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Comment Re:Something better than OOo (Score 1) 451

by featurelesscube on Sunday October 26, 2008 @07:00PM (#25521401) Attached to: OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows

Or you could use Lyx. You get the beautiful output you expect from LaTeX and the most common functions are handled for you in a what-you-see-is-a-bit-like-what-you'll-get editor, - if you need anything especially funky you can always add it manually.

I always used to think latex users were mad, but after I saw the output quality I now use it for all of my official writing.

How to Turn a PlayStation 3 Into a Linux PC 276

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 05, 2008 @11:58PM from the sleek-box-of-ubuntu dept.

MahariBalzitch writes "Popular Mechanics shows step by step guide on how to install Ubuntu Linux on a PlayStation 3 and still keep the PS3 gaming functionality. Now I just need to get my hands on a PS3." Not bad specs for the price, either, since Blu-Ray players still aren't cheap. And though the article calls the procedure "somewhat complicated," it's a lot simpler than was installing Linux from floppies not so many years ago.

A Bare-Bones Linux+Mono+GUI Distro? 158

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @11:10AM from the essentials-only dept.

nimble99 writes "I am a computer software engineer, focused mainly on the Windows platform — but most of my development time is spent in .NET. I would like to move my .NET development to Linux in the form of Mono, in an attempt at building a media-center type of device. All I require, is a base operating system with simple hardware support, Mono, and a window manager that (preferably) does nothing but act as a host for mono applications. Is this available? I dont know a lot about Linux, so I thought I would ask if there is already something like this available. Obviously a 'Mono Operating System' would be the cleanest solution, but a similar thing could be achieved with the barest minimum of Linux distros right?"

Submission + - Microsoft's Biggest Threat: Google? OSS? Both? (redmondmag.com)

Submitted by

Glyn Moody

on Tuesday January 01, 2008 @05:10AM

Glyn Moody writes: "Google always plays down suggestions that there's any looming clash of the titans between itself and Microsoft. Meanwhile, it is pushing open source in every way it can: directly, by contributing code to projects and employing top hackers like Andrew Morton, Jeremy Allison and Guido van Rossum, and indirectly through the $60 million fees it pays Mozilla, its Summer of Code scheme and various open source summits held at its offices. Google+OSS: could this be the killer combination that finally breaks Microsoft?"

Submission + - How to really bury a mainframe (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Monday December 17, 2007 @06:00PM

coondoggie writes: "Some users have gone to great lengths to dispose of their mainframe but few have gone this far. On November 21, 2007, the University of Manitoba said goodbye to its beloved 47-year-old IBM 650 mainframe Betelgeuse by holding a New Orleans style jazz funeral. In case you were wondering what an IBM 650's specifications were, according to this Columbia University site, the 650's CPU was 5ft by 3ft by 6ft and weighed 1,966 lbs, and rented for $3200 per month. The power unit was 5x3x6 and weighed 2,972 pounds. The card reader/punch weighed 1,295 pounds and rented for $550/month. The memory was a rotating magnetic drum with 2000 word (10 digits and sign) capacity and random access time of 2.496 ms. For an additional $1,500/month you could add magnetic core memory of 60 words with access time of .096ms. Big Blue sold some 2,000 of the mainframes making it one of the first successfully mass-produced computers. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/23123"

Submission + - 95 percent of all e-mail sent in 2007 was spam (news.com)

Submitted by

mjasay

on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @04:46AM

mjasay writes: "There was a time — 2004 to be precise — when spam "only" consumed 70 percent of all e-mail. Those were the good old days. Today, as CNET reports, upwards of 95 percent of all e-mail is spam. In 2001, the number was 5 percent. Ironically, the United States Can-Spam Act has done absolutely nothing to stop the spam onslaught. Barracuda Networks analyzed more than 1 billion daily e-mail messages sent to its more than 50,000 customers worldwide, and found that 90 percent to 95 percent of all e-mail sent in 2007 was spam, increasing from an estimated 85 percent to 90 percent of e-mail in 2006. We've come a long way, baby."

Submission + - First Linux phone standard ships (linuxdevices.com)

Submitted by nerdyH on Friday December 07, 2007 @08:01PM

nerdyH writes: Weeks after Google revealed aspirations of creating a de facto standard operating system for mobile phones, via Android and the Open Handset Alliance, a lesser known, broad-based consortium has published what it hopes can serve as the first actual standard for Linux-based phones.

Submission + - Asus Eee sold out in Australia (theage.com.au)

Submitted by MichaelSmith on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @06:18AM

MichaelSmith writes: After two days on sale in Australia the Asus Eee Linux based laptop has nearly sold out. According to the article some families have bought two or three units and some schools have made multiple purchases. A scan of the Eee user forums suggests that installations of windows are not the hottest topic of conversation about this device.

Submission + - Movie producer thanks bittorrent community

Submitted by on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @05:50AM

An anonymous reader writes: After a DVD screener of the indie movie "Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth" was ripped and put online, it generated so much attention that the producer sent an email thanking the community for the publicity (also here). They are now encouraging people to download the movie and to donate money.

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