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Yet Another Photo Screen Saver (msi)

Dozens of images from Flickr and your disk are displayed on the screen, organized in a grid-like layout. As photos are partially covered up, the remaining parts get replaced with smaller photos. The screen saver follows a methodical, rhythmic progression. Version 1 displays photos from Flickr, your hard drive, or...

Tags: Screensaver, Flickr, Photograph, Kuhn

Software downloads 2008-03-12

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Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation

Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violationwho do they think they are fooling?apologizing for nothing does not absolve M$ of the other grave crimes they commited in the last 20 years.The point of CodePlex is???I have a fellow developer thats completely oblivious to anything non-MS. We would discuss...

Tags: Open Source Initiative, open source, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

Windows will go open source when pigs fly

Windows will go open source when pigs flyMicrosoft can not afford to go to open source....People will see how much of other companies IP they have used.Er??? >> Er???"Pliny the Elder" had it right, your ("SpikeyMike") logic is wrong or you misread the post.expanding on the statement: If MS code...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., open source, F/OSS, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Do companies benefit from social networking?

Do companies benefit from social networking?There are at least two modes of development.One is the "Mongolian Hordes" approach involving lots of people and layers of management and status reports and invent-to-the-schedule-or-else. The "social networking" process you describe, it seems to me--and I've been in the research business on and...

Tags: benefit, social networking, paradigm shift, Mongolian Hordes, network

Discussion threads 2007-08-17

"They" CAN spy on your IM and VoIP conversations- through walls!

"They" CAN spy on your IM and VoIP conversations- through walls!This is not even close to being a new problem"They" have been able to do this for many years. It used to involve reading the scan electronics in a CRT as they emitted RF in normal operation. A clever piece...

Tags: Monitors & displays, IM, wall, VoIP, CRT, LCD, new problem

Discussion threads 2007-04-21

"They" CAN spy on your IM and VoIP conversations- through walls!

No I am not making this up, and I have not gone off the deep end. U.K.-based New Scientist magazines online tech editor Tom Simonite reports that Cambridge University computer security researcher Markus Kuhn has developed a way for a radio antenna and radio receiver to grab images...

Tags: Security, General

Blog posts 2007-04-20

Cheaper LEDs to light a green path?

Cheaper LEDs to light a green path?Color Will Be the IssueThe problem with fluorescent and other forms of energy-efficient lighting is the color and flicker and how it they effect the eye. If they can adjust these to properly emulate the common light bulb, or better yet, the Sun, then...

Tags: Engineering, sunlight, light-emitting diode, mercury

Discussion threads 2007-01-19

Value of Microsoft's patent pledge is questioned

Value of Microsoft's patent pledge is questionedthere is a cost associated with developing software.Exxon Mobil made profits of $40 billion, after paying their top management in very very generous stock options and bonus'. They have been generating this kind of profits for the last few years.Chevron is no saint either....

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Investment, survey, patent pledge, Microsoft Corp., Chevron Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-11-16

Value of Microsoft's patent pledge is questioned

Bradley Kuhn, now CTO at Eben Moglens Software Freedom Law Center, has looked at Microsofts much-publicized patent pledge and called it of little value.The patent covenant only applies to software that you develop at home and keep for yourself; the promises dont extend to others when you distribute. You cannot...

Tags: General, Development, Legal, Patents

Blog posts 2006-11-15

The grinches that stole Zune's Christmas

For the record, I have not been one of the lucky few to have laid their hands on Microsofts new Zune iPod killer which is due to arrive on the US market tomorrow. But, judging by Google News, there are plenty of reviewers out there who have -- reviewers that...

Tags: Microsoft Zune, Wired &, Wireless, Personal Technology, Mobile, Entertainment, General

Blog posts 2006-11-13

The grinches that stole Zune's Christmas

For the record, I have not been one of the lucky few to have laid their hands on Microsofts new Zune iPod killer which is due to arrive on the US market tomorrow. But, judging by Google News, there are plenty of reviewers out there who have -- reviewers that...

Tags: Personal Technology, General, Wired & Wireless, Mobile, Entertainment, Berlind

Blog posts 2006-11-13

Will Sun blow up the Microsoft/Novell deal to Red Hat's benefit?

This is a Part 2 that goes with this Part 1.While the buzz around the Web 2.0 conference seems to be getting a majority of the technology industrys attention this week, two other issues have been gurgling below the surface that probably deserve to be connected, but havent yet. One...

Tags: General, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Legal, Microsofts, Novell Inc.

Blog posts 2006-11-10

Bradley Kuhn rips Microsoft's patent pledge to shreds. But should we be surprised?

Bradley Kuhn rips Microsoft's patent pledge to shreds. But should we be surprised?FSF said there were violations.In fact they hired professionals to dig tghem out and they found 284 *possible* violations.Now, only a complete fool would thing that ALL 284 are without merit.Every open source supporter is going tosay that...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., patent, Open Source Risk Management, Novell Inc., Linux

Discussion threads 2006-11-10

Bradley Kuhn rips Microsoft's patent pledge to shreds. But should we be surprised?

Yesterday, in reponse to Microsoft’s Patent Pledge for Non-Compensated Developers which was an integral part of last weeks pact between the software giant and Novell, Software Freedom Law Center CTO Bradley Kuhn issued a tersely worded warning to the Free and Open Source Software FOSS community that the pledge is...

Tags: General, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Legal, F/OSS, openSUSE.org

Blog posts 2006-11-10

Knowledge/Information centricity vs document centricity

Knowledge/Information centricity vs document centricityIt's ok, David...Dan misuses the term "deconstruct"...as well.There seems to be a penchant for media types to expropriate terms philsophopy: paradigm Thomas Kuhn, deconstruct (Derrida, Heidegger) amonng others. Y'all think it makes ya sound real cool! But we (who know better...ex-philosophy majors) forgive, you...

Tags: Strategy, centricity, Wittgenstein

Discussion threads 2006-05-26

Fiorina: Technology will 'disappear' in 25 years

Fiorina: Technology will 'disappear' in 25 yearsWhat a loser!When CEO of HP the future was PCs! Not.Really????No wonder this chick lost her position at HP. Could she not say anything more obvious than this. Did she finally read an Asimov book or something? Blah blah blah....

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Lucent Technologies Inc., vision

Discussion threads 2006-02-22