auxsvr - Slashdot User

InkJet Printers Lying, Or Just Wrong? 461

Posted by kdawson on Thursday June 21, 2007 @09:08AM from the running-on-empty dept.

akkarin writes in about a study reported at Ars Technica on how accurate ink-jet printers are when they report that cartridges are empty. Not very, it turns out. Epson came out on top of the study (and Ars rightly questions how objective it was, given that Epson paid for it), but even they waste 20% of the ink if users take the printers' word for when to get a new cartridge. On average, the printers in the study wasted more than half the ink that users bought.

Submission + - Hospitals Vulnerable to IT Security Threats (advanceweb.com)

Submitted by MickBrew on Thursday June 21, 2007 @06:01AM

MickBrew writes: http://health-information.advanceweb.com/common/Ed itorialSearch/AViewer.aspx?AN=HI_07jun18_hip16.htm l&AD=06-18-2007 Is your hospital vulnerable to IT security threats? How you can prevent it ? Some companies, like Scriptlogic, offer software solutions for securing environment and audit sensitive information access.

Submission + - Nvidia Launches GP-GPU Products: Tesla

Submitted by unts on Thursday June 21, 2007 @05:47AM

unts writes: Graphics chip manufacturer Nvidia has launched a new range of products aimed squarely at using the massively parallelised architecture of GPUs for non-graphical computing tasks. Beyond3D takes a look at Tesla, and has interviews with Dave Kirk and Andy Keane who have been working on the project. From the article: 'The basic unit of the current Tesla line, the Tesla C870, should be very familiar to anyone who's seen the GeForce 8800. It's essentially an 8800 GTX — a 575MHz core clock and 128 SPs at 1.35GHz — with 1.5GiB of GDDR3 RAM. Of course, it's not quite an 8800 GTX — there are no display outputs at all on the card'

Submission + - Microsoft Excel Nearly Elects Wrong Government

Submitted by

ntk

on Thursday June 21, 2007 @04:53AM

ntk writes: "Britain's Open Rights Group sent technically knowledgeable members to act as electoral observers in the UK's first e-voting trials, with disturbing results. Their report mentions, among other foul-ups, that officials forgetting to scroll in Excel almost led to the wrong party winning control of the Scottish parliament. More in their full report here."

Submission + - Has Motorola finally had its day?

Submitted by Joseph Munter on Thursday June 21, 2007 @03:08AM

Joseph Munter writes: A recent CNET article names the five cell phones that changed the world. Three of the phones in the story are Motorola made handsets — the DynaTAC, StarTAC and Razr V3. But given the past ingenuity and success of Motorola, it has just cut around 4000 jobs in an attempt to fight off increasing competition. Has the company that started the cell phone revolution finally had its day?

Submission + - Open source's hottest 10 apps (part 2) (itwire.com.au)

Submitted by

davidmwilliams

on Thursday June 21, 2007 @03:04AM

davidmwilliams writes: "This story walks through the top five most active open source projects on SourceForge today. It explains what they do and why they're useful. Most of these will be new to most people but all are definitely busting with potential. Check this story out to see just what the hottest SourceForge projects are why they matter. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/13085/53/"

Submission + - The Worst Jobs in Science 2007 (popsci.com)

Submitted by

Ant

on Thursday June 21, 2007 @02:48AM

Ant writes: "Popular Science shares its annual bottom-10 list, for 2007, to salute the men and women who do what no salary can adequately reward. In Information Technology (I.T.) field, #6 Microsoft (MS) Security Grunt doesn't sound too bad. [grin] Seen on Neatorama."

Submission + - Microsoft Marketplace to offer Ubuntu (windowsmarketplace.com) 1

Submitted by eentonig on Thursday June 21, 2007 @02:28AM

eentonig writes: It was noticed that Microsoft Market place offers a download link to Ubuntu. Since no announcement has been made regarding a legal agreement between Ms and Ubuntu, I guess this means they don't think Ubuntu infringes on their patent FUD? http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/details.aspx?vie w=info&itemid=3411347#productSpecs

Submission + - Top 10 Linux Commands for Absolute Newbies (pimpyourlinux.com)

Submitted by

Dan the man

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @10:49AM

Dan the man writes: "Are you interested in moving to Linux, but have no idea how the terminal works? Are you used to commands like "dir" in dos, but have no idea how to do them in Linux? Well, then this is the site for you. If you've just started University Computing Science, or if you've just started Linux on your job, this is a great guide to get you started with the basic commands."

Submission + - problem in scp(secured ftp)

Submitted by

jaty

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @10:34AM

jaty writes: "Hi!I am trying to scp a file which should be automated. For that i have written a script and calling it through crontab in Unix(HP/UX). Now while calling that script(which contains the scp command) is prompting for a password(which is known to me).but how can i automate that?i.e whether it is possible to give the password automatically?"

Submission + - Novell's SUSE to support Windows, Red Hat with Xen (techtarget.com)

Submitted by

E. Stride

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @10:17AM

E. Stride writes: "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES 10) will support Microsoft Windows and Red Hat virtual machines sometime in July."

Submission + - The largest commercial Linux installation

Submitted by

Gary

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @09:56AM

Gary writes: "Almost all movie studios primarily use Linux for animation and visual effects, but with more than 1000 Linux desktops and 3000 Server CPU's Dreamworks Animation is the largest commercial Linux installation. At the desktop, Dreamworks uses HP xw9300 workstations running RHEL 4 and the renderfarm uses HP DL145 G2 servers, with 2GB per core the servers have 8GB of RAM as they have 4 cores. Solid support for threading, NFS and LAMP toolsets are a few of the advantages with Linux."

Submission + - Shuttleworth Denies Ubuntu-Microsoft Deal (pcworld.com)

Submitted by rla3rd on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @09:22AM

rla3rd writes: The head of Ubuntu says his company isn't interested in forming a deal with Microsoft along the lines of those recently reached by Linspire, Xandros, and Novell.

Submission + - Mozilla exec claims Apple is hunting open source

Submitted by Rob on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @09:16AM

Rob writes: Apple chief Steve Jobs expects to do more than lure Internet Explorer users to Apple's forthcoming version of Safari for Windows — he envisions a duopoly within the browser market at the expense of FireFox and others, according to Mozilla COO John Lilly. Lilly pointed to a pie graph representing the browser market that Jobs showed at last week's Apple developers' conference. The graph was made up with just two browsers: Safari and Internet Explorer. The graph "betrays the way that Apple, so often looks at the world," Lilly said. "But make no mistake: this wasn't a careless presentation, or an accidental omission of all the other browsers out there, or even a crummy marketing trick," he said. "Lots of words describe Steve and his Stevenotes, but 'careless' and 'accidental' do not. This is, essentially, the way they're thinking about the problem, and shows the users they want to pick up."

Submission + - First Video Game Ban For a Decade In The UK

Submitted by Novotny on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @09:08AM

Novotny writes: The Guardian is reporting that Manhunt 2, from — predictably enough, Rockstar Games — has been banned by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), the first such action taken in 10 years. The last game to be banned was Carmageddon, a ruling which was subsequently overturned. Rockstar have 6 weeks in which to appeal the decision.

Slashdot Top Deals