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

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Jiilik Oiolosse
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."
Mandriva

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

Submitted by LarryBoy
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.'
Operating Systems

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

Submitted by Jiilik Oiolosse
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."

OMG WIRELESS EXTENSION CORDS!!! LOL!!! 182

Posted by CmdrTaco from the now-thats-what-i'm-talking-about dept.
True ChAoS writes "Using the latest in microwave energy transmission technology, the Wireless Extension Cords (WECs) 'beam' power right where you need it. Broadcasting in the 7.2GHz range, the WECs will not interfere with wireless networks, phones, or Bluetooth components. Be sure to heed all the warnings in the instruction manual; the microwaves used are relatively safe, but you don't want to cook your computer (or coworkers) by mistake." ThinkGeek is also owned by OSTG.

Senators Renew Call for .XXX Domain 489

Posted by Zonk from the subject-they're-familiar-with dept.
An anonymous reader writes "It's an election year again, and the usual PR causes are being picked up. Senators are once again pushing for a .XXX top-level domain to 'corral pornography'." From the article: "The bill suggests, but does not require, that .xxx serve as the domain name ending. Any commercial Internet site or online service that "has as its principal or primary business the making available of material that is harmful to minors" would be required to move its site to that domain. Failure to comply with those requirements would result in civil penalties as determined by the Commerce Department. It's unclear whether the measure will go very far. First of all, it could be struck down as unconstitutional, said Marv Johnson, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "

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