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Submission + - A Vista like Linux

Submitted by agr8lemon on Friday October 26, 2007 @01:56PM

agr8lemon writes: Apcmag.com has an interesting article on a Vista looking Linux. They only reason I could see using it would be to see how Vista SHOULD run. Check it out here: http://apcmag.com/7363/vixta_a_non_issue

Journal SPAM: LOLCode: "Turing Complete" LOLCat Language 2

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Friday October 26, 2007 @01:42PM

LOLCode is an opensource language project with the broken syntax and ALL CAPS of the LOLCats phenomenon. The project is boasting of unproven Turing completeness, and recently added a .net compiler for Mono and the Microsoft CLR. In LOLCode, the familiar "hello world" is rendered

Submission + - Open source "TV-B-Gone" (ladyada.net)

Submitted by

ptorrone

on Thursday October 25, 2007 @02:00PM

ptorrone writes: "Limor Fried (creator of the Wave Bubble, an open source Wi-Fi & cell phone jammer) has just released the open source hardware version of the TV-B-Gone. Her high powered version can turn TVs off up to 100 feet away and can easily be modified to fit inside hats, sun glasses and other wearable applications. It's a kit so you can even make one yourself or grab the source/files and make it that way too."

Submission + - Servers hosed, World Series ticket sales suspended

Submitted by j-turkey on Monday October 22, 2007 @05:01PM

j-turkey writes: According to ESPN news, due to unexpected demand, the Colorado Rockies had to suspend World Series Ticket sales today after their hosted servers failed. The Rockies said up to 20,000 tickets would be available for each World Series game in Denver but opted for online sales only, saying that would be the most fair. Within the first 90 minutes of ticket sales, the site (hosted by Irvine, Calif.-based Paciolan Inc) reached over 8.5 million hits. No word yet on when tickets will go back on sale. However, the Rockies are likely under pressure to resume sales as soon as possible, as their home games begin this Saturday.

Submission + - Linux Security Frustrations Grow for Torvalds (kerneltrap.org)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Monday October 22, 2007 @04:56PM

eldavojohn writes: "The security model debate is taxing Linus Torvalds who replied with a more than irate message to a request to undo a commit to the Linux code in regards to pluggable security models for Linux: "The fact is, security people *are* insane. You just argue all the time, instead fo doing anything productive. So please don't include me in the Cc on your insane arguments — instead do something productive and I'm interested.""

Submission + - CSI: New York episode in Second Life (videogamesblogger.com)

Submitted by

Wowzer

on Sunday October 21, 2007 @07:47AM

Wowzer writes: "CBS just put a trailer online for the next episode of CSI: New York taking place in Second Life, where you can see Detective Mac Taylor dress up in drag... virtually for the the online multiplayer game. But it doesn't end there. From the article: "The show invites you to jump in Second Life and become a crime scene investigator yourself after joining Second Life by: A) Letting you walk around virtual New York buildings and visit a CSI lab and play forensic games. B) Play a game called "Murder by Zuiker," a unique murder plot which can be solved by users finding clues. Use your field kit and tools, and interview suspects to solve the murder in the actual CSI:NY episode The 100 people who come closest to solving the murder will win virtual gifts. Why is this important? Because the episode itself will apparently end in a cliff-hanger with the solution not revealed until February 2008.""

Submission + - What tag best describes the I.T crowed?

Submitted by geekstarr on Sunday October 21, 2007 @07:35AM

geekstarr writes: The other day someone in H.R asked what "Tag" I preferred, Nerd or g.e.e.k. It got me thinking, which one out of nerd or g.e.e.k best sums up the I.T industry. are we all g.e.e.k.s or all nerds or is there a third option, there may be no clear winner here but forgive me if I start some kind of holy-war. Note: sorry for having to spell g.e.e.k this way, stupid /.

Submission + - The Linux Number Plate (L1NUX) on eBay UK (ebay.co.uk)

Submitted by on Friday October 19, 2007 @05:20PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Ultimate Geek number plate. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/The-Linux-Number-Plate-L1NUX_W0QQitemZ230183176982QQihZ013QQcategoryZ421QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem This is the "real" L1NUX plate as opposed to the L7NUX plate previously auctioned on EBay. This is the first time this plate has been put up for sale since it was released in 1993.

Submission + - China hijacks Google, Yahoo, Microsoft searches

Submitted by

circletimessquare

on Thursday October 18, 2007 @03:27PM

circletimessquare writes: "There is resentment in the West at the exploits of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in China in the last few years. Namely, the cooperation of these businesses with censorship and with snooping on Chinese citzens. But critics of a hardline approach to Chinese Internet limitations dismiss pandering to the Chinese government as simply the price a large company must pay for doing business in China. Well one wonders then if the ultimate price to pay for doing business in China is to have your business taken by China. The redirection of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft searches to Baidu happens swiftly on the heels of the American President meeting with the Dalai Lama. To China's credit then it is apparently ideologically uniform in its hostility towards freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and freedom of the press. When you dance with the devil..."

Submission + - Bootcamp no longer available for free

Submitted by

NaughtyNimitz

on Thursday October 18, 2007 @02:55PM

NaughtyNimitz writes: "I wanted to download Bootcamp 1.4 via www.apple.com/bootcamp, but alas. They did warn us they were going to pull the plug..."

Nokia Takes Third Swing at Internet Tablet 275

Posted by Zonk on Thursday October 18, 2007 @02:32PM from the it-dices-it-slices-look-at-that-tomato dept.

DeviceGuru writes "It looks like Nokia is intent on scoring success with a Linux-powered Internet tablet. The company has unveiled the N810, its third attempt at hitting a home run with the concept. The new model adds a slide-out hardware keyboard, and also a built-in GPS receiver and FM transmitter (for in-car listening), among a number of other enhancements (such as a faster CPU and more memory). At this point, the device is positioned as an email and browsing tool, a social networking aid, a GPS, a VoIP phone, and a multimedia player (and streamer, thanks to built-in WiFi). Will this prove any more successful than the two previous iterations of this offering?"

Submission + - One man fights back against Drive Cleaner ads

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 15, 2007 @03:00PM

An anonymous reader writes: It's been a difficult time for advertising supported websites lately. The infamous pop-up ads for "Drive Cleaner" have hijacked user's browser sessions and frustrated the owners of the sites to no end. One site that got hit especially hard is a popular social networking site for auto enthuiasts. The Editor of the company's blog has voiced his frustrations in a hilarious open letter to DriveCleaner.com, one of the largest benefactors of the recent rash of malicious ads. Are your visitors getting hit by this malicious ad as well? How have you handled these types of ads appearing on your site?

Submission + - WGA Stores Your MAC Address, But No Mention On Web (wordpress.com)

Submitted by

bobbocanfly

on Monday October 15, 2007 @03:00PM

bobbocanfly writes: "The Windows Genuine Advantage application stores your network cards Media Access Control (MAC) addresses in the Windows Registry, but there is no mention of this happening anywhere on the WGA site or even on the whole of Microsoft.com. Nobody, not even Microsoft it seems, know what they are doing with these addresses but it certainly looks like yet another personal privacy issue with Microsoft's flawed WGA scheme."

Submission + - Surprising reasons why EDGE can outperform 3G

Submitted by goombah99 on Monday October 15, 2007 @02:50PM

goombah99 writes: Blackfriars's communications has an interesting discourse on why the practical difference between 3G and EDGE cellphone data networks is less than it appears to be based on a naive bandwidth metric. Their argument is that user experience of TCP/HTML is much more impacted by latency, error-rates, and processor speed than bandwidth, and Edge had the edge on all three. Additionally, EDGE may consume orders of magnitude less power, which may partly explain how the thin iphones big battery life allows it to get along without having the user lugging a second battery.

Submission + - CSS Equivalent of Prototype? (thinkingserious.com)

Submitted by

thinkingserious

on Saturday October 13, 2007 @04:27AM

thinkingserious writes: "One of our programmers had the following comment in a recent Subversion commit: "Verified to display correctly with IE6, IE7, FF Ubuntu, FF, Galeon, Konqueror". Sigh... don't you hate when you have to do that? Frameworks like Prototype and Symfony has made development life much easier, but sadly CSS cross browser hell still brings the pain. So I ask, can some brave master-hacker create a Prototype/Symfony like framework for us poor CSS/HTML programmers?"

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