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Journal Journal: Nintendo Valentines Day cards, Not for kids!

Journal by mehemiah on Thursday February 08, 2007 @11:57PM

Nintendo-Play.com has released a collection racy of Nintendo based a Valentines Day cards. This feature will be updated everyday till Valentines Day. From the article

Got a secret crush? Come inside to find out what Valentines are available for that special someone.

Submission + - Panda's Nanoscan: new virus protection philosophy

Submitted by

glogger

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @06:27PM

glogger writes: "And we need one. At RSA today, Neil Rubenking of PC Magazine got a scoop about a new kind of virus protection from Panda. "Called Nanoscan, it moves everything except a tiny (200K) driver off your computer and 'into the cloud'. It can use a vast number of signatures, run all kinds of sandboxing and emulation tests, any type of processing that's needed — because it's not using your computer's resources. And it's fast. The Nanoscan beta scanned my laptop in 60 seconds.""

Submission + - DNS Root Server Attack

Submitted by

liquidat

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @06:09PM

liquidat writes: "As you might have noticed, the DNS Root Servers G (US department of defense) and L (ICANN) are under attack. Have a look at the status images at RIPE. I wonder what the reasons are. Blackmailing?"

Feed Oldest Paper Ditches Newsprint (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @05:12PM

First distributed by courier in 1645, Sweden's Post-och Inrikes Tidningar makes the leap to online-only publication. In Furthermore.

Submission + - Kodak revolutionizes inkjet market with cheap ink

Submitted by dacaldar on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @04:18PM

dacaldar writes: Arstechnica reports that Kodak has big plans to revolutionize the inkjet printer market by selling ink at bargain basement prices: $9.99 for black and $14.99 for color.

More numbers from the article:

Users sick of piratical ink prices (which Kodak estimates come out to $4000-$5,000 per gallon, on average) will be relieved to know that they now have a low-cost alternative.

Kodak says that its new ink system is cheap, costing only $.14 for each 4x6 color photo and $.03 for a black-and-white page.

$45 billion inkjet market

Three new printers will be rolled out in March at $149, $199, and $299 price points under the name "Kodak EasyShare All-in-One" (all models can scan, print, and copy)

Submission + - Swedish Army to replace Windows NT with Red Hat

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @04:08PM

An anonymous reader writes: Red Hat has entered in deal with the Swedish Army to its servers from Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its core IT infrastructure. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is already the operating system platform on nearly 200 servers running in-house developed software within the core IT infrastructure of the Swedish Armed Forces.

Submission + - 5 Things You Need to Know About SLR Lenses

Submitted by

Kurtis

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @04:05PM

Kurtis writes: "If you're a relative newcomer to the world of photography and you've got a hankerin' for a new lens or two but don't know where to even begin looking, you're in luck! From the author of "10 Reasons to Buy a DSLR," (that's me) comes "5 Things You Need to Know About SLR Lenses." Get your read on."

Submission + - Did your city post your tax return to google?

Submitted by

Zarf

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @03:43PM

Zarf writes: "A Johnston County, North Carolina resident found tax payers' personal information by entering his own address into a Google search: story here. The county had posted tax payer data to its site, but, removed the file within an hour of being notified. County officials contacted google which responded that it would take five days to remove the information from their cache. The county had the information posted on their website for six weeks. The company Bi-Tek is named as the contractor that accidentally released the personal information. I've written about the article here in more depth but the story seems to be generally DOA in local media. How would people in a more tech savvy area react to this? What if the city of Boston had made the same mistake? And, what should happen to help people deal with the potential identity theft? Should anything happen to a software company that mistakenly posts tax payer personal data to the internet?"

Submission + - Google Docs to support Powerpoint

Submitted by

KindredHyperion

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @01:03PM

KindredHyperion writes: "Garett Rogers at ZDNet has an article on the prospect of a Powerpoint-esque addition to Google Docs and Spreadsheets. From the article: "If you dig around the language files in Google Docs, you will find what appears to be traces of a new service preparing for launch soon. Meet Google Presently — an online presentation creator that will likely read and write the most common formats like Microsoft PowerPoint and Open Office Impress.""

Submission + - Kodak to Sell Inkjet Printers With Low Cost Ink

Submitted by

rocketjam

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @11:04AM

rocketjam writes: "Kodak is introducing a line of desktop inkjet printers in March. They are entering a market crowded with well-established players. To compete with HP, Epson, Canon and Lexmark, Kodak plans to differentiate their line of printers with low-cost replacement ink cartridges. Rather than selling the printers at a loss and making up the difference and future profits by selling expensive replacement cartridges, Kodak's entry-level printer will be priced at $150, but ink cartridges will cost roughly half of what most other companies charge. Black ink cartridges will be sold for $10 and 5-ink color cartridges will cost $15. I've maintained for some time that if a big player in the inkjet printer market began selling their inks for substantially less than the rip-off, liquid gold prices the market leaders charge, they could quickly gain significant market share. I'll be interested to see if this happens."

Submission + - Could France's After-Lunch Siesta be Effective?

Submitted by quadra23 on Monday February 05, 2007 @10:27PM

quadra23 writes: At the beginning of February, France's Health Ministry announced plans to spend at least $7 million euros on a campaign to introduce after-lunch naps that will be implemented by volunteer firms and the results studied to examine its effectiveness, as reported by news.com.au. The goal is to help France sleep more and have more effective sleep. As the Health Minister Mr Bertrand stated, "...The siesta would be limited to 15 minutes. But if the study enables us to confirm the positive effects on concentration and quality of work, we must not hesitate to promote the concept." The article also cites several historical figures who were known to take such naps including Josef Stalin, Ronald Reagan and Winston Churchill.

Considering that France already has a maximum 35-hour work week could this campaign really prove to be effective? If so, should other countries consider similar studies? Otherwise, could there be better ways to encourage workers to maintain a proper amount of effective sleep?

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