Month: October 2008
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MotoGP Malaysia
125cc saw Talmasci take his first win of the season and Simoncelli clinched the 250CC World Championship with one more round to go. The heat played a prominent role as the air temp was around 38 deg C for both these races and Simoncelli looked completely done in at the end of the race. In…
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OOXML Documentation available online now
at the Boycott Novell forum and that’s causing a bit of an uproar in the ISO community. Even though their own processes indicate the docs were supposed to be made publicly available 30 days after the standard was sealed. It’s now a couple of months after the fact and we’re all still waiting so why…
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WSBK 2008 – Troy Bayliss 3 times a champion
Haga unusually rode a very good SuperPole to be no. 1 on the grid for the 1st race and went on to win – that’s 3 on the trot now. But the big story of race 1 was Troy Bayliss’ clinching of the 2008 championship with a 3rd place in that race, and that on…
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Flash webcam hijacker!
The security issues just keep on rolling in – the latest is a flash vulnerability that allows an attacker to gain control of webcams and microphones. Rated ‘critical’ by Adobe, the bug affects all browsers using the flash plugin or player – a patch isn’t yet available although there is a workaround of some kind.…
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MotoGP Aussie-style
Casey Stoner put the last 2 rounds behind him and took the Aussie race by the horns – after starting from pole, he lead all the way to the chequered flag. Rossi has a bad fall in qualifying leading to whiplash and a 12th place on the starting grid, but he didn’t let that get…
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ISO issues generate more discent
13 members of the Norwegian standards body, Standards Norway, have left the organisation citing issues relating to the OOXML standards process debacle. Reasons are as follows: * The administration of Standard Norway trust 37 identical letters from Microsoft partners more than their own technical committee. * The process within Standard Norway has been unpredictable and…
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MotoGP and WSBK
Rossi’s win at Motegi has won him the 2008 MGP title, his 6th in 8 years. This is probably his best having been out of it for the last 2 years. Stoner, being first out of the blocks, tried his best to stay at the front of the pack but Rossi came past 3/4 way…
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ODF and the Microsoft-sponsored SC34
SC34, possible right-hand Microsoft lapdog and current ISO/IEC committee responsible for OOXML, appears to be trying for a takeover of ODF as a standard. Yes, I know, it’s madness. But apparently, the fact that the whole world knows that ISO is now useless, has escaped the SC34 guys completely. They’re indicating that they would like…
