Criminal investigation in Portugal to involve a company behind OOXML stuffing and Windows laptops scheme

PLT Scheme version 4.2 is now available from http://plt-scheme.org/

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Microsoft is doing away with “reduced functionality mode” for individuals that its WGA activation and validation scheme deems to be running “non-genuine” software. The company also is plugging two WGA loopholes that pirates have been exploiting successfully.

"PLT Scheme version 4.1 is now available from http://plt-scheme.org/ ..."

Last month, Daryl Lee gave us a taste of the language Scheme in the article It's time to learn Scheme with a C++ code generator. This time we will be looking at some practical examples written with Scheme Shell (SCSH): finding and replacing text in a bunch of files, sorting files in two different ways, and converting data from a CSV file to an HTML file.

More compelling evidence for ongoing investigation into price-fixing

Have you ever peeked into one of those bazillion .el files in your Emacs installation's lisp folder and wondered what it meant? Or have you ever looked at a GIMP script .scm file and scratched your head over all the parentheses?