This may or may not be real, but if it is real, it’s pretty damn funny. Supposedly a Windows machine used for projections during the Olympics Opening Ceremony crashed during the show, resulting in the hilarious picture above.
Perhaps it would have been worth it to use a more stable OS (*cough*, Linux)?
WARNING: This may very well turn out to be a fake, or then not.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has a program called e-Tax for filling tax returns electronically. This would be a good idea except that e-Tax was (apparently) written in VB6 and so can’t run on non-Windows machines.
While the ATO has plans to make the software available for other platforms, at the moment they recommend that customers “come into a Tax Office shopfront and use e-tax on a shopfront computer” if they wish to file electronically.
Cuba announced that it would be moving to free software back in 2005 but after years of procrastination, the University of Havanna (in Spanish, Universidad de La Habana) has finally decided to flip the switch. At the moment virtually all the computer’s on its network run Microsoft Windows.
“The plan, which was approved by the University Council, envisages the intensive training of professors and computer personnel this year, followed in 2009 by the broad installation of the GNU/Linux operating system”
AtMail is a nice looking open source webmail client released a couple of days ago. The next time I’m looking for a webmail client, this is certainly one alternative I’ll look into.
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[AtMail via WebResourcesDepot]
Ken Hess on DaniWeb writes about the use of Linux in the Financial Sector. Major players in the financial industry, such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE); Detche Bank; and LVM Insurance, run their systems on various alternations of Linux.
Reuters recently switched their Market Data System to Linux as more than half of it’s 20 biggest clients had converted.
Named ‘Go Mumbai’, it is a cashless payment method that many commuters have opted for in Mumbai. Partly powered by Linux and deployed in January 2007 the system is so stable that it will be extended to cover a part of Mumbai’s suburban railways.
Two fare collection devices are placed near the front and back doors of the bus. The commuter purchases their ticket by holding up a smart card to the device. Each bus also includes a control device, which uses WLAN to communicate with the fare collection devices and GPS to tally the total distance travelled by each commuter. Each device on the bus uses an ARM9 processor and runs an embedded Linux (kernel version 2.6).
More more information, go to Linux.com.
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