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Submitted by DrYak on Monday June 16, @09:35AM
DrYak writes "Phoronix is reporting on DeviceVM's SplashTop popularity. In addition to ASUS (which started including it not only on all their motherboards but also on laptops — calling it Express Gate), other companies seem to be interested in this kind of technology. HP will be introducing a similar technology called Voodoo IOS Linux.

Details, however, have been short on this Voodoo IOS Linux.
tells Phoronix,

Representatives for DeviceVM have declined to comment whether Voodoo IOS is a re-branded version of SplashTop, but all signs are that it is.


Phoronix also reports that Dell is planning to introduce a similar technology :

Engadget has shared details surrounding the Dell E and E Slim. These notebooks are direct competition to the very popular ASUS Eee PCs. [...] The E and E Slim also ship with what Dell is calling "BlackTop" for providing an instant-on Linux solution. While BlackTop sounds quite similar to SplashTop, indications are that this is a separate solution from Dell.


Maybe, The Year Of The Linux Desktop still isn't there. But right after Asus' EEE PC has showed that this might potentially be The Year Of The Linux Laptop, maybe we are here witnessing the seeds of The Year Of The Linux BIOS too."
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=splashtop_voodoo&num=1
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  Technology: Microsoft and OLPC Agree To Put XP On the XO Laptop 2008-05-15 20:13

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday May 15, @08:13PM
from the sliding-down-a-slippery-slope dept.
Apro+im points out a NYTimes report which states that Microsoft and the OLPC project have officially agreed to put Windows XP on the XO laptop. While Microsoft has been working toward this for some time, analysts began to think a deal was more likely after Walter Bender resigned from the project and was replaced by Charles Kane. Former OLPC security developer Ivan Krstic had a lot to say about Windows on the XO as well. From the Times: "Windows will add a bit to the price of the machines, about $3, the licensing fee Microsoft charges to some developing nations under a program called Unlimited Potential. For those nations that want dual-boot models, running both Windows and Linux, the extra hardware required will add another $7 or so to the cost of the machines, Mr. Negroponte said. The project's agreement with Microsoft involves no payment by the software giant, and Microsoft will not join One Laptop Per Child's board. 'We've stayed very pure,' Mr. Negroponte said.
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Submitted by DrYak on Wednesday May 07, @09:38AM
DrYak writes "Phoronix has received informations confirming that Valve is indeed porting its very popular Source engine to the Linux platform. There have been rumors since last year that Valve may be serious about porting Source games to Linux after Valve Software began seeking a senior software engineer with the responsibility of porting Windows-based games to the Linux platform. (as mentioned recently on /.)
They also have confirmation that Postal III — which uses Valve's Source Engine — would be supported on Linux (as well as on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and Mac).

Until now compatibility layers such as Wine and CodeWeaver's CrossOver have been the only solution for Linux players, and Phoronix mentions that Valve's Orange Box compilation of Source-based games is among the top ranking vote for CrossOver, thus showing that there's indeed a market for Valve's game on Linux

Linux gamers worldwide start to rejoice."
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=source_linux&num=1
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  Your Rights Online: Jack Thompson's Letter To Take-Two Exec's Mother 2008-05-04 16:58

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 04, @04:58PM
from the an-insult-to-actual-slime-molds-everywhere dept.
debatem1 writes "Apparently, anti-violent-video-games crusader Jack Thompson is at it again, this time writing a letter to the mother of Strauss Zelnick, Chairman of Take-Two, the company that produces the GTA series of video games. In it he compares Zelnick to a member of the Hitler Youth, advocates beating the young Zelnick, and contemplates the existence of a Ted Bundy merit badge for boy scouts."
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  ATI Has Open-Source Drivers Too 2007-05-12 11:53 DrYak

Submitted by DrYak on Saturday May 12 2007, @11:53AM
DrYak writes "After the recent slashdot speculations about ATI/AMD promising to fix some of their problems on open-source operating systems, it might be interesting to remind that there is some community development of open-source drivers for Radeon graphic cards. nVidia isn't the only target to receive efforts such as the nouveau project : as stated by Phoronix in a recent article, ATI Has Open-Source Drivers Too.

Since late last year the open-source Linux community has been ecstatic about the growing progress made by the Nouveau developers. [...] With NVIDIA Corporation not providing hardware specifications, this driver is being written through reverse-engineering NVIDIA's binary display driver. While the developers of Nouveau are making great strides and this driver is taking shape, the open-source ATI driver must not be forgotten.
The article provides a quick overview of the various project concerning the Radeon family of graphics chips :

ATI Technologies had released specifications to the Radeon R200 (8500 to 9200) [...] For those graphics cards, there is an excellent stable and open-source driver built into X.Org...
Support for the Radeon R300 series had to be reverse-engineered [...] The R300 driver now is nearly complete for desktop users wishing to play older games or simply benefit from Beryl and Compiz...
Recently [...] there has been work on reverse-engineering ATI's R500 (Radeon X1000) series. There is no dummy driver available yet or even a Wiki page, but I have covered some of the progress made on my blog at MichaelLarabel.com. [...] This driver is still in its infancy but in the coming months there should hopefully be some good news to report back. ...
Recently, the radeon driver project has started issuing an irregular development companion, similarly to the TiNDC."
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  Worm exploiting Solaris telnetd vulnerability 2007-03-02 08:51 MichaelSmith

Submitted by MichaelSmith on Friday March 02 2007, @08:51AM
MichaelSmith writes "Several news sites [ itwire zdnet itnews] are reporting that a worm is starting to exploit the Solaris Telnet 0-day vulnerability. From the itnews article: By adding simple text to the Telnet command, Ullrich explained that the system will skip asking for a user name and password. If the systems are installed out of the box, they automatically come Telnet-enabled."
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  BBC signs video deal with Youtube 2007-03-02 08:11 LordSnooty

Submitted by LordSnooty on Friday March 02 2007, @08:11AM
LordSnooty writes "The BBC reports on a deal they've signed with Youtube that paves the way for BBC 'channels' on the video-sharing website. From the article: "Three YouTube channels — one for news and two for entertainment — will showcase short clips of BBC content. The BBC hopes that the deal will help it reach YouTube's monthly audience of more than 70 million users and drive extra traffic to its own website. The corporation will also get a share of the advertising revenue generated by traffic to the new YouTube channels." Here's the best bit: "[The BBC's director of Future Media and Technology] Ashley Highfield said the BBC would not be hunting down all BBC-copyrighted clips already uploaded by YouTube members — although it would reserve the right to swap poor quality clips with the real thing, or to have content removed that infringed other people's copyright. 'We don't want to be overzealous, a lot of the material on YouTube is good promotional content for us'." For a long time the BBC and Highfield have held a pragmatic view of the use of the Internet and media content, long may it continue."
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  SearchInform Technologies, Inc news 2007-03-02 08:06 Alena Siameshka

Submitted by Alena Siameshka on Friday March 02 2007, @08:06AM
Alena Siameshka writes "February 28, 2007 — SearchInform Technologies has released a new version of MailSniffer 0.97.1.0 RC, a program designed to provide information security and prevent the leakage of confidential information. The new version provides even more reliable results and performs at a significantly higher speed. Aside from its security functions, SearchInform MailSniffer 0.97.1.0 RC is featured with a technology that performs full-text search in the documents contents. The catch lays in that a large piece of text, a text extract or even a whole letter can act as a query. The technology will analyze the query, search for messages containing similar content and finally display the results in the order of their relevance to the query with the percentage of relevance specified at side. This feature enables the user to easily find the needed letter in the bulk of e-mail messages piled up in the corporate database. As a result of database performance being upgraded, SearchInform MailSniffer now performs at a higher speed, which makes the query processing, and an ensuing from it display of results stunningly fast. Similarly, the program's indexing speed and work with archives became remarkably faster and much more convenient. SearchInform MailSniffer RC main features: Previewing correspondence history with one recipient; Full text search in messages and attached files with due consideration to stemming; Unique similar search feature; Control over employees' correspondence; User access rights differentiation. About SearchInform Technologies SearchInform Technologies was founded in 1995 and has been operating in the area of information technologies with special focus on information searching, storing and processing. The range of company's products is quite large and encompasses from mass production of single user-oriented products to ready business solutions to be integrated into corporate systems. Owing to its extensive experience in various projects, the company offers its services on developing custom information systems of any complexity. More information on our website: http://www.searchinform.com/ For all inquiries mailto:alena.siameshka@searchinform.com Alena Siameshka, SearchInform Technologies PR Manager"
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  Rumble coming back to Sixxaxis 2007-03-02 07:47 cdneng2

Submitted by cdneng2 on Friday March 02 2007, @07:47AM
cdneng2 writes "It seems that Immersion and Sony have signed a new rumble agreement. They've concluded litigation, and have entered into a new business agreement. Does this mean that we will soon see the rumble feature come back into the PS3 controller?"
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  Falling into the Vista Trap 2007-03-02 06:45 iB1

Submitted by iB1 on Friday March 02 2007, @06:45AM
iB1 writes "Business editor of the BBC Tim Weber has an interesting tale of woe about his experience of upgrading from XP to Vista. Although it appears that the initial upgrade went without a hitch, it was the frustrating realisation that a substantial number of his peripherals did not and would never work with Vista that tipped him over the edge."
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  Is Vista a trap? 2007-03-02 06:23 logube

Submitted by logube on Friday March 02 2007, @06:23AM
logube writes "BBC has an article about installing Vista in your existing desktop. Written by Tim Weber, a self-confessed "sucker for technology", this article is a good introduction to the pain and extra money required to get on the latest product of the evil empire. See how you can spend an extra 130 british pounds, and still have no working webcam!"
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Submitted by Dmitry on Friday March 02 2007, @06:11AM
Dmitry writes "Here is a small video about some strange but handy device which works in restroom. But Windows has spoiled everything... http://www.metacafe.com/watch/437109/hi_tech_in_to ilet/"
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  Vista activation cracked by brute force 2007-03-02 05:27 Bengt

Submitted by Bengt on Friday March 02 2007, @05:27AM
Bengt writes "The Inquirer has a story about a brute force Vista key activation crack.

From TFA: The crack is a glorified guesser, and with the speed of modern PCs and the number of outstanding keys, the 25-digit serials are within range. The biggest problem for MS? If this gets widespread, and I hope it will, people will start activating legit keys that are owned by other people.

There is really no differentiating between a legit copy with a manually typed in wrong key and a hack attempt. Sure MS can throttle this by limiting key attempts to one a minute or so on new software, but the older variants are already burnt to disk. The cat is out of the bag. The crack was first mentioned on the Keznews forums, a step by step How-to can be found HERE"
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Journal by bettiwettiwoo on Wednesday February 28 2007, @05:14AM
An article in TSC Daily, L'Eggo My Lego, recounts the story of how teachers at a private school in Seattle saved the souls of little children and made earth a better place to live.

The children at the school were building a 'Legotown', and were, while doing so, displaying terrifying misconceptions - and, incidentally, their own evil nature - regarding private property: one of these misguided little creatures even went so far as to claim that 'If I buy it, I own it'. Well!

Luckily, when the 'Legotown' was accidentally (?) destroyed, the teachers at the school eagerly grasped the opportunity to brainwash ... er, educate the little souls and lead them onto the straight and narrow: Lego was totally banned until the children had been totally ... taught the basics of a fair and just society, 'collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation.'

[After several months] Legos returned to the classroom after the children agreed to several guiding principles framed by the teachers, including that "All structures are public structures" and "All structures will be standard sizes." The teachers quote the children:

          "A house is good because it is a community house."

          "We should have equal houses. They should be standard sizes."

          "It's important to have the same amount of power as other people over your building."

Why have creativity when you can have standard size?!
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Submitted by Pranjal on Wednesday February 28 2007, @05:02AM
Pranjal writes "In an interview in Tuesday's edition of the Times Of India, Ballmer says piracy is having "a huge negative impact" on economic growth in India. He also cites an unnamed study indicating that 70% of all software used in the country is pirated. Reducing that number by 10% would lead to the creation of 50,000 new jobs in India, Ballmer says in the interview. InformationWeek.com has a commentary on the news item — "...the concern, of course, is that a larger Microsoft presence in India would come at the expense of programming jobs in the U.S. Microsoft employees in Redmond may be hoping that India doesn't take its piracy problem too seriously — it may be the best job protection they have.""
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