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+ - Tolkien Trust Okays Hobbit Movie 0

Submitted by saudadelinux on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @12:58AM

saudadelinux writes "Last year, the Tolkien Trust which administers JRR's estate, bellowed stentoriously, "Youuuu shall not make The Hobbit!" and sued New Line Cinema for "a reported $220m (£133m) in compensation, based on breach of contract and fraud." New Line, chastened, has settled for an undisclosed sum of money. The Trust has given its blessing to New Line for Guillermo del Toro to film "The Hobbit" and for New Line to make other films based on Tolkien's work. Much rejoycing!"

+ - Defective Nvidia Chips Slamming OEMs Hard 0

Submitted by saudadelinux on Friday August 01, 2008 @02:19PM

saudadelinux writes "Charlie Demerjian over at The Inquirer.net is following the sad story of Nvidia's teh fail recent hardware. Nvidia won't tell any single person the truth about what's going on, and OEMs like HP and Dell have to help eat the cost of Nvidia's mistakes."

+ - Survey: UNIX, Linux Improve; Windows Worsens 0

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saudadelinux

on Thursday April 24, 2008 @12:52PM

saudadelinux writes "According to a summary of the Yankee Group's 2007-2008 Global Server Operating Reliability Survey on the Institute for Advanced Professional Studies site, IBM's AIX was the most reliable UNIX out there, in terms of uptime. Sun and HP did well, and RHEL and Debian improved dramatically. Ubuntu scored as high, the commercial UNIXes. Windows Server 2000 and 2003's downtime increased, according to the poll. Perhaps Mr. Gates should study the downtime graph and GPL Windows, so it will improve ;-)"

+ - Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? 2

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saudadelinux

on Monday September 17, 2007 @08:43PM

saudadelinux writes "I got held up at gunpoint in July, and my laptop was stolen. Fortunately, I was able to get a new one, and I'm typing this post on it.
There companies out which for a fee, install tracker software on your laptop. If it's stolen or lost, they track its whereabouts whenever it gets on the 'Net and work with local law enforcement and ISPs to find the machine. I'm wondering: does anyone use one of those services? Does anyone have a recommendation for which company to go with? I'm using a dual-boot Ubuntu/XP machine, and the couple of companies I've looked at do Windows-only. Are there Linux options? TIA, saudadelinux"

+ - Did AT&T Censor Pearl Jam Show? 0

Submitted by saudadelinux on Friday August 10, 2007 @04:55PM

saudadelinux writes "AT&T cut 15 seconds of some impromptu, non-obscene, non-threatening anti-George Bush lyrics sung by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, during a Lollapalooza web broadcast. AT&T insists it was a mistake, but it does make you wonder about big a Telco's ability and willingness to control what information you can access."

+ - Shocking Admission In Reiser Murder Case

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saudadelinux

on Friday May 04, 2007 @06:04PM

saudadelinux writes "Wired magazine is carrying a story in which a Sean Sturgeon, a former lover of Reiser's ex-wife (and a former friend of his), admitted to killing eight people unrelated to the case. "(Deputy District Attorney) Paul Hora indicated that the court was ordering him to divulge this information," defense attorney Richard Tamor said last Friday." He also said that Sturgeon had confessed to a potential ninth murder, but that Sturgeon wasn't sure if the victim was fully dead when he left him.""

+ - The Hobbit: A New Hope

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saudadelinux

on Wednesday October 11, 2006 @12:44PM

saudadelinux writes "Rotten Tomatoes is carrying a very brief story saying that MGM has had initial talks with Peter Jackson's people about doing The Hobbit. MGM said they'd be "thrilled" to work with him on it. We'll have to wait to see what happens, but with a little luck, maybe he'll do it."