GURU Meditation 8000 - Slashdot User

AmigaOS 4.0 for Classic Amiga available now 0

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GURU Meditation 8000

on Saturday December 01 2007, @04:14PM

GURU Meditation 8000 writes "ACube Systems Srl is pleased to to announce the immediate availability of the awaited AmigaOS 4.0 for Amiga 1200, 3000(T) or 4000(T) with a PowerPC CPU, developed by Hyperion Entertainment VOF. It is now possible to benefit of all the features of this new AmigaOS release, an operating system famous for its efficiency and small footprint.

AmigaOS 4.0, thanks to its power and optimization, succeeds in using at the maximum even systems running at 160Mhz, allowing the multimedia performances and the usability everyone expects from AmigaOS.

The interest expressed towards this new AmigaOS version is so high that, actually, orders are twice than expected. This shows that the Amiga community is still strong and that it enjoys and support the efforts made by Hyperion Entertainment VOF and ACube Systems Srl to develop and promote concrete and powerful products. It's possible to order AmigaOS 4.0 for "Classic" Amigas directly from ACube Systems or from a reseller listed on page http://www.acube-systems.com/resellers"

Bush Admits Administration Leaked Agent's Name-> 0

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InvisblePinkUnicorn

on Thursday July 12 2007, @03:06PM

InvisblePinkUnicorn writes "Following the recent story that President Bush commuted Scooter Libby's sentence, Bush acknowledged publicly for the first time that someone in his administration likely leaked the name of the CIA operative: "I'm aware of the fact that perhaps somebody in the administration did disclose the name of that person," Bush said. "I've often thought about what would have happened if that person had come forth and said, 'I did it.' Would we have had this endless hours of investigation and a lot of money being spent on this matter? But, so, it's been a tough issue for a lot of people in the White House. It's run its course and now we're going to move on." MSNBC points out that the president 'had initially said he would fire anyone in his administration found to have publicly disclosed the identity of Valerie Plame.'"
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From project sluts to strawmen-> 0

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Anonymous Coward

on Thursday July 12 2007, @02:59PM

Anonymous Coward writes "Tim Lister (co-author of Peopleware) talks about project patterns and anti-patterns. Is your software project a slut or a strawman?"
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64-bit Kernel mode only OS, No Wussies-> 0

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losethos

on Thursday July 12 2007, @02:47PM

losethos writes "LoseThos is an open source, free, 64-bit operating system created absolutely from scratch with no restrictions (freer than GPL). It's designed to serve people who program for entertainment. It just supports a VGA display, keyboard, mouse, harddrive, CD-ROM and internal PC speaker. What more do you need for writing games? It's designed to serve as a supplemental operating system you duel boot to for this purpose. It's modern, however, supporting 64-bit (only) computing and multicore processors. It's like the old days when you could access all memory, use all instructions, access all ports, read all disk blocks. The memory space is identity mapped to physical memory so you can easily have processes interact. It has the most advanced command-line on the planet, seriously. Basically, as you type, it goes straight into a C/C++ compiler, with code outside functions executing immediately and the command line supports a variety of widgets including graphic, trees and file links."
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Phishers using government sites-> 0

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Ron

on Thursday July 12 2007, @02:39PM

Ron writes "According to Symantec security researcher Nick Sullivan, Symantec has identified a large number of phishing sites hosted on government domains. In June alone, phishing sites were identified on government sites from the following countries: Thailand, Indonesia, Hungary, Argentina, Ukraine, China, Brazil, and more."
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Can a Hummer go Anywhere? 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 12 2007, @02:38PM

An anonymous reader writes "We've all heard about the AM General Hummer since it's debut in the 1980's, and we've all known of its usefulness as an offroad vehicle. We've seen TV commercials of these types of vehicles on mountain tops. Can they really do it? I've recently had the opportunity to ride in one of these in the mountain ranges in Moab, and the answer is clearly yes."

electronic cancer cure-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 12 2007, @02:31PM

An anonymous reader writes "UC Berkley biomedical engineers have cured cancer in rats by electroporation. This 1960's era process was previously used by geneticist to open pores in cellular membranes to insert foreign DNA. Today, electroporation preferentially zaps open pores in cancer cells to drain them of life giving fluids. A short pulse of high voltage opens the pores. The key is to only affect cancerous cells, leaving healthy cells intact. The process is observed in realtime with impedance tomography. Where as X-ray tomography measures X-ray tranmission at angles about a target, impedance tomography measures electrical impedance from an array of electrodes around a tumor to compute an image. Impedance tomography provides immediate feedback on the effectiveness of the high voltage pulse electroporation treatment. The practicioner can distinguish dead cancer cells from live ones, knowing when to stop treatment. See more details."
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Plasma & LCD TVs sales is booming, CRT is dead-> 2

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Xbm360

on Thursday July 12 2007, @02:29PM

Xbm360 writes "Sales of Plasma & LCD TVs grew by 90 per cent in the 1st quarter of this year compared to the previous quarter & by 41% compared to last year. http://www.hdtvinfo.eu/content/view/60/1/ Total panel shipments reached 2.4 million units in the first quarter of 2007. Asia Pacific remains the dominant region for set production despite the emerging trend to move production closer to end markets, like in Europe. Recently LG announced they've increased their Plasma panel production. http://www.hdtvinfo.eu/news/hdtv-articles/lg-incre ases-its-plasma-panel-production.html"
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Comment: ditch the inkjet and go for laser (Score 2, Informative) 119

by GURU Meditation 8000 on Thursday June 21 2007, @03:28PM (#19598863) Attached to: Which All-in-One Inkjet Printer is Cheapest to Use?

i'll have to agree with others on this list. i used to run inkjets... epson, canon, lexmark... but they drink thsoe carts like crazy..AND if you dont use them in a while they become painful with nozzle cleaning etc etc. I got an HP 2600n a while back and though the initial outlay was higher, the printing is quicker cleaner and the running costs are lower. for really fancy printing (eg glossy 8x6 photos) i prefer to just head to local supermarket and use their 10p per picture printing service.

real wifi gadgets

Submitted by GURU Meditation 8000 on Wednesday June 20 2007, @03:11PM

GURU Meditation 8000 writes "okay, simple question. I've got a top-notch WPA2 enterprise secured wireless. Brilliant. My laptops connect with EAP-TTLS or PEAP. fortunately my smart-phone does EAP-TTLS and PEAP too...and my Nokia N770 is happy too.

But my Wii and PS3 only do WPA-PSK... my DS only does WEP and my dlink voip phone and kodak picture frame only do WPA-PSK. These devices are already legacy and not online via WiFi :-(

So, Slashdot, my question is what cool WiFi gadgets out there can handle proper secure wireless? Am I limited to laptops/PDAs and smart-phones? are there equivalent devices to the Helios X3000 media player? will streambox v4 do what I want?"