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Submission + - MikeOS 1.0 And OS Writing Guide Released

Submitted by M-Saunders on Sunday September 16, 2007 @05:52PM

M-Saunders writes: Fancy writing your own OS? The first official version of MikeOS has been released. It's a 16-bit PC OS written in assembly, released under a BSD-like license. It boots from floppy or CD, has 30+ system calls and features basic DOS .COM program compatibility. Moreover, it's designed to teach to teach basic OS design and x86 assembly language, and the new Handbook includes a whole section on writing your own OS. Sure, you wouldn't write an OS in 16-bit asm today, but hopefully it's a useful starting point for novices.

289683 submission

Submission + - OSAF released version 0.7 of Chandler (chandlerproject.org)

Submitted by modir on Saturday September 15, 2007 @09:10PM

modir writes: A few days back OSAF released new versions of the Chandler Client and the Chandler Server (formally known as Cosmo). A full list of changes and new features can be found in the Release Notes. OSAF was started in 2001 by Mitch Kapor (the creator of Lotus Agenda) with the intention to create a PIM application targeted at knowledge workers.

87204 feed

Feed Greenhouse Gases Bedevil China (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @01:12PM

Although concerned about global warming, the Chinese say they lack both the money and technology to get their greenhouse gas emissions under control. By the Associated Press.

87196 submission

Submission + - The most politically incorrect games ever

Submitted by

The Bike Blog

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @01:03PM

The Bike Blog writes: "These are two of the most politically dangerous board games ever. In the first you play as either a superpower or terrorist organisation, and compete for world power. In the second you compete either as evolution or intelligent design. "This game didn't happen by accident," the creator said in a statement. "It was intelligently designed.""

87194 submission

Submission + - Google Docs to support Powerpoint

Submitted by

KindredHyperion

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @01:03PM

KindredHyperion writes: "Garett Rogers at ZDNet has an article on the prospect of a Powerpoint-esque addition to Google Docs and Spreadsheets. From the article: "If you dig around the language files in Google Docs, you will find what appears to be traces of a new service preparing for launch soon. Meet Google Presently — an online presentation creator that will likely read and write the most common formats like Microsoft PowerPoint and Open Office Impress.""

87172 submission

Submission + - PLM: Boeing's Dream, Airbus' Nightmare

Submitted by lizzyben on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @12:42PM

lizzyben writes: Could a piece of software be a key ingredient of Boeing's success — as well as a major contributor to Airbus' troubles? This long piece from Baseline sheds light on how the two jet-makers used the same type of technology — product life-cycle management software — with radically different results.

In October 2006, Airbus chief executive Christian Streiff announced that the company's A380 superjumbo would be delayed by at least two years. "The delay and resulting changes to the program were expected to cost Boeing's fiercest competitor as much as $6 billion in lost profits. The cause, Streiff said, was due to compatibility issues with the sophisticated computer-aided design software used by engineers to architect the A380."

More from the article: "Airbus' lax enforcement of a single lingua franca for design was at the heart of the A380's later problems. While there are many ways that different CAD systems, and even different editions of the same CAD programs, can trip up a product's design, those ways become multiplied with the complexity of the end product and the increased number of suppliers creating parts or components for its manufacture.

"By contrast, Boeing management is taking no such chances. Well before Airbus' problem became public, the U.S. aerospace manufacturer had put into place a rigorous set of requirements to ensure that the same edition of Catia is used by everyone connected with the shaping of the Dreamliner."

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Journal Journal: Wikipedia Censorcracy 7

Journal by insanecarbonbasedlif on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @11:47AM

Howard Tayler over at Schlock Mercenary writes about how Wikipedia editors are using "notability" or the lack there-of to delete webcomic articles they don't find worthy of their fine encyclopedic tradition. This personally touches a nerve, as I've seen articles that I read and updated deleted as spam (with claims that I'm being paid to post such articles), not notable (how great a catch-all is

87122 journal

Journal Journal: Microsoft getting taste of its own medicine.

Journal by 140Mandak262Jamuna on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @11:34AM

Apple is claiming that Vista is corrupting iPods and advising people to wait for the new release of iTunes.

87112 submission

Submission + - BBC saying Vista is junk compared to Mac/OSX

Submitted by Arbuthnot Bullwinkle on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @11:17AM

Arbuthnot Bullwinkle writes: BBC's Bill Peston lambasts how shite Vista is on his brand new laptop and regrets not buying a Mac instead. Fantastic and on the BBC's website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpest on/

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NASA May Have to Buy Trips to Space 256

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @11:11AM from the hey-buddy-can-you-spare-some-change dept.

MattSparkes writes "Budget cuts could leave NASA without a Space Shuttle replacement, and leave it reliant on private firms to get payloads into space. A similar scenario happened between 1975 and 1981 when NASA made the transition from Apollo to the Space Shuttle. It seems like a strange state of affairs when a magazine can take people to space, but the USA can't."

85790 submission

Submission + - Stallman sits down for multidimensional interview

Submitted by

marcfiszman

on Sunday February 04, 2007 @10:37AM

marcfiszman writes: "Richard Stallman, founder of the free software movement and the man who put the GNU into GNU/Linux, sits down for his first multidimensional podcast interview. Topics range from the "amoral" Linus Torvalds and "evil" Steve Jobs, to the impact of free software on the evolution of consciousness. http://nearthwort.com/2007/02/04/nearthwort-podcas t-11-richard-stallman-founder-of-the-free-software -movement/"

85722 submission

Submission + - Apple has Daylight Saving wrong in parts of Canada

Submitted by unrulymob on Sunday February 04, 2007 @03:22AM

unrulymob writes: Mac OS X 10.4.8 has the start of Daylight Saving wrong in some Canadian timezones — Pacifc and Mountain at least. Linux distros (RedHat anyway), Sun Microsystems and Microsoft have all released patches that correct for the earlier start of Daylight Saving Time in Canada/Pacific and Canada/Mountain — but Apple thinks it got timezones correct last year. "zdump -v Canada/Pacific|grep 2007" shows PDT starting on April 1st — but it starts 3 weeks earlier — on March 11th. I called them under my MacBook 90 days of free support — but got a little bit of condescension from the support guy (and no updated zoneinfo files to date). I could chose to run under America/Los_Angeles and it would work. Maybe if I'd bucked up for AppleCare they would have listened?

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Submission + - Anti-Scientology Activist Keith Henson Arrested

Submitted by

kulakovich

on Saturday February 03, 2007 @07:49PM

kulakovich writes: "One of the founders of the L5 Society, Cryonics advocate, and well known anti-Scientology activist Keith Henson, was taken into custody yesterday in Arizona, on an outstanding warrant for picketing a Scientology office back in 2001. There is much concern over his current condition at this time due to medication requirements as well as fear for his well-being. He and his family had been receiving death-threats prior to the arrest. The Extropy Institute immediately set up a Henson Legal Defense Fund on his behalf. Henson is also known for his work with the US Congress on Lunar policy in the early 80s."

85522 submission

Submission + - Silicon Valley Works to Find Missing Colleague

Submitted by

ubermiester

on Saturday February 03, 2007 @05:14PM

ubermiester writes: "The NY Times is reporting on the massive effort among Silicon Valley's "best and brightest" to aid in the search for missing MS researcher James Gray, who went missing on Sunday while sailing the Pacific on his private boat, "Tenacious". The Coast Guard suspended its search of more than 100,000 square miles of ocean on Thursday, but "dozens of Dr. Gray's colleagues, friends and former students [continued the search] with the tool they know best: computer technology... A veritable Who's Who of computer scientists from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, NASA and universities across the country spent sleepless nights writing ad hoc software, creating a blog and reconfiguring satellite images so that dozens of volunteers could pore over them, searching for a speck of red hull and white deck among a sea of gray pixels." One Coast Guard official noted, "This is the largest strictly civilian, privately sponsored search effort I have ever seen". Go geeks go!"

85492 submission

Submission + - Crystalspace 1.0 released

Submitted by Qbertino on Saturday February 03, 2007 @03:39PM

Qbertino writes: The high-end open-source 3D engine Crystalspace has reached Version 1.0. From the website: "After almost 10 years of development we finally release Crystal Space and Crystal Entity Layer 1.0!" Crytalspace has several sub-projects: A game engine called CEL, a scripting exstension for that game engine called Cellstart, and CrystalCore, a single-player FPS Demo-Game built to show off Crystalspaces features. Crystalspace is generally considered a modern and extremely powerfull 3D engine and allready is in use in commercial products.

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