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Slashdot post: Radio Shack E-Fires 400 workers. KingSkippus writes “You've got mail! …and no job! The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that RadioShack has notified 400 workers by e-mail that they are being laid off. The e-mails state, “The work force reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated.” [...]
Linux-Watch.com reports on their totally non-scientific Desktop Linux Survey results analyzed. I was surprised by the results
Thom Holward posts this article on OSNews, linking to the this ZDNet blog post where Richard MacManus interviews Microsoft's Chris Wilson. I've read the article and I can't see where Thom's conclusion comes from. Chris says…
“…IE7 is going to be an important update in the automatic updates feature. This means it'll actually show up [...]
Slashdot post: No Full HD Playback for 32-bit Vista. snafu109 writes “Pity the Vista user with a 32-bit CPU. Senior Program Manager Steve Riley announced today at Tech.Ed Australia that full HD content shall only be played at the full resolution where only signed drivers are used — only in the 64-bit version of Vista.” [...]
Speaking of Python, it's the fourth Thursday of the month, and that means that the Python Special Interest Group of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group meets tonight at 7 PM at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, Commercial Street, Manchester. Bill Sconce, the PySIG leader, announces that tonight is “Hands-on Night.” Should be fun. Hope [...]
Declarations of a One True Way to Python Web Frameworks has lead to lots of kickback. A few samples from Daily Python-URL! (from the Secret Labs):
[Floris Bruynooghe] Python web frameworks
[online.effbot.org: Fredrik Lundh] he has given us… his shoe!
[Groovie] Notes on the Python Web Framework Pronouncement
The consensus seems to be that not much has [...]
OSNews reports “Novell is still working on improving the VBA support of its OpenOffice submission, and is therefore open to all sumbmissions of VBA macros which are not working on the OOo version of SLED 10. In the meantime the question is when – or even if – Sun will accept the patches for OpenOffice [...]
Over at Blue Sky On Mars: Kevin Dangoor, one of the lead developers for the TurboGears Python web framework posts, “There can't be only one.”
“I guess I'd better give up now. Guido announced at SciPy that Django is the standard web framework for Python. How's that for a first two sentences of a blog post? [...]
David Berlind's recent blog post pointing to Tim Bray's trials and tribulations on switching from a Powerbook to a Sun Ultra 20 running Ubuntu (!) has some interesting reflections on how hard all desktop switching is. David says,
[Tim] “used two words — “wrangling” and “gyrations” — in his last post that leap off [...]
Garrett followed up on my recent post about creating a root shell by point to Aaron Margosis' post with a “MakeMeAdmin.cmd” batch file. My one-liner solution created a shell as an admin user. Aaron's is more extensive and adds the current user temporarily to the administrators group (requiring the admin password), then requires the current [...]
