I'm glad to hear of any large group giving LibreOffice or OpenOffice a try. We need more variety and choice.

@technobabble said:

I haven't had any crashes with the browser, but I am also using Foxit reader. I actually forgot that I was using 64bit until I saw this thread was updated. Oh, and Chrome is my default browser.

Has nothing to do with the PDF viewer you have installed. I tested with fox it, Adobe, and only the built in windows 8 reader. Chrome uses an internal pdf viewer to display them inline. After displaying one inline and closing that tab, the browser crashed. Every time.

Most of the Linux distros have switched up MySQL or MariaDB. That is where Oracle is really losing ground. People think that they are using MySQL but under the hood it is MariaDB. Slowly the MySQL marketshare is eroding.

@JaredBusch said:

There are many, many people int he IT community that vocally believe that open source is simply more secure because it is open source and that is simply not true.

As far as "all things being equal" is possible, I believe that this is true. The problem is is that most people then take that statement and use it to mean that "all" open source code is safer than "all" closed code even of two different projects which is completely senseless and has nothing to do with the situation.

It is if you took the same people and the same project and the same attempt over and over again one open and one closed that the open would win.

When choosing a process, you choose open for security.

@Dashrender said:

Wait.. Isn't google drive already free? I've been using (barely) for some super small spreadsheets for years and never paid a dime.

I think that the thing here is that it is unlimited, not a small starter amount.

That list feels like it is way, way too centered around ERP and CRM systems. Are those really the stand outs in the open source realm? It seems unlikely.

@scottalanmiller said:

InfoWorld reports on OpenDaylight Helium's status.

OpenDaylight is a really important but not well understood project. Interesting stuff, though.

It's going to take virtualization to a whole new level and redefine how we approach traditional networking. Pertino is a trailblazer with this tech. Can't wait to see what else this project has in store.

Yeah - it's when I'm switched to another app that it shows, but it is still annoying 🙂

iOS 8.0.2 seems to be good. Several of us have tested it.

@thecreativeone91 said:

Will they please take the integration out of Youtube now... It has made comments on Youtube hard to follow.

Huh? are you implying that comments were ever able to be followed?

@Dashrender said:

@Bill-Kindle said:

@JaredBusch said:

This is a huge benefit. Also a good portal into lifetime subscriptions.. We'll see how it plays out once people start graduating.

I still have my community college email, and I just used it for this offer and it worked. I've attended off and on since 2006 though.

Does it give a personal O365 account, or a business style one ? I'm guessing the business style, with an email address of the school?

As far as I can tell, it appears to be business style. There's a Sharepoint page too.

So true. Elastix is now only on two gen old CentOS. Argh.

@nadnerB said:

I wonder if the discovery of this has anything to do with the bank robbers (the mainstream media called them hackers) that were finally caught after 12 years of stealth operation.

Good call, my gears are a'turnin' now.

@Joyfano said:

@nadnerB said:

Looks like a mix of Windows 7, 8 and Linux.

I hope they rename it in Australia to Windows Mongrel.

Hmm why Mongrel Sir?

Mongrel
A mongrel or mutt is a dog that is not the result of breeding and belongs to no breed. Wikipedia

Well, windows can be a bit of a dog. Windows 9 is from such a mixed background, it going to have an identity crisis. It seems to be random parts of other OS's slapped together. However, in saying that, no one will really know until the official announcement event comes around when there will be better information.

It may lose mongrel status but Microsoft have to be 100% sure of their direction AND stick to it

"We're Sorry" = Don't sue us!

Hard to really be easier than the SysV system. All that was was running through a list of commands alphabetically. About as basic as it gets.

that is cool!