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Japanese Auto Makers Teaming Up To Create Standard OS 266

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday July 30, 2007 @02:29PM from the specialized-mechanics-heard-weeping dept.

CNet is reporting that Japanese car manufacturers are teaming up to develop a standard automotive operating system. "Just as computer operating systems [...] allow multiple applications to communicate with one another, an automotive operating system enables different driving systems to work together. The standard automotive operating system from Japan will include everything from fuel injection, brakes and power steering to power windows. Currently, certain mechanical car parts are interchangeable from model to model. Smart car parts that operate off a common software standard would enable that kind of convenience to continue, while allowing them to communicate more easily with other smart components in a car."

Run Mac OS X Apps On Linux? 497

Posted by kdawson on Monday July 30, 2007 @08:36AM from the must-be-a-layer-somewhere dept.

I have the urge to commit my 24" Core 2 Duo iMac to a single Linux operating system, thus giving up the goodness of my beloved Mac OS X. I am not a stranger to Linux, but I am a stranger to running Mac apps on Linux. On my PowerPC I can use SheepShaver to run Classic apps. The Mac-on-Linux project can run OS X apps, but it requires a PowerPC, not an x86. Virtualizing and emulating are inefficient, especially given the wonderful results the WINE project has had in getting Windows apps to run on Linux. What I would like is an equivalent: a software compatibility layer that will allow Linux to run Mac OS X apps at native performance. I believe there is some additional complexity in accomplishing this. Mac OS X apps aren't just Mac OS X apps. They are Carbon. They are Cocoa. They are universal binaries. They are PPC code with Altivec. Does such a project exist yet? If not, why not?

Submission + - Nerd Stigmata

Submitted by lesset on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @08:08AM

lesset writes: What can I say, I always knew we would one day take over the world: http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/05/21/nerd-stig mata/

Submission + - Sysadmins advised to block Office docs

Submitted by

Kurtz'sKompund

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @07:30AM

Kurtz'sKompund writes: "Microsoft is recommending IT administrators block users opening Office documents as a way to prevent attacks, tacitly acknowledging that Office cannot be completely secured. http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?n ewsid=8906"

Submission + - Hammerhead shark reproduces asexually

Submitted by Silver Sloth on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @07:26AM

Silver Sloth writes: The New York Times has an interesting article about

A hammerhead shark that gave birth in a Nebraska aquarium reproduced without mating
Also from TFA

At the time of the birth, many scientists thought that the female had mated with another species, or that it had used sperm obtained years before. Female sharks are capable of storing sperm, although none have been known to store it as long as these sharks had been isolated. But through the analysis "it was pretty clear that there was no male contribution," said Mahmood S. Shivji, director of the Guy Harvey Research Institute and author of a paper on the finding being published online today by the journal Biology Letters.
Looks like we boys are becoming unneccessary.

Journal Journal: Offshore outsourcing India

Journal by Rohit Tripathi on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @07:25AM

With the emergence of a number of countries in the field of offshore software development services, offshore outsourcing India has been gaining popularity. Worldwide, the business is growing at an increasing pace and India holds many advantages in terms of time zone, quality and cheap resources; and high English speaking population. Open source technologies like PHP are gaining importance and we have very good skilled resources available b

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Submission + - See Who's Online Behind Your Browser

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @06:51AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Me.dium is a window that reveals the hidden world of people and activity behind your browser. Through Me.dium, you can see your online world for the first time. All the websites that you see in the map are other sites that Me.dium is recommending for you based on what you are currently doing. Me.dium bases those recommendations on how your activity relates to the activity of other people using Me.dium."

Submission + - Microsoft and Novell, the real deal

Submitted by

polterguy

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @06:49AM

polterguy writes: "Microsoft's first objective about the deal was probably to divide the Open Source Community into smaller easier managenable fractions just like the British did in Africa and India a couple of decades ago. It's imperative that we don't fall for this strategy and remains as a united force instead of starting debates about semantics and details. Don't let Microsoft play Divide and Conquer with us and victimize us down to to history lessons! Be the message not the messenger! Read the rest at Microsoft and Novell, the real deal!"

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