CEO Steve Ballmer has issued a threat by phone to European Commissioner Neelie Kroes that MS will not ship Vista to Europe if regulators don’t “cooperate.” Microsoft made the same threat to South Korean regulators, but did not follow through when they lost that battle. internetnews.com has the story »
Since this is probably the most annoying thing Microsoft has ever put into their operating systems, here’s some links to sites that teach you how to disable it: Download everything from Microsoft without WGA Check Disable and Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications Nag Screen For those of you in a hurry, here’s the quick answer: Download mgadiag.exe Start mgadiag.exe and copy the download center code Visit a download page at microsoft. »
LinuxGames is reporting that “Savage: The Battle for Newerth” is now free. Not Free software, though but free as in no-cost. From the site: Savage: The Battle for Newerth, a real-time strategy shooter from S2 Games, has been liberated for both Windows and GNU/Linux. While S2 Games provides Windows installation instructions on the S2 Games Download page, you can find the GNU/Linux installation file links and instructions in this post at the Evolved Clan Community forums. »
Looks like old people are being barred from the internet. From the article: After walking the Great Wall of China and making plans for a trip to Russia, Shirley Greening-Jackson thought signing up for a new internet service would be a doddle. But the young man behind the counter had other ideas. He said she was barred - because she was too old. At first, I thought this didn’t make any sense. »
Mozilla has decided to hire an outside firm to work on the Firefox 2.0 theme. Toronto software development company Radiant Core has been selected by Mozilla to design the user interface and improve the usability of Firefox 2.0. Others considered were Meta and Raiz Labs. IT Business has the story »
2X software have released an NX server as well as a client to the community. Finally a fully featured GPL server as well as client is available to the general public and can be included by DEFAULT in all the distributions thus making them Terminal Servers. Malta Linux User Group has the story. »
A group of OpenOffice enthusiasts has released OpenOffice Premium, a new bundle that includes the OpenOffice suite and a grab-bag of extras, such as clip art, document templates, and fonts. Jeremy Reimer of arstechnica wrote an article about it. »
This guy has StarCraft running on Linux/WINE, using a touchscreen monitor!Pretty neat! :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYY-g6ionzMread more »
Computers use electricity. Teens love MSN Messenger. Teens also like to keep their computers on in order to have their MSN Messenger accounts logged in at all times, which is a huge waste of energy for something really unnecessary. Could this be something to worry about? Maybe it is…Today I’m writing about energy waste. Home appliances need electricity to work. Electricity costs money. So far, this is common knowledge. But electricity also has other costs, such as environmental pollution due to the CO2 emissions resulting from the electricity production. »
Here’s something I’ve known for some time: The Ubuntu Guide. If you want to know how to do something with Ubuntu and don’t know how, the answer is probably there. It went through a big revamp since the previous version and it’s better than ever. »