Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/iDGGlOG9JXM/Oracle-Kills-Virtual-Iron

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Esto con soft libre no pasa

rhathar writes in with news that Oracle is killing off the products of Virtual Iron, a month after purchasing the company. Reports say that all but 10 to 15 staff were let go. The Reg article speculates that Oracle bought VI for its technology and considers its customers and partners expendable. When the Sun purchase finalizes, Oracle will be in possession of three separate virtualization technologies all based on Xen. "In a letter to Virtual Iron's sales partners, Oracle says it 'will suspend development of existing Virtual Iron products and will suspend delivery of orders to new customers.' One partner said, 'So basically, anyone that built their hosting infrastructure on VI... is now totally in the s–.'"

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/c_8YfFu0OGI/girl-dies-by-electrocution-while-twitting-in-bathtub-apocalypse-draws-nearer

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su último tweet: dying by electrocution. so disgusting!

Two things here in what seems to be the world's first Twittercide: don't use your computer while taking a bath. And if for whatever reason you do, don't be like this 17-year-old Romanian girl and risk your well-being to Tweet.

The Austrian times says that Maria Barbu was, in fact, in the tub while using Twitter when she likely reached to plug in her charger with a wet hand, electrocuting herself in the process. You smell that? Yeah, that's a Darwin Award in the making. [Austrian Times]

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8ewN32AizY8/Memory-Usage-of-Chrome-Firefox-35-et-al

An anonymous reader writes "This experiment graphs the memory usage of Chrome and Firefox 3.5 (along with Safari and Opera) over a series of 150 Web page loads using an automated script. Firefox 3.5 shows the lowest memory usage in all categories, including average memory usage, maximum memory usage, and final memory usage. Chrome uses over 1 GB of memory due to its process architecture. Safari 4 and Opera show memory usage degradation over time, while Chrome and Firefox 3.5 are more reliable in freeing memory to the OS." IE 8 was not included "because the author could not find a way to prevent it from opening a new window on each invocation of the command."

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Source: http://ciberderechos.barrapunto.com/article.pl?sid=09/06/19/0829235&from=rss

Tuenti, una red social virtual dirigida a la población joven española, se comprometió en abril a limitar el acceso a su red de menores de 14 años. En esa línea, y respondiendo a muchas de las críticas que ha recibido recientemente, ha decidido cambiar sus condiciones de uso, destacando tres modificaciones: se prohíbe a cualquier persona del mundo enlazar directamente a los contenidos, bajo amenaza de iniciar acciones legales, te avisan que podrán solicitarte una copia de tu DNI para verificar tu edad, y cancelar tu cuenta en caso de no aportarla, y si invitas a otra persona a la red, reconoces hacerte responsable de las posibles consecuencias legales de dicha invitación. Samuel Parra hace un excelente artículo sobre las nuevas condiciones de uso.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rTChG29ezr0/Opera-Unite-Web-Server-Benchmarked

worb writes "Opera Unite comes with a web server which is supposedly going to 'redefine the web.' But how well does it actually perform? Is it a threat to other server solutions? Someone put it to the test, and published the results. While nginx, one of the fastest web servers available, is 5 times faster, a PHP+Apache+MySQL server is only 2 times as fast. A compiled C++ server, the MadFish WebToolkit, is 6 times faster. He concludes that Opera Unite's server is impressive, and that the others come nowhere close to the ease of use."

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