| Announcing the Impending Relaunch of sonoftheclayr |
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After several months of trying out this idea and with little success, mainly due to my lack of posting which can be attributed to my procrastinating nature, I have decided to relaunch sonoftheclayr with a new purpose and new look. I'm not sure what it will be right now but I think at this stage it will be based around fiction/novels. I will launch the new sonoftheclayr in a few days time. Perhaps Monday or Tuesday. Until then, sonoftheclayr |
| State of things |
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It's been a bit over 2 months since my last post (Not good!) and I decided that now would be about 1 and a half months too late for a post so here it is. I have recently done a clean install of Kubuntu 8.04 KDE4 and I lost my www directory in the process so I lost some of the changes I had made to the website before it was uploaded. I will set up a new server on the weekend and do some work. I'm also going to write a post on the status of the community, in particular the #kubuntu channel on freenode. Just finished exams (Did alright in some, good in others and downright horrible in most). That's about it for now. I will post later with the status of the community. |
| Website back online |
| My web host was having some trouble with Apache and PHP earlier today and as a result sonofheclayr was down for most of the day. This is now fixed and everything is back to normal. |
| Microsft: The proud new owner an ISO standard. And it stinks. |
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For years Microsoft has had the de facto "standard" everything simpy because the majority of people use it and think it is the standard. Microsoft never did anything about this. It enjoyed the de facto standard position and never actually sought to makes it formats actual standards. But in 2006 something happened. The Open Document Format (ODF), used by OpenOffice.org and numerous other open source and closed source projects, became an ISO standard. Microsoft got scared and came up with it's own solution: Open Office XML, or in it's more well-known and sinister form: OOXML. Let me start off by saying that OOXML is a complete mess. According to tycheent the format is a 6000 page mess containing binary blobs and as such cannot be used by other applications simply because they don't know what they do. After much lobbying by the open source community and after much bribing and threatening, errr I mean lobbying, by Microsoft OOXML became an official standard. And then there were two. Two competing standards. This battle may be lost but the war is far from over. There is no doubt that while ODF has just taken a blow it will prevail. ODF is fully supported by inifnitely more applications than OOXML (It isn't even fully supported by Microsoft!) and Microsoft doesn't have any intentions of fully supporting OOXML. Microsoft even has a plugin available for it's office suite that will covert from ODF to OOXML. So in this bloggers minds these are the current scores: OOXML: 1 for it being a standard ODF: However many programs support it + 1 for it being a standard + 1 for it actually being open So off the top of my mind ODF is at least 5 up on OOXML. |
| Microsoft Releases Source Code for Windows 95, 98, Me and MS-DOS For One Day Only! |
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In an unforseen move Microsoft has announced the release of the Windows 95, 98, Me and MS-DOS source code for today only. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said that "by releasing the code for these operating systems we are allowing software developers worldwide to create better applications for these systems". Even though the operating systems are no longer supported by Microsoft the company believes that by releasing the code vulnerabilities and bugs would be fixed by independent programmers and benefit the users still running these systems. The Microsoft website crashed earlier today after thousands of people attempted to download the code at the same time. At the moment the website is displaying an error page and is redirecting users to several bit torrent trackers where the files have already been uploaded. Several prominent members of the open source community such as Richard Stallmand and Linus Torvalds have already praised the move by Microsoft saying it is the best thing to happen to open source since the creation of Linux. Canonical chairmen Mark Shuttleworth said today that "Microsoft is trying to stir interest in these old systems as they are reliable unlike Vista". The release of this code is sure to benefit the Wine project which has announced that version 1 will not be likely to be released in June due to the amount of programming that is sure to go on. Instead the Wine project will release version 1 on April 1st next year, hopefully with full support for all applications designed for earlier Windows releases. |
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