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Operating Systems

Submission + - Dell to go Ubuntu in May

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An anonymous reader writes: Dell is going to Ubuntu 7.04 in May. More info can be found at desktoplinux.com. From the article, "Officially, Dell Inc. hasn't said a word yet about which Linux it will be preloading on its desktops and laptops. Several sources within Dell, however, have told DesktopLinux.com that Dell's desktop Linux pick is going to be Ubuntu."
Businesses

Submission + - DHL gets the gold in the wacky Great Package Race

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Kind of funny to imagine UPS, FedEx and DHL vans hurtling down some small backwater dirt road, bobbing an weaving NASCAR-style all in the effort to make sure they deliver a package first. But that's the scenario those companies faced recently in the Great Package Race put on by the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. DHL won this year, delivering first to three of the five locations and second to the remaining two. FedEx managed to deliver to three locations, and UPS delivered parcels to two. The remaining packages from FedEx and UPS went undelivered for a variety of reasons. In past races, the carriers traded wins in different locales. http://slashdot.org/submit.pl"
Operating Systems

Submission + - Dell to use Ubuntu on Linux PCs

Submitted by jdawson
jdawson writes: BBC News is reporting ... 'Computer maker Dell has chosen Ubuntu as the operating system for its range of Linux computers for consumers. Fans of Linux hope that the move will persuade more mainstream PC users to abandon Microsoft Windows and opt for the open-source operating system. Michael Dell, the founder, chairman and chief executive of Dell, is himself an Ubuntu user. He has the operating system installed on a high-end Dell Precision M90 laptop he uses at home.'
Businesses

Submission + - Dell chooses Ubuntu

Submitted by troylanes
troylanes writes: Tech Tree News Staff reports. FTA: Ever since Dell's IdeaStorm Web site was bombarded with user requests asking for more of Linux support on Dell computers as an alternative to the existing Microsoft Windows OS, Dell has been under pressure to comply with popular demand. Among the several requests on IdeaStorm, the preferred choice of Linux distribution turned out to be Ubuntu. No wonder, Dell went the whole hog, and selected Ubuntu Linux for some of its computers. Besides, it is well publicized that Michael Dell himself is a fan of Ubuntu Linux version 7.04, also called 'Feisty Fawn,' which he uses on his Dell Precision M90 laptop. The Story
Communications

Submission + - Russian government DDoS'ed Estonian government

Submitted by Anonymous Estonian
Anonymous Estonian writes: The attacks started last week after the tiny ex-soviet republic of Estonia, now a member of the European Union and NATO, decided to relocate a controversial statue of the so called "Bronze Soldier" from town centre to a nearby war cemetery. The statue has significant symbolic value to Estonia's small community of mostly ethnic Russian post-World War II immigrants; not only symbolising Soviet victory over Nazism in the Great Patriotic War, but also their claimed rights in Estonia. As such, for many Estonians the Bronze Soldier is a symbol of Soviet occupation and repression. The Russian government called the relocation of the statue "blasphemous", "inhuman" and "extremely nationalist", even going as far as to call Estonia a "fascist country". Russia has demanded the resignation of the government, started a nationwide boycott of Estonian goods, blocked the work of Estonia's embassy in Moscow and finally launched a massive DDoS attack against Estonia's governmental institutions. "It has been established that cyber terrorist attacks against Estonian governmental institution websites and that of the President's Office's have been made from IP addresses of concrete computers and by concrete individuals from Russian government organs including the administration of the President of the Russian Federation," said Estonia's Foreign Minister Urmas Paet to the press yesterday.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - The Sweatiness of the Long-Distance Runner

Submitted by mrogers
mrogers writes: Physorg has an intriguing story suggesting that humans may have evolved as running hunters, long before the invention of the first weapons:

Humans ... have several adaptations that help us dump the enormous amounts of heat generated by running. These adaptations include our hairlessness, our ability to sweat, and the fact that we breathe through our mouths when we run, which not only allows us to take bigger breaths, but also helps dump heat.

"We can run in conditions that no other animal can run in," Lieberman said.
I for one welcome our new hairless, sweaty, mouth-breathing overlords.
Linux Business

Submission + - Michael Dell runs Ubuntu

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vginders
vginders writes: "I just heard that Michael Dell has added a new notebook to his hardware collection. It's a Precision M90 mobile workstation with Ubuntu 7.04 and a list of open-source applications. He's also running an NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 graphics card with 512MB RAM. I figured a few of you might want to know."
Space

"Smart Dust" to Explore Planets 85

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the new-but-not dept.
Ollabelle writes "The BBC is reporting how tiny chips with flexible skins could be used to glide through a planet's atmosphere in swarms to gather data and report back. 'The idea of using millimetre-sized devices to explore far-flung locations is nothing new, but Dr Barker and his colleagues are starting to look in detail at how it might be achieved. The professor at Glasgow's Nanoelectronics Research Centre told delegates at the Royal Astronomical Society gathering that computer chips of the size and sophistication required to meet the challenge already existed.'"
Security

Submission + - Microsoft exploit used to hack U.S. State Departme

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A break-in targeting State Department computers worldwide last summer occurred after a department employee opened an e-mail that quietly allowed hackers inside the U.S. government's network. In the first public account revealing details about the intrusion and the government's hurried behind-the-scenes response, a senior State Department official described an elaborate ploy by sophisticated international hackers. They used a technique that exploited a design flaw in Microsoft Word, and consumers using the same software remained vulnerable until months afterward.
Patents

Submission + - Patent overhaul would make U.S. "first to file

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Kadin2048
Kadin2048 writes: "As reported by Ars Technica, a new bill proposed simultaneously in both the House and Senate would streamline the U.S. patent process. The most welcome changes for the Slashdot crowd are probably a streamlining of the challenge process used to overturn bad patents. However, the other major change — which would award patents to the first person to file a patent on a technology, rather than the first person to invent it, as is currently the case — may be far less welcome. Although many other countries follow a "first to file" rule, the U.S. has traditionally been "first to invent," and many people have noted that a standard based on date-filed may give even more of an advantage to large corporations with resources to file patents faster, and basically wipe out any advantage to the small inventor that the streamlined challenge process would bring. An almost-identical bill was proposed last year, but failed."
Windows

Submission + - Microsoft: DNS patch to come by May 8, maybe

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BobB
BobB writes: "Microsoft hopes to fix by May 8th a critical flaw in Windows Domain Name System (DNS) servers that is being exploited by online criminals, the company said late Tuesday. Microsoft has been under pressure to address the flaw, reported last week, since software that exploits it has now been widely disseminated. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/041807-micro soft-dns-patch-to-come.html"
Announcements

Submission + - Unite the World:A tunnel between Russia and Alaska

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fusconed
fusconed writes: "Bloomberg reports that the Russian government is proposing to build an underground tunnel between Russia and Alaska for transporting goods, electricity and natural resources. The tunnel would be twice as long as that between the UK and France. The $10 — $12b cost is not something to be overlooked, but Russia claims the benefits would pay it off in 20 years. It would take 10 to 15 years to build, but being an Alaskan, it sounds good to me!"

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