I tried asking Google Maps for directions from Toronto to Birmingham. Take a look at step 26 
Archive for March, 2007
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This is cool:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3668521
Dell will offer Linux on pre-loaded on some of its laptops and desktops. Like another 100,000 people, I participated in the Dell survey, and it looks like my responses were typical. I told Dell that I would use Linux at both home and office, and that community support was just fine if they’ll do hardware support.
It so happens my current laptop is dying of old age and I’ve been thinking of getting a new one. I will be keen to see how the Dell story develops. If they offer a Linux laptop in Europe I think I’d buy one. It doesn’t have to come with my favourite distro. I’d buy it just out of principle, and then install Debian Etch on it. I just hope they don’t pick Novell SUSE…
UPDATE:
The story has hit the CBC news. That’s like the BBC for Canada.
I’m very pleased to announce an ODF validation service:
http://opendocumentfellowship.org/validator
Similar to the W3C validation service for HTML, you can use this website to verify a document’s compliance with the OpenDocument Format.
The validator can detect violations of the spec, and it can also give warnings for things that are not violations but should raise an eyebrow. Some warnings actually relate to known bugs in OOo (technically valid files which OOo can’t open). As time goes by we’ll add more warnings.
The validation engine was written Alex Hudson as part of the Fellowship’s ODF Tools project. I’ve been wanting a validator for months, but our server just couldn’t take the additional load. Enter the kind people at Cyclone3 who are providing a server to run the validation service. A big round of applause for them! And thanks to Roman Fordinal of Cyclone3 for developing the web application from Alex’s validator.
