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Comment Re:I've had a long-running problem (Score 1) 756

by tranquillity on Saturday January 30, 2010 @02:53PM (#30964368) Attached to: MSI Will Launch iPad Alternative

d) Apple's gonna continue to make bank selling devices to people just like her.

Agreed. However, this is a geek community. We like things like multi-tasking and open platforms.

You really got the point! Maybe that's why most geeks are not married and probably never will ...
*SCNR*

Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0 296

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 11, 2009 @05:47PM from the three-upmanship dept.

An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from Neowin.net "Sarah Sharp, a self-styled 'geekess' and Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center who has recently been working on the Linux USB subsystem, announced on her blog that support of USB 3.0 will soon be integrated into the Linux kernel. This makes Linux the first operating system to support the standard. If you can't wait and have the expertise necessary, she includes instructions on how to get USB 3.0 support in Linux now." Here's Sharp's post.

Dell To Offer Open Source Bundles 84

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @03:08PM from the part-of-the-years-long-water-testing-project dept.

ruphus13 writes "Dell has been offering Linux-based machines for a while, especially its Server-class machines. Now, Dell has decided that there are several open source applications that are ready for mainstream consumers. From the post, 'While we've all been speculating about whether Dell is working on Android netbooks, the computer hardware and software vendor was busy bundling open source applications to offer to small- and medium-sized business customers looking for low-cost alternatives to commercial software. The pre-configured "SMB-in-a-box" software is only available in the US for now, but Dell expects to launch a similar offering in Asia by the end of 2009... Although no specifics have been given about which apps are included in Dell's first bundle, it is aimed at the retail sector.' It is going to be interesting to see what Dell picks as the 'must-have' applications for the SMB market."

Submission + - Passport RFIDs cloned wholesale by $250 eBay aucti (theregister.co.uk)

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Presto Vivace

on Monday February 02, 2009 @04:43PM

Presto Vivace writes: "Video demo shows you how
Using inexpensive off-the-shelf components, an information security expert has built a mobile platform that can clone large numbers of the unique electronic identifiers used in US passport cards and next generation drivers licenses.

The $250 proof-of-concept device — which researcher Chris Paget built in his spare time — operates out of his vehicle and contains everything needed to sniff and then clone RFID, or radio frequency identification, tags. During a recent 20-minute drive in downtown San Francisco, it successfully copied the RFID tags of two passport cards without the knowledge of their owners.

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