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Submission + - One Laptop Per Child: exciting updates (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

Christoph Derndorfer

on Thursday November 22, 2007 @12:42PM

Christoph Derndorfer writes: "A series of exciting updates were revealed by OLPC earlier today when they announced that (1) their "Give 1, Get 1" program has been extended to December, 31st (2) G1G1 is now available world-wide (with the limitation that you need a North-American shipping address) (3) an average of 10.000 X0s per day were sold via Give 1, Get 1 since the program was started on November, 12th."

Submission + - SPAM: Microbes churn out hydrogen at record rate 1

Submitted by

FiReaNGeL

on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @02:51PM

FiReaNGeL writes: "By adding a few modifications to their successful wastewater fuel cell, researchers have coaxed common bacteria to produce hydrogen in a new, efficient way. Using starter material that could theoretically be sourced from a salad bar, the researchers have coaxed microbes to generate hydrogen. "We achieved the highest hydrogen yields ever obtained with this approach from different sources of organic matter, such as yields of 91 percent using vinegar (acetic acid) and 68 percent using cellulose"."
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Comment Re:What's that in bogomips (Score 3, Funny) 619

by wixardy on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @12:24PM (#21337167) Attached to: Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out

Then who is the question?

He's on first.

Submission + - Blender 2.43 released!

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18, 2007 @05:15PM

An anonymous reader writes: The 2.43 release of Blender is out today (January 18, 2007)! Lots of goodies here — check out the 2.43 release log to get an impression of just how much has changed. Also, for the first time we have a series of Feature Videos demonstrating the power of some of the most important new features. Very cool stuff. Download 2.43 now! Also, a lot has changed behind the scenes: obviously we redid the entire website with a design by Matt Ebb. We also have a new webserver for the website dubbed 'Emo',and we also have three separate download servers (not counting our international mirrors), bringing our total download capacity up to 300mb. Slashdot and Digg? Bring 'em on!

Submission + - EverQuest II embeds Mozilla browser

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17, 2007 @09:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: EverQuest II's next release will include an embedding of the Mozilla browser. It's currently live on the test server and has a few issues that will hopefully be resolved before release.

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?st art=15&topic_id=347230

Some interesting uses of the browser such as automatically searching for quest hints are being discussed on the interface board:

http://www.eq2interface.com/forums/showthread.php? t=7846

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