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Submission + - What to do with your old computer? 1

Submitted by
nilstar
nilstar writes: "Just like many of you, I have way too many PCs cluttering my house. Some of them have pretty "reasonable" specs (e.g., Athlon XP 2200+). I've tried my hand at selling them on craigslist, ebay and kijiji. But it seems nobody wants them? I even looked at donating them. Charities accepting donated PCs are few and far between in Canada. I found one where I have to drive 100 clicks to their depot because they don't pickup.

What can I do with my old PC hardware?"
The Courts

Fark Seeks to Trademark NSFW 199

Posted by Zonk from the not-so-freaking-wise dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The term NSFW is about to join the :( emoticon, going from a generic, oft-used internet abbreviation, to one company's exclusive trademark. Fark is seeking a trademark on the use of NSFW to describe naughty online content. Of course, they may face a bit of a battle because more than a few other people are already using the term NSFW to describe their products and services. Not that that's stopped anyone in the past." And, of course, the whole thing could be a big practical joke.
It's funny. Laugh.

Unusual Data Disaster Horror Stories 324

Posted by Zonk from the lolcats-can-has-hard-drives dept.
Lucas123 writes "Computerworld has posted stories from a disaster recovery company that include a scientist who drilled into his hard drive in order to pour oil into the mechanism to stop the squeaking. It worked. Of course a dead drive makes no noise. And, then a guy in Thailand who, after discovering ants in his external hard drive, took the cover off in order to spray the interior with insect repellent. Both the ants and the drive died."
Mozilla

Submission + - Survey results on Thunderbird ideas (mozillazine.org)

Submitted by normafella
normafella writes: At The Rumbling Edge, there is some interesting stuff on a sample of ~700 Thunderbird users regarding the current status of Thunderbird as perceived by the (arguably more power users) community. The summary there states that 'Thunderbird 2 is already a great product lauded for its stability and adherence to open standards, but with lots of room for improvement and / or innovation. It could do with more features and functionality, especially improved global search across all accounts and default calendaring support.'

Seems like many ideas forthcoming for the recently set-up MailCo by Mozilla.
KDE

Submission + - KDE 4.0 RC 1 released (kde.org)

Submitted by
angryfirelord
angryfirelord writes: "The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks that the majority of the components of KDE 4.0 are now approaching release quality. While the final bits of Plasma, the brand new desktop shell and panel in KDE 4, are falling into place, the KDE community decided to publish a first release candidate for the KDE 4.0 Desktop. Release Candidate 1 is the first preview of KDE 4.0 which is suitable for general use and discovering the improvements that have taken place all over the KDE codebase."
Enlightenment

Submission + - Turkey Day Chemistry in the Kitchen (popsci.com)

Submitted by instupor
instupor writes: Just in time for the holiday, PopSci runs through the food science behind moist turkey, perfect potatoes and flaky pie crust. Besides the actual "why," the article explains how to apply the scientific principals in your own kitchen.
KDE

Journal Journal: KDE 4.0 is Ready for Daily Use, KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 1

Journal by Erris

KDE 4.0 is here. The development platform is frozen and the majority of applications for KDE 4.0 are ready for daily use.

The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks that the majority of the components of KDE 4.0 are now approaching release quality.
Intel

Submission + - Intel Core 2 "Penryn" and Linux (linuxhardware.org)

Submitted by
LHoAugustus
LHoAugustus writes: "Linux Hardware has posted a look at the new Intel "Penryn" processor and how the new processor will work with Linux. "Intel recently released the new "Penryn" Core 2 processor with many new features. So what are these features and how will they equate into benefits to Linux users? That's what Linux Hardware is here to unravel. In this review I'll cover all the high points of the new "Penryn" core and talk to a couple Linux projects about the impact on end-user performance.""
Mozilla

Submission + - First look: Firefox 3 visual refresh for Linux (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by ohrmazd
ohrmazd writes: Firefox 3 is getting a visual refresh for better integration with Mac OS X and Windows, but original plans called for Linux to be left out of the fun. That decision was reversed and Ars has a look at some of the new themes. 'A patch submitted by Michael Ventnor makes the Firefox 3 toolbar use stock GTK icons from the user's GNOME icon theme. We tested this feature extensively and found that it worked very well with Tango, the default GNOME icon theme, Ubuntu's Human icon theme, and a variety of other popular third-party icon themes downloaded from gnome-look.org.' So far, it looks very promising.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Gore joining venture firm Kleiner Perkins

Submitted by
netbuzz
netbuzz writes: "In a move that may finally silence those who want him to run for president, Al Gore has decided to take his Nobel and Oscar awards on over to venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, where he will concentrate on — guess what? — green technologies. What's even more interesting is that Gore apparently intends to be an active member of the Kleiner Perkins team, as opposed to a high-powered glad-hander.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/21812"
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - IBM to Buy Cognos

Submitted by CrkHead
CrkHead writes: After some speculation there now is more consolidation in the market. The CBC is now reporting that IBM is to buy Cognos for $5 billion USD.

The U.S. computing giant will pay $58 US per share in cash for Cognos. The offer includes a premium of more than $5 US over the $52.98 US closing price of Cognos shares last week.

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