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Submission + - Navisite Massively Botches Datacenter Move (navisite.com)

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9InchRails
9InchRails writes: "In a move to consolidate a newly acquired datacenter, web hosting provider Navisite shutdown, boxed and transported hundreds of servers, effectively stranding in excess of 200,000 web sites and authoritative name servers. This fiasco is in its fourth day as noted here and here. How could a company been so completely incompetent?"
United States

Submission + - Leading global warming researcher accused of fraud

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A leading global warming research, Wei-Chyung Wang at SUNY, has been accused of fraud in his research. The research was one of the main reasons that urban heat islands were considered to be insignificant for global warming studies. This could potentially mean that the global warming is not as large as previously thought. The researcher who discovered the fraud has previously published about other bogus research.
KDE

Submission + - KDE 4.0 Beta 1 released. (kde.org)

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dbhost
dbhost writes: "Along with this morning's cup of coffee and log reviews, I discovered that the KDE team is moving forward with a long awaited beta release of KDE 4.0 beta release of KDE 4.0. The most interesting item I found in this article is that the file manager in KDE is being separated from Konqueror into a component called Dolphin. Also according to the announcement konsole has been treated to a number of improvements such as split view, and history highlighting."
Input Devices

Submission + - Replaceing the keyboard on your Acer Aspire laptop

Submitted by zukae
zukae writes: If you ever manage to spill some liquid on your laptop keyboard, you will in most cases need to remove and replace the keyboard on your laptop. Service manuals are hard to come by, and they usually cost money.Here is a nice article describing this procedure on Acer Aspire 5610z laptop: http://zuka.blogspot.ba/2007/07/26/removing-raplac ing-the-keyboard-from-acer-aspire-laptop/
Music

Submission + - The sad state of sound in Linux (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by Wertigon
Wertigon writes: Looks like atleast one coder has been driven insane by the aggravating difficulties of getting sound to work properly in his 'nix application. Coming from his blog:

All this shows me is that ALSA is truly garbage, and a very bad idea from the ground up. If you want good sound support under Linux, the best, and sometime the only feasible option is to install the closed source OSS. With this, you always get mixing (even using the hardware mixer which ALSA doesn't always do), support for a dozen UNIX OSs, and finely tuned controls.
Perhaps it's time to go back to OSS, now that it has become Open Source again?

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