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Submission + - Top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills

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Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: "Computerworld reporter Mary Brandel spoke with academics and head hunters to compile this list of computer skills that are dying but may not yet have taken their last gasp. As 'Stewart Padveen, Internet entrepreneur and founder of AdPickles Inc., says, "Obsolescence is a relative — not absolute — term in the world of technology.". 'In the early 1990s, it was all the rage to become a Certified NetWare Engineer, especially with Novell Inc. enjoying 90% market share for PC-based servers. '"It seems like it happened overnight. Everyone had Novell, and within a two-year period, they'd all switched to NT," says David Hayes, president of HireMinds LLC in Cambridge, Mass.'"
Puzzle Games (Games)

Submission + - Checkers has been Solved

Submitted by
r55man
r55man writes: "The Chinook project recently announced that checkers has been solved. Perfect play from both sides results in a draw. From their website:

On May 8, 2007, we were pleased to announce that checkers is now solved. From the standard starting position, Black (who moves first) is guaranteed a draw with perfect play. White (moving second) is also guaranteed a draw, regardless of what Black plays as the opening move. Checkers is the largest game that has been solved to date.
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Sci-Fi

Submission + - Star Wars cast: where are they now?

Submitted by solitas
solitas writes: A Breitbart news story interviews certain StarWars alumni about what the trilogy has done for them.

They were part of one of the biggest movies in history but almost without exception the cast of "Star Wars" faded from view after lighting up cinemas during the 1970-80s.

While George Lucas' intergalactic fairytale proved to be a launch pad for the career of Harrison Ford, other prominent members of the blockbuster franchise have not come close to enjoying Ford's iconic status.

..."Without naming names, you meet some stars and afterwards you go 'Gee, I wish I hadn't met him,'"... Oh yeah? Do: tell.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft lists patent violations

Submitted by
prostoalex
prostoalex writes: "Microsoft listed specific open source and/or free products that violate Microsoft patents: "Free Linux software violates 42 patents. Graphical user interfaces, the way menus and windows look on the screen, breach 65. E-mail programs step on 15, and other programs touch 68 other patents". The company also claimed OpenOffice violates 45 various patents. An extensive list of Microsoft patents can be perused on Google Patent Search."
Classic Games (Games)

Submission + - Deep Blue vs Kasparov 10th Anniversary

Submitted by qeorqe
qeorqe writes: For the tenth anniversary of Deep Blue's victory over the world chess champion Garry Kasparov, Wired has an interview with Murray Cambell, one of the developers of Deep Blue.
  • PC beats Kramnik
  • current cell processor as powerful as Deep Blue
  • no future in man vs machine chess matches
Recent reports have discussed Garry's recent arrest for participation in a political march in Russia.
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - XBOX360 hackers give a speech at Microsoft BlueHat

Submitted by Alonso
Alonso writes: The past week 3 of the most famous console hackers were invited to the Microsoft BlueHat Sessions of this year: Bunnie (XBOX, XBOX360 hacker), Felix Domke (GC, Wii, XBOX360 hacker) and Mist (XBOX Linux). These guys were part of the team that broke the XBOX360 Security System and anonymously published the February 2007 Xbox360 Hypervisor Priviledge Escalation Vulnerability, they are also the team behind the Free60 project (Linux and BSD on XBOX360). At that event they meets Dinart Morais who was the person in charge of the XBOX360 Security. The full story is at Bunnie's Blog, and has some pretty interesting pictures.
AMD

Submission + - AMD intros "Phenom" brand, drops "64&#

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Well, finally, the upcoming AMD dual-core and quad-core processors have a real name: Phenom (as in "phenomenal".) With the introduction of the new brand, the company also decided to drop the "64" add-on in its portfolio. According to TG Daily, the new processors could launch in mid to late Q3 of this year — just in time to fill up retail shelves for Christmas.
United States

Submission + - Fascist America, in 10 easy steps

Submitted by Trubadur
Trubadur writes: Naomi Wolf in the article "Fascist America, in 10 easy steps" reveales steps to tyranny.

"From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all"

"It is my argument that, beneath our very noses, George Bush and his administration are using time-tested tactics to close down an open society. It is time for us to be willing to think the unthinkable — as the author and political journalist Joe Conason, has put it, that it can happen here. And that we are further along than we realise.

Conason eloquently warned of the danger of American authoritarianism. I am arguing that we need also to look at the lessons of European and other kinds of fascism to understand the potential seriousness of the events we see unfolding in the US."
Programming

Submission + - Memory leak patterns in JavaScript

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Plugging memory leaks in JavaScript is easy enough when you know what causes them. This article walks you through the basics of circular references in JavaScript and explain why they can cause problems in certain browsers, especially when combined with closures. After seeing some of the common memory leak patterns you should watch out for, you'll learn a variety of easy ways to work around them.
Mozilla

Submission + - In-depth interview with Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker

Submitted by
SlinkySausage
SlinkySausage writes: "APC Magazine in Australia has posted an 8,000 word interview with Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker about where Firefox came from and where it's going. Baker talks about putting Firefox on mobile phones; how Firefox will take on Flash and Silverlight with open source animation and video rendering; where the $55million a year Firefox earns comes from; the struggle with patents in the software industry; how businesses are recontemplating moving to Firefox rather than dealing with the upgrade to IE7, and why Mozilla hasn't yet built an ad-blocker into Firefox. She also talks about how Firefox 3.0 will have a lot more capability around "branding" — will it be the corporate visual theming disaster that was IE4? And how Mozilla's small development office in New Zealand is developing the ability to run web abbs in Firefox without an internet connection. Mozilla Japan's cartoon character, "Foxkeh" makes an appearance too."
Emulation (Games)

Submission + - Worlds First PSP Emulator for Windows Released

Submitted by YokimaSun
YokimaSun writes: Over at PSP News the first PSP Emulator for Windows has been released. Potemkin (codenamed DaSH) is an experimental open source HLE PSP Emulator. It is created and released by ector who is one of the most impressive coders in emulation history. This release plays masses of commercial games and at a playable speed.
Emulation (Games)

Submission + - Potemkin - Worlds First PSP Emulator for PSP

Submitted by Croakyvoice
Croakyvoice writes: Over at PSP News the first PSP Emulator for Windows has been released. Potemkin (codenamed DaSH) is an experimental open source HLE PSP Emulator. It is created and released by ector who is one of the most impressive coders in emulation history. This release plays masses of commercial games and at a playable speed.
Movies

Submission + - Pixar Before Steve

Submitted by Gammu
Gammu writes: Like many things in the film industry (video, wide format film, etc.), CGI was pioneered by George Lucas. Pixar had its start at Lucasfilm where it produced productivity apps and special effects for films like Star Trek II. The team's real ambition were feature films though. After Steve Jobs bought the company in 1985, Pixar began moving into production and eventually released Toy Story. Read about the earily (pre-Jobs) history of Pixar at Low End Mac.
PHP

Submission + - PHP 5.2.2 and 4.4.7 Released

Submitted by daeg
daeg writes: PHP 5.2.2 and 4.4.7 have been released with a plethora of security updates. Many of the security notifications come from the Month of PHP Bugs effort, and range from double freed memory to bugs in functions that allow attackers to enable register_globals, to memory corruption with unserialize(), to input validation flaws that allow e-mail header injections, with an unhealthy sprinkling of other bugs and flaws fixed. All administrators that run any version of PHP are encouraged to update immediately.

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