.

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Microsoft to embrace and extend HTML 5?

Thursday 9th September 2010 23:17 GMT amehaye

Re: Spot on

Nobody except in-house enterprise software developers that is. Just as they tied their apps to IE6 they will happily tie them to IE9 specific APIs. Especially if Microsoft touts that as the 'right way' to develop software.

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Google lands Gmail video chat on Linux

Saturday 21st August 2010 22:31 GMT amehaye

Hardy?

Time to upgrade, mate.

There have been about 4 versions since Hardy went out, current one being an LTS.

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Oracle sues Google over Java in Android

Friday 13th August 2010 10:53 GMT amehaye

Re: In some ways C# is more open than Java

You forget that C# and the CLR are protected by patents owned by Microsoft. The situation is no different from the Java situation. Being standardized does not remove the patent encumbrance.

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Empires built on free code aren't cheap

Saturday 24th July 2010 17:15 GMT amehaye

Re: Yes, but...

Ah, but you cannot break out of Google or Microsoft solutions. They incur a very tight lock-in. Amazon is the easiest to break out of, which is exactly the reason for its huge success. Developers aren't stupid, they see lock-in for what it is.

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Microsoft's ARM deal fuels hope of a chilled-out Xbox

Friday 23rd July 2010 13:25 GMT amehaye

Not the XBox

ARM does not make sense in an XBox, it is too underpowered. A more plausible reason is that Microsoft is building their own phone/pad/mobile device.

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Why we love to hate Microsoft

Saturday 3rd July 2010 17:52 GMT amehaye

Re #1

You mean Linux?

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Microsoft unveils – wait for it – another mobile OS

Friday 18th June 2010 12:49 GMT amehaye

That explains some things

They could all use plain old Linux for these handheld devices, and get much better stability for free.

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Bug gives attackers complete control of Windows PCs

Thursday 10th June 2010 12:16 GMT amehaye

Security minded

But you did not disable Windows? Idiot!

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iPad's brain not so unique

Thursday 10th June 2010 12:07 GMT amehaye

iOS

Funny, and I thought that OSX is based on a Mach micro kernel and BSD drivers and user-land (a.k.a. Darwin), with NextSTEP based user mode framework and API.

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