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  Linux: Ubuntu Hardy Heron Announced 2007-08-29 13:58

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday August 29 2007, @01:58PM
from the limping-llama-still-to-come dept.
Jono Bacon, Community Manager for Ubuntu, has announced development on the next version of the popular Linux distribution name "Hardy Heron". "Not only will the Ubuntu community continue to do what it does best, produce an easy-to-use, reliable, free software platform, but this release will proudly wear the badge of Long Term Support (LTS) and be supported with security updates for five years on the server and three years on the desktop. We look forward to releasing the Hardy Heron in April 2008."
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 [+] story, linux, announcement, ubuntu, hungryhippo, hairyhardon

  Amiga in an FPGA released under GPL[->] 2007-08-10 05:34 exolon42

Submitted by exolon42 on Friday August 10 2007, @05:34AM
exolon42 writes "This is a mandatory read for every (former or current) Amiga hacker. You have to give it to the Dutch: tulips, cheese, and now a guy named Dennis has recreated the original Amiga chipset in a Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA, and recently released all sources under the GPL to boot! This includes the design of a PCB containing the FPGA, the required MC68000 and normal PC-style hardware connectors so you can build your own. A thought-provoking fact is that the Verilog-sources for the recreated chips (Denise, Paula, Agnus etc.) are only around 500-1000 lines each... chips in the eighties didn't contain 1 billion transistors!"
http://home.hetnet.nl/~weeren001/
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 [+] submission, amiga

  Halo 3 Achievements Revealed 2007-06-19 19:46

Submitted by on Tuesday June 19 2007, @07:46PM
An anonymous reader writes "The achievements for the most highly anticipated game for the Xbox 360 have been revealed by the largest Xbox 360 Achievement site out there, Achieve360Points.com. The full list can be viewed here. There are a total of 49 achievements worth the standard 1000 points for a retail game. Whether or not you are a fan of Microsoft's Achievement system, this information at least confirms that there will be 9 missions in the single player game and the famous skulls will be making a comeback:

1. Landfall (20pts) — 2. Finish the first mission of the Campaign on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary.
2. Holdout (20pts) — Finish the second mission of the Campaign on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary.
3. The Road (20pts) — Finish the third mission of the Campaign on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary.
4. Assault (30pts) — Finish the fourth mission of the Campaign on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary.
5. Cleansing (30pts) — Finish the fifth mission of the Campaign on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary.
6. Refuge (30pts) — Finish the sixth mission of the Campaign on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary.
7. Last Stand (40pts) — Finish the seventh mission of the Campaign on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary.
8. The Key (40pts) — Finish the eighth mission of the Campaign on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary.
9. Return (50pts) — Finish the final mission of the Campaign on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary.

Halo 3 will be hitting store shelves on the 25th of September."
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Submitted by Ian Lamont on Tuesday June 19 2007, @06:02PM
Ian Lamont writes "There's an interesting debate about server and terminal naming conventions that brings up some of the pros and cons of using mundane vs. exotic names. People have submitted funny and/or obscure examples (Star Trek and LOTR characters, Nixon cabinet members, etc.). However, these can get old, or are inconvenient. Everyone has seen environments that are based on Greco-Roman mythology (Perseus, Zeus, Dionysus, etc.) — spelling them out can be a problem, not to mention finding specific applications and helping out new hires (or your replacement) deal with unfamiliar systems. The alternative is "logically (and yawningly)" naming servers after departments, building locations, applications, etc. That approach has its problems, too — including users who have their own ideas about what names should be used. What do the experts say? Pierre Dumoulin, writing for Tech Republic, warns against using Star Trek or the Smurfs — he recommends a 'proper' and logical naming convention that can make it easier to troubleshoot, conduct inventory, and scale the network. As an example for a large company, he suggests "DDCCSSUPOXXXX", which lists Division (D) — Country (C) — Site (S) — Usage Type (U) — Portability (P) — Operating Environment (O) — Numbering Scheme (XXXX):

I personally like this convention because it provides me with a lot of information I want to know about a computer on a routine basis. Also, once the meaning of the different acronyms has been assimilated by support staff, they can translate the computer name very easily into a meaningful sentence. One example, using this convention, would be: "Manufacturing desktop computer located in Boston, U.S.A. used for production office work" while the actual name of the computer might be something like "MAUSBOODP0001" or "Research laptop computer located in London, England used for testing in a lab environment" for a node name like "RDENLDLLT0001".
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http://sharkbait.computerworld.com/?q=node/1182
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  iPhone Safari launch capabilites revealed[->] 2007-06-19 17:36 dr00g911

Submitted by dr00g911 on Tuesday June 19 2007, @05:36PM
dr00g911 writes "Some notes from the WWDC iPhone development session have leaked today (and abruptly taken down), but have yielded extremely useful bits of development info about browser capabilities, (lack of) Flash support and more. Assuming that several of these keypoints are true (notably the 5 second Javascript, Flash and 480px), many developers who have gotten a headstart into writing apps may have to rethink things a bit."
http://www.iphone-geek.com/
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 [+] submission, macbook
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Submitted by srizah on Monday January 01 2007, @09:24PM
srizah writes "City dwellers are poised to be tipping the scale in about 25 years. UN Reports say that urban populations have more than quadrupled in the last 50 years. Some 200 years ago London became the first city since Rome to have a population of 1 million. Since then more than 200 cities have reached that figure. Tokyo a metacity has a population of 20 million. 95% of the increase is in developing countries due to new births and migrations. Washington's World Watch Institute and UN Population Fund are coming out with reports on how to grapple with the situation http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2 114489.ece"
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  PS3s Hit Best Buy Shelves, Stay There 2007-01-01 20:44 Doomstalk

Submitted by Doomstalk on Monday January 01 2007, @08:44PM
Doomstalk writes "For the past few weeks, the standing orders at Best Buy were to hold all of their PlayStation 3 stock in preparation for their New Year's Eve sale. Yesterday, these stockpiles were released onto store shelves en masse. How did they sell? Surprisingly poorly. Reports have been steadily trickling in to Kotaku of piles of PlayStation 3s found sitting around in Best Buys untouched, or barely touched. Is this an isolated incident, or has demand for Sony's console already reached a near standstill?"
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 [+] submission, games, sony
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  Games: From Hot Coffee To Warm Tea 2006-10-30 12:16

Posted by Zonk on Monday October 30 2006, @12:16PM
from the weak-sauce dept.
I've been avoiding posting about it, but Joystiq has a completely and utterly sane discussion of the non-story that is the Bully boy on boy kissing 'scandal'. Despite the ravings of Jack Thompson, the homosexual behavior in Bully was seen by the ESRB, is not the first game to feature such content. From the article: "The ESRB would be insane if they were bullied into giving an 'M' (Mature 17+) rating to Bully, as this story continues to gain traction in the mainstream press ... It would also force the ginormous Electronic Arts into the mix to defend the 'T' rated Sims. We're willing to wager that Electronic Arts, which has a Human Rights Campaign corporate equality index score of 88 and had transsexual game designer Danielle Bunten Berry on staff, will put up a good fight if challenged. Rockstar played this brilliantly, they slid in a topic that is controversial, but perfectly defensible, and those that would attack 'Warm Tea,' won't have an easy time of it compared to 'Hot Coffee.'"
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 [+] story, games, warmtea, hotcoffee, bully, jackthompson,

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