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XBox (Games)

Submission + - Xbox Live Outage? (engadget.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Engadget is reporting a large service outage for XBox Live. If the comments are to be believed (use large grain of salt, perhaps 50lb?) then this outage (or at least issues) started last night and has affected gamers in the U.S. and Europe. The Google News, it says nothing. No independent confirmation, although some claim that MS has confirmed "minor issues" by telephone.
IBM

Submission + - 1 In 5 IBM Employees In India

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: IBM's workforce is increasingly located in rapidly developing nations such as India, reports the Associated Press and Bloomberg. IBM has 73,000 employees in India, out of a global workforce of 355,000, meaning that about one out of every five IBM employees are in India. IBM and other technology companies are seeing high growth in the "BRIC" nations: Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Graphics

Submission + - Photoshop on Linux, are there solutions? (pixelimageeditor.com)

Submitted by
Mahenda Tailur
Mahenda Tailur writes: "We all know Adobe is ignoring Linux with their products and it will stay like this for a while, maybe forever. My main concern is are there alternative solutions for us who converted from other operating systems to Linux? For example GIMP is being usually compared to Photoshop, but for me it doesn't cut it. And running Photoshop through WINE cannot be used in serious environment for now. Also not so long ago I spotted another possible alternative and that is Pixel image editor, it's still in beta stage but it's shaping really nicely and seems they got it right for near future. But what about other important products like Illustrator (Inkscape) or InDesign (Scribus). And what about Flash, Premiere, Acrobat (not the reader) ? Are there any serious alternatives in the opensource world?"
Red Hat Software

Is CentOS Hurting Red Hat? 370

Posted by CmdrTaco from the can't-imagine-it-would dept.
AlexGr writes "Jeff Gould raises an interesting question in Interop News: Why does Red Hat tolerate CentOS? The Community ENTerprise Operating System is an identical binary clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (minus the trademarks), compiled from the source code RPMs that Red Hat conveniently provides on its FTP site. It is also completely free, as in beer. CentOS provides no paid support, but it does track Red Hat updates and patches closely, and usually makes them available within a few hours or at most a few days of the upstream provider, which it refers to for legal reasons as "a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor." Free support for CentOS can be found in numerous places around the web, and a few third parties offer modestly priced paid support for those who want it."
Enlightenment

Submission + - E17 to rebirth in cellphones? (gmane.org)

Submitted by
k-s
k-s writes: "After many years without big news or hitting the press, Enlightenment gained new life after OpenMoko's head, Sean, announced Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) is going to be the new Lead Architect — Graphics, promising to get E17 released and with support for mobiles, all with the cool graphics that we all know from this project. From Sean's mail to openmoko community:

Dear Community, I'm extremely excited to announce that Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) has joined OpenMoko, Inc. The man hardly needs an introduction. Please just give him a warm welcome to our community / company ;-)
"
Google

Submission + - Google gPhone OS Codename Android (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by drewmoney
drewmoney writes: Cnet is reporting that as part of Monday's big press conference, Google will unveil their gPhone OS, tentatively codenamed Android. Sources are calling the OS a "a complete mobile-phone software stack" that will be followed shortly after by a SDK.
The Military

Submission + - Emergency imposed in Pakistan.Where is it heading? (http)

Submitted by
mayanks_098
mayanks_098 writes: "In a shocking and unexpected development,General Parvez Musharraf has imposed a state of emergency in Pakistan. The constitution has been suspended and a new temporary constitution has been put in place. So where is Pakistan heading? Martial law? Are the hopes of democracy again gone? What will be the reaction of people of Pakistan to this?"
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Colbert's Run For President May Be Criminal (go.com)

Submitted by
eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "Some of you may know about Steven Colbert's fake presidential campaign ... although are you sure it's fake? Well, it had better be because if it is taken too far, his use of corporations & advertising to back his campaign is illegal. Doritos & Comedy Central could be facing some problems as well, funding a man running for president. Will taking his satirical spin on politics all the way get him and his sponsors a lawsuit?"
United States

Submission + - Nuclear Missile for Sale on Ebay (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by
clickclickdrone
clickclickdrone writes: ""Larson Site A" a former Titan missile silo and one of the few surviving in good condition is up for sale after its previous owner decided to part with it after buying it on a whim back in 1998. It seems almost unimaginable now the amount of money and effort that went in to building these vast nuclear facilities both in the US and elsewhere and with the end of the cold war, more and more are falling in to private hands."
OS X

Submission + - Apple Mac OS X Leopard Released (apple.com)

Submitted by
tom66
tom66 writes: "Today Apple released the long anticipated Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with a prominent splash screen on the Apple homepage and a guided tour video."
Security

Submission + - Device to audit and replay RDP, SSH, and Telnet tr (balabit.com)

Submitted by
eldar40k
eldar40k writes: "I have visited the Systems exhibition this week (Munich, Germany), and came across a device that can transparently control and audit RDP and SSH traffic, store and search the results, and even replay the sessions like a movie. You can even search in the texts displayed by the server or typed by the client, for both RDP and SSH. Trial VMWare version is provided upon request at sales@balabit.com."
Spam

Submission + - Best Spam-Fighting Combinations?!? (infoworld.com)

Submitted by
technically speaking
technically speaking writes: "Eminent writer and Windows programming professional Martin Heller seems to have found a solution to the Spam problem using a very surprising combination. His Spam folder for www.mheller.com, which is hosted with Google Apps, contained about 46000 messages at a point in time! He wrote about it in his blog (1). He received invitations from various venders to evaluate their product but he had a different problem. His problem in his own words "I get mail from 8 distinct domains, and don't have full control of the servers for any of them. I could change that for mheller.com, and run my own mail server and pre-filter, but I'd prefer not to do that." (2)

He choose to evaluate SpamJadoo (3) and combined it with the mailbox at Gmail. There appeared to be a great change in the way Martin used email. The amount of spam that he received reduced immediately and almost none of the spam could pass through the SpamJadoo prefilter and Gmail filters. Unlike the content based mail filters, SpamJadoo apparently eliminates spam at protocol level by classifying mails as legitimate or spam on the basis of the sender's identity.

According to the website (4), it acts before the mail leaves the sender's servers, which means reduction in bandwidth and storage utilization, along with reduced man power wastage in reviewing for false-positives. An evaluation account can be requested here (5).

(1) http://weblog.infoworld.com/stratdev/archives/2007/09/battling_spam.html
(2) http://weblog.infoworld.com/stratdev/archives/2007/09/more_about_batt.html
(3) http://www.spamjadoo.com/
(4) http://www.spamjadoo.com/esp-explained.htm
(5) http://www.spamjadoo.com/1MonthFreeHostedTrial.jsp"
The Internet

America's View of the Internet 285

Posted by Zonk from the just-a-little-bit-sad dept.
Alien54 writes "It won't make you dinner or rub your feet, but nearly one in four Americans say that the Internet can serve as a substitute for a significant other for some period of time, according to a new poll released today by 463 Communications and Zogby International. The poll examined views of what role the Internet plays in people's lives and whether government should play a greater role in regulating it. The online survey was conducted Oct. 4-8, 2007, included 9,743 adult respondents nationwide, and carries a margin of error of +/- 1.0 percentage point. From the results blog post: 'More than half of Americans believe that Internet content such as video should be controlled in some way by the government. Only 33% of 18 to 24 year-olds supported government stepping in on content, while 72% of those over 70 years of age support government regulation and ratings. More than one in four Americans has a social networking profile such as MySpace or Facebook. Among 18-24 year-olds, it's almost mandatory - 78% of them report having a social networking profile. Americans may love the Internet, but most are not prepared to implant it into their brain, even if it was safe. Only 11% of respondents said they be willing to safely implant a device that enabled them to use their mind to access the Internet.'"

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