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Everything Linux shopfront to open in Australia

Submitted by sewalg
sewalg writes "CRN reports that Babel Com has picked up the remnants of Everything Linux and plans to open a shopfront in Sydney, Australia.

From the article:

"We've picked up the remnants of the business and have turned it into an outlet for Linux. This includes notebooks (with Linux preinstalled), netbooks, hardware, books, certifications, CDs/DVDs on Linux, but also looking at Red Hat.""
The Internet

The first Indian Cartoon porn is officially dead

Submitted by William Robinson
William Robinson writes "The first Indian porn website has been shutdown after it was banned by Indian government a month ago. Savita Bhabhi, an Indian cartoon porn star born just a year ago, attracted more than 60 million visitors a month. Puneet Agarwal, creator of the web site, who had remained incognito using the pseudonym 'Deshmukh' and who came out openly to save the web site, has finally decided to pull the plug in spite of attempts to save the website by fans over twitter and blogs."
Space

Australian Astronomers Make Interstellar Hologram 22

Posted by Zonk
from the floaty-transparent-and-informative dept.
KentuckyFC writes "Australian astronomers say the way a beam of light from a pulsar is scattered by interstellar dust is analogous to the way a hologram is made. But to reconstruct an image of this dust, you've got to know what the light was like before it was distorted. With an impressive piece of computer optimization, these astronomers have worked out the 8000 coefficients that determine the light field and so have been able to produce an image of the interstellar medium (abstract on the physics arXiv)."

Comment: Re:MS tax (Score 2, Interesting) 149

by sewalg (#22023512) Attached to: Lenovo Delivers SuSE Linux-Based ThinkPads
Why do people using Linux need to know how to install it? Clearly, many people buy a laptop with Windows but have absolutely no idea how to install it or, for that matter, how it works. In fact, its this type of person who is IBM's biggest market. Surely, IBM's goal is to reduce any barrier to the uptake of these machines in that market. I'd say that's why they've chosen to support a particular brand of Linux rather than offer a cleanskin computer.

Also, on the subject of cost, have you any idea how much it will cost IBM to train and establish a support mechanism for these machines? I'd say a $20 saving is a pleasant surprise more than anything. Even price parity between Linux and Windows machines would be difficult to achieve early on, given the heavy discounting of MS products for OEMs, and the huge outlay IBM must have made to establish enough of a support network to bring these laptops to market!
The Courts

Chair of BU Computer Science Dept Fights RIAA

Submitted by
NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Two expert witnesses, one the Chairman of Boston University's Computer Science Department, have submitted declarations supporting the motion of a Boston University student trying to vacate the RIAA's ex parte discovery order in Arista v. Does 1-21. Prof. Bestavros stated that some of Linares's factual statements were "not possible" (pdf), while Jesse Stengel stated that some of Mr. Linares's contentions were "not true" (pdf). These declarations, attacking the underpinnings of the RIAA case set out in the declaration of Carlos Linares, were referred to in Arista v. Does 1-11, the Oklahoma case in which several Oklahoma State University students have attacked the order which had been granted ex parte permitting the RIAA to subpoena their names and addresses from the university. These filings come on the heels of rulings in New Mexico and Virginia denying the RIAA's ex parte discovery motions."

If you flaunt it, expect to have it trashed.