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Submission + - ISO votes to reject Microsoft's OOXML as standard

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @09:28AM

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has failed in its attempt to have its Office Open XML document format fast-tracked straight to the status of an international standard by the International Organization for Standardisation. http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/developm ent/software/news/index.cfm?newsid=4983

Submission + - Troop Ideas - Geeks With Guns Need Apply (troopideas.com)

Submitted by

Tiber

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @04:17PM

Tiber writes: "The website Troop Ideas is looking for people with military experience (either currently serving or with some insight) to share their ideas for tech improvement and process streamlining. They are looking for ideas which they can implement which will make the troops lives easier, safer, or more efficient. The way it works is that someone submits an idea, Gestalt (I do not work for them) will whip up a proof of concept, then things are presented to the brass. Try to fit a thinking cap under your helmet!"

Submission + - How to bring down Internet Explorer in six words (commandline.org.uk) 1

Submitted by

Marcion

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @02:34PM

Marcion writes: "Some handy Japanese guy called Hamachiya discovered a bug in Internet Explorer. Under certain conditions, an asterisk when used as a wildcard can crash IE as soon as the user attempts to go to another webpage. Feel free to add the code to your stylesheet too!"

Submission + - Andrew Morton calls for more kernel testing (linux.com)

Submitted by

Ant

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @02:07PM

Ant writes: "Linux.com reports that during the opening keynote at this week's LinuxWorld Expo, kernel developer Andrew Morton called for more assistance in testing the Linux kernel from users, and predicted that virtualization would be the big thing for the next few years of kernel development..."

Submission + - What tech feeds do you subscribe to?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @01:59PM

An anonymous reader writes: I am curious as to what other tech sites all the other Slahdot users read on a very regular basis. I for one read Slahdot, Endgadget and a number of others but am curious as to what everyone else reads when they are looking for their daily fill of tech news. Any suggestions?

Submission + - Critique of Automatix

Submitted by Bearhouse on Saturday August 04, 2007 @09:47AM

Bearhouse writes: Picked this up via doggdot, so sorry if dupe. Anyways, there's been some discussion here about Automatix, with some liking it, and others (predictably) not. Interesting — if rather brief — critique here: http://mjg59.livejournal.com/77440.html So, do people agree? What are the better alternatives?

Submission + - Automatix Activly Dangerous to Ubuntu

Submitted by exeme on Saturday August 04, 2007 @06:21AM

exeme writes: Ubuntu developer Matthew Garrett has recently analysed famed Ubuntu illegal software installer Automatix and found it to be actively dangerous to Ubuntu desktop systems. In a detailed report which only took Garrett a couple of hours he found many serious, show-stopper bugs and concluded that Ubuntu could not officially support Automatix in its current state. Garrett also goes on to say that simple Debian packages could provide all of the functionality of Automatix without any of the problems it exhibits.

Submission + - WD's New Caviar SE16 750G Hard Drive, Huge, Fast (hothardware.com)

Submitted by

MojoKid

on Saturday August 04, 2007 @06:18AM

MojoKid writes: "Western Digital took a bit longer than expected to finally release a desktop drive larger than 500 Gig, but their first release, the Caviar SE16 WD7500AAKS looks to be an impressive rendition of new advancements in hard disk perpendicular recording technology. This new 750G WD drive gave Seagate's 7200.10 equivalent a run for its money and beat it in every performance test shown at HotHardware. Also, with storage prices so low right now, the 750G monster weighs in at a svelte $0.33/GB or better, with current street prices falling below the $250 range.""

Submission + - FTC wants to hear your comments on SSN use (commentworks.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04, 2007 @12:24AM

An anonymous reader writes: The FTC is allowing people to voice their concerns and opinions on the private sector's use of SSNs (Social Security Numbers). The page to voice your comments can be found here: https://secure.commentworks.com/ftc-SSNPrivateSect or/ Note that the only required fields are: Last name, state, and country.

Submission + - NASA to build largest Supercomputer ever (linuxworld.com.au) 1

Submitted by Onlyodin on Friday August 03, 2007 @09:04PM

Onlyodin writes: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has given the green light to a project that will build the largest ever supercomputer based on Silicon Graphics' (SGI) 512-processor Altix computers.

Called Project Columbia and costing around $160-million, the 10,240-processor system will be used by researchers at the Advanced Supercomputing Facility at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

What makes Project Columbia unique is the size of the multiprocessor Linux systems, or nodes, that it clusters together. It is common for supercomputers to be built of thousands of two-processor nodes, but the Ames system uses SGI's NUMAlink switching technology and ProPack Linux operating system enhancements to connect 512-processor nodes, each of which will have more than 1,000G bytes of memory.

Full Story at Linuxworld

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