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Submission + - Room-temperature Electron Spin Manipulation (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @05:06PM

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers at the University of Twente have demonstrated, for the first time, the manipulation and detection of electron spin polarization patterns in silicon at near-room temperatures, about 150 kelvin above the previous record. The article in which the research appeared is at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7272/full/nature08570.html

Submission + - Cheap 3D Solar Cell 6x More Efficient, Works Under (treehugger.com)

Submitted by

MikeCapone

on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @03:22PM

MikeCapone writes: "Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the world's first 3-D photovoltaic solar system that actually works underground. The result is up to six times more efficient than planar zinc oxide cells with the same surface area."

Submission + - K Desktop Environment is now Plasma Desktop (kde.org) 2

Submitted by Jiilik Oiolosse on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @02:47AM

Jiilik Oiolosse writes: After literally years of agonizing over the details, KDE has killed KDE. In what is essentially, this is the same process that Mozilla went through, originally being a browser, but now being an organization, the KDE community has killed to term K Desktop Environment (previously the Kool Desktop Environment). KDE had previously ambiguously referred to both the community, and the complete set of programs and tools produced by the KDE community which together formed a desktop user interface. This set of tools, including the window manager, panels and configuration utilities, which KDE terms a 'workspace', will now be shipped under the term "Plasma Desktop". This allows KDE to ship a separate workspace called "Plasma Netbook", and independently market the various KDE applications as usable in any workspace, whether it be the Plasma Desktop, Windows, or XFCE.

Submission + - Matthias Ettrich Receives Highest German Honour (kde.org)

Submitted by Jiilik Oiolosse on Friday November 06, 2009 @07:36PM

Jiilik Oiolosse writes: KDE founder Matthias Ettrich was decorated today with the German Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to Free Software. The Federal Cross of Merit is both the most prestigious as well as the only general decoration awarded by the Federal Republic of Germany. It is awarded by the Federal President for outstanding achievements in the political, economic, cultural, and other fields. Matthias was awarded the medal in recognition of his work spurring innovation and spreading knowledge for the common good.

Submission + - Harvard to really invest in fringe science (harvard.edu)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06, 2009 @07:09PM

An anonymous reader writes: Harvard physicists have created a quantum farts that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in bizarre ways. The work, published this week in the journal Nature, represents the first time scientists have detected single atoms in a crystalline structure made solely of light, called a Bose Hubbard optical lattice.

Submission + - Antimatter in lightning (sciencenews.org)

Submitted by AMESN on Friday November 06, 2009 @05:52PM

AMESN writes: The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope launched last year detects gamma rays from light years away, but recently it detected gamma rays from lightning on Earth. And the energy of the gamma rays is specific to the decay of positrons, which are the antimatter flavor of electrons. Finding antimatter in lightning surprised researchers and suggests the electric field of the lightning somehow got reversed.

Submission + - Google releases open source JavaScript tools (cio.com.au) 1

Submitted by Dan Jones on Thursday November 05, 2009 @06:45PM

Dan Jones writes: Google has open sourced several of its key JavaScript application development tools, hoping that they will prove useful for external programmers to build faster Web applications. According to Google, by enabling and allowing developers to use the same tools that Google uses, they can not only build rich applications but also make the Web really fast. The Closure JavaScript compiler and library are used as the standard Javascript library for pretty much any large, public Web application that Google is serving today, including some of its most popular Web applications, including Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps. Google has also released Closure Templates which are designed to automate the dynamic creation of HTML. The announcement comes a few months after Google released and open source NX server.

350,000 Linux (Virtual) Desktops Land In Brazil 109

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 19, 2009 @01:12PM from the rip-helio-gracie dept.

xufem writes "Millions of Brazilian schoolchildren will soon be 'brought up right' running Linux on over 350,000 seats each using PC sharing hardware and software from Userful and KDE. This is world's largest virtual desktop deployment and probably also the world's largest Linux deployment, and seems to have been selected over OLPC by Brazil. Definitely a moment to celebrate — and just in time for Brazilian Carnival which starts tomorrow!"

Submission + - KDE responds to 11 KDE 4 misconceptions

Submitted by Jiilik Oiolosse on Friday July 11, 2008 @06:31PM

Jiilik Oiolosse writes: PJ at Groklaw writes about some of the common myths circulating about KDE 4. "There has been a bit of a dustup about KDE 4.0. A lot of opinions have been expressed, but I thought you might like to hear from KDE. So I wrote to them and asked if they'd be willing to explain their choices and answer the main complaints. They graciously agreed." Among the topics discussed are: "Releasing KDE 4.0 was a mistake", "I cannot put files on my desktop", and "KDE should just have ported KDE 3.5 to Qt 4 and not add all that other experimental stuff right away".

Comment Re:Impact on Apple (Score 3, Informative) 104

by Jiilik Oiolosse on Monday July 23, 2007 @04:33PM (#19961199) Attached to: The Unforking of KDE's KHTML and Webkit Begins

KHTML/Webkit and derivatives are under the LGPLv2, and the rights were not assigned to a central organization. They would have to contact every author that ever touched that code before they'd be permitted to offer it solely under the LGPLv3...

Submission + - The unforking of KDE's KHTML and Webkit begins! (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by

Jiilik Oiolosse

on Monday July 23, 2007 @03:43PM

Jiilik Oiolosse writes: "Over at Ars Technica, the first article has gone live corresponding to their brand new section dedicated to coverage of open source topics. From the article: "In open source terms, this may be as big of a deal as the gcc and egcs merger of yonder days. KHTML and Webkit are definitely coming of age. The KDE developers, responsible for the original creation of KHTML, are dedicated to seeing this unforking happen and are taking a leading role in that effort." And so begins the task of re-unifying one of the more successful open source libraries now in existence."

Submission + - Hands-on with Intel MID prototype with KDE 4.0a2 (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by LarryBoy on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @09:35AM

LarryBoy writes: Ars Technica got to spend some time playing with a prototype Mobile Internet Device from Intel. The unit was running Mandriva Flash Edition and KDE 4.0 Alpha 2 and featured a 'double-thumbs' style keyboard, a 1024x600 touch screen, an 800MHz Celeron CPU, and a gigabyte of RAM. Responsiveness was good, but the unit really shined when used with a stylus: 'With a stylus in hand, using the touch-screen interface to control KDE 4 became a joy. For example, one of KDE 4's new applications is a desktop globe called Marble. This particular program was an ideal candidate for testing the touch screen as I was able to drag the globe around in the view port in much the same way that users of the Nintendo Wii are used to.'

Submission + - 24-hour test drive: a review of PC-BSD

Submitted by Jiilik Oiolosse on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @10:51AM

Jiilik Oiolosse writes: Over at Ars, I have published a short review of the PC-BSD operating system, one of the first few FreeBSD derivatives to target the casual user (see also DesktopBSD). "First and foremost, PC-BSD is an attempt to make a user-friendly Unix. Many Linux distributions have a similar focus and attempt to achieve it in different ways, and PC-BSD should be considered alongside these distributions." and "KDE seemed to load much faster on PC-BSD than I'm used to; [quite noticeably] faster than my Kubuntu installation on my other drive (which either says something bad about Kubuntu or something great about PC-BSD). In fact, the whole system felt very snappy."

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