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Submission + - EasyPeasy/Ubuntu-EEE Shut Down 1

Submitted by chill on Sunday March 29, 2009 @12:59AM

chill writes: Ubuntu-EEE, now known as EasyPeasy, is a Ubuntu-based distro optimized for netbooks, like the Asus EEE. It has become popular. So popular their hosting provider just yanked them offline without warning for excessive CPU usage. (Yeah, I know, linking directly to the "we're offline" page will do wonders for his utilization.) How do you deal with being a popular distro without generating any serious income?

Comment The Bose Institute exhibited that plants do "feel" (Score 1) 628

by natmakarvitch on Saturday March 28, 2009 @06:20AM (#27368943) Attached to: Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain

The Bose Institute ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose_Institute ) exhibited approximatively 90 years ago that plants do "feel" pain. A. Huxley visited the lab and wrote about this in his "Jesting Pilate" book (1926), in very similar terms (more or less "upon discovering those studies, vegans will be tempted to only eat minerals") Nothing new under the Sun...

Submission + - gOS 1.0.1: modified ISO floating around (cafelinux.org)

Submitted by

natmakarvitch

on Saturday November 17, 2007 @08:48PM

natmakarvitch writes: "Two different versions of the Linux gOS live CD 1.0.1 live are floating around. Same sizes, same names... but their contents differ.

One is probably the official one (MD5: a43c8720fe61875e1353f3111258e4cf).

Does anybody have official information about the other one (MD5SUM: 4c3500a22ec25b44c1586acac69eea09), which is ubiquitous? If no one knows about this... beware!

People releasing stuff have to seal it (sign it thanks to a well-signed GPG key). Please!"

Submission + - Trophees du libre: financial support for free (tropheesdulibre.org)

Submitted by

natmakarvitch

on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @08:47AM

natmakarvitch writes: "Free software projects have just a few weeks left to apply to the Trophees du Libre (international free software awards), an international event that has been rewarding innovative free software since 2003, providing its winners with financial support as well as media coverage.

The winner of each category, as decided by an int'l jury, will be presented with 3,000 euros, a laptop PC, books and goodies. The second and third will be presented with, respectively, 1,0000 euros and 500 euros, along with books and goodies.

Projects must register before the 1st of October 2007."

Submission + - Google has to host Wikipedia!

Submitted by

natmakarvitch

on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @07:46PM

natmakarvitch writes: "Google will gain from hosting Wikipedia, and Wikipedia may soon have no other choice than sign for it. Read more"

Submission + - Holocaust Dropped From UK Schools

Submitted by

dteichman2

on Thursday May 24, 2007 @03:52AM

dteichman2 writes: "It appears that UK schools are ignoring The Holocaust. A government-backed study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, found that some teachers are reluctant to teach history lessons on The Holocaust for fear of offending Muslim students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial. As such, many schools are not covering the subject. Additionally, similar problems are being met with lessons on The Crusades because these lessons contradict teachings from local mosques.

Isn't there a law that requires UK schools to cover these topics? Should there be?"

Submission + - Implications of Peak Oil for Global Warming.

Submitted by

msevior

on Thursday May 24, 2007 @03:27AM

msevior writes: "The OilDrum is running a story about a paper by Climate expert Jim Hansen, who examines the implications of the finite reserves of Oil, Gas and Coal on the total Global Warming effect. He finds that conservative (large) estimates of the total world Oil and Gas reserves place substantial constraints on the eventual CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. However unrestrained use of coal will put the world into dangerous a warming scenario."

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