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Feed Dell Tablet PC coming this Fall? (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Tablet PCs

We've been hearing rumors about a possible Dell Tablet PC pretty much since the day the first Tablet PCs went on sale, is it finally going to happen now? None of this is officially confirmed or anything, but jkOnTheRun (which has tons of cred when it comes to this stuff) reports that Dell is probably going to roll out a Tablet PC sometime around September or October of this year and that it will most likely be a convertible-style Tablet based on the Latitude D420 and come with a widescreen display and optional WWAN.

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Programming

Journal Journal: "Use a non-broken toolchain"

Journal by Elliot_Lin
OK, Here goes for another rant. When my GCC throws an error, and I mention it to the devs, it is immediately my 'toolchain's fault'. OK, maybe my tool chain has been compiled by someone different than the original devs... but I am pretty sure that the Debian devs do not spend their time manually tinkering with the tool chain so as to break it. An error in compiling is an error in compiling. No difference whether its Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Familiar, DSL, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Haiku or whateve
Linux

The Completely Fair Scheduler 292

Posted by CmdrTaco from the i'm-always-late dept.
hichetu writes "Kernel trap has a nice summary of what is going on behind the scenes to change the Linux Scheduler. The O(1) Linux scheduler is going to be changed so that it is fair to interactive tasks. You will be surprised to know that O(1) is really too good not to have any side-effects on fairness to all tasks."
Power

Submission + - Sun converts carbon dioxide into fuel

Submitted by
Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "We all know that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has a major impact on the Earth climate. But now, chemists at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have developed "a device that can capture energy from the sun, convert it to electrical energy and split carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and oxygen." As carbon monoxide can easily be converted to liquid fuel, this prototype device kills two birds with one stone: it helps saving fuel while reducing the concentration of a greenhouse gas. Still, this device needs some improvements before an industrial deployment. Read more for additional references and a picture of the prototype device."
Security

Submission + - Porn site hacked as an act of Jihad?

Submitted by
LoLo
LoLo writes: "On Easter Sunday, the media servers of a fairly popular porn site (yet another YouTube clone) were compromised. After gaining FTP access the intruder(s) deleted over 7500 videos. All that was left on each box was a new index.html page entitled STOP PORNO with the text "In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful" and a Muslim Prayer Call video embedded in the body. Whether this porn site hack was actually the work of Muslim extremists or a pasty white kid from Philly is debatable. Considering the rash of such attacks over the Mohammed cartoons out of Denmark last year, I think it may have been the real deal."
United States

Journal Journal: Jackson and Sharpton on Intolerability 2

Journal by pudge

Don Imus said some things that some people reasonably found offensive. Al Sharpton wants Imus fired, saying:

"Somewhere we must draw the line in what is tolerable in mainstream media," Sharpton said Sunday. "We cannot keep going through offending us and then apologizing and then acting like it never happened. Somewhere we've got to stop this."
Graphics

Submission + - Linux based OpenGL development system without X

Submitted by
zelko
zelko writes: "myOS — Linux based OpenGL development system without X Minimalistic GNU/Linux system, stripped down of everything, but core necessary files to compile and run OpenGL/C code. It has simplified directory structure and cleaned up internal cross referencing. Programs compiled in myOS will run on any Linux with or without X. Copy of the OpenGL Red Book is included, together with 45 examples from the book. Examples are organized by chapters, each in separate folder, ready to compile, run and play with. Source code is modified to use Scitech drivers and is very similar to GLUT version in the Red Book. This little collection is really all one needs to learn OpenGL. In fact the whole system being very simple to use or analyze and understand, can be a tool to teach Linux basics and C/OpenGL programming. http://one.xthost.info/zelko/opengl.html"
Robotics

Satellites Mating Via Robotic Arm 91

Posted by Zonk from the that's-one-way-to-do-it dept.
Roland Piquepaille writes "The launch of the Orbital Express mission, with its two satellites ASTRO and NextSat, the first one servicing the other, was widely covered a month ago. But what is happening in space now? In 'Robotic satellite servicer rehearsal underway in orbit,' Spaceflight Now reports about the progress done. A week ago, the two satellites were able to link to each other to operate the first transfer of hydrazine fuel from ASTRO's propellant tanks into NextSat. This weekend, ASTRO's ten-foot-long robotic arm is going to be used to move objects to NextSat. But what does it mean for international satellite operators when they need help with their space birds? Will they use a system designed for U.S.'s DARPA? "
User Journal

Journal Journal: Kathy Sierra 1

Journal by kitty tape

How odd. I just noticed that the whole Kathy Sierra harassment issue has not come up (did I blink and miss it?). This seems kind of odd. Certainly, online standards of behavior and internet harassment are something that should matter to we nerds who spend much of our life online. This is pretty much the only forum relevant to the topic that I frequent that has not brought it up. Why is this not seen as important? Is there a legitimate reason is has not come up? Is it insensitivity of t
XBox (Games)

Submission + - Windows Live Messenger coming to Xbox 360

Submitted by IvanTheNotSoBad
IvanTheNotSoBad writes: The New York Times is reporting that Windows Live Messenger will be coming to the Xbox 360 the second week in May. Users will be able to associate their Windows Live Messenger account with their Gamertag. This is part of Microsoft's strategy to to bridge PCs, televisions, and mobile devices together, as well as maintain its lead over Sony.

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