Posted on May 18, 2008 by thegtapatriot
“TTC chairman Adam Giambrone says a new subway line cutting through the bottom of the city is a “good idea,” one the TTC will start looking at seriously by 2018. The Downtown Rapid Transit project, or Downtown Relief Line (DRL), would relieve congestion at the Bloor-Yonge interchange and the line’s busiest stretch between Yonge and [...]
Filed under: GTA Development, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto | Tagged: Don Mills, Don Valley, downtown relief line, drl, Giambrone, Toronto, Toronto Transit, TTC | No Comments »
Posted on May 16, 2008 by thegtapatriot
Atom-powered mini-tablet! This one was pretty hot! ZDNet reported that Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed that there is an iPhone that will be using Intel’s new Atom processor. According to lore, the elusive device is slightly larger than iPhone and speculation that it could be the long-rumored Apple mini-tablet with a 720 x 480 [...]
Filed under: Apple, Technology | Tagged: Apple, ATOM, Atom-powered mini-tablet, Hannes Schwaderer, Intel, iphone, MID, mini-pod, mini-tablet, pod-mini, Schwaderer, Steve Jobs, table, UMPC, ZDNet | No Comments »
Posted on May 16, 2008 by thegtapatriot
Microsoft’s participation in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative has been fraught with mystery and disinformation from the get-go. But on May 15, Microsoft officials finally gave the OLPC project Redmond’s official blessing.
Up to this point, OLPC Chief Nicholas Negroponte preannounced Microsoft’s every move on the OLPC front (and sometimes not quite correctly). But [...]
Filed under: Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Technology | Tagged: Linux, Microsoft, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, XP | No Comments »
Posted on May 15, 2008 by thegtapatriot
And you didn’t like Comcast’s TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports.
The [...]
Filed under: Canada, Ontario, Technology, Toronto | Tagged: Bell, Bell Canada, Bell Globemedia, BitTorrent, canada, Canadians, CIA, Cogeco, Comcast, CSIS, FBI, Hacker, Hacking, Homeland Security, Internet, Internet Policy and Public Interest, ISP, Ontario, peer-to-peer, Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document, Philippa Lawson, PIPEDA, Policy, Privacy, Privacy Act, Rogers, Shaw, Spies, Spying, TCP resets, TCPIP, Toronto, University of Ottawa, US | No Comments »
Posted on May 14, 2008 by thegtapatriot
Microsoft is most likely banking on being saved by Windows 7, after its stumble with Vista. But there are early indications that Windows 7 won’t be the savior that Microsoft has been hoping for.
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Filed under: Microsoft | Tagged: Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Linux, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 12, 2008 by thegtapatriot
Microsoft no longer sees itself as simply a Windows company. One recent indication of this is their determination to buy the LAMP-centric (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) Yahoo! Instead of migrating all the tried and tested Yahoo! services over to a Windows server infrastructure, wouldn’t it be simpler to establish Microsoft Linux through the acquisition of Novell? From a [...]
Filed under: Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Open Source, Solaris, Sun, UNIX | Tagged: merger, Microsoft, Novell, SUSE, windows | No Comments »
Posted on May 12, 2008 by thegtapatriot
Obviously, Microsoft has a significant interest in making sure that users of the new breed of netbooks and MIDs hitting the market don’t get too comfortable using Linux. Many manufacturers have taken to installing various flavors of Linux on these devices to minimize footprint, improve performance, and reduce costs on low-power, low-margin hardware. Similarly, most [...]
Filed under: Linux, Microsoft | Tagged: ASUS, asus eeepc, EeePC, June 30, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Ubuntu, ULPC, UMPC, Xandros, XP, xp home | No Comments »
Posted on May 8, 2008 by thegtapatriot
In basic terms, Jessica Devnani is a brunette, yet, her dreadlocks hairstyle is a grey area in terms of employment at Canada’s Wonderland.
“unnatural colour and beads” ?
So, maybe it’s no surprise the initial park employment staffer who interviewed Ms Devnani didn’t see her hair as extreme, but in the eyes of another, in the human [...]
Filed under: Canada, GTA Issues, Ontario | Tagged: black man, canada, canada's wonderland, Devnani, discrimination, dreadlocks, dreads, Ghetto Dude, hair, human resources, Jessica Devnani, Liberal, Liberal government, Mapleview, natural, Ontario government, paramount, Paramount Canada's Wonderland, refused employment, Rutherford, stereotype, Toronto, University, University of Toronto, unnatural, Vaughan, wonderland, workplace, workplace discrimination | No Comments »
Posted on May 7, 2008 by thegtapatriot
Jessica Devnani was excited about the prospect of starting her first summer job at Canada’s Wonderland, but in the end, she found no amusement in the park’s request that she cut her dreadlocks, or find work elsewhere.
“I went in for my interview and they hired me on the spot so a week later I went [...]
Filed under: Canada, GTA Culture, GTA Issues, Ontario, Toronto, World | Tagged: Add new tag, black community, canada, canada's wonderland, degree, discrimation, dread, dreadlocks, educated, employment, GTA Education, Jessica Devnani, locks, racism, refused employment, University, wonderland, wonders, York, York Region, York University | No Comments »
Posted on May 1, 2008 by thegtapatriot
As one Canadian newspaper put it. Ducks in Alberta died a crude death. One of the species of ducks that died on a pond filled with crude oil polluted water.
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Filed under: Canada, World | Tagged: Add new tag, Alberta, Alberta oil sands, canada, Death, ducks, environment, environmental, Oil, Oil Sands, oilsands, tar sands | No Comments »
