Comment Re:Uninstall what you don't want from Windows too (Score 1) 746
Went to a Windows presentation and found out that Server 2008 has exactly this feature. So, yes, you can install a 2008 server with no GUI. Will still cost you money, of course.
Submission + - Gore and U.N. Climate Panel Win Nobel Peace Prize (techluver.com)
Tech.Luver writes: "OSLO (Reuters) — Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the U.N. climate panel won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their part in galvanising international action against global warming before it "moves beyond man's control".Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) won "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change", the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
"Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man's control," the citation said of rising temperatures that could bring more droughts, floods, rising seas. It was the second prize to a leading U.S. Democrat during the presidency of Republican George W. Bush. The 2002 prize went to former President Jimmy Carter.""
Submission + - Patent case against red hat and novell
raffe writes: From Groklaw:
IP Innovation LLC has just filed a patent infringement They claim against Red Hat and Novell. It was filed October 9, case no. 2:2007cv00447, IP Innovation, LLC et al v. Red Hat Inc. et al, in Texas. You might recall the patent was used in litigation against Apple in April 2007, and Beta News reported at the time that it's a 1991 Xerox PARC patent. But ars technica provided the detail that it references earlier patents going back to 1984 claim to have the rights to U.S. Patent No. 5,072,412 for a User Interface with Multiple Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects issued Dec. 10, 1991 along with two other similar patents. So in July one Microsoft executive arrives; then as of October 1, there is the second, a patent guy. October 9, IP Innovation, a subsidiary, sues Red Hat. And Novell. So much for being Microsoft's little buddy.
I think SCO II has arrived
Submission + - ACLU Suit Against Bush Administration Dismissed
ti1ion writes: News today that "a federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit challenging President George W. Bush's domestic spying program, saying the plaintiffs have no standing to sue. The 2-1 ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel is not on the legality of the surveillance program itself."
Submission + - BlackBerry Service in US Suffers Widespread Outage
HaloZero writes: "ComputerWorld reports that the popular BlackBerry email service hosted by RIM has suffered a major network outage in the 'entire Western hemisphere.' The speculation is that the loss of one of the two Network Operation Centers in Canada caused the outage. As of right now, my BlackBerry email service (carried by Cingular) is working fine, while the rest of our team (who uses Verizon), is in the dark. Our T-Mobile people haven't complained yet, though they usually do that by way of email anyway."
Submission + - Intel's Penryn Benchmarked
Steve Kerrison writes: "Intel's keen to show off its up-coming 45nm Penryn Core 2 CPU. HEXUS had some hands on time with the new processor to get an idea of how well it will perform once its released: 'Intel's new 45nm Penryn core adds more than just a clock and FSB hike, so much so that even a dual-core Penryn is able to beat out a quad-core QX6800 under certain circumstances.'"
Feed Hyperlinking From CD To The Web Patented -- Plenty Of Software Companies Sued (techdirt.com)
Remember Acacia? It's the patent hoarder that buys up random questionable patents and then sues lots and lots of companies. Its most famous patent is for streaming media, which is number one on the EFF's list of patents that need to be busted. However, the company also has other patents. The latest is about to get a lot more attention. It's officially a patent for an information distribution system, but which Acacia claims actually covers having a hyperlink on a CD-ROM that links to a database, such as the web. Acacia has a subsidiary, called Disc Link, who is "monetizing" this patent by suing a ton of software companies, such as Oracle, SAP, Borland, Business Objects, Compuware, Corel, Eastman Kodak and Novell among others. Considering how many companies distribute CD-ROMs with links to the web, you can imagine how many companies can now be sued. How this concept could possibly be patented isn't explained -- not when there's plenty of money to be made by suing companies who are doing the most basic things that hyperlinks were designed to allow.
