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Submission + - DRM Free music is everywhere

Submitted by guisar on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @03:45AM

guisar writes: I continue to endure stories on Slashdot and elsewhere complaining about EMI, itunes and other organizations maybe (or maybe not) releasing material in DRM free format. Well- here's some news there's LOTS of material out there. So instead of complaining, download what you like. There are plenty of artists releasing their material in FLAC and other DRM free format. Just look around. Most artists are doing their part by releasing their music in the hopes they can gain enough exposure to earn a living at what they love. If you're complaining about major labels not releasing material, it's probably too late and you are part of the problem.

Submission + - Online Storage 2.0: Six Sites Reviewed

Submitted by

mikemuch

on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @03:23AM

mikemuch writes: "Services like box.net, openomy, and eSnips are more than just places to access your files from the web. Some include media organization tools, Windows shell integration, drag-and-drop uploading, tagging, and social content sharing. ExtremeTech has a review up of six online storage services with Web 2.0 twists."

Journal Journal: tweaking sendmail on Solaris 10

Journal by toby on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @03:18AM

Set up local sendmail relaying only.

cd /etc/mail/cf/cf cp local.mc local.mc.orig chmod 644 local.mc

edit local.mc -- e.g. add, after the DOMAIN() line:

define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `$w.$m')dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `YOUR.MAIL.RELAY.IP')dnl

Star Trek To Return Christmas 2008 358

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @03:09AM from the beaming dept.

Tycoon Guy writes "Paramount today announced the new Star Trek film is scheduled for release on Christmas Day 2008. The studio also confirmed the film will be directed by J. J. Abrams, who said the film will 'embrace and respect' Trek canon, but will also 'chart its own course.' Also today, rumors are out claiming Matt Damon, Adrien Brody and Gary Sinise will play Kirk, Spock, and Scotty, respectively."

Submission + - The tomb of Jesus discovered

Submitted by Duderado on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @03:06AM

Duderado writes: A tomb that once held the remains of Jesus of Nazareth — and those of his wife and son — has been found in a suburb of Jerusalem.

Submission + - Pilot Receives Medal of Honor / Heroism in Vietnam

Submitted by

Cope57

on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @02:48AM

Cope57 writes: "WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2007 — President Bush presented the Medal of Honor today to retired Army Lt. Col. Bruce Crandall, 41 years after heroic actions in Vietnam the president said demonstrate the best of America and its military members.

Bush praised Crandall's heroism during the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in November 1965, when he repeatedly flew into intensive enemy fire to rescue and resupply besieged 1st Cavalry Division ground troops.

Crandall proved himself "a daring pilot, a devoted soldier and a self-less leader" during the first major ground battle of the war at Landing Zone X-Ray near the Ia Drang River, he said.

The story of the mission is captured in the bestselling book and movie, "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young."

Early on Nov. 14, 1965, Crandall, then a major commanding A Company, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), was transporting a battalion of soldiers into Landing Zone X-ray, Bush recounted. After several routine lifts into the area, the ground troops came under a massive attack from the North Vietnamese Army.

During Crandall's next flight — a flight that left three soldiers on his helicopter killed and three more wounded — he remained at the landing zone in direct line of enemy fire so four wounded troops could be loaded aboard, the president said.

After returning the wounded troops to base for treatment, Crandall knew his mission was finished, Bush said, but couldn't bring himself to abandon the ground troops who were outnumbered and low on ammunition. Crandall asked for volunteers to fly back to LZ X-ray, and Capt. Ed Freeman stepped forward.

"In their unarmed choppers, they flew through a cloud of smoke and a wave of bullets to deliver desperately needed supplies," the president said. "They carried out more of the wounded, even though medical evacuation was really not their mission."

Crandall would have been a hero if he had stopped there, Bush said. "But he didn't stop," he said. "He flew back into X-ray again and again — 14 times he flew into what they called the 'Valley of Death.'" He made those flights recognizing the extreme risk to his own life, he said.

Over the course of the day, Crandall flew three different choppers, with two of them damaged so badly they would no longer fly. "But he kept flying until every wounded man had been evacuated and every need of the battalion had been met," Bush said.

By the day's end, Crandall and Freeman had spent more than 14 hours in the air, evacuating 70 wounded men and providing a lifeline that allowed the battalion to survive, Bush said.

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Journal Journal: Are distros worth the headaches? 6

Journal by jd on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @02:01AM

One of my (oft repeated) complaints about standard distributions such as Gentoo, Debian or Fedora Core, is that I slaughter their package managers very quickly. I don't know if it's the combination of packages, the number of packages, the phase of the moon, or what, but I have yet to get even three months without having to do some serious manual remodelling of the package database to keep things going. By "keep things going", I literally mean just that. I have routinely pushed Gentoo (by doing n

Submission + - Work expirience at Yahoo, Google and MS compared

Submitted by

dgtlmoon

on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @01:53AM

dgtlmoon writes: "Fun and juicey short article on various work expiriences at Yahoo, MSN and Google as an internet, dont miss the fab graph at the bottom comparing them! And the classic interview questions — "Can you tell me what was the most difficult bug you faced while programming and what you did to resolve it?" isn't "My programs don't have bugs.""

Submission + - Do-It-Yourself Steampunk Keyboard

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @01:21AM

An anonymous reader writes: Who said there's no use for your old IBM "M Series" keyboards anymore? This

creative fellow shows us step by step how to convert the keyboards of yesteryear into keyboards of an even further distant, fictional time. H. G. Wells would be proud.

Submission + - Linux Video Decoder

Submitted by rthornto on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @11:50PM

rthornto writes: We need a PCI card that can decode the advanced video codecs in hardware, so I created a pledge here: http://www.pledgebank.com/1080p-linux, please pledge, this is for Linux or Windows. The pledge is as follows:

"I will pay $200USD for a PCI 1080p MPEG2/H.264/VC-1 decoder card with Windows/Linux drivers and HDCP support, it also needs to output video across the PCI bus but only if 1,000 other people will do the same."

The idea is to send this to the manufacturers to spur some interest, or maybe we could have one produced from a reference design.

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