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New Mac Clone Maker 'Quo' To Open Retail Store 296

Posted by Soulskill from the attack-of-the-clones dept.
bughunter writes "Cnet is reporting that Mac clone maker Quo Computer plans to open its first retail location, selling Mac clones, on June 1st. To start, Quo will offer three desktop systems: the Life Q, Pro Q, and Max Q. While details of the components are not yet available, founder Rashantha De Silva said they are looking at Apple's system configurations for guidance. Pricing has also not been finalized on the desktop machines, but the company is looking to start pricing at less than $900. While Quo is starting off with the desktop machines, De Silva said it is looking at offering an Apple TV-like media server and a smaller computer similar to the Mac Mini. He acknowledges that Quo will likely face opposition from Apple, much like Psystar. 'They probably will (sue us),' De Silva said. 'There are others doing this, but we have a different attitude. There are thousands of people in the "Hackintosh" market, but many of them are creating bad products. I don't think anyone wins in that environment.'"
Hardware Hacking

Developer Creates DIY 8-Bit CPU 187

Posted by Soulskill from the now-that's-impressive dept.
MaizeMan writes "Not for the easily distracted: a Belmont software developer's hand-built CPU was featured in Wired recently. Starting with a $50 wire wrap board, Steve Chamberlin built his CPU with 1253 pieces of wire, each wire wrapped by hand at both ends. Chamberlin salvaged parts from '70s and '80s era computers, and the final result is an 8-bit processor with keyboard input, a USB connection, and VGA graphical output. More details are available on the developer's blog."

Comment Re:Very true (Score 1) 386

by bledwhite (#28075903) Attached to: The Case For Working With Your Hands
I think the best blend would be an 'instrument technician for pharma/nuclear/oil&gas etc.. This involves systems for 'measurement and control aka flowmeters, valves, pressure, temperature, shutdown procedures, fire and gas systems... all sorts. These are all ripe for hands on mechanics plus the more technical side as control systems like Delta V and other forms of SCADA drive instruments towards more sophisticated tech.
The Courts

Court Orders Breathalyzer Code Opened, Reveals Mess 707

Posted by timothy from the take-a-sober-look-at-this dept.
Death Metal writes with an excerpt from the website of defense attorney Evan Levow: "After two years of attempting to get the computer based source code for the Alcotest 7110 MKIII-C, defense counsel in State v. Chun were successful in obtaining the code, and had it analyzed by Base One Technologies, Inc. By making itself a party to the litigation after the oral arguments in April, Draeger subjected itself to the Supreme Court's directive that Draeger ultimately provide the source code to the defendants' software analysis house, Base One. ... Draeger reviewed the code, as well, through its software house, SysTest Labs, which agreed with Base One, that the patchwork code that makes up the 7110 is not written well, nor is it written to any defined coding standard. SysTest said, 'The Alcotest NJ3.11 source code appears to have evolved over numerous transitions and versioning, which is responsible for cyclomatic complexity.'" Bruce Schneier comments on the same report and neatly summarizes the take-away lesson: "'You can't look at our code because we don't want you to' simply isn't good enough."

Comment Re:Perhaps the giants are dying (Score 1) 338

by bledwhite (#26191227) Attached to: Are Newspapers Doomed?
In London there are now at least two free newspapers reliant on advertising. I can't walk two foot without being handed one or seeing it laid down on an underground seat. The feeling that it's free means it is disposable, and has no monetary attatchment, hence dumpable. I'd hate papers to go out of business but i hate the paper they use too.
Microsoft

Microsoft's Office Web Will Do iPhone, Linux, Mac 202

Posted by timothy from the do-is-a-flexible-verb dept.
CWmike writes "Gregg Keizer reports Microsoft has clarified that its upcoming Office Web service will be available to users running Mac OS X and Linux, as well as from Apple's iPhone. The key to this cross platform-friendliness: Office Web will run in Firefox and Safari browsers, in addition to IE. Introduced last month, Office Web is a lightweight version of its Office suite that runs as an online service. I think it's time for Google to embrace OpenOffice.org to take on Microsoft head-on, as CW blogger Preston Gralla has argued for and described how to go about it."
Image

Woman Admits Sending $400K To Nigerian Scammer 857

Posted by samzenpus from the headdesk dept.
svnt writes "Janella Spears wiped out her husband's retirement account, remortgaged their paid-for house, and took out a lien against the family car in an attempt to cash in on the deal. A undercover officer involved with the investigation called it the worst example of the scam he's ever seen. Thoughtfully, Spears has gone public with her story as a warning to others not to fall victim."
Security

U-Turn On UK ID Cards 143

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the from-bad-to-worse dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The UK appears to be watering down its national ID card system, with the revelation by the government that it will now only check the cards against a central biometric database in a minority of cases. Critics are saying it not only renders the whole scheme pointless, but will pose a security risk by making it far easier to use copied or cloned cards. 'But an Identity and Passport Service spokesman denied the system would be vulnerable to fraud: 'The majority of instances where people use their identity cards will be day-to-day situations where the cards offer a convenient method of proving identity such as a young person proving their age to buy alcohol,' he said.'"

Is Windows 7 Faster Or Just Smarter? 619

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the perception-is-reality dept.
Barence writes "The Windows 7 unveiling garnered largely positive coverage, with many hands-on testers praising it for being faster than Vista. But is it actually? To find out, this blogger ran a suite of benchmarks to see just how much quicker Windows 7 really is — and the results weren't quite what he expected. 'The actual performance gap between Vista and Windows 7 is ... nada. Absolutely nothing. Our Office benchmarks and video encoding tests complete in precisely the same time regardless of which OS is installed. [...] It's tempting to see this as a bit of a con. They've sped up the front end so it feels like you're getting more done, but in terms of real productivity it's no better than Vista."
Google

Google Exec Hints At Future Open Platform 73

Posted by timothy from the all-very-vague dept.
rsmiller510 writes "At the recent Web 2.0 Summit, Dave Girouard, who is president of Google's enterprise division, stated that his company's long-term goal is to open up the Google development stack to outside developers. If this is true, then it could have some serious long-term implications for developers who could use Google services in new and interesting ways."

Comment Wired magazine had an article... (Score 1) 260

by bledwhite (#25495233) Attached to: Australia Developing Massive Electric Vehicle Grid
I read in Wired magazine that the guy who made his money from SAP is starting a similar scheme in Denmark but actually changing the battery instead of charging 'your' battery. More like swapping so that the burden of owning a battery is gone and you rent batteries fully charged from him. Sounds interesting.

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