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Submission + - Win a Saturn Poster by Voting for the Best Image (ciclops.org)

Submitted by

CheshireCatCO

on Monday December 17, 2007 @07:01PM

CheshireCatCO writes: "The Cassini Imaging team is currently running a contest for the best color image, black-and-white image, and movie released to date. Voters can also enter a contest to win an unframed poster of any of Cassini's released images."

Submission + - Intel announces Open Fibre Channel over Ethernet (open-fcoe.org)

Submitted by

sofar

on Monday December 17, 2007 @06:58PM

sofar writes: "Intel has just announced and released source code for their Open-FCoE project, which creates a transport that allows native Fibre Channel frames to travel over ordinary ethernet cables to any Linux system. This is an extremely interesting development where datacenters can reduce cost and maintenance by reducing the amount of Fibre Channel equipment and cabling while still enjoying the benefits and performance of Fibre Channel equipment. The new standard for channelling fibre channel frames over ethernet is backed by Cisco, Sun, IBM, EMC, Emulex and a variety of others working in the storage field. The timing of this announce makes sense with 10 Gigabit Ethernet becoming more widespread in the datacenter."

Submission + - Intuit admits QuickBooks flaw deletes data on Macs (computerworld.com) 1

Submitted by

Lucas123

on Monday December 17, 2007 @06:46PM

Lucas123 writes: "Intuit Inc. warned Mac users today that its version of QuickBooks Pro 2006 and 2007 has an automatic software update flaw that deletes stored files, documents or folders from a desktop's hard drive. Intuit said it has now fixed the flaw and that users should no longer get a warning message when opening up QuickBooks. The company also recommended Mac users back up their entire desktop before opening QuickBooks, or move their files from the desktop to an alternate location to ensure that their data is properly protected from the QuickBooks update flaw."

Submission + - Vista named year's most dissapointing product (pcworld.com)

Submitted by Shadow7789 on Monday December 17, 2007 @06:45PM

Shadow7789 writes: No surprise here, but to complete its humiliation, PC Magazine has named Windows Vista the most disappointing product of 2007. From the article:
'Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?...No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.'

Open Source Telephony Gives Customers Control 83

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 17, 2007 @06:39PM from the fast-hacks-and-slow-biz dept.

Linux.com's Tina Gasperson recently had the chance to sit down and talk with Thomas Howe, a small shop owner working to help implement open source telephony solutions. "Howe says open code is the key to highly customizable phone systems that truly meet the needs of individual companies. 'The telecom world has typically been a very closed environment. In terms of technology and deployment, they control every aspect of the experience. The idea of being open and allowing customers to have control is a radical thought.' But that is just what Howe is doing. Howe bases his custom communications solutions on Asterisk, the popular full-featured open source telephony engine that many companies are adopting as they move away from legacy phone systems in an effort to save money and gain more control over their infrastructure."

Submission + - OpenOffice online now available for beta testing

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Monday December 17, 2007 @06:38PM

Stony Stevenson writes: In the latest challenge to Microsoft's dominance of the productivity software market, a group of Linux developers has begun testing an online version of a free office applications suite. Developers at online software provider Ulteo said in a message posted on their Web site site that a hosted version of OpenOffice.org 2.3 that they plan to offer is now available for public beta testing. The trial version of the software can be launched from within Ulteo's Online Desktop package, which is itself currently in beta testing. The Ulteo Online Desktop aims to offer users a range of open source, Web-based applications and services. The project is led by Mandriva Linux creator Gael Duval.

Submission + - How to really bury a mainframe (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Monday December 17, 2007 @06:00PM

coondoggie writes: "Some users have gone to great lengths to dispose of their mainframe but few have gone this far. On November 21, 2007, the University of Manitoba said goodbye to its beloved 47-year-old IBM 650 mainframe Betelgeuse by holding a New Orleans style jazz funeral. In case you were wondering what an IBM 650's specifications were, according to this Columbia University site, the 650's CPU was 5ft by 3ft by 6ft and weighed 1,966 lbs, and rented for $3200 per month. The power unit was 5x3x6 and weighed 2,972 pounds. The card reader/punch weighed 1,295 pounds and rented for $550/month. The memory was a rotating magnetic drum with 2000 word (10 digits and sign) capacity and random access time of 2.496 ms. For an additional $1,500/month you could add magnetic core memory of 60 words with access time of .096ms. Big Blue sold some 2,000 of the mainframes making it one of the first successfully mass-produced computers. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/23123"

Submission + - Xterasys GPL Violation Lawsuit Settled (groklaw.net)

Submitted by

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property

on Monday December 17, 2007 @05:54PM

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "Xterasys has settled the GPL breech lawsuit brought by the BusyBox developers. In short, they've agreed to comply with the GPL, notify all previous customers as to where they can get source code, appoint an "Open Source Compliance Officer," and to pay undisclosed damages to the plaintiffs. Once the SFLC verifies their compliance with these terms, their right to distribute BusyBox under the GPL's terms will be reinstated."

Submission + - Intergfalactic particle beam spotted

Submitted by sm62704 (mcgrew) on Monday December 17, 2007 @05:53PM

sm62704 (mcgrew) writes: New scientist lightheartedly reports:

A new weapon of intergalactic war has been found. A jet of hot gas and high-energy particles is shooting out from the core of a galaxy called 3C321 and hitting a neighbour, a new study reveals.

Galaxies have been known to ram into each other, but this is the first known example of attack by particle beam
It goes on with less jocularity to explain this phenomena. And before any of you quip 'that was no moon', actually it was a black hole.

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