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Comment Re:Atom (Score 4, Informative) 275

by weekendgeek on Thursday November 05, 2009 @06:08PM (#30000550) Attached to: Apple Not Disabling OS X Atom Support After All

Because of a license agreement with Microsoft that specified a max of 1GB of RAM and an 80GB HD (most got around that with splitting it into two or more partitions) to allow them to install Windows XP.

I'm not sure if the agreement has changed with the release of Windows 7 Starter.

Comment Re:OT - your sig (Score 1) 335

by weekendgeek on Friday October 30, 2009 @10:23AM (#29923451) Attached to: New Threats Against Pirate Bay Owners

Um. Please see: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/posthumous?jss=0

Comment Re:Why can't I just use my iPhone? (Score 1) 542

by weekendgeek on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @05:10PM (#29814631) Attached to: The Kindle Killer Arrives

That's funny - I've read just under 10 novels on my iPhone using the free Kindle app.

The best part about it: the phone's always with me. That means if I'm stuck waiting somewhere, I can get some reading in. Also, since it is does have a back-lit display, I can read in bed and not keep the wife up.

I've almost bought a Kindle multiple times, but after thinking about it, everything I like about reading using the Kindle app on the iPhone, the Kindle itself doesn't have.

Journal Journal: Kinkos has your number 2

Journal by trianglman on Thursday March 15, 2007 @04:52PM

CNN is carrying an article about a "new" (or rather, newly disclosed) way to get your personal information.

Now, experts are warning that photocopiers could be a culprit as well.

That's because most digital copiers manufactured in the past five years have disk drives -- the same kind of data-storage mechanism found in computers -- to reproduce documents.

Journal Journal: Guilty 2

Journal by Real World Stuff on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @01:49PM

I. R. "Felon" Libby

Submission + - FAA May Ditch Vista For Linux

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @01:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: In what could be the start of a government wave away from Microsoft, last week's news that the U.S. Department of Transportation is putting a halt on upgrades to Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Internet Explorer 7 is followed today by word that the Federal Aviation Administration may ditch Vista and Office in favor of Google's new online business applications running on Linux-based hardware. FAA chief information officer David Bowen told InformationWeek he's taking a close look at the Premier Edition of Google Apps as he mulls replacements for the agency's Windows XP-based desktop computers. Bowen cited several reasons why he finds Google Apps attractive. "From a security and management standpoint that would have some advantages," he said. Do you think that Vista's cost could finally put a crimp in what's been an automatic upgrade cycle to Microsoft and spur Linux adoption? Is this the start of some kind of anti-Vista groundswell?

Submission + - Wilkes University Going All-Mac

Submitted by Snowgen on Monday March 05, 2007 @03:31PM

Snowgen writes: In Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Wilkes University issued a press release stating that "...over the next three years, Wilkes University will become an all-Mac campus." Another article covering the same story states that "Apple overtook Dell in the UK education market as report indicated gaining popularity among students at college campuses." If that wasn't enough, "Apple also announced that it landed two particularly large educational institutional sales during the September quarter, but did not provide details."

Submission + - Symantec hands out tips to malware coders

Submitted by thefickler on Monday March 05, 2007 @03:28PM

thefickler writes: Malware coders relax. While new security features in Windows Vista will make it harder for you to develop worms that target operating system vulnerabilities, Symantec is tipping that you'll turn your attention to other vulnerabilities, like Vista's new Windows SideBar and gadgets.

Submission + - Slashdot Easter egg in the Opera browser

Submitted by patro on Monday March 05, 2007 @03:13PM

patro writes: Opera Watch mentions that the Opera browser has a Slashdot easter egg in it. Type a slash and a dot in the address bar, press Enter and look what happens. How cool is that?

Submission + - Adobe Creative Suite 3 ships 27 March

Submitted by primalamn on Monday March 05, 2007 @02:14PM

primalamn writes: Adobe will launch Adobe Creative Suite 3 at a special event in New York on 27 March, the company confirmed this morning. http://www.macworld.co.uk/procreative/news/index.c fm?newsid=17399

Submission + - Via Carbon Free Processor

Submitted by st_johnny on Monday March 05, 2007 @02:13PM

st_johnny writes: "[The]chips use less than a sixth the energy of an Intel Pentium, and less than a quarter the energy an AMD Athlon uses. In addition to efficiency, VIA has started a program called "carbon-free computing", where they offset the carbon that will be produced by the manufacturing and lifetime energy use of their CPU's. They do these offsets by building renewable power generation in developing countries, restoring forest and wetlands, and doing energy conservation." http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006239.html http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/c7-d http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/cleancomputin g/carbon-free_computing.jsp

Submission + - Microsoft Wanted To Drop Mac Office To Hurt Apple

Submitted by Overly Critical Guy on Monday March 05, 2007 @01:53PM

Overly Critical Guy writes: More documents in the Iowa antitrust case have come out. This time, it's revealed that Microsoft considers Mac users its "guinea pigs" for new Office features, and they once considered dropping Mac Office entirely, "as doing so will do a great deal of harm to Apple immediately." This case has become a treasure trove of internal memos describing Microsoft's internal business practices of the last ten years.

Submission + - Hide secret messages in images on the internet

Submitted by

Andrew Lee

on Monday March 05, 2007 @10:12AM

Andrew Lee writes: "This program lets you hide arbitrary text messages inside image files. It is different than other stego tools in that it encodes the message by making visible changes to the image, rather than encoding the message in non-visible parts of an image file's data. In theory you can even print out the image and scan it back in to retrieve the secret message.

http://www.picsecret.com/"

Submission + - Vista Download Disaster

Submitted by

SkinnyGuy

on Monday March 05, 2007 @10:12AM

SkinnyGuy writes: "Downloading Windows Vista sounds like a great idea — until you actually do it. Looks like Microsoft hasn't thought out all the fine details. PC Magazine's own publisher gave it a shot and recounts his sorry tale to columnist Lance Ulanoff. Some other tales of woe appear in the associated forum."

Submission + - The GNOME Journal, March Edition

Submitted by

Lucas Rocha

on Monday March 05, 2007 @08:51AM

Lucas Rocha writes: "The latest issue of the GNOME Journal has just been published! It features an introduction to GTK+ cross-platform application development, an interview with Jakub Steiner and Andreas Nilsson about the Tango Project, the first article of a series about free desktop companies, and a letter from the editor. Writers in this edition are John D. Ramsdell, Alexandre Prokoudine, Sri Ramkrishna, and Jim Hodapp, respectively.

The GNOME Journal features original content and commentary for and by the GNOME community. All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

Read now: http://www.gnomejournal.org"

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