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North Korea's Own OS, Red Star 316

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @06:00PM from the linux-is-sometimes-for-communists dept.

klaasb writes "North Korea's self-developed computer operating system, named 'Red Star,' was brought to light for the first time by a Russian satellite broadcaster yesterday. North Korea's top IT experts began developing the Red Star in 2006, but its composition and operation mechanisms were unknown until the internet version of the Russia Today TV program featured the system, citing the blog of a Russian student who goes to the Kim Il-sung University in Pyongyang."

Myst Online: Uru Live Returns As Free-To-Play 58

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @04:46AM from the uru-is-dead-long-live-uru dept.

agrif writes "Shorah b'shemtee! Uru Live has been released for free, as a first step towards opening its source. This game, an MMO released by the makers of Myst and Riven in 2003, has been canceled, zombified, resurrected, canceled again, and is now about to be released as open source to its dedicated fan base. Massively has written a brief newbie guide if you're unfamiliar with the game."

Music By Natural Selection 164

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 21, 2009 @03:57PM from the survival-of-the-grooviest dept.

maccallr writes "The DarwinTunes experiment needs you! Using an evolutionary algorithm and the ears of you the general public, we've been evolving a four bar loop that started out as pretty dismal primordial auditory soup and now after >27k ratings and 200 generations is sounding pretty good. Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed. We got some coverage in the New Scientist CultureLab blog but now things have gone quiet and we'd really appreciate some Slashdotter idle time. We recently upped the maximum 'genome size' and we think that the music is already benefiting from the change."

Comment Re:People like Vista because it's shiny (Score 1) 692

by cpwegener on Saturday May 24, 2008 @01:49PM (#23529564) Attached to: Ballmer Says Vista Selling Really Well

I dislike being called 'moron' by people who do not understand my situation.

I installed Vista and am using it. After an annoying two weeks getting used to what I thought was a slow machine it settled down and everything is running well.

It's RAM footprint is smaller than XPs and it is faster and smoother than my desktop XP (Also dual CPU with a slightly higher clock speed.)

The UAC works exactly as it should. Not that I run any really old programs but when you have misbehaving old program just give the user access to the Registry Keys and directories the program wants unfettered access to and the UAC warnings will disappear.

Is it perfect, no. I find the old style dialogs annoying, but I appreciate the 'if it aint broke don't fix it' to areas of the OS that people rarely go.

Is it stable and secure, absolutely. Why do you think that most malware is going to the social engineering approach?

Regards, Chris

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