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Submission + - Running MS Office 2003 on Linux with Wine 0.9.52 (blogspot.com)

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twickline
twickline writes: "This is a Office 2003 on Linux with Wine 0.9.52, Guide with lots of nice screenshots and tips. The long standing error"Microsoft Office (Word or Excell) has not been installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the application" has now been properly fixed as of Wine 0.9.52 in addition to many other fixes and enhancements. If you currently use Office 2003 on Linux via Wine this should be considered as a major upgrade."
Operating Systems

Submission + - Most Popular Linux Wishes for 2008 (linuxloop.com)

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Linux Loop asked readers to submit their wishes for Linux in 2008. The resulting list of the most popular wishes included a more consistant look and feel, getting rid of the terminal and all editing of configuration files, and more. Even though crazy, never in a million years suggestions were invited, most people asked for very realistic changes, showing how mature Linux is."
Security

Submission + - Domains May Disappear After Search 1

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Ponca City, We Love You
Ponca City, We Love You writes: "A perfect domain name pops into your mind, a quick check at your registrar reveals that the domain is available, you put off the registration a few minutes and when you come back to register the domain, it's taken by someone else. How much time has elapsed between the search and the attempted registration — in one case, less than 90 seconds. Daily Domainer has an interesting story alleging that there may be a leak that allows domain tasters to intercept, analyze and register your domain ideas in minutes. "Every time you do a whois search with any service, you run a risk of losing your domain," says one industry insider. ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC ) has not been able to find hard evidence of Domain Name Front Running but they have issued an advisory (pdf) for people to come forward with hard evidence it is happening. Here is how domain name research theft crimes can occur and some tips to avoiding being a victim."
Space

Submission + - Cosmic explosion detonates in empty space (newscientist.com)

Submitted by mlimber
mlimber writes: According to an article in NewScientist, "Astronomers are puzzling over a powerful cosmic explosion that seems to have detonated in a region of empty space, far away from any nearby galaxy." The leading theory is that the explosion was a star exploding in the gas trail that is yanked out of a galaxy when it passes or begins merging with another. Said the lead author of the study, "Even if the galaxies have stopped forming stars, in the tidal tails you can trigger new episodes of star formation [not to mention detonation]," and indeed the authors have identified two candidate galaxies that give weight to their theory.
Security

Submission + - ATM fraud aka skimming on the rise (heise-security.co.uk)

Submitted by
juct
juct writes: "While everybody is talking about phishing and online fraud, the rate of ATM fraud raises silently. With nearly undetectable skimming devives, additional touchpads and cameras, fraudsters copy your card data, catch your PIN and loot your account. Look at the pictures, to see, if you spotted them."
Google

Submission + - Google reinvents Wikipedia (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by teslatug
teslatug writes: Google appears to be reinventing Wikipedia with their new product that they call knol (not yet publicly available). In an attempt to gather human knowledge, Google will accept articles from users who will be credited with the article by name. If they want, they can allow ads to appear alongside the content and they will be getting a share of the profits if that's the case. Other users will be allowed to rate, edit or comment on the articles. The content does not have to be exclusive to Google but no mention is made on any license for it. Is this a better model for free information gathering?
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - Stanford prison experiment .. (prisonexp.org)

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rs232
rs232 writes: "'Welcome to the Stanford Prison Experiment web site, which features an extensive slide show and information about this classic psychology experiment, including parallels with the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. What happens when you put good people in an evil place?'"
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Open wifi at your house? Congess new "SAFE ACT

Submitted by way2trivial
way2trivial writes: 'ccording news.com "The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including "obscene" cartoons and drawings — or face fines of up to $300,000. That broad definition would cover individuals, coffee shops, libraries, hotels," crap! first offenses start at 300k! http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9829759-38.html?tag=nefd.top and they are ramming it through- it's for the children!
United States

Submission + - Senate Bill 1959 to Create Thoughtcrime (newstarget.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent." Source: http://www.newstarget.com/022308.html
Linux Business

Submission + - Presentation software for Linux

Submitted by adpsimpson
adpsimpson writes: I am a PhD student and have just returned from giving a presentation to industry, detailing the work my university is doing for them. I am also a long-time Linux user.

The presentation was prepared in collaboration with my advisers, who use Microsoft software. My part was prepared in Open Office, and the file was saved in the Powerpoint format. I gave the presentation from my laptop, but Open Office became completely unresponsive about 30 minutes in, with each click taking up to 30 seconds to register and basic animations (appearing and disappearing content on the slides) simply not working. We transferred the presentation to another laptop running Microsoft Powerpoint in Windows and it completed with no problems. This slow dying of Open Office is something I have come across before and which reproduces every time I test it here.

My question is what presentation software do the Slashdot crowd use? Is there a free and open source alternative to Powerpoint which will work reliably where Open Office fails? Are there ways to tweak Open Office to make it more responsive?
Slashback

Submission + - What is going on with the Tags

Submitted by donkeyb
donkeyb writes: What is going on with the Tags? I try to add a Tag and nothing happens, but there are some tags here that have blatently just been added once, yet they get shown? What the heck?
Security

Submission + - Firefox 2.0.0.10 is affected by a serious error

Submitted by thisispurefud
thisispurefud writes: The latest Firefox 2.0.0.10 includes a serious error, which causes that certain images are not properly represented. The error concerns the representation of vector graphics using HTML and JavaScript. Firefox 2.0.0.10 reacts to the JavaScript method canvas.drawImage() with the exception of "NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE". The method drawImage() should render pixel images into vector graphics drawing. The developers have now is to investigate the mistake, based on this test page can be demonstrated: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405584

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