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355617 submission

Submission + - Create virtual machine image of OS on hard disk 1

Submitted by skristir on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @09:29PM

skristir writes: I have a couple of old clunker boxes on which I run Windows NT and Windows XP. They are around because I have s/w and data on them that I still need. Having upgraded to a reasonably powerful Linux (Ubuntu) machine, I was hoping that I could create virtual machine images from the hard disk and then de-commission the old hardware. I do have the original install disks, but I am not interested in re-installing all the s/w on a virtual machine. What would be the point of that?! Can anyone suggest how one would go about converting existing s/w on a hard disk into a virtual machine image? I looked at Xen and Virtual Box but not enough information is available. VMWare wants my money but I still don't know if it can do what I want....

355587 submission

Submission + - Call To Halt Donations To Stop Wikipedia Deletions 4

Submitted by

ObsessiveMathsFreak

on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @09:04PM

ObsessiveMathsFreak writes: "Howard Tayler, the webcomic artist of Schlock Mercenary fame, is calling on people not to donate money during the latest Wikimedia Foundation fund-raiser, in protest at the "notability purges" taking place throughout Wikipedia, where articles are being removed en-masse by what many see as overzealous admins. The webcomic community in particular has long felt slighted by the application of Wikipedia's contentious Notability policy. Wikinews reporters have recently begun investigating this issue, but are the admins listening? Is Deletionism becoming a dominant ethos on Wikipedia? Are the right people holding the reigns?"

269095 submission

Submission + - Do you smell that burning smell in your computer? (secondlifeupdate.com)

Submitted by magnusgrafex on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @06:14PM

magnusgrafex writes: http://www.secondlifeupdate.com/2007/08/28/do-you- smell-that-burning-smell-in-your-computer/

269039 submission

Submission + - The green cure to the internet cafe blues (userful.com)

Submitted by

Cathie Walker

on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @05:26PM

Cathie Walker writes: "Hotels, cafes and other high-traffic areas need a hassle-free way of providing internet access. Kiosks.Userful.com is now giving away the software, supplies & support to set up & run turnkey self-service internet cafes. A pod of 10 environmentally responsible internet stations running off a single PC in use just 90 minutes a day could make $25,000 per year. Userful's revolutionary software, DiscoverStation is quickly becoming the standard for green computing worldwide. DiscoverStation leverages the unused computing power of modern PCs to create an environmentally efficient computing option. Attaching up to 10 monitors, mice and keyboards to a single computer reduces CO2 emissions by up to 15 tons per year per system and reduces electronic waste by up to 80%. Userful recently stated that in the last year their software has saved over 13,250 tons of CO2 emissions, the equivalent of taking 2,300 cars off the road."

250453 submission

Submission + - Via Groklaw Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX (groklaw.net)

Submitted by

RobertLTux

on Friday August 10, 2007 @05:41PM

RobertLTux writes: "Quoth PJ
"Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights! Novell has right to waive!
Dated: Friday, August 10 2007 @ 04:52 PM EDT
Hot off the presses: Judge Dale Kimball has issued a 102-page ruling [PDF] on the numerous summary judgment motions in SCO v. Novell. Here is what matters most:

[T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.

That's Aaaaall, Folks! The court also ruled that "SCO is obligated to recognize Novell's waiver of SCO's claims against IBM and Sequent". That's the ball game. There are a couple of loose ends, but the big picture is, SCO lost. Oh, and it owes Novell a lot of money from the Microsoft and Sun licenses. "

anybody got a good recording of TAPS?"

250439 submission

Submission + - Judge Kimball rules; Novell owns Unix copyrights (groklaw.net)

Submitted by

Eggplant62

on Friday August 10, 2007 @05:31PM

Eggplant62 writes: "In his most damaging ruling yet, Judge Kimball today released his ruling in the SCO v. Novell case, saying that it is his belief that after examining the all the documentation and motion practice and after the hearings earlier this year on various summary judgment motions, the jist is: "[T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights." Of course, Groklaw is covering the story and broke the news just over a half hour prior to this submission.

There is also a ruling in SCO v IBM on summary judgment motions but the actual rulings are yet to become available. Keep your eyes peeled."

163623 story

OLPC Project Rollout Begins In Uruguay 248

Posted by Zonk on Saturday May 12, 2007 @07:21AM from the go-get-em-kids dept.

Acer500 writes "The One Laptop Per Child project became a reality Thursday in Uruguay, as the 160 children of school number 24 in the humble town of Cardal received their XO computers. The learning tools came directly from the hands of president Tabaré Vazquez. It has become a matter of national pride that Uruguay is the first country to realize the project's goal. The target is that by 2009, every school-age child in Uruguay will have one, and an initial 15 million dollars have already been allocated to the project. From the newspaper articles: 'The happiness of having a PC in their hands, some of them for the first time, had the kids in ecstasy, which didn't wait to turn on their computers, introduce their personal information (required the first time they're turned on), choose the screen colors, and start experimenting with them. What initially made them more enthusiastic was the possibility of taking photographs and filming each others with the included webcams.'" More information below.

163677 submission

Submission + - Debian remote vulnerability, 35 days & running

Submitted by on Saturday May 12, 2007 @06:55AM

An anonymous reader writes: About a month ago, Lighttpd version 1.4.15 was officially released with two important security patches (1, 2). Debian was initially quick to pick up on this version, in fact they did so more than 35 days ago for their work-in-progress "unstable" project. But the official stable distribution of Debian is STILL vulnerable. A bug report tagged "remote root" has been left unanswered for more than a week.

100362 submission

Submission + - the mistery of "DNS server registration"

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @05:21AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "I have recently been burned by the mystical (at least to me) "DNS server registration". I changed the DNS server for a domain I own to new ones. After the update period passed I was horrified to see that only one of the two new servers has been accepted and my domain left in an "INACTIVE" state. After conversations with the support team they told me the second DNS server FQDN I have entered is "not a registered DNS server" and thus was "not accepted by the system". Despite of it being a completely valid and resolvable FQDN, on which there is a server running BIND authoritative for the domain.

They couldn't give any details about what is this thing, except for "DNS servers need to be registered, just as domain names".

My research wasn't very fruitful too, so you are my only hope!

I still can't accept that there is such a thing and there is not single easy to find clear document explaining it. All I could find was this http://www.hps.com/howtodns.html and some links to "Register a DNS server" at sites of registrars like Enom and network solutions accesible to resellers only.

Who is responsible for "registering DNS servers" — the registries or the registrars? What happens if the FQDN of the DNS server is in one TLD and the domain I'm trying to use it for is in another from a different registry/registrar? How do I as a domain owner "register a DNS server"? Where is this info stored — in DNS, in whois database, else? How can I check if an FQDN is already a "registered DNS server"? How do I unregister a DNS server? Can one IP be registered under multiple domains? What is the point of life, universe and everything?!

Please HELP!"

97414 submission

Submission + - Golfer sues over vandalized Wikipedia site

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @07:25PM

coondoggie writes: "Pro golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is suing to track down the author of what Zoeller says is a defamatory paragraph about him on the Wikipedia site. In an Associated Press story Zoeller's attorney, Scott Sheftall, said he filed a lawsuit against a Miami firm last week because the law won't allow him to sue Wikipedia. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1176 9"

97374 submission

Submission + - The Ten Most Frequently-Guessed Passwords

Submitted by

darkreadingman

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @06:37PM

darkreadingman writes: "IT people often create their own security problems by choosing administrative passwords that are easily hacked. Here's a list of hackers' ten most frequently-guessed passwords, along with some suggestions on better ways to create and maintain strong passwords. http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=117 988&WT.svl=news1_1"

96634 submission

Submission + - 'Dead' Rocket Explodes In Orbit

Submitted by

Jacob

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @07:14PM

Jacob writes: "A rocket which malfunctioned during launch a year ago recently exploded in orbit over Australia, and a number of amateur astronomers, including Rob McNaught (discoverer of Comet McNaught) were able to photograph the explosion and the resulting debris. NASA are now tracking over 1000 fragments, meaning that this has produced more space junk than China's recent ASAT test, it's possible that the fire and explosion were triggered by an encounter with space junk in orbit, and it's also possible the new junk cloud could impact other satellites in the future."

95890 submission

Submission + - Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong

Submitted by

modapi

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @07:28PM

modapi writes: "Google's wasn't the best storage paper at FAST '07. Another, more provocative paper looking at real world results from 100,000 disk drives got the "Best Paper" award. Bianca Schroeder of CMU's Parallel Data Lab paper Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you? (pdf) crushes a number of (what we now know to be) myths about disks such as:

vendor MTBF validity

"consumer" vs "enterprise" drive reliability (spoiler: no difference)

RAID 5 assumptions

A good summary of the paper's key point is at StorageMojo."

92966 submission

Submission + - WHS: Beta 2 - What's in the Package?

Submitted by

Terry Walsh

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @03:41AM

Terry Walsh writes: "http://www.wegotserved.co.uk/2007/02/13/whs-beta-2 -whats-in-the-package/ Want to see what you get when you're accepted into the Windows Home Server Beta? Here's the scoop."

92928 submission

Submission + - Blu-ray set to win format war in Australia

Submitted by

curmi

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @02:06AM

curmi writes: "According to The Age, Blu-ray looks set to win the format wars in Australia. One major retailer has decided to stock Blu-ray titles exclusively, and with HD-DVD stand-alone players almost non-existent in the country, HD-DVD looks set to lose out. With the PS3 set to launch next month down under, it is expected that blu-ray movies sales will improve still further."

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