Archive for December 5th, 2007

December 5th, 2007

PulseAudio for 2008.1

For those who don’t follow the Cooker list, it’s recently been announced that Mandriva will switch to using PulseAudio as its default sound server for all desktops in the next release. Several other distros have announced plans to do this, and Fedora has been doing it since Fedora 8, but it’s rather more complex for [...]

December 5th, 2007

eBay

A lovely article on a French government agency’s attempt to compel eBay to accept regulation in France, like all other auction houses…
Typical meaningless bullcrap from eBay representative:
“The company said that the regulations should not apply because it is not an auction house, just a facilitator. “EBay has invented a new way of buying and selling, [...]