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Submission + - USPS will offer Star Wars stamps

Submitted by on Thursday March 29, 2007 @05:09PM

An anonymous reader writes: The US Postal Service announced that on May 25th they will provide a set of 15 stamps celebrating Star Wars 30th anniversary. The 15 stamps will come on a single sheet in the form of a movie poster. These stamps will be 41 cent stamps, since the postal rate increases on May 14th.

Submission + - WindowsITPro Test Drives Kubuntu

Submitted by

johnlittledotorg

on Thursday March 29, 2007 @05:05PM

johnlittledotorg writes: "Mark Joseph Edwards at WindowsITPro took Kubuntu for a spin and seems to have to enjoyed himself. "I wanted to see what that was like so I popped the CD into the system, booted from it, and installed the entire operating system with the greatest of ease. My Orinoco network card, nVidia video card, sound card, and DVD drive all worked without any configuration on my part other than entering the SSID and security key for the wireless networking. I was impressed.""

Submission + - Exempt Employees and the fight against Overtime

Submitted by on Thursday March 29, 2007 @04:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: I'm employed as a Software Engineer, to clarify; I'm a combination third-level tech support and systems engineer. I work for a fairly large company in Michigan. My boss, under the stress of completing the latest huge project, has started to demand that I, and the rest of my team, complete mandatory overtime to meet some very shortsighted deadlines. I'm an exempt employee, which means that I make a salary and am not required to keep track of my time each week. I don't feel I'm compensated well enough to work unlimited hours, but that seems to be my boss's goal. What options do I have in restricting my employer and my boss's ability to destroy every little bit of my free time while still staying employed?

Submission + - Fortune 1000 Companies Sending Spam, Phishing

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29, 2007 @04:51PM

An anonymous reader writes: TheRegister takes a look at spam touting everything from Viagra to phishing sites being blasted out of Fortune 1000 networks. Oracle was found to have a machine pushing out a PayPal phishing scam, and BestBuy had a system sending thousands of spams a month. The Washington Post's Security Fix blog also is tracking this story, finding stock spam being pumped from ExxonMobile and from American Electric Power, among others. Another machine at IndyMac Bank was the source of spam touting generic prescription drugs. From the story: "...an IT engineer with American Electric Power, said the stock spam came from a bot-infected computer belonging to a contractor at one of its power generator plants."

Submission + - Blackboard Not Playing Nice with Vista on Campuses

Submitted by

scott3778

on Thursday March 29, 2007 @04:22PM

scott3778 writes: "On college campuses, Microsoft's Vista operating system may be in danger of failing courses that use Blackboard, a key software program for communication between teachers and students. Some campuses in the U.S. and elsewhere using Blackboard are discovering that the software and some of its functionality is being hindered as students and teachers begin to update their systems with Microsoft Vista. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2109454,00.as p"

Submission + - TeamSpeak, Ventrilo - Are there Free alternatives?

Submitted by

syrion

on Monday March 05, 2007 @01:11AM

syrion writes: "Due to a hack currently going around, a TeamSpeak server I regularly use is getting repeatedly hosed. I'd like to help fix this issue with a more secure alternative, but I'm not so knowledgeable about the VoIP landscape. Are there any alternatives? Can something like the GNU telephony stack help — and are there tutorials on how to set it up?"

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