Joakim Andersson

Slashdot IT Story | Windows 7 Reintroduces Remote BSoD: “”

I remember the teardrop attacks from my student days. Oh, those happy days!

How nice of Microsoft to reintroduce the same kind of problem for those who were not around back then.

Europe to Review Oracle’s Takeover of Sun – NYTimes.com

But Neelie Kroes, the EU competition commissioner, announced instead that an in-depth investigation would be opened.

Regulators must “examine very carefully the effects on competition in Europe when the world’s leading proprietary database company proposes to take over the world’s leading open-source database company,” she said in a statement.

It’s not easy for one big company to buy another big company nowadays. The EU has until January 19 to come to a decision so the deal will have to wait for another couple of months.

I wonder what will happen to Sun if the EU demands remedies that will call off the deal…

EBay Is Said to Have a Deal to Sell Skype – NYTimes.com

About time for EBay to get rid of Skype.

Slashdot Science Story | Making Babies In Space May Not Be Easy

Bank blir skyddat i domännamn – IDG.se

Fram för mer censur och kontroll i Sverige. Vi lever tydligen i en tid då vi inte kan förväntas tänka själva utan myndigheterna ska beskydda oss från oss själva med allehanda lagar och regler.

Slashdot | DOJ Gives Oracle Approval To Buy Sun

Still waiting for the European Commission’s opinion though.

Spotify förnekar avslag – IDG.se

Jobbig sits för Apple. Vi användare vill så klart ha Spotify i våra iPhones och iPod touchar, men vill verkligen Apple, som tjänar pengar när vi köper musik från iTunes Store att pengarna istället ska gå till premium abonnemang hos Spotify?

Ett möjligt krav för godkännande skulle kunna vara att Apple ska få del av dom pengarna, men går Spotify med på detta?

Microsoft ‘update’ breaks Office for Mac • The Register

The solution is to not upgrade until Microsoft has released a new service pack later in August that fixes this newly introduced problem.

“In order to carry enough current, the collider’s magnets are cooled by liquid helium to a temperature of 1.9 degrees above absolute zero, at which point the niobium-titanium cables in them lose all electrical resistance and become superconducting.”

Large Hadron Collider Struggles, Adding to the Mysteries of Life – NYTimes.com

I’m sure they’ll get it to work eventually. It’s understandingly quite a complicated machine, so it’s bound to have problems in the beginning.

Slashdot Technology Story | Northern Sea Route Through Arctic Becomes a Reality

Cool but worrying that the Artic sea ice is melting enough to allow this.