ConsortiumInfo.org - Norwegian Standards Council Recommends Mandatory use of ODF and PDF
Norway is the latest European country to move closer to mandatory government use of ODF (and PDF). According to a press release provided in translation to me by an authoritative source, Norway now joins Belgium, Finland, and France (among other nations) in moving [...]
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Standards: Will India ever wake up?
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Mobile phones with Linux!
There have been lot of phones that claimed to run on Linux, and most of them failed to support and service the phones properly. Few very good examples are the Motorola series A760/A768i/A780, which were available in India. These phones have Linux running in it, but thats just the Kernel, rest everything is [...]
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Mozilla and Firefox forked?
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
That was kind of hard to believe, but had to after I saw this page on gnu.org. Its true that it would not take more than a week to roll out another browser based on the free sources available from mozilla.org, but would this not dilute the dominance of mozilla and lead way to IE [...]
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Online Encoding Proxy
For all those people who are fed up of downloading fonts, one-per-website for all the Indian news-paper sites you visit… Here is a good news, the Swecha team has put up a web proxy for encoding conversion.
All you have to do is follow the link to your favorite news paper from http://uni.swecha.org/ [Offline at the [...]
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Google listed on SpamCop
Something unusual came up today when one of my colleagues complained about mails from GMail not reaching him. The bounced message said “Mail from 66.249.92.170 not accepted - check www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml”. I just discovered that a block of google ips have been listed as spammers in the spamcop.net’s blacklist. Here are screenshots of aquery on [...]
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Slashdot: France Considers Anti-DRM ‘iPod Law’
Slashdot | France Considers Anti-DRM ‘iPod Law’:
“According to the Washington Post, France is contemplating legislation designed to ‘to force compatibility between digital songs and the different machines that play them.’ Known colloquially as the ‘iPod bill’, it is opposed by Apple, the Business Software Alliance, and others who refer to it as ’state-sponsored piracy.’ Two [...]
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Got access to my lost accounts ;)
Not very difficult, seriously.
I hesitated to complain to the Yahoo! customer care, but they were really fast in responding once I reported the matter to them. They only took about 6hrs to let me reset my password. The story with google was a little different, they took time but never responded - and [...]
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Thoughts on my e-mail address hijacking
After my Yahoo! and GMail accounts got hijacked, I had to take some time off to understand what could have gone wrong with my email account. I always thought that I take good care of them - Alas, I don’t! Here are a few things that I noticed in the last couple of days.
How [...]
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Google and Yahoo accounts hijacked!
I created a category called “Privacy” under “Internet” not knowing that I would have some really stupid thing to say. My google and yahoo accounts got hijacked early today. I was logged on to gmail when all this happened - I could do nothing as I saw everything go away
Contacted google and yahoo, lets [...]
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