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Submission + - Power Consumption difference between XP and SuSE (wagoneers.com)

Submitted by
linuxmeister
linuxmeister writes: "Just finished the capstone project for a Masters of Science in Technical Management at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (worldwide campus)... title: A COMPARISON OF POWER CONSUMPTION BETWEEN MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP AND SUSE LINUX ON LAPTOP COMPUTERS http://wagoneers.com/CS/LINUX/Meister_TMCP_2007.pd f Conducted more than 88 tests on 4 different CPU types, overall savings 26.88%...
ranged from 18.51% on up to over 39.98%. (ran a test of Vista on the R50p... SuSE saved 57% over it... (and the R50p only saw an 18.8% savings running SuSE over XP!)
Ok, yeah, yeah, we all KNOW Linux is more efficient, but bean counters really don't know how much more... this report provides solid statistically valid data to support "common sense". And yes, this research was just about as exciting as watching paint dry... It was a nasty job, but one of us had to do it.
Linux Power Savings by Laptop
  1. Dell 610 #1 18.51%
  2. R50p 18.82%
  3. Dell 510 20.13%
  4. Dell 610 #2 21.98%
  5. HP N5350 6600 22.64%
  6. Toshiba S20-A207 26.87%
  7. HP N5350 3600 28.27%
  8. Sony PCG-9W31 30.06%
  9. IBM A31p 36.36%
  10. Fujitsu C-2240 38.66%
  11. HP N-600C 39.98%
ABSTRACT: This study examines power consumption between Microsoft Windows XP and SuSE Linux on laptop computers through the proxy variable battery life. The experimental study evaluated battery life tests between the two operating systems on dual-booted laptop computers configured to use the same hardware and batteries. The tests determined that SuSE Linux is more efficient than Microsoft Windows XP on the tested laptop computers, realizing an overall average of 26.88% power savings. The researcher offers conclusions that may be useful to determine energy savings for organizations and provide mobile workers with longer battery life while maintaining interoperability."
Linux Business

Submission + - Source Control Appliance

Submitted by
BadERA
BadERA writes: "I'm a one-man development shop with a variety of small-business customers, and with the occasional additional consultant or contractor involved. I'd like to deploy a Linux-driven source control appliance that lives on my network, can be exposed through my firewall, but could also theoretically be unplugged and quickly installed, no fuss, at a client location, a meeting or conference, a work area, etc. etc. I'm thinking something centered around Mini-ITX, in a case just big enough to hold 2 3.5" (100gb?) SATA drives in a RAID configuration for redundancy; some form of external backup is probably required too. Mini-ATX boards and cases seem to be too large a profile to be ideal, but I'd love to be proven wrong on that point.

I'm hoping the Slashdot community would have input to offer on hardware configurations, distros, source control packages (something with robust Visual Studio plug-ins would be key; or, something I can write a robust plug-in for. I'd been thinking Subversion, but I don't seem to see a lot of VS2005 friendliness there.)"
The Media

Submission + - Wikipedia notes death before bodies found (chicagotribune.com)

Submitted by
vigmeister
vigmeister writes: "WWE wrestler Chris Benoit and his family were found dead in his house in Atlanta last weekend. Chris Benoit's wikipedia entry apparently declared his wife's death 13 hours before their bodies were found and the news was publicly released. This entry has an IP address from Connecticut where the WWE is headquartered. Conspiracy theory?"
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Cars on air

Submitted by mAsterdam
mAsterdam writes: Ideas to run vehicles and more specifically cars on air aren't new. Guy Negre's "zero pollution" (hm... how do they compress air?) car runs on compressed air.

In February, India's largest car company Tata Motors announced to have such cars produced by 2008; serious competition for NASA's car of the future . The car needs 300 liters of 300 bar compressed air on board to drive 200 km at 110 kmh (68 mph). The cars are to be produced locally. According to De Standaard (article in dutch) Jan Peetermans of Wommelgem plans to produce small MDI-based citycars out of glued together polyester and aluminium parts in Belgium by the end of next year. The cheapest model is expected to be priced at 4.000 Euro.
United States

Submission + - President Bush paving the way for a Dictatorship. (videosift.com)

Submitted by
Xyde
Xyde writes: "from the site/video:

"The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive," with the dual designation of NSPD-51, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive gives Bush total dictatorial powers — he just has to declare a national emergency. When declared it gives him the power to control all Federal, State, Local, Territorial and tribal governments as well as private sector organizations. It would also stop elections from being held." The press release is at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20 070509-12.html. How much more of this are we going to take?"
Censorship

Submission + - RIAA going bust in Sweden

Submitted by mengu
mengu writes: It seems that a recent decision by Swedish court will make it more difficult for the **AA to find the persons behind the ip-addresses. From TFA "The court is confirming that file sharing is punishable by fines. This means that the police are not permitted to demand details of the addresses behind IP addresses and cannot carry out house searches," said Piratbyrån's Tobias Andersson. What it translates to is that since the crime will only render in fines and not prison time, Search-warrants cannot be issued. http://www.thelocal.se/7581/20070612/
Security

Submission + - US Government makes modifying computers illegal

Submitted by
packetmon
packetmon writes: "US Government officials in their infinite wisdom have created such a broad law in hopes of punishing malware writers that the law can punish just about anyone. "...engage in unfair or deceptive acts or practices in connection with specified conduct, including: (1) taking unsolicited control of the computer; (2) modifying computer settings; (3) collecting personally identifiable information [incl. using keystroke loggers]; (4) inducing the owner or authorized user to disclose personally identifiable information; (5) inducing the unsolicited installation of computer software; and (6) removing or disabling a security, anti-spyware, or anti-virus technology." Now, is this broad what? Using Geeksquad as an example of this insane law, imagine a GeekSquad employee having to fix someone's machine. What if he or she has to disable antivirus software in order to fix something. Oops there goes the law. What about on the ISP level, what about if an ISP is filtering dirty clients on his network and via MAC address filtering sends his client to a null routed VLAN. He technically "modified" a machine. There are so many avenues for abuse going on with a broad statement such as: "modifying computer settings". Wired Article"
Google

Submission + - Gmail adds ability to View Powerpoint (google.com)

Submitted by bohn002
bohn002 writes: https://mail.google.com/mail/help/about_whatsnew.h tml Gmail has added the ability to view powerpoint presentations online that are attached to your email messages. Could this be the first peeks of Google Presentation? From Gmail... "View as slideshow Now you can open PowerPoint attachments as slideshows, without having to download anything. Just click "View as slideshow" next to the .ppt attachment you want to preview. Since you can open .doc and .xls attachments with Google Docs and Spreadsheets too, there's no need to leave your web browser to check out your Gmail attachments"
Censorship

Submission + - CNN Censors Ron Paul Supporters (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Lost+Found
Lost+Found writes: On June 5th, CNN hosted a round of debate for 10 GOP candidates for the 2008 Presidential race of the United States. After the debates, CNN posted an article on its Political Ticker blog asking who won the debate. Pages of comments contained messages of support for Texas Congressman Ron Paul. Surprisingly, CNN redirected the GOP "Who won" page to the Democratic "Who won" page from the earlier debates, after which it took the page offline completely.

And it continued the same way through about 140 comments before this site was... shut down. Initially, it pointed readers to the "who won the Democratic debate?" blog question. Then it showed a "Nothing here" page.


It is safe to assume that Internet polls don't necessarily reflect the popularity of a candidate amongst the American mainstream, particularly when a candidate's base might be made up largely of techies. But when moderators refuse to give an equal amount of time to each candidate, anchors all but refuse to mention the name of certain second-tier candidates, and the webmasters of large news organizations censor the preferences of their own viewers, one must wonder what kind of damage is done to the political discourse.
Biotech

Submission + - Teams mimic Stem cells using skin cells (yahoo.com)

Submitted by JagsLive
JagsLive writes: A Great Development in Stem Cell Research : In a leap forward for stem cell research, three independent teams of scientists reported Wednesday that they have produced the equivalent of embryonic stem cells in mice without the controversial destruction of embryos. They got ordinary skin cells to behave like stem cells. If the same could be done with human cells — a big if — the procedure could lead to breakthrough medical treatments without the contentious ethical and political debates surrounding the use of embryos. Experts were impressed by the achievement.
Mozilla

Submission + - Camino 1.5 Released

Submitted by Moby Cock
Moby Cock writes: Mozilla has released Camino 1.5 featuring updated tabs, spell checking, updated RSS feed handling and security fixes. Mac users rejoice.

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