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Comment Re:Two words why I absolutely cannot work with Ubu (Score 1) 806

by prizrak on Thursday October 25, 2007 @07:41AM (#21111415) Attached to: Vista Vs. Gutsy Gibbon

I've been running a workstation with 3 displays in Ubuntu (Kubuntu) starting with Hoary (5.04) without any issues, fully accelerated. I have two Nvidia cards with same chipset (Quadro) - AGP and PCI and use Xinerama to control display positioning. With 2 displays you should be able to use either nVidia native twinview or Xinerama, whatever works better in your case. Check for twinview option in your xorg.conf which you can configure manually, and I believe Gutsy GUI utility can be used to configure dual-displays as well.

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Submission + - Music-eating worm feeds on MP3s, Courtesy RIAA? (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by

Tech.Luver

on Friday August 03, 2007 @06:56AM

Tech.Luver writes: "theinquirer reports, " A WIGGLY WORM that deletes any mp3 files it gets its, um, hands on has been detected. The worm's not that smart or dangerous, unless you leave the virtual barn door open, in which case you could find your digital music collection decimated. ""

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Submission + - Sony bales out of DSLR market

Submitted by

clickclickdrone

on Friday August 03, 2007 @05:42AM

clickclickdrone writes: "Having had trouble pulling market share away from Canon and Nikon, it seems Sony have called it a day in the DSLR market. http://stock-photo.blogspot.com/2007/08/sony-bails -out-of-dslr-market.html"

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Submission + - New FingerprintingTechnique to Reveal Race and Sex (telegraph.co.uk) 1

Submitted by

Tech.Luver

on Friday August 03, 2007 @05:07AM

Tech.Luver writes: "Telegraph reports, " A new fingerprinting technique that can identify the race and sex, and possibly the diet of suspects has been developed. Scientists have shown that using a gelatine-based gel and high-tech chemical analysis can provide significant clues to a person?s identity even if police do not hold existing fingerprint records. ""

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Sun To Release 8-Core Niagara 2 Processor 214

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday August 03, 2007 @04:11AM from the screw-everything-we're-going-eight-cores dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sun Microsystems is set to announce its eight-core Niagara 2 processor next week. Each core supports eight threads, so the chip handles 64 simultaneous threads, making it the centerpiece of Sun's "Throughput Computing" effort. Along with having more cores than the quads from Intel and AMD, the Niagara 2 have dual, on-chip 10G Ethernet ports with cryptographic capability. Sun doesn't get much processor press, because the chips are used only in its own CoolThreads servers, but Niagara 2 will probably be the fastest processor out there when it's released, other than perhaps the also little-known 4-GHz IBM Power 6."

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Submission + - GOP Preparing to Steal the 2008 Election (newyorker.com)

Submitted by on Friday August 03, 2007 @02:37AM

An anonymous reader writes: Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker reports that Californians vote next year on a radical change to the allotment of their state's electoral college votes. Republican sponsors call themselves Californians for Equal Representation, but if their measure passes, it's more likely than ever that a Republican will win the Presidency without winning the popular vote.

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Submission + - Ruling by Secret US Court Allegedly Reduces Spying

Submitted by conspirator57 on Friday August 03, 2007 @01:20AM

conspirator57 writes: TFA http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la- na-spying2aug02,0,5813563.story?coll=la-home-cente r states that the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (a court that no citizen can establish standing to appear before) has ruled against Executive requests for so-called "basket warrants" as violating the 4th amendment to the Constitution, namely that such warrants do not meet the clearly expressed criteria in the second half of the amendment. To accomplish this they must have looked startlingly like British general warrants which were the original motivation for the 4th amendment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_(law) for more.

TFA is very sympathetic to the Executive branch, going on to depict ways in which we're all less safe because of this ruling. Personally, I feel safer with more rulings like this one. Just wish the process were a bit more transparent.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

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