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Of electric cars and sports sedans 1

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on Monday October 03 2011, @02:06AM

Agram writes "Given the earlier story about Tesla S sedan and its impressive 0-60 rating, could not resist but share the story about a little known underdog start-up from Croatia. Last month at Frankfurt car showRimac Automobili presented the fastest and arguably the hottest sports car on the planet. Rimac Automobili's fully electric Concept_One which should go on sale in limited quantities in 2013 offers 1088hp, 0-60 in 3 seconds, and a range of 600km (370 miles). Videos on their site show retrofitted 1980's BMW M3, their first prototype leaving Porsche, Tesla Roadster, and even fastest BMW gas-powered sedan in the dust... Perhaps even more impressive is CEO's age. Mate Rimac is 23 years old. For those who don't bother on clicking on the links, no, it is not vaporware..."

L2Ork Sets Sail for the Old World-> 0

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on Tuesday May 10 2011, @02:50PM

Agram writes "After 8 months of planning, fundraising a metric ton of greenbacks, and literally thousands of hours of hard work distributed across dozens of souls, World's first Linux Laptop Orchestra or L2Ork (previously covered here) is truly excited to announce its maiden tour of Europe May 12 – June 1, 2011. The ensemble will be touring 8 countries, performing and holding workshops in following locations:

May 14 – Linz, Austria (as part of LiWoLi festival)
May 15 – Ljubljana, Slovenia
May 16 – Budapest, Hungary (Fészek Theatre)
May 19 – Zagreb, Croatia
May 21 — Hamburg, Germany (Academy of Music and Theater)
May 24 — Amsterdam, Netherlands (STEIM)
May 25 – Amsterdam, Netherlands (Zaal 100)
May 26 – Utrecht, Netherlands (HKU)
May 30 – Paris, France (IRCAM)
June 01 – Oslo, Norway (NIME 2011)

As a gift back to the Linux community, l2Orkists have also been busy working on a revamped Linux-centric version of Pure-Data real-time graphical programming environment for audio and video titled pd-l2ork. Offering hundreds of bug-fixes and improvements, pd-l2ork is the backbone of ensemble's software infrastructure. Both source and prebuilt binaries are available on the L2Ork website."
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L2Ork Sets Sail for the Old World-> 0

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on Tuesday May 10 2011, @02:33PM

Agram writes "After 8 months of planning, fundraising a metric ton of greenbacks, and literally thousands of hours of hard work distributed across dozens of souls, Linux Laptop Orchestra or L2Ork (previously covered on Slashdot here) is truly excited to announce our maiden tour of Europe May 12 – June 1, 2011. Joining forces with our guest soloist Ron Coulter and our talented soprano l2orkist Aurora Martin, the ensemble will be touring 8 countries, performing and holding workshops in following locations:

May 14 – Linz, Austria (as part of LiWoLi festival)
May 15 – Ljubljana, Slovenia
May 16 – Budapest, Hungary (Fészek Theatre)
May 19 – Croatia
May 21 — Hamburg, Germany (Academy of Music and Theater)
May 24 — Amsterdam, Netherlands (STEIM)
May 25 – Amsterdam, Netherlands (Zaal 100)
May 26 – Utrecht, Netherlands (HKU)
May 30 – Paris, France (IRCAM)
June 01 – Oslo, Norway (NIME 2011)

I cannot thank enough to all who have generously contributed their precious time and helped us make this opportunity a reality: Ron Coulter, Robin Gareus, Marc Groenewegen, l2orkists, as well as our Stakeholders, both new and old who have played critical role in meeting the needs of our formidable budget.

So, there you have it! The cat is finally out of the bag :-). Hope to see you at one of our upcoming destinations! In the meantime, to stay up-to-date with the latest developments join our facebook page."
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L2Ork on Tour, Reaches out to K-12 Education 0

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on Saturday April 17 2010, @03:11PM

Agram writes "Following its debut in December 2009 (video, audio, original Slashdot story, Linux Journal cover story), Linux Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork) has branched out into K-12 education by spawning its first ultra-affordable satellite orchestra. On April 17th 5th graders from the Boys & Girls Club of Roanoke, VA will join L2Ork in rocking it out on Virginia Tech (VT) campus. As if seeing a bunch of kids make music by flailing Wiimotes in front of networked Ubuntu notebooks and "ladybug" hemi speakers made out of salad bowls weren't exciting enough, on April 20th thirteen VT l2orkists, many of whom had never seen or used Linux before in their life, will embark on their maiden Midwest tour with stops in Cincinnati, Carbondale (IL), and Indianapolis. Unlike the long-standing stereotype, for a l2orkist Linux is ready to leave the dark corners of a server room and step into the very spotlight of contemporary arts and education."

L2Ork on Tour! Coming to a City Near You... Maybe-> 0

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on Wednesday April 14 2010, @10:08PM

Agram writes "Following the epic win of a debut in the fall of 2009 (video, audio), World's first Linux Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork) has spawned media attention and perhaps more importantly its first junior sibling sporting "ladybug" hemispherical speakers. On April 17th, 5th graders from the Boys & Girls Club of Roanoke, VA will join L2Ork in rocking it out on Virginia Tech campus. As if seeing bunch of kids flail wiimotes around in front of Linux netbooks and salad bowl speakers weren't exciting enough, on April 20th L2Ork is embarking on its maiden Midwest tour with stops in Cincinnati, Carbondale (IL), and Indianapolis. Along the way we would love to meet some Linux-savvy groupies... err... users, so here's a shout-out to all our fellow Linux enthusiasts. Hope to see you there!"
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Introducing L2Ork, World's First Linux Laptop Orch 0

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on Thursday December 03 2009, @03:33PM

Agram writes "Who says penguins cannot make music? Take a netbook, wiimotes, nunchuks, and hemispherical speakers (which were once IKEA salad bowls), toss it up with some Ubuntu goodness and what you get is Virginia Tech's L2Ork, World's first Linux-based laptop orchestra. With its affordable design and support from the Linux community L2Ork hopes to bring laptop orchestras to K-12 education and beyond. So, regardless whether you wish to hear how L2Ork might sound or to learn how to build your own Linux-based *Ork infrastructure, perhaps this is a good opportunity to reopen the age-old debate: is Linux finally ready for some serious audio work?"

Virginia Tech DISIS Linux Laptop Orchestra Debut 0

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on Monday November 30 2009, @01:51PM

Agram writes "Thought the following news/PR release might be of interest to Slashdot readers: On December 4th Virginia Tech DISIS Linux Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork) will hold its first sneak preview debut performance on Virginia Tech campus, Squires Studio Theatre, starting at 7pm. Admission is free. At noon on the same day, L2Orkists will also host a demo booth outside the Commonwealth Ballroom in Squires Student Center (VT campus) demoing how L2Ork works.

About L2Ork
L2Ork (with 2 as an exponent) stands for Linux Laptop Orchestra, and is to the best of our knowledge World's first orchestra of its kind built on Linux. Following in the footsteps of Princeton's PLOrk and Stanford's SLOrk , L2Ork was founded by Dr. Ivica Ico Bukvic in May 2009, as part of Virginia Tech Music Department's Digital Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio (DISIS). For additional info on L2Ork and a video preview of L2Ork in rehearsal visit the L2Ork website and/or (in the case it gets slashdotted) DISIS YouTube channel. Facebook event page can be found here."

Apple releases a bagfull of security fixes

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on Thursday November 30 2006, @01:42AM

Agram writes "This week, Apple has released 31 vulnerability fixes for its OS, although reportedly a number of known flaws remain unaddressed. This release comes as the latest in a long tradition of OS X fixes, some of which pertain to various open-source projects. Earlier this year, akin to Microsoft's past patching faux pas, Apple has released a "fix" whose installation ended-up breaking features otherwise unaffected by the flaw the fix aimed to address. With the growing number of low-level flaws, one has to wonder if the "more secure" argument still stands. Earlier this month, Microsoft has released 6 fixes. Linux (if you need an URL for Linux, you are probably at this site by mistake) does not seem to fare much better either. All this, however, is in stark contrast with the number of exploits in the wild for each of the three platforms. Perhaps, security-wise the OS choice really boils down to a "pick-your-poison x user-base" equation?"