"Nobody pays them to say anything"

<Quote> What about Edward J. Naughton, the lawyer for Microsoft who claimed APIs have been copyrighted for twenty years? You remember Mr. Naughton, don't you? The fellow who claimed Google had misused GPL's header files in Bionic, the part ...

Message posted on the June 1st, 2012 - 10:47 AM ET

Say “Good Riddance” to Bad Memories or Office Clutter with the Annual Cintas 2012 Good Riddance Day Contest

Prizes include a trip to Times Square for New Year’s Eve and an office organization package up to $5,000.

Press published on the November 8th, 2012 - 8:23 AM ET

Independent Content Creators Influence and Inspire Action in Consumers, According to New Research From SAY Media, comScore and TRU

Followers of online voices are influential early-adopters with massive social networks.

Press published on the June 9th, 2011 - 6:00 AM ET

SAY Media Reinvents the Digital Publishing Experience With Remodelista Redesign

New publishing approach makes digital content work better for editors, readers and advertisers.

Press published on the January 24th, 2012 - 7:00 AM ET

Linden Lab® Introduces dio™: a New Shared Creative Space

Now in Beta, New Site Will Make It Easy to Explore, Create, Share, - and Make Money - Interactive Places for Anything You Like.

Press published on the January 29th, 2013 - 12:00 PM ET

Thrustmaser T-Mini Wireless 2-in-1 Rumble Force

After the RGT FFB Pro clutch edition steering wheel, we will take a look at the Thrustmaster T-mini Wireless 2-in-1 Rumble Force controller. This games controller, besides being wireless, also has multiple options associated with it that we will ...

Review published on the December 18th, 2006 - 6:00 PM ET

Comparison of 7 free firewalls

In this article, we have selected for you seven firewalls that are completely free and not just trial versions… The products that we will compare don’t give away anything to the commercial versions in terms of security for home use on Windows XP ...

Review published on the September 2nd, 2008 - 9:40 AM ET

Kindle-Exclusive Books Have Been Downloaded Over 100 Million Times

More than 180,000 Kindle-exclusive titles are available in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library – Prime members can borrow them for free with no due dates Exclusive Kindle book selection continues to grow as another ...

Press published on the August 28th, 2012 - 7:00 AM ET

[PATCH] regulator: Only apply voltage constraints from consumers that set them

When applying the set_voltage() requests from consumers skip over those consumers that haven't set anything, otherwise we'll come out with a maximum voltage of zero. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> ...

Message posted on the May 14th, 2011 - 4:50 PM ET

cron cifs and jobs being executed later as the crontab say they would

Suse 10.2 uname -a Linux mymachine 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp #1 SMP Thu May 17 14:00:09 UTC 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I have a cron job which copies a backup to a remote site. This job dd's a file to gzip and then to a cifs mounted ...

Message posted on the January 25th, 2012 - 12:53 PM ET

Arrogance Punished -OR- The Scourge of thanatoid -OR- I'm "fooqué" (as they say in Montreal)... IOW... HELP!!!

Well, it took almost 20 years but it finally happened. It's amazing what a small batch file (maybe not so small - it has vaporized... read on) can do. Those bored with my gargantuan posts can just skim over most of it (please read the SUMMARY ...

Message posted on the July 28th, 2010 - 4:59 PM ET

Please discuss: what "git push" should do when you do not say what to push?

There is a proposal to change the default behaviour of 'git push' on the Git mailing list. The goal of this message is to encourage you to discuss it before it happens (or the change is aborted, depending on the outcome of the discussion). In the ...

Message posted on the March 17th, 2012 - 12:20 AM ET

Does anyone have anything against OSS?

Seems that some in COLA think there are people against their "cause"... and perhaps even against them. But is anyone? Not Mac users - OS X and many of the technologies that come with it are OSS or have an OSS back end. Not most Windows ...

Message posted on the April 4th, 2011 - 7:43 PM ET

Why Don't You Say What You Mean? Gentle Editorial Feedback...

This one just whistled past my desk: I thought I would share it with everyone else. Now THIS is the way to 'encourage' lazy Word users... Dear <Person>: The new documents are impossibly bad, and I do mean impossibly bad. They are among the ...

Message posted on the April 7th, 2010 - 7:35 PM ET

them say anything