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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 05:08 PM EDT |
| "Where I work currently AGPL has been forbidden by our Legal Team. Currently
it is keeping us from going to 12.04 as from what we understand it is now in the
standard ubuntu repos for 12.04. Here is my question how can one detect and
remove those packages from one local repo (we do actually have our own internal
ubuntu repo)?" ubuntuforum [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 05:08 PM EDT |
| f-secure offer
some observations on Panetta's fears of a
Cyber Pearl Harbor [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 06:49 PM EDT |
Ubuntu xubuntu-desktop 12.04 to Ubuntu 12.10 Sweet :-)
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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 07:05 PM EDT |
Today, Canonical has released version 12.10 of its
Ubuntu Linux distribution, codenamed "Quantal Quetzal" after a ridiculously
awesome-looking bird.
Q
uantal represents the start of a new two-year development cycle and lays the
groundwork for what Ubuntu will evolve into by 2014. As such, the release is
focused on figuring out what users are primarily doing on the desktop and in the
enterprise and putting the right tools in front of them to help.
The release
is right on schedule.
Lee Hutchinson, ars
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 19 2012 @ 01:06 AM EDT |
"On 15 October, the Dutch ministry of Justice and Security proposed
powers for the police to break into computers, install spyware, search computers
and destroy data. These powers would extend to computers located outside the
Netherlands.
Dutch digital rights movement Bits of Freedom warns for the
unacceptable risks to cybersecurity and calls on other countries to strongly
oppose the proposal."
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, October 19 2012 @ 08:34 AM EDT |
Tomi Ahonen gives us
his analyses of Nokia's Q3
results, and it's not a pretty
sight...
When Elop took over, Nokia had 33% market share in
smartphones. Today it is 4%.
Q4 2010 - 29% (Elop first quarter in
charge)
Q1 2011 - 24% (Elop announces new strategy at start of
quarter)
Q2 2011 - 16%
Q3 2011 - 14%
Q4 2011 - 12% (Windows
based Lumia phones start to sell)
Q1 2012 - 8%
Q2 2012 - 7% (Microsoft
'Osbornes' Nokia's Lumia line)
Q3 2012 - 4%
In North America, total
Nokia mobile phone sales fell in
just one quarter from 700,000 to 300,000, Tomi
reports.
However, we have heard at least at one point the the Lumia
was
outselling the iPhone in China. The actual figures? In
China Nokia sales fell
in units 27% from 7.9 million to 5.8
million, but - the revenues crashed
49%.
This is a world-record fall in market share by any market
leader
in any industry, ever. Nokia generates a loss of
48.9% per smartphone it
sells.
Next year Tomi says we can expect 2% or 3% for Nokia
Lumia
and Windows Phone 8 and definitely no more than 1%
more from the other
partners. I have read elsewhere that at
this rate Nokia will run out of cash by
March 14th.
My own opinion: The Win8 Phone is not going to gain
traction any time soon. Consider: Microsoft already had
their big launch for
the Windows phone, with marching bands
and rock shows in Time's Square - and
all the glowing
reports they could buy from their vast network of
journalists.
Once you have launched your product, you can't
launch it again a year later.
Nobody would pay any
attention.
Then it turned out for the people who
bought the Win 7.5
Phone that the whole time they were just beta testers for
the Win 8 Phone. I wouldn't think they would have been too
pleased when they
learned that. Tomi says The Lumia series
has had the biggest return rates of
any smartphone model in
Nokia's history. 4 in 10 Nokia Lumia owners in the only
independent study of Lumia customer satisfaction, by Yankee
Group, rated the
Lumia smartphones the worst on the survey.
These Win 7.5 Phone
customers will not likely being
coming back for more. Worse than that for
Microsoft, they
will be talking about their unhappy experience with their
friends, negative publicity that will undermine Microsoft's
promotional
efforts for not only the latest Win Phone, but
also their new tablets. Anybody
want to be a beta tester for
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 19 2012 @ 11:17 AM EDT |
Notice for Minnesota Users:
Coursera has
been informed by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education that under Minnesota
Statutes (136A.61 to 136A.71), a university cannot offer online courses to
Minnesota residents unless the university has received authorization from the
State of Minnesota to do so. If you are a resident of Minnesota, you agree that
either (1) you will not take courses on Coursera, or (2) for each class that you
take, the majority of work you do for the class will be done from outside the
State of Minnesota.
Katherine Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher
Education[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 19 2012 @ 01:03 PM EDT |
M
otorola Must Offer Microsoft License To
Standard Essential Patents at Court
Rate
Motorola Inc. must agree to license
standard-
essential patents (SEPs) to Microsoft Corp., and if the
parties
cannot come to an agreement, a federal court will
force one, the U.S. District
Court for the Western District
of Washington ruled Oct. 10 (Microsoft Corp. v.
Motorola
Inc., W.D. Wash., No. 2:10-cv-01823-JLR, 10/10/12).
This is
the second loss for Motorola in this litigation
in two weeks. The U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit upheld Sept. 28 the same district court's
decision
to issue a preliminary anti-suit injunction, preventing
Motorola from
enforcing an injunction imposed by a German
court against Xbox sales. 28. No.
12-35352, 2012 BL 257618
(9th Cir. Sept. 28, 2012).
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 19 2012 @ 02:40 PM EDT |
Judge Lucy Koh wants Apple to justify the massive dollar amount it
sought to recoup from Samsung.
“In seeking the very large damages award
it sought at trial, Apple stipulated to the introduction of JX1500, a partial
summary of its damages calculations, which contains some product-specific unit
sales and revenue information,” Judge Koh [.PDF] said in the filing. “As Apple appears to have
realized in introducing that exhibit, it cannot both use its financial data to
seek multi-billion dollar damages and insist on keeping it secret.”
Koh
continued, “As this Court explained in the August 9 Order, Apple has not
established that public availability of its product-specific unit sales,
revenue, profit, profit margin, and cost data would actually provide its
competitors with an advantage, as would be required to find the information
sealable under the ‘compelling reasons’ standard.”
Zach
Epstein, BGR[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 19 2012 @ 02:50 PM EDT |
| With PC makers and analysts increasingly skeptical that the new Windows 8
operating system will lure consumers away from tablets and smartphones,
Microsoft said Thursday that declining sales pushed down its net income 22
percent in the latest quarter.
The Salt Lake Tribune [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 20 2012 @ 07:29 AM EDT |
| "Should foreign governments give up their nationals to the US to 'face justice'
over minor crimes committed outside US borders? What about in civil matters,
like copyright infringement? Kellie Tranter on America's thirst for extradition"
link
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 20 2012 @ 11:25 AM EDT |
| The release of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system is a week away, and
consumers are in for a shock. Windows, used in one form or another for a
generation, is getting a completely different look that will force users to
learn new ways to get things done.
Early look at Windows 8 baffles consumers [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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