In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:21:10 +0000
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> Democrats can't run Linux
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> | THE U.S. Democratic Party has been touting its IT credentials as proof that
> | it is a better bet than luddite John McCain who has never turned on a
> | computer.
> |
> | However, cracks in the Democrats' veneer have been showing lately, notably
> | with the appointment of the technology and privacy anti-Christ Joe Biden as
> | vice presidential candidate. It seems the Democrat's open sauce credentials
> | are being questioned.
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/26/democrats-ban-linux
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You want cracks? Try their live video. Falls flat on its face,
at least as of yesterday. Today it just sort of sits there, which
suggests it's being avidly watched -- and therefore overloaded.
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> Recent:
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> Microsoft Word Now Knows the Difference Between Osama and Obama
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> | In my post yesterday, I quoted a frustrated reader who couldn?t believe that
> | Microsoft Word still proposes ?Osama? as a corrected version of ?Obama.? He
> | wanted to know why Microsoft didn?t update its dictionary.
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> http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/microsoft-word-now-knows-the-difference-between-osama-and-obama/?ref=personaltech
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It took them *how long*?
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> Microsoft tries to fix big glitch on Obama
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> | One mixup, with potentially vast effect, apparently belongs to the
> | unintentional category and gained wide currency this week: The spell-checker
> | in Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail software recommends that users replace the
> | word "Obama" with "Osama."
> |
> | 'Can of worms'
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> http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/president/19875329.html?location_refer=Most%20Viewed:Homepage
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Ouch.
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> Obama Campaign Hopes for Better Web Security
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> | The requirements are pretty much what you'd read in any e-commerce security
> | help-wanted ad: VPN (virtual private network) and Unix or Linux experience,
> | along with a "deep understanding" of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl)
> | development. And of course, the successful candidate must be willing
> | to "respond off-hours to high urgency security situations."
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> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146997/obama_campaign_hopes_for_better_web_security.html
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Good for them. ;-)
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> Obama Voices Support for ODF
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> | OpenDocument Format supporters are welcoming presidential hopeful
> | Sen. Barack Obama's promise to put government data online in
> | universally accessible formats should he be elected.ODF a
> | National Standard in Korea
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> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2219248,00.asp
I hope he doesn't *overdo* it -- mostly because there are
some documents which are more compact in HTML than in ODF.
Nevertheless, I like the fact that he knows something about
the issue.
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Murphy was an optimist.
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