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Tim Berners-Lee awarded the British Order of Merit->

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MarsBar

on Thursday June 14 2007, @03:48AM

MarsBar writes "The BBC is reporting that Sir Tim Berners-Lee has been awarded The Order of Merit, a royal award granted directly by the Queen. Previous recipients have included Florence Nightingale, Sir Winston Churchill, Bertrand Russell, Graham Greene, Sir Edward Elgar, Mother Teresa and Margaret Thatcher"
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Adult Symptoms of Various Mental Health Disorders->

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craighosking

on Wednesday June 13 2007, @02:42AM

craighosking writes "Complete list of psychiatric disorders and the adult symptoms of mental health disorders. Also overviews of mental illness, anxiety disorders, depression, ..."
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South African Election website requires Windows

Submitted by MoHaG on Wednesday June 13 2007, @02:34AM

MoHaG writes "South Africa's Independent Electoral Commission's website requires Internet Explorer which is only supported on Windows. Users of operating systems other than Windows have no way to access the website, other than forging HTTP headers. Users of alternative browsers are redirected to a page instructing them to install Internet Explorer. Users of Linux and Mac OS has no way to follow the instructions given on the page.

With the government planning to switch to open-source software, this means that not even government employees will be able to get information critical to ensure democracy in South-Africa."

How to make money using Open Source->

Submitted by linuxIsLife on Wednesday June 13 2007, @02:00AM

linuxIsLife writes "Every month SourceForge team sends newsletters to their members. The June newsletter contains the following : [...]You've probably noticed the beta launch of our new SourceForge.net Marketplace, a platform for buying and selling services for open source software. If you haven't, we encourage you to check it out and let us know what you think! Anybody can buy during the beta period, but the number of sellers is limited for now. If you'd like to become a seller in our beta program, be sure to add your name to the interest list at http://sourceforge.net/survey/ [...]"
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Are Software Appliances Worth The Buzz?->

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dotspiral

on Wednesday June 13 2007, @01:21AM

dotspiral writes "rPath (a bunch of ex-Red Hat execs) have been billing their software appliance platform as "easier and cheaper than Software as a Service" and have had some success with signing up open source vendors (latest being KnowledgeTree, Zimbra, Digium). Software appliances appear to be a nice way of evaluating software in a sand box but are organizations really likely to utilize them in production?"
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online poker security flaw found

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MarsBar

on Thursday May 10 2007, @03:39AM

MarsBar writes "Lucky Donut's blog (a good read even if you're not into poker, by the way) reports on his discovery of a (now fixed) security flaw in Microgaming, one of the largest online poker networks. It turns out the application was passing username, password and account balance in the clear over the internet. Ouch!"

Exclusive Interview with Douglas Adams from 1979

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DarkerMatter

on Wednesday February 28 2007, @08:38AM

DarkerMatter writes "A new online science fiction magazine, Darker Matter, has just gone live with an exclusive interview conducted with Douglas Adams (author of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy) in 1979, just before his first book was published. The interview was never used until now. The site also has high quality short sf stories from writers inclusing Hugo award winner David D. Levine, Bud Sparhawk and Edward M. Lerner. The site is funded by advertising, pays the going rate to writers and is planning to donate any profits to charity.

http://www.darkermatter.com/"

NASA put a man on the moon then lost the videotape

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sr0tu

on Wednesday February 28 2007, @06:13AM

sr0tu writes "Wired has published a story "One Giant Screwup for Mankind" on the search for the missing Apollo 11 moon tapes.

The goal of the Apollo 11 mission wasn't merely to get a man on the moon. It was to send back a live television feed so that everyone could see it. Not long ago, Stan Lebar who had developed the camera that could capture the most memorable moment of the 20th century learned why the footage had looked like mush: The transfer and broadcast had degraded the image badly, like a third-generation photocopy. "What the world saw was some bastardized thing," says Lebar, now 81. "Posterity deserves more than that."

Now Lebar and a crew of seasoned space cowboys are trying to get that original footage and show it to the world. There is just one problem: NASA has lost the tapes."