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Submission + - Call for alien technology to cure climate change

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Introspective

on Thursday March 08, 2007 @04:27PM

Introspective writes: "Paul Hellyer, the 83 year old former Canadian defense minister is making demands for governments to release alien technology to cure climate change. Convinced that governments around the world are hoarding alien technology, he is calling for them to reveal it in order to save the planet — presumably for us all to start using alien energy sources to replace our dependency on fossil fuels. He states "We need to persuade governments to come clean on what they know. Some of us suspect they know quite a lot, and it might be enough to save our planet if applied quickly enough""

Journal Journal: The One Scheduler 2

Journal by Wonko the Sane on Monday March 05, 2007 @11:16PM

It seems that Linus has given approval to merge Con Kolivas's new super cool process scheduler into mainline.

The 2.6 version of the process scheduler has been a mixed blessing from the beginning. This scheduler has the potential to fix the last(only?) significant regression incurred in the 2.4 to 2.6 transition.

Submission + - when Macs break

Submitted by

cyber-dragon.net

on Monday March 05, 2007 @09:38PM

cyber-dragon.net writes: "I have long been a staunch supporter of Apple and Macs, bordering on but not quite a fan boy. My recent experience with trying to bring them into my department at work has been dissapointing. We had a Mac Pro (the big quad processor monster) die after four days. Ok, it happens, everything else has worked flawlessly. I even delt with the inevitable teasing about the siny new Mac being a lemon.
Well after almost four hours dealing with Apple Care, three hours dropping off and picking up my computer at different stores as per thier instructions trying to get this done quickly... I am beginning to wonder if Apple really wants business customers to rely on these machines. Much as I may dislike Dell like the rest of you... when my Linux box died it was fixed in four hours and I spent maybe 20 mintes of my time setting up the repair. I have spent seven hours of my time so far on this Mac and it still will not power up. Is this just me or have other people lost critical business machines to the depths of Apple Care inefficiency and lack of business level support?"

Submission + - Randal Schwartz no longer a felon

Submitted by gingrich on Monday March 05, 2007 @08:05PM

gingrich writes: Randal Schwartz has finally won his 12 year battle with the state of Oregon and Intel. Let there be rejoicing in the street! For details see: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/05/intel_hack er_charges_quashed/ or http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/

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