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I hope your long weekend, if you're having one, is long and weekendy..
Australian Linux users have filed a complaint with the ACCC over perceived multi-OS boot restrictions in Windows 8. However, Microsoft’s move immediately got sections of the open source community up in arms, as it has the potential to lock out rival operating systems from being installed on PCs from the likes of manufacturers such as Dell, HP and Lenovo — unless those manufacturers explicitly work with the Linux community to support a number of different versions of Linux.
Meanwhile Facebook is drawing fire over user tracking. It's been a rough week for the company. Yesterday, a collection of advocacy groups asked the Federal Trade Commission to ban Facebook's "frictionless sharing" and new Timeline features announced at F8 last week. On Wednesday, two U.S. congressmen asked the FTC to investigate Facebook over the post logout cookies. And a Chicago company has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Facebook over the Timeline feature.
Those Blackblaze guys have always been interesting with their storage pods and wotnot, but there's a new video showing a server lift that they have recently acquired. Guido is a $10k server lift and he works like a charm. He can lift the servers onto the very top rack and even has a special extender for the very bottom rack. Sean can now deploy Storage Pods without any help. Simple enough I suppose, but holy cow do I wish I had had one of these back when OCAU was on the 4RU quad opteron monster server BBQ.
It turns out that flexible Samsung phone from a few days ago isn't real and probably won't be anytime soon. Boo. In a brief statement to UK magazine T3, however, Samsung said the Skin is not in. "It is a project that has been carried out by design students and is just a concept product. Samsung was not involved in the project," a Samsung rep told T3. "The students used the name Galaxy Skin and the Samsung logo in their concept to make it look more like a commercial product."
Timbot spotted this article about the rise and fall of Groupon. When Google offers you $6 billion for your too-good-to-be-true company, you take it. You don’t tell them “up yours” and then try and put your company on the stock market for couple of bucks more. But that’s exactly what Groupon CEO Andrew Mason did. Does he feel stupid now? Probably that feeling is not as strong as the relief Google must be feeling for not buying the overpriced poisoned chalice.
An odd one from Leo: So it turns out that hotmail/windows live has a 'case sensitive' password system, but it isn't actually case sensitive. The password change webpage is case sensitive but the actual login page for windows live is not. Actually, you can use any combination of upper and lower case you like when logging in. I did some digging around and the first report of this issue was back in feb 2011. And it still is not working now. Microsoft don't seem like they are going to do anything about it. Atleast people know. Looks like it goes back to Nov 2010, and the "escalation" link doesn't work anymore.
China has launched their first space laboratory into orbit. "Rendezvous and docking is a sophisticated technology," said Yang Hong, Tiangong-1's chief designer. "It's also essential to building China's own space station," he told the state broadcaster China Central Television. China has promised to build this station at the end of the decade.
Also on the space front, there's apparently water vapour in the Martian atmosphere. New analysis of data sent back by the SPICAM spectrometer on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft has revealed for the first time that the planet's atmosphere is supersaturated with water vapour. This surprising discovery has major implications for understanding the Martian water cycle and the historical evolution of the atmosphere.
BlueRaven sent in this Imperial March played on 2 floppy drives video, with discussion here.
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