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Massive VMware Bug Shuts Systems Down 410

Posted by CmdrTaco from the at-least-it-only-shut-down-the-virtual-ones dept.
mattmarlowe writes "Imagine if Red Hat released a version of Linux, and after it was deployed, customers noticed that any processes with a start date of today would refuse to run? Well, that's what happened to VMware — a company that wants nearly all server applications running in virtual machines within a matter of years." Supposedly a fix will be available ... in 36 hours.
Input Devices

Submission + - Sat-nav turns drivers into 'kid killers' 2

Submitted by Stony Stevenson
Stony Stevenson writes: Satellite navigation systems "seriously undermine road safety", Dutch academics claimed today. The Stichting Onderzoek Navigatiesystemen (Navigation Systems Research Foundation) warned that software errors in sat-nav devices are preventing motorists from finding ring roads around cities. Almost none of the navigation systems tested by the organisation were found to take adequate account of hierarchies in road networks. As a result, motorists are unnecessarily being turned into "kid killers" by being sent through designated low-traffic residential areas and roads which are not designed for through-traffic.
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SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing 321

Posted by Zonk from the comment-write-themselves dept.
Stony Stevenson writes "SCO Group CEO Darl McBride is now claiming that competition from Linux was behind the company's filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 'In a court filing in support of SCO's bankruptcy petition, McBride noted that SCO's sales of Unix-based products "have been declining over the past several years." The slump, McBride said, "has been primarily attributable to significant competition from alternative operating systems, including Linux." McBride listed IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems as distributors of Linux or other software that is "aggressively taking market share away from Unix.""

Comment Re:So Thermodynamics Nazis... (Score 4, Informative) 555

by Homo Stannous (#19672099) Attached to: Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back to Oil
Water vapor would be a powerful greenhouse gas, if there weren't already so much of it there. Basically, our atmosphere has so much water vapor, that every frequency of IR that can be absorbed by it is already fully absorbed. So more water vapor won't make a difference. CO2 and CH4, on the other hand, are potent greenhouse gasses because not only do they absorb IR, but they're pretty scarce our atmosphere.

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