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Submission + - One click desktop metamorphosis magic?

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on Monday October 20, 2008 @10:56PM

linhares writes: "Ghandi once said that "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." We have been dreaming for years for the year of Linux on the Desktop, and even as Vista flopped, it is yet to materialize. Perhaps one way towards Linux on the desktop is to make it configurable by anyone, not only by geeks. That is precisely the idea behind the relatively new (and in need of eyeballs) epidermis project: to create a single-click desktop metamorphosis magic. A single click would "change the wallpaper, alongside GTK, metacity, icons, splash, usplash, cursor, grub and GDM themes in one GUI program for the GNOME desktop". Users (including newbies) could then share desktops in one step, accelerating the advancement of Linux desktop awesomeness to biblical proportions. The project recently released v.0.1beta, and, as Ghandi would say, it is pure win."

Submission + - Slash should have a finance/economics section

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linhares

on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @05:12PM

linhares writes: "If you're just arriving from Mars, let me tell you: Lehman Brothers does not exist anymore, the financial system is in complete mayhem, and the other day, the Dow Jones skydived to a 7% loss after congress rejected an unprecedented bailout. If you think this is not going to affect science and technology, you're wrong. In the S&P index, 499 stocks were down, one was up. (Which one? Get this: CAMPBELL'S SOUP!) I for one would like to propose that Slashdot creates a new Finance/Economics section so we can deal with this situation and rescue the world economy, all down here from Mama's basement. So here it is: shouldn't slashdotters have a chance to submit and discuss finance and economics stories?"

Submission + - Douglas Hofstadter's views on chess AI, now GPL'd (capyblanca.com)

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on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @04:42AM

linhares writes: "How do chess players make decisions? How do they avoid the combinatorial explosion? How do we go from rooks and knights to abstract thought? What is abstract thought like? These are some of the questions involving the Capyblanca project. The name, of course, is a blend between José Raoul Capablanca, and Hofstadter's original Copycat Project. Well, after almost 5 years, we have a proof-of-concept in the form of a running program, and we are GPL'ing the code, so interested readers might take it to new directions which we cannot foresee. It is certainly different from anything else out there."

Submission + - Is wine ready for prime time? (winehq.org)

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linhares

on Monday May 26, 2008 @11:41PM

linhares writes: "Wine is now on v.1.0rc2. From what is available at their application database page, most effort is conducted in games; but wouldn't it be more appealing, from the perspective of ordinary computer users (and hardware providers), if it were concentrating on the most used windows applications (besides office and Adobe)? The 1.0 release will eventually trigger massive attention to Linux, with the obvious, perhaps naive, mentions that it now "runs windows". I wonder whether /. users think it is ready for prime time, and whether that kind of attention might eventually backlash?"

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