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Submission + - OLPC a hit in remote Peruvian village (chicagotribune.com)

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mrcgran

on Sunday December 23, 2007 @08:20PM

mrcgran writes: "Chicago Tribune is running a story about the effects of OLPC on a remote village in Peru: "Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago. At breakfast, they're already powering up the combination library/videocam/audio recorder/music maker/drawing kits. At night, they're dozing off in front of them — if they've managed to keep older siblings from waylaying the coveted machines. Peru made the single biggest order to date — more than 272,000 machines — in its quest to turn around a primary education system that the World Economic Forum recently ranked last among 131 countries surveyed." A detailed log has been kept and a youtube video is also available."

Submission + - Mystery Company recruiting puzzle solved! 1

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srealm

on Sunday December 23, 2007 @02:46PM

srealm writes: "Less than 24 hours from posting, the Mystery Company job posting has been cracked! With the collaboration of people at the Google Group setup specifically for cracking this puzzle, the three 'challenges' have been solved, and the company un-masked as N-Brain, Inc in Boulder, CO. The date in question is the release date for their flagship UNA product, meant to promote collaborative development."

Submission + - FSFE Supports Microsoft Antitrust Investigation (linuxelectrons.com)

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on Sunday December 23, 2007 @01:38PM

An anonymous reader writes: "Microsoft should be required openly, fully and faithfully to implement free and open industry standards," is the message of a letter by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) to European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. To help achieve this goal, FSFE offered its support for a possible antitrust investigation based on the complaint of Opera Software against Microsoft. The complaint was based on anti-competitive behaviour in the web browser market.

"Although Opera Software does not produce Free Software, we largely share their assessment and concerns regarding the present situation in the Internet browser market", FSFE president Georg Greve writes in the letter.

Submission + - New AT&T DSL Ripoff 1

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rhadagast

on Sunday December 23, 2007 @12:17PM

rhadagast writes: "The AT&T $10 DSL is a great deal. I signed up for it last summer and have been enjoying $10 DSL since.

But to make it even better, AT&T sent me a great offer(?) in the mail this week.

I can increase my speed by "up to 2X your internet speed without paying 2X more"

If I sign up for this great new offer, my cost goes from only $10 a month to only $32.95 a month. What a deal. I can get UP TO 2X the speed, and NOT pay 2X more. I only have to pay 3.295X more. What a deal!!!"

US Urged To Keep Space Shuttles Flying Past 2010 219

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 17, 2007 @10:56PM from the clipping-the-wing-clippers dept.

DarkNemesis618 writes "A US Representative has proposed that NASA keep the shuttle fleet flying past its planned 2010 retirement date. The move would help NASA avoid reliance on Russian rockets during the gap between the Space Shuttle retirement and the start of the Orion program. One proposal would keep the shuttle fleet flying from 2010 to 2013 while another would keep the fleet alive until the Orion program is ready in about 2015. 2011 marks the end of the exemption that has allowed NASA to use Soyuz rockets for trips to the Space Station, and they would need an extension to keep using Russian launch vehicles. NASA's other option lies in the private sector; but thus far, the progress from that quarter does not look sufficient to meet the 2011 deadline."

Submission + - Intuit admits QuickBooks flaw deletes data on Macs (computerworld.com) 1

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Lucas123

on Monday December 17, 2007 @06:46PM

Lucas123 writes: "Intuit Inc. warned Mac users today that its version of QuickBooks Pro 2006 and 2007 has an automatic software update flaw that deletes stored files, documents or folders from a desktop's hard drive. Intuit said it has now fixed the flaw and that users should no longer get a warning message when opening up QuickBooks. The company also recommended Mac users back up their entire desktop before opening QuickBooks, or move their files from the desktop to an alternate location to ensure that their data is properly protected from the QuickBooks update flaw."

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