Archive for August 23, 2007

Bill Gates said to have made calls to the Secretary of Defense over OOXML

{ Thursday 23 August 2007 @ 11:42:22(+0000) } · { Digg }
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Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to ignore the votes of its advisory committees and vote “yes” on ISO standardizing Microsoft’s OOXML format, the one in competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF).

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The Best Game in Town: The world’s first PS3-based supercomputing cluster

{ Thursday 23 August 2007 @ 02:44:30(+0000) } · { Digg }
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Terra Soft’s CEO, Kai Staats, called the building of the PS3 cluster a “highlight of [his] time in this industry”. We caught up with Kai recently for an insider’s view on the PS3 cluster.

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Linus Torvalds talks future of Linux

{ Thursday 23 August 2007 @ 01:58:41(+0000) } · { Digg }
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INTERVIEW | Linus Torvalds relates his plans for the future of Linux, including the 3.0 kernel, problems with the Linux release cycles and which distro he personally runs on his home PC. ” ’Compile everything by hand’ ones simply weren’t interesting to me,” Torvalds says. And there was that time he was bitten by a ferocious real-life penguin.

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BitTorrent Admin Monitored by US Government, Forced to Dump Linux

{ Thursday 23 August 2007 @ 01:56:01(+0000) } · { Digg }
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Sk0t, an ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is to have his internet connection forcibly monitored by the US Government. If that wasn’t bad enough, the monitoring software is Windows based – which means he is being forced to ditch Linux – or face being barred from the internet.

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