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Submission + - Canonical releases Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Alpha 1 (h-online.com)

Submitted by ddfall on Thursday December 10, 2009 @02:58PM

ddfall writes: Canonical, and the Ubuntu developers, have announced the availability of the first alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, code named "Lucid Lynx". The first development milestone is the first of three planned alpha releases. Lucid Lynx Alpha 1 is based on the 2.6.32 Linux kernel and

Broke Counties Turn Failing Roads To Gravel 717

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 15, 2009 @02:38PM from the let-civilization-collapse-initiative dept.

To save money, more than 20 Michigan counties have decided to turn deteriorating paved roads back to gravel. Montcalm County estimates that repaving a road costs more than $100,000 a mile. Grinding the same mile of road up and turning it into gravel costs $10,000. At least 50 miles of road have been reverted to gravel in Michigan the past three years. I can't wait until we revert back to whale oil lighting and can finally be rid of this electricity fad.

Google Summer of Code Announces Mentor Projects 44

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 19, 2009 @04:56PM from the everyone-gets-a-free-mentors-album-too dept.

mithro writes "As everyone should already know, Google is running the Summer of Code again this year. For those who don't know, GSoC is where Google funds student's to participate in Open Source projects and has been running for 5 years, bringing together over 2600 students and 2500 mentors from nearly 100 countries worldwide. Google has just announced the projects which will be mentor organizations this year. It includes a great list of Open Source projects from a wide range of different genres, include content management systems, compilers, many programming languages and even a bunch of games!"

The 100 Degree Data Center 472

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 19, 2009 @10:18AM from the so-take-off-all-your-clothes dept.

miller60 writes "Are you ready for the 100-degree data center? Rackable Systems has introduced a new enclosure that it says can run high-density racks safely in environments as hot as 104 degrees (40 degrees C), offering customers the option of saving energy in their data center. Most data centers operate in a range between 68 and 74 degrees. Raising the thermostat can lower the power bill, allowing data centers to use less power for cooling. But higher temperatures can be less forgiving in the event of a cooling failure, and not likely to be welcomed by employees working in the data center."

Google's Information On DMCA Takedown Abuse 217

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @07:59PM from the hassle-your-way-to-the-top dept.

Binestar writes "According to a PC World article, Google has submitted a brief to New Zealand about its proposed copyright law (section 92A). "In its submission, Google notes that more than half (57%) of the takedown notices it has received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998, were sent by business targeting competitors and over one third (37%) of notices were not valid copyright claims.""

Submission + - Jon Stewart Exposes Apple Stock Manipulation (appleinsider.com) 1

Submitted by WebManWalking on Friday March 13, 2009 @10:09PM

WebManWalking writes: AppleInsider is running a report by Prince McLean about how deliberate misinformation is being used to manipulate Apple stock prices. As usual, traditional journalists, whose job ought to be to inform us, have dropped the ball, and it fell to Jon Stewart of The Daily Show to tear Wall Street yet another new one. I'm getting pretty sick of traditional journalists' reluctance to go for the throat when they see corruption, and ostensibly hide behind the skirts of fairness. Looks more like cowardice to me. I don't own Apple stock, but if I did, I'd be thanking The Daily Show.

Submission + - Do Netbooks Deserve a Place at Your Company? (eweek.com)

Submitted by

JEB_eWEEK

on Thursday March 12, 2009 @04:36PM

JEB_eWEEK writes: "Netbooks combine mobility and low cost, two attractive qualities that, until recently, were mutually exclusive in notebook makers' product lines. The question is, can you get anything done with them?

eWEEK Labs reviewed the Lenovo IdeaPad S10, the Asus Eee PC 1000H, and the HP Mini, and based on what we've learned, we're offering up some evaluation criteria for determining whether the lightweight, low-cost netbooks are a good fit for your users' computing needs. And yes, this Slashdot submission was written on a netbook."

Journal Journal: Do Netbooks Deserve a Place at Your Company?

Journal by JEB_eWEEK on Thursday March 12, 2009 @01:27PM

Netbooks combine mobility and low cost, two attractive qualities that, until recently, were mutually exclusive in notebook makers' product lines. The question is, can you get anything done with them?

Submission + - New Star Trek TV show (sffmedia.com) 1

Submitted by

bowman9991

on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @03:58AM

bowman9991 writes: "More Star Trek TV soon? Bryan Fuller, creator of the TV show Pushing Daisies and a former Star Trek writer and producer, is geared up to make it happen. The new Star Trek TV show would be based on "old style" Star Trek, rather than the more recent incarnations and variations: Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise and Star Trek: The Next Generation. There hasn't been a Star Trek TV series since Enterprise was cancelled after four seasons in 2005. Fuller wrote twenty one Star Trek episodes over four years, two in Deep Space Nine's final season, and the rest for Voyager. He also produced Voyager's last season. If J.J. Abrams' reboot is successful (and the latest trailer suggests it will be!) perhaps we'll see him involved with a new Star Trek TV show with the style and impact of Fringe or Lost. The new Star Trek movie featuring a young Kirk and Spock is in cinemas May 2009."

Submission + - Extra fee to use application via remote desktop.

Submitted by StanTheBat on Monday March 09, 2009 @01:41PM

StanTheBat writes: Thomson Reuters has started charging an extra fee to use applications installed on a local PC via remote desktop. Their OneSource Trust & Estate Administration software now refuses to run if it detects that Windows Remote Desktop or Citrix is being used. An extra licence fee is required even for a single user working from home. According to a Client Sales Representative: "The issue is that our database provider ADS has started charging this fee and we are just passing it along". I spent some time on the Sysbase Advantage Database Sever website and I can find no mention of such a fee. Are any other applications useing the Advantage Database Server charging extra for use via remote desktop?

Submission + - WARNING: driver updates causing Vista deactivation (apcmag.com)

Submitted by

KrispySausage

on Tuesday October 23, 2007 @08:48AM

KrispySausage writes: "After weeks of gruelling troubleshooting, I've finally had it confirmed by Microsoft Australia and USA — something as small as swapping the video card or updating a device driver can trigger a total Vista deactivation.

Put simply, your copy of Windows will stop working with very little notice (three days) and your PC will go into "reduced functionality" mode, where you can't do anything but use the web browser for half an hour.

How can this ridiculous situation occur, and what is Microsoft's response... read on."

Submission + - LeapFrog Jumps into Open Source (eweek.com)

Submitted by

JEB_eWEEK

on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @05:54PM

JEB_eWEEK writes: "Leapfrog Enterprises, maker of children's learning toys and electronics, is in the process of ramping up its Internet operations to serve a new series of Web-aware educational products. At the same time, the company's best-of-breed infrastructure planning strategies are leading the company in the direction of open-source software."

Submission + - Windows Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB

Submitted by sproketboy on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @05:14PM

sproketboy writes: The title says it all.

Feed Nicotine Enhances Learning And Memory: Could This Lead To New Alzheimer's Medica (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @05:13PM

While nicotine is highly addictive, researchers have also shown the drug to enhance learning and memory -- a property that has launched efforts to develop nicotine-like drugs to treat cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, schizophrenia and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Submission + - Why Google Wanted a YouTube Lawsuit

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @06:59PM

An anonymous reader writes: After YouTube was purchased for $1.6 Billion, there was rampant speculation that Google would soon be waist-deep in billion dollar lawsuits. Despite the enormous liability issues, Google purchased YouTube for a mind-numbing sum, leaving many doubters wondering if Google considered all of costs involved. Well, a theory has been put forth explaining what Google may have been thinking when it bought the company: "Letting YouTube fight this battle alone with their own lawyers might have resulted in a very public and unnecessary loss that would have crippled Google's video ambitions and possibly caused collateral damage to a bunch of related industries (especially search)." In short, the author argues that Google had a lot more to lose had it kept away from YouTube and let the old-media companies crush it with lawsuits.

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