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Submission + - Euro 311,85 Remboursement For MS-Tax In France (libre-zone.net)

Submitted by

Chris Hildebrandt

on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @04:56AM

Chris Hildebrandt writes: "A French court decided yesterday that Acer had to pay back 311,85 for unused and unwanted pre-installed operating system + software to a guy who bought an 599, — notebook. Additionaly they had to pay 650, — for the time lost in court plus all court related costs.

Full story here: http://perso.libre-zone.net/article-125-proc-dure-r-ussie-num-ro-4.html (French only at the moment, but the story will definitely hit English language news agencies later today)."

Submission + - OpenOffice 2.3 Released

Submitted by

josmar52789

on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @11:11AM

josmar52789 writes: "OpenOffice 2.3 has been released today. It's full of new features including better stability and more security. Check it out — OpenOffice.org"

Submission + - Belgium kingdom for sale on ebay

Submitted by Martijn Ras on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @05:37AM

Martijn Ras writes: Someone has come up with a solution to solve the current politic problems: http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/For-Sale-Belgium-a-kingdom-in-three-parts_W0QQitemZ200153084683QQihZ010QQcategoryZ25821QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Submission + - iPhone launched in UK (t3.co.uk)

Submitted by

l-ascorbic

on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @05:21AM

l-ascorbic writes: "It's been a hell of a long time coming, and now, finally, it is here. 82 days after it was first officially announced, Steve Jobs is releasing the iPhone on the UK in person. The details you've been waiting for: It's available from the beginning of November, costs 269 quid and is available on O2. More info from T3."

Submission + - AMD and Novell release open source Radeon driver (phoronix.com)

Submitted by

canatella

on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @04:36AM

canatella writes: "phoronix.com is running this story:

"Not only is AMD providing the open-source community with their ATI GPU specifications, but they have also been partnering with Novell on the development of a new open-source display driver. We've been telling you about AMD's open-source work all month, and today the new driver is finally available for download. It is still very much a work in progress and isn't much further along than the open-source R500 Avivo driver. However, this new driver does support the Radeon HD 2000 (R600) family."

The new driver is hosted at FreeDesktop.org."

Submission + - Microsoft loses EU appeal

Submitted by rcasha2 on Monday September 17, 2007 @07:24AM

rcasha2 writes: Microsoft has lost its appeal against the EU fine of almost 500m / $700m. Microsoft could still appeal again at the European Court of Justice. More important than the fine, however, is the confirmation of the ruling that Microsoft must share with competitors information needed for interoperability. This ruling could have an effect on such products as Samba, email clients etc.

Submission + - AMD and Novel develops open source graphic drivers (amd.com)

Submitted by

Damien Merenne

on Monday September 10, 2007 @05:46AM

Damien Merenne writes: "AMD officially stated that they will develop open source graphic drivers and that they will partner with Novel for doing so. Hardware specs for some ATI Radeon models and a development framework are expected to be released this week:

The week of September 10th, AMD plans to provide an open source information and development package supporting the ATI Radeon(TM) HD 2000 series as well as ATI Radeon(TM) X1000 series of graphics processing units (GPU) on Linux desktops. To accelerate this initiative, AMD partnered with Novell's SuSE Linux engineering team. The initial release includes source code and hardware specifications to engage the Open Source community for collaboration on 2D graphics drivers. Over the following months, AMD will work with the community to enable 2D, 3D and video playback acceleration to provide the best possible experience on the Linux desktop. This strategy complements and enhances AMD's existing support of the Linux community through its regularly released high performance Catalyst driver.
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Submission + - Nissan turns to high-tech to stop drink driving

Submitted by StonyandCher on Friday August 03, 2007 @02:57AM

StonyandCher writes: As part of its drive to reduce road deaths and injuries, Nissan Motor has installed in a car three prototype high-tech systems designed to stop drink driving.

The first attempts to directly detect alcohol in the driver's sweat and gear shift lever. A second system in the car uses a camera mounted in front of the driver to monitor eye movement. If the driver is drowsy it triggers the seat belt to tighten and this movement will hopefully snap the driver out of their drowsiness or prompt them to take a rest. A third system monitors the path of the vehicle to ensure it's traveling in a straight line and not weaving about the road, as is common with a drunken driver.

Submission + - Emacs 22.1 released (gmane.org)

Submitted by

Michael Duggan

on Monday June 04, 2007 @03:14AM

Michael Duggan writes: "Two years since Emacs 21.4 was released, Emacs 22.1 has finally been released. Major changes include Mac OS X and Cygwin support, GTK support, more sane defaults for new users, and many, many new modes and packages."

Submission + - Donkey Kong Scene Made of Post-It Notes

Submitted by gEvil (beta) on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @09:53AM

gEvil (beta) writes: Some crazy kids at UC Santa Cruz have created a building-sized recreation of the first level of Donkey Kong out of Post-It(TM) notes stuck to the E2 building's windows. There are a number of images showing the progress of this ten-person, five-hour process.

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