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Submission + - The Most-Wanted Linux Software

Submitted by Susie on Friday April 20, 2007 @06:43AM

Susie writes: Photoshop, AutoCAD and iTunes are three of the most-demanded programs for the Linux desktop, but what else does the community want? Linux Format is running Make it with Mono, a voting system to determine what type of programs the Linux world needs. Get voting — the number-one entry on May 2nd will be written in Mono and released as open source!

Submission + - Easy-to-make material scratches diamond

Submitted by holy_calamity on Friday April 20, 2007 @05:59AM

holy_calamity writes: A material tough enough to scratch diamond that can be made without resorting to massive pressure has been developed at UCLA. A regular furnace and a zap of current is enough to meld boron with the metal rhenium.

Submission + - UPDATE: Massive BlackBerry Failure

Submitted by

slashchuck

on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @12:13AM

slashchuck writes: "NEW YORK — NewsChannel-4 has learned of a massive system failure affecting all blackberry users in the western hemisphere. The RIM Company, which stands for Research In Motion, developed blackberry technology and said its infrastructure failed around 8 p.m. Tuesday and has been down ever since. E-mails are not being pushed to portable blackberry devices."

Submission + - Microsoft Blocks domains with the word Linux

Submitted by test pilot on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @10:07PM

test pilot writes: Microsoft offers a program called Microsoft Office Live Basics, with this you get a Free domain name and Web hosting,Easy-to-use Web site design tools, 500 MB of Web site storage space, 25 company-branded e-mail accounts, and Web site reports. So I said to myself why not. Clicked the link for the free account and tried to register a new domain name. The registration site gave me an error that the domain name contained invalid characters. There where no invalid characters. I then check a couple of domain registration site and would have been able to register the domain at those sites. So back to Microsoft website and try again. No luck same error from the domain registration site. So I went to Go Daddy's web and register the domain I wanted. Now back at Microsoft Office Live Basics I tried to register for the service using Redirect an existing domain name feature. Still couldn't register for the service. Check the help section for help or restrictions. I found this in the Help section. http://office.microsoft.com/client/helppreview.asp x?AssetID=HA102154721033&ns=OFLV15&lcid=1033 Are there any domain names I can't redelegate? If your current domain name ends in .com, .net, .org., .co.uk, .de, or .eu, you can redelegate it to Microsoft Office Live. So I email the tech support section and received the following reply from Microsoft RE: SRX1033709975ID — Microsoft Office Live Basics:Trouble with Sign-up From: Microsoft Customer Support (OFFLV.BASC.NA.US.EN.NCO.QUE.TS.T01.SPT.00.EM@css. one.microsoft.com) Sent:Tue 4/17/07 7:13 PM To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Hi James, My name is Ayn of Microsoft Office Live Support Team and I'll be glad to assist you. I understand that you were trying to sign up for the domain XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX so you may re-delegate it from GoDaddy.com to Microsoft Office Live. Unfortunately every time you do so you receive an error, you also have tried the troubleshooting steps provided but to no avail. I apologize for the inconvenience; please allow me to assist you. James, I simulated your concern, and found out that the domain name itself is being blocked. The use of Bill Gates and Linux is prohibited by our server. Hence you are unable to sign up for it. I suggest that you sign up for a different domain name, so you may avail of the offerings of Microsoft Office Live. If you have questions or you need further assistance, please email us again so we may further assist you. Thank you for contacting Microsoft Office Live Support. Have a great day. Sincerely, Ayn Microsoft Office Live Support

Submission + - Man and Woman arrested for wardriving in UK

Submitted by stormhair on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @12:51PM

stormhair writes: The BBC reports that a man has been arrested and cautioned for using someone else's wifi connection. In one of the first cases of its kind (in the UK), the man was charged with "dishonestly obtaining electronic communications services with intent to avoid payment."

A woman was also arrested for a similar offence earlier this month.

Submission + - One Terabyte! How am I going to store that much!

Submitted by

aeroseth

on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @12:09PM

aeroseth writes: "Tom's Hardware Guide is reporting on Hitachi's new 7K1000 Terabyte Hard Drive.
On March 16, 2007, UPS delivered to our storage test lab a shipment from Hitachi, which we had anticipated for several weeks. The box contained the world's first hard drive with a total capacity of 1 terabyte (1 TB): the Deskstar 7K1000."

Submission + - Link to PC World's 20 Most Annoying Tech Products

Submitted by

Craig Sender

on Monday April 16, 2007 @01:10PM

Craig Sender writes: "Wanted to send you the link (see below) to PC World's "20 Most Annoying Tech Products" which was posted today and voted on by readers. The AOL free trial CD's were #1 on the list, which also included RealPlayer, Windows Vista, and QuickTime. Thought you might want to link/post to this on Slashdot. Thanks. — craig http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130638-page,1/ar ticle.html?tk=pr_20MATP"

Submission + - Google Reaches Deal to Sell Radio Ads

Submitted by Nrbelex on Monday April 16, 2007 @12:39PM

Nrbelex writes: The New York Times is reporting that 'Google will begin selling advertisements across all of the stations of Clear Channel Communications, the No. 1 radio station owner in the United States, at the end of June, the companies will announce today. Google has been working for months to expand its ad sales operation into traditional media like newspapers, radio and television.'

Submission + - Paid to do nothing?

Submitted by djupedal on Monday April 16, 2007 @03:54AM

djupedal writes: Are you paid to do nothing? Were you hired to do nothing?

Are you paid, yet you don't do any work? This is for anyone, except of course those collecting job benefits. I'm talking about those that come into work and hang out and do nothing whatsoever productive, but still receive regular performance reviews, generic corporate emails and a routine weekly/monthly salary. Maybe you don't even have to show up at the office.

I have a friend who is going on six months since he was asked to do any type of work, yet his (not meager) salary keeps being automatically deposited and the only time anyone from the office checks on him is to make sure he is still alive. How long has it been since you had an assignment or participated in an active project, etc.? What do you do with your time? How long do you think this type of ghost position can continue? Is this a dream job or an ethical burden?

Submission + - Woman offers herself in exchange for WoW gold

Submitted by aneeshm on Thursday April 12, 2007 @05:02AM

aneeshm writes: A Spanish website writes about a woman who offered sexual services to any man who would give her 5,000 gold in World of Warcraft. The woman, a female Night Elf, Level 70 (the highest level), offered one night of sex to any guy who would give her the gold necessary to purchase the new Epic Flying Mount of the expansion The Burning Crusade. The woman finally accepted one guy's offer, and after the transaction was completed, he gave her the WoW money.

Submission + - Internet without the World Wide Web

Submitted by

kiyoshilionz

on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @01:58AM

kiyoshilionz writes: "As some of the older techies will note, there was an Internet before the World Wide Web. I'm doing some history research on the transition from the Internet without the World Wide Web to its exponential growth following the introduction of Mosaic. Are there any Slashdot users that are old enough to have been around during the pre-WWW Internet? Or witnesses to the post-Mosaic boom? Perhaps even someone who was a developer who made it happen? I'd like any firsthand account of the birth of the World Wide Web or the popularity of the Mosaic browser."

Submission + - Google Pushes Open Source OCR

Submitted by

SocialWorm

on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @01:35AM

SocialWorm writes: "Google has just announced work on OCRopus, which it says it hopes will "advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies." OCRopus will be available under the Apache 2.0 License. Obviously, there may be search and image search implications from OCRopus."

Submission + - Internet Radio May Stream North to Canada

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @12:13AM

An anonymous reader writes: With U.S. copyright royalties threatening to kill Internet radio in the U.S., Michael Geist explains why webcasters considering a move to Canada will find that the legal framework for Internet radio trades costs for complexity. There are two main areas of concern from a Canadian perspective — broadcast regulation and copyright fees. The broadcast side is surprisingly regulation-free, but there are at least three Canadian copyright collectives lining up to collect from Internet radio stations.

Celebrating the HP-35 Calculator With a New Model 203

Posted by CowboyNeal on Monday April 09, 2007 @09:49PM from the high-tech-slide-rules dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Hewlett-Packard last week announced a contest whereby HP-35 fans create and submit videos of their favorite calculator memories. HP will choose the best videos and you can win a 50-inch, high-def plasma TV. But everyone wins, because HP this summer will debut a special new calculator model. The details aren't announced, however, it's likely to be a 35th anniversary edition of some sort."

Submission + - Sourceforge used for non-FOSS?

Submitted by

einhverfr

on Monday April 09, 2007 @09:11PM

einhverfr writes: "Recently the argument over SQL-Ledger's change of license has taken an interesting turn. Apparently people who feel that this is no longer open source or free software have filed a complaint with Sourceforge asking that the project's mailing list and hosting be shut down. Sourceforge's response seems to be that since the developer isn't actually hosting the packages on Sourceforge anymore, that this is within the terms of use. Some seem to note that this would allow any proprietary software vendor to use Sourceforge for non-Free projects as long as they don't actually host the downloads there. What do you think? Where should the line be drawn?"

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