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Submission + - Installing Software in Linux is a Headache

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "Ian Murdoch has started a series entitled "Software installation on Linux: Today, it sucks" that expresses the problems he has with installing software on Linux. He's noticed other blogs that mention using open source in Windows because it is guaranteed to come with an installer that "just works." A lot of Linux distributions out there have their own package deployment programs (RPM, APT, yum, etc.) but, as I've also found, nothing is guaranteed to "just work." The end of his rant points to the recent LSB conference in Germany with hopes that its Packaging Summit (December 6) will give the Linux Standards Base something to think about and hopefully address."
Windows

Journal Journal: The sudden appeal of XP 1

Journal by Snarfiorix
Having to work in a support enviroment, you often end up in talks about the latest thing that is going to hit you for support. Now, in my case, I socialise a lot with my co-workers and often we get together at parties and the subject of the latest thing to make our lives miserable comes up. Such is the case with Vista, but what is noticable is how we chat for about 20 minutes about features, hardware and software compatabillity untill someone mentions what he done to his XP partition to make (mo
Spam

Submission + - Spam volumes -- what's REALLY going on?

Submitted by
richi
richi writes: "The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Spam has doubled / spammers are winning / spam is 80% of all mail / 90% of mail / 110%, etc. etc. etc...

*Yawn*

I'm getting bored with self-serving anti-spam vendors flinging dubious statistics around. Yes, spam volumes have increased recently, but doubled? No.

More at Computerworld: http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/4182"
Portables

Submission + - Matsushita Claims A Safer Li-Ion Battery

Submitted by Anonymous
Anonymous writes: After millions and millions of notebook battery recalls this year, not to mention notebook fires, Matsushita says it has developed a safer way of mass-producing lithium-ion batteries. According to this story, the company says that it offers a "clean" manufacturing process free of the potential for contaminating battery packs; that's the problem Sony said it encountered when it ran millions of suspect battery packs off its assembly lines.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Hey, I don't Want That Futile Gadget

Journal by alien9

I hate Xmas. I feel sad at this time because the holidays. I feel people both so naive and hypocrite. I really don't find fun anymore at Xmas. When I was in London I saw the famous trend to greet 'happy holidays' instead 'merry xmas'. New times, when muslims are part of the market and diversity is on the tune. Now Jews are having chanuka peacefully. OK, that's nice. I don't complain about that. I am actually pretty unaware of it all.

Security

Submission + - Various ways of detecting rootkits in GNU/Linux

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A Rootkit by definition is a collection of tools that a cracker (a hacker gone bad) installs on a victim's computer after gaining initial access. It generally consists of log cleaning scripts and trojaned replacements of core system utilities such as ps, top, ifconfig and so on. This article explains how to detect whether someone has swapped a program with a rootkit on ones system running GNU/Linux.
It may also be noted that in recent times, atleast one well known multi-billion dollar company has been found guilty of installing a rootkit in the pretense of stopping copyright infringement, on a user's machine without his permission when the user played its Music CD.
Data Storage

Submission + - ZFS in Leopard

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: French Site Mac4Ever presents a screenshot of Leopard's Disk Image Utility with ZFS as a choice in the filesystem menu. Also covered on StorageMojo.
The Internet

Submission + - Skype thinks it always rains in London

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Skype version 2.5.0.151 slanders London as a place that is associated with permanent downpoor.
Users on this version that receive the phrase "(london") in a chat will be presented with the emoticon for "(rain)" instead."
Announcements

Submission + - The Blasphemy Challenge

Submitted by
Roland Sassen
Roland Sassen writes: "The last email from richardawkins.net provides the following opportunity:

"December 17, 2006 The Rational Response Squad (http://rationalresponders.com) and Brian Flemming (creator of 'The God Who Wasn't There' DVD) have started a new online campaign through YouTube.com called "The Blasphemy Challenge." Deny the holy spirit in a video, upload it to YouTube, and get a free copy of 'The God Who Wasn't There' on DVD. Click here for more information: http://richarddawkins.net/article,425,The-Blasphem y-Challenge,The-Rational-Response-Squad Or visit: blasphemychallenge.com We also have a brand-new 'switch' page at richarddawkins.net, thanks to Claudio Esposito! Check it out! www.richarddawkins.net Thanks for reading, Josh Timonen. www.richarddawkins.net "

After the "open source freedom", the "no god freedom" will change our world. Roland Sassen http://www.thinsia.com/"
Portables

Submission + - GPS PDA for diving and underwater exploration

Submitted by Alex Davis
Alex Davis writes: This company in the UK are reportedly working on a new version of their PDA device that will work underwater. It will use GPS to tour divers and scuba aficionados around the world's most famous dive sights. The report appeared in a local newspaper that referred to their technical researchers doing on-site demos at this dive site. Are there any divers out there who would go in for this sort of thing?
Biotech

Submission + - South Korean Team Clones Dogs

Submitted by spellraiser
spellraiser writes: Reuters reports that a team at Seoul National University has produced three cloned copies of a female Afghan hound. This is the same team that produced Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog last year, also an Afghan hound. However, Hwang Woo-suk, who was the leader of the team back then, has since resigned in disgrace, after it was discovered that the team had fabricated data in two papers on human embryonic stem cells. The team is now headed by Lee Byung-chun.

From the article:

Lee said his team had used the same technology as before under Hwang but had made it more efficient. Hwang has said that he chose Afghan hounds because of their striking looks.

A total of 1,095 reconstructed embryos were transferred into 123 surrogates to create two living puppies last year — Snuppy and another dog that died after 22 days from pneumonia.

This time, 167 reconstructed embryos were transferred into 12 surrogate mothers to produce the three living clones, Lee said.

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