Vi$ta Usability #2: UAC

This tells you how good Microsoft UAC is:



(and also selinux)

Vi$ta Usability #1: Data listing

Copying some files in Vista using the explorer:



So which file is being copied?
The ugliest data lister working at M$ show me bunch of info but not the simplest thing.

Is this a movement for cost reduction or software freedom or both?

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communications has issued an instruction on using open source software products at state agencies.

Accordingly, by June 30, 2009, 100% of servers of IT divisions of government agencies must be installed with open source software; 100% of staffs at these IT divisions must be trained in the use of these software products and at least 50% use them proficiently.

Original post is at http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/01/822425/

Việt Nam!

Duo acoustique, by Lull

Found this album today on Jamendo.

It's been 4 years since Lena and Arnaud began to play together. They come from south of France and now live in Paris where they play as often as they can. They are working on a first album and are still looking for a label.

An independent benchmark of JS engines

An independent benchmarking result is posted today revealed the fact that in a close-to-real-world usage test, Chrome's V8 arrived at the 6th place ahead only the poor IE6's engine. This is totally opposite to the result provided by Google when benchmarking using their own tests.

This is interesting!

(Please note that even with JIT turned ON in FF 3.1b the performance was not improved. This is just because the test concentrates mostly on DOM manipulation, which is much used in real world applications, but the current TraceMonkey doesn't do any JIT for DOM calls.)

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