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Submission + - New WiFi Link Distance Record (wired.com)

Submitted by Espectr0 on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @01:18PM

Espectr0 writes: A Venezuelan professor along with his team have set a new record for the longest WiFi link. Using commodity hardware, they established a connection between a PC in El Águila, Venezuela, and one in Platillón Mountain, a distance of about 237 miles. The previous record was 193 miles. Slides (PDF) are available.

Submission + - Apple releases new MacBook Pro's (apple.com)

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Espectr0

on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @01:09PM

Espectr0 writes: "Apple has upgraded their line of MacBook Pro's. This revision includes a decent amount of ram (2 GB), LED backlit displays, 2.2 or 2.4 Ghz processors, 8x double-layer SuperDrive and NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT video cards. Apple recently addressed Greenpiece's concerns regarding its environmental policy by unveiling a clear strategy which mentioned a planed switch to the LED-backlit displays technology starting this year. Lastly, the battery is supposed to last 6 hours."

Submission + - Red Hat Releases Liberation Fonts Under GPL

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Espectr0

on Thursday May 10, 2007 @08:05PM

Espectr0 writes: "On May 9, 2007, Red Hat announced the public release of a set of high-quality fonts under the trademark LIBERATION at the Red Hat Summit. There are three sets: Sans (a substitute for Arial, Albany, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, and Bitstream Vera Sans), Serif (a substitute for Times New Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman, and Bitstream Vera Serif) and Mono (a substitute for Courier New, Cumberland, Courier, Nimbus Mono L, and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono). The press release covers the details."

Submission + - Vista Finally Cracked

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Espectr0

on Monday March 05, 2007 @01:18PM

Espectr0 writes: "Crack group PARADOX has cracked Windows Vista. It works by exploiting a 'feature' that allows bigger OEM's like ASUS to include their own version of Vista that doesn't require activation. Also, crack crack group Pantheon has included an OEM Emulation Driver, that virtually allows any kind of board to run this version."

Submission + - Java 6 Released

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Espectr0

on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @08:09PM

Espectr0 writes: "Sun has officially released Java SE 6. With a development cycle of over two years, and frequent releases to the public, the release is the first one after Sun's commitment to release the complete Java SE (language, compiler and libraries) in the first half of 2007. Java 6 is focused on the desktop users this time, with a range of features, including double buffering , performance tweaks and desktop integration."

Submission + - Internet Explorer 7 Released

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Espectr0

on Wednesday October 18, 2006 @08:47PM

Espectr0 writes: "Microsoft just released version 7 of its web browser six years after their last version. New features include a new UI, tab browsing, fit-to-page printing, RSS feeds support, integrated search with multiple providers, improved security and lots of CSS fixes."

Submission + - Google In Talks To Buy YouTube

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Espectr0

on Friday October 06, 2006 @02:34PM

Espectr0 writes: "According to an article over at Wall Street Journal Online, Google Inc. is in talks to acquire popular video-sharing site YouTube Inc. for roughly $1.6 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. The discussions are still at a sensitive stage and could well break off, this person says. YouTube commanded 46% of visits to U.S. online video sites in August, according to market research firm Hitwise. That compared to a 23% share for the video activities of News Corp.'s MySpace social-networking site, and 10% for Google Video."

Submission + - 10 Programming Languages You Should Learn

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Espectr0

on Saturday September 16, 2006 @01:32PM

Espectr0 writes: "Knowing a handful of programming languages is seen by many as a harbor in a job market storm, solid skills that will be marketable as long as the languages are. By picking the brains of Web developers and IT recruiters, eWEEK selected 10 programming languages that are a bonus for developers to add to their resumes. Even better, they're great jumping-off points, with loads of job opportunities for younger recruits. What does the slashdot community think?"

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