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Feed Sunday's Wal-Mart ad confirms $698 Dell specs (engadget.com)

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A couple commenters confirmed those leaked Dell specs we posted earlier, and now we've gotten our hands on this Sunday's Wal-Mart flier -- the first to feature Dell's new in-store action. The numbers on the $698 Dimension E521 pictured line up with everything we've heard -- dual-core Athlon, 1GB RAM, 320GB hard drive, Vista Home Premium, and a 19-inch monitor -- but there's nary a mention of the rumored $498 model. We suppose Dell and Wally have got to keep us guessing until the 10th somehow, right? A close-up of the ad after the break.

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Software

Submission + - Alternatives to Adobe's $2500 Creative Suite?

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jsepeta
jsepeta writes: "I've been using Adobe products for years, and own several older versions of the products from their Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Acrobat Pro, and Dreamweaver. I'd like to teach some graphic design and web production skills to my coworkers in the marketing department, and realize that most of them can't afford $2500 to buy Adobe's premium suite, and frankly, shouldn't need to because there should be competitive products on the market. But I cannot seem to locate software for graphic design & printing that output CMYK files that printing companies would accept, and am unfamiliar with products that are better than FrontPage yet still easier to use for Web design. Any suggestions? Our company is notoriously frugal and would certainly entertain the idea of using open source products if we can implement them in a way that doesn't infringe upon our Microsoft-centric hegemony / daily work tasks in XP."
Security

Submission + - Germany declare hacking tools illegal (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by dubbelj
dubbelj writes: Germany have updated their computer crime law to declare "hacking tools" illegal. This will make most of the network admin and computer security people in a gray area at work. How will this affect Linux distribution in Germany as most of standard Linux distributions come with these kind of "hacking tools" installed by default? How will the rest of EU member countries react on this law, will there be lobbying for the other countries to implement this kind of laws also? Articles in ars technica and The Register.
Google

Submission + - Google: The Security Company (crn.com)

Submitted by
dasButcher
dasButcher writes: "Is there anything Google can't do? It's most recent acquisition — GreenBorders — may position the search giant as the biggest protector of Web surfers on the Internet. Google isn't saying how it will use GreenBorder's Web browser sandboxing technology, but a betting man would say they'll incorporate it into their search engine and protect users against millions of sites compromised with spyware, malware and other naughty bugs. http://www.v3.crn.com/weblogs/tidalwaves/"
Red Hat Software

Submission + - Fedora 7 Released!

Submitted by Vertana
Vertana writes: After being developed for 6 months, the Fedora Project today has released the 7th release of Fedora (formerly Fedora Core). New in this release are Fast User Switching, the merging of the repositories (Core and Extras are now all in Core), faster package management, as well as more robust hardware detection. Read more about it here.
Hardware Hacking

Journal Journal: Is it time for Open Source Hardware?

Journal by Tuoqui
It seems that big business has always been keen on controlling the public through their control of the media. Now that the Internet is truly becoming an open forum for the free exchange of ideas and innovations it seems that big business must maintain their control in the age of the 'Blogosphere' and 'Web 2.0'.
Censorship

Submission + - Atheist Movie BANNED by Religious Censorship

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zer0skill
zer0skill writes: "Reverend Donald Wildmon's "National Federation for Decency" DOES NOT want you to see HEART of the BEHOLDER.

HEART of the BEHOLDER is based on the true story of how an average American family lost everything because they stood up to religious censorship, religious intolerance, and political corruption.

HEART of the BEHOLDER has won more Best Feature Film awards than any other independent movie ever, but has been banned from theaters and video stores because of pressure from religious extremists.

HEART of the BEHOLDER can now be seen FREE online. There is no cost, registration, or login to watch what the "religious right" doesn't want you to see.

HEART of the BEHOLDER Web Theater http://www.beholder.com/webtheater/webtheater_msa. aspx

HEART of the BEHOLDER Website http://www.beholder.com/

HEART of the BEHOLDER Video Player http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid40 3535559?bclid=403534727&bctid=400725250"
Music

Submission + - April Foo...oh, wait, what?

Submitted by
Wade Tregaskis
Wade Tregaskis writes: "I'm tempted to post this under "It's funny, laugh", but I'm terrified that they might actually be serious. Media Rights Technologies, a company that develops DRM technology, have — according to their own press release — "issued cease and desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, Real Networks and Apple with respect to the production or sale of such products as the Vista OS, Adobe Flash Player, Real Player, Apple iTunes and iPod." They assert these companies are "actively avoiding the use of MRT's technologies", and seek damages of "$200 to $2500 for each product distributed or sold". I don't even know how to respond to that."
The Internet

Submission + - Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Of Google

Submitted by
VelvetsFan
VelvetsFan writes: "There are an abundance of new search engines, each pioneering some innovation in search technology. Read/WriteWeb has a list of the top 17 search innovations that will prove disruptive in the future. These innovations are classified into four types: Query Pre-processing; Information Sources; Algorithm Improvement; Results Visualization and Post-processing. While some of these innovations are present in various Google properties, they are either missing or available only in limited form in the main search page.

The article posits: it is very likely that in the future, the simple "search box" on the Google front page will hide a variety of specialized search engines behind it. On the other hand, trying to cram in an increasing number of these sophisticated features has the potential to make the overall architecture for Google (or any mainstream web search engine) very complex and difficult to change, so the trade-offs will present an increasingly difficult challenge."

Feed IBM apes Mother Nature for faster, more effecient chips (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Someone should seriously tell IBM's research and development team to take a much-deserved vacation, as these folks have been cranking out the goods at an alarming rate of late. Most recently, the company has announced the "world's first application of self assembly used to create a vacuum around nanowires for next-generation microprocessors," which just so happens to mimic the natural pattern-creating process that forms seashells, snowflakes, and enamel on teeth. Essentially, the process forms "trillions of holes to create insulating vacuums around the miles of nano-scale wires packed next to each other inside each computer chip," which should aid electrical current in flowing around 35-percent faster while it eats up about 15-percent less energy. This newfangled approach to insulation, dubbed airgaps, creates vacuums that enable the substantial boost in speed, and the self assembling process is reportedly "already integrated" into IBM's manufacturing line in New York. The chips will initially be used in the firm's server lineup sometime near 2009, and shortly thereafter, we can expect IBM to start cranking these out for other companies that rely on its CPUs.

[Via BBC, thanks Josh]

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Journal Journal: Where's my reset button, DAMMIT??!!

Journal by iminplaya

I hate these new computers that require you to hold the power button in for five seconds. I don't wanna wait five seconds. I want it NOW! Plus, I don't like having to turn the machine off. It might not come back on. Damn hard drive might not spin up. I got one that does that now. Luckily that machine has a RESET BUTTON! So it can stay on as long as there is power.(That's another entirely different issue here, but also a big pain in the butt). A capacitor might fizz. I've had more than one tha
Security

Submission + - Vista more secure than Mac OS X

Submitted by myfootsmells
myfootsmells writes: Vista more secure than Mac OS X. In a recent interview Dino Dai Zovi, the New York-based security researcher who took home $10,000 in a highly-publicized MacBook Pro hijack has declared the code quality, at least in terms of security, to be much better overall in Vista than Mac OS X 10.4. and praises Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) at making this possible suggesting more vendors follow their lead.

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