Submission + - ESR gives up on Fedora
dsinc writes: Dependency hell makes ESR "reach his limit" and give up Fedora:
http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/2 1/1340237
Submission + - iTunes going to Peer-to-Peer approach?
AlexJTanner writes: "I talked about this in Episode One but I thought we could discuss it in the forums as well. My sources inside Apple tell me that iTunes may be switching to a P2P approach for distributing music. I was told that you may be rewarded on the amount that you seed. Example, for every 500 mb. you upload you could get a free song. I really could care less what they do for distributing music. What I care about is if they will allow podcasters to take advantage of this technology. It could sure lower the bandwidth bills of podcasters.
Any Thoughts?
NOTE: The 500 mb. thing is just a made up example I don't know what the real amount you would have to upload to get a free song
http://www.slightlyunstable.org/phpbb/viewtopic.ph p?p=28#28"
Submission + - "Inventive Step" test for UK patents consi
Panaqqa writes: "People on both sides of the Atlantic can see there's something wrong with the current patent system, but it's interesting that in the UK, it's the patent office itself considering the reform. A public consultation process was carried out last year and the report has just been published (warning PDF). It's unfortunate that on this side of the ocean it takes The Supreme Court to get involved and to force the issue."
Submission + - Robot Rest & Relaxation
MattSparkes writes: "A growing number of hardware hackers have been able to get access to old industrial robots, as they are now relatively affordable second-hand. This means that a lot of bizarre creations are showing up online. The article shows videos of homemade fairground rides, DJ machines, tennis playing machines and coffee making machines, all of which would kill everyone in the room if they went wrong."
Submission + - The war on terror to last at least 10 more years?
Jyms writes: This article seems to suggest that we will have to sacrifice even more privacy on future flights:
"Tiny cameras the size of a fingernail linked to specialist computers will be used to monitor the behaviour of airline passengers as part of the war on terrorism.
Fitted to seat-backs, the cameras will record every twitch or suspicious movement before sending the data to onboard software that will check it against individual passenger profiles."
An I they seem to suggest that the "war on terror" is not going to be over any time soon:
"Airlines have given the scheme a cautious welcome, indicating it would be too expensive to fit on existing commercial aircraft and it would probably be 10 years before such systems were fitted to new planes."
Wonder if you will be able to get some good stock tips from first/bussiness class travelers?
"A separate microphone will record speech, including whispers; Islamic suicide bombers whisper texts from the Koran in the moments before they explode bombs."
"Tiny cameras the size of a fingernail linked to specialist computers will be used to monitor the behaviour of airline passengers as part of the war on terrorism.
Fitted to seat-backs, the cameras will record every twitch or suspicious movement before sending the data to onboard software that will check it against individual passenger profiles."
An I they seem to suggest that the "war on terror" is not going to be over any time soon:
"Airlines have given the scheme a cautious welcome, indicating it would be too expensive to fit on existing commercial aircraft and it would probably be 10 years before such systems were fitted to new planes."
Wonder if you will be able to get some good stock tips from first/bussiness class travelers?
"A separate microphone will record speech, including whispers; Islamic suicide bombers whisper texts from the Koran in the moments before they explode bombs."
Submission + - 50 000 GNOME Linux desktops in Brazil
An anonymous reader writes: BitWay Computadores, EnabledPeople and IMTECH Brazil companies today announced that they made large PC desktops deployments for Computers for All Brazil federal government program. Ready PC solution provided by Bitway includes preinstalled Linux XP Desktop operating system developed by EnabledPeople and supported by IMTECH. Estimated month deployment is about 10000 desktops with 50000 desktops already delivered.
Full press release
Full press release
Submission + - CAD software on Vista up to 50 times slover
stasike writes: The upFront.eZine reports that according to the article on Tom's Hardware many popular 3D CAD and modelling programs run 10 to 50 times slower on Vista than on XP. An average modelling program, like 3ds max, runs "only" 10 times slower. UGS NX, on the other hand runs more than 50 times slower. This is a direct result of killing an OpenGL and implementing god-only-knows-what protective features into the Vista for our own good.
Submission + - Wikipedia is failing
An anonymous reader writes: A growing number of people are concerned about where Wikipedia is heading. Some have left Wikipedia for Citizendium, while others are trying to change the culture of Wikipedia from within. A recent essay called Wikipedia is failing points out many of the problems which must be solved with Wikipedia for it to succeed in its aim of becoming a reputable, reliable reference work. How would you go about solving these problems?
