Conflict on the Menu
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New York Cityâs new rules for menu labels at chain restaurants have set off a food fight among the nationâs obesity experts.
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The aftermath of an upcoming World of Warcraft patch could get messy. Plus: NBC
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Rob Richards mentioned in a previous book review about some of the issues he was having getting the Oracle extension enabled on his Fedora 8 system. Well, he's come back after doing some more testing/compiling and has found some resolution to his issues.   I really didn't need to get it running, but the sheer fact that I tried it and it wouldn't work, pissed me off enough to spend some time getting it resolved. Hopefully this helps anyone else having the same problem. I am currently using instant client 11.1, but I did try the 10.2 version with the same results.   He steps through the process he followed - tracking down the missing libaio files, correcting an issue with SELinux loading the Oracle libraries and his realization: he just needed to allow text relocation. Included in the post are the command line calls that'd need to be made to make it all happen.
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A cookbook author is angered that another writer is using his bookâs title, but learns thereâs not much he can do about it.
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Two hot issues are making the rounds.  First, Debian and Firefox are having a spat, and the end result may be that Debian will distribute Firefox under a different name.  Second, the war betwen Linus Torvalds and other Kernel developers and the Free Software Foundation over GPLv3 is continuing, with Torvalds saying he's fed up with the FSF.  Here is my take on both, and related issues.
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Turf battles - not inadequate technology - cause most compatibility problems in the consumer electronics world. Competing technologies often emerge because electronics makers can't agree. That confuses consumers, and causes them to spend money on products that become worthless.
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British and Irish consumers may have to eat paler breakfast sausages and burgers after the European Union banned the use of a red food coloring, Red 2G, in the European Union due to concern it could cause cancer.
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Sometimes culture clash can be a productive thing. For instance, handing a flexible collaborative package such as Microsoft's SharePoint to a bunch of Marines -- not the most flexibility-oriented organization around -- is leading to good changes for the service. The path to productivity was, however, not the usual orderly march.
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British and Irish consumers may have  to eat paler breakfast sausages and burgers after the European  Union banned the use of a red food coloring, Red 2G, in the  European Union due to concern it could cause cancer.
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Ben Ramsey has posted a (quick) new items over on his blog that looks at solving two problems he was having with his blog - the now non-functional Flickr feed and a sorting problem with array_multisort.   I recently upgraded a few things around here (in particular, an upgrade to PHP 5.2), and I noticed two issues that occurred after the upgrade. [...] I easily solved both of these issues.   The correction to the Flickr feed involved changing the namespace information for his request (adding a trailing slash) because the SimpleXML functionality got a bit more particular about the format.   The problem with array_multisort involved adding in a parameter that was implied in previous PHP versions, SORT_STRING, to get his code correctly working.
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Many busy Americans may be stumped by how exactly to manage the new dietary guidelines for Americans released last week.
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Ancora un&#39;altro problema per Windows Xp. Il problema puÃ² essere risolto, sia con l&#39;installazione dell&#39;apposito aggiornamento della sicurezza sia con il nuovo Service Pack 2 di Windows Xp, ora disponibile anche in italiano.
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Itâs like the browser wars all over again: Two vendors are battling to win the hearts, minds, and debit cards of users and developers. The browser wars were really platform wars, based on the assumption that the browser would be the nexus through which users would access data inside and outside their companyâs walls. The battle hymn is sounding once more, only this time itâs a ring tone. Iâll get to the connection between the browser wars and the enterprise mobility race at the end.
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Open-source software loses out in e-government project in Bangalore. Also: Tensions rise as EU court prepares to rule on Microsoft's antitrust case.... Monsanto saves money for a rainy day.... and more.
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Not surprisingly, the company advises against using vLite, or other tools that make changes to which components of the OS are installed. Such changes could make a system unstable or prevent future updates from installing properly, it says.
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Some say Win XP SP2 enhancements cause conflicts, don't protect as claimed.
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Supermarkets may be hit by strike action from a major food supplier embroiled in a pay dispute.