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Submission + - An Ubuntu guide to taming the Linux kernel (itwire.com)

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davidmwilliams

on Monday October 15, 2007 @09:06AM

davidmwilliams writes: "Although Linux is frequently referred to by the names of various distributions, what can properly be called "Linux" is really the management part of the operating system known as the kernel which interacts with the computer's hardware. Here's how the kernel works in Ubuntu, and how to rebuild it. http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14860/53/"

Submission + - Are interactive whiteboards a Good Thing? (samdutton.com)

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samdutton

on Monday October 15, 2007 @07:40AM

samdutton writes: "Interactive whiteboards are now installed in almost all primary and secondary schools in the UK — and that probably goes for many other countries as well.

Teachers and kids seem to love them — but are interactive whiteboards really better than blackboards, non-interactive whiteboards and 'Big Book' learning? Given the high cost of purchase, installation, maintenance and replacement — do they give value for money?

...and is it OK that (in rich countries, at least) more and more of life, including school, is now a televisual experience?"

Broadcasters Want Cash For Media Shared At Home 426

Posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, 2007 @02:30PM from the gotta-get-it-where-you-can dept.

marcellizot writes "What would you say if I told you that there are people out there that want to make sharing your media between devices over a home network illegal? According to Jim Burger, a Washington, D.C attorney who deals with piracy in the broadcasting industry, certain broadcasters want to do just that. Speaking in a recent podcast, Burger remarked that the broadcasting industry is keen to put controls on sharing media between devices even if those devices are on a home network and even if the sharing is strictly for personal use. When pressed as to why broadcasters would want to do this, Burger replied simply 'because they want you to pay for that right.'"

Worm Threat Forces Apple To Disable Software? 201

Posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, 2007 @12:15PM from the batten-down-the-hatches dept.

SkiifGeek writes "After the debacle that surrounded the announcement and non-disclosure of a worm that targets OS X, the vulnerability in mDNSResponder may have forced Apple to remove support for certain mDNSResponder capabilities with the recently released Security Update 2007-007. 'Seeming to closely follow the information disclosed by InfoSec Sellout, Apple's mDNSResponder update addresses a vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker on the local network to gain a denial of service or arbitrary code execution condition. Apple goes on to identify that the vulnerability that they are addressing exists within the support for UPnP IGD... and that an attacker can exploit the vulnerability through simply sending a crafted network packet across the network. With the crafted network packet triggering a buffer overflow, it passes control of the vulnerable system to the attacker. Rather than patching the vulnerability and retaining the capability, Apple has completely disabled support for UPnP IGD (though there is no information about whether it is only a temporary disablement until vulnerabilities can be addressed).'"

In Australia, An Ebay Sale is a Sale 267

Posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, 2007 @10:53AM from the almost-by-definition dept.

syousef writes "An eBay sale is a sale says an Australian New South Wales State Judge in a case where a man tried to reneg on the Ebay sale of a 1946 World War II Wirraway aircraft. The seller tried to weasel out of the deal because he'd received a separate offer $100,000 greater than the Ebay sale price. The buyer who had bid the reserve price of $150,000 at the last minute took him to court. 'It follows that, in my view, a binding contract was formed between the plaintiff and the defendant and that it should be specifically enforced,' Justice Rein said in his decision." I haven't found anything like this in previous discussions; have there been similar decisions like this handed down in the US, Canada, or Europe?

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