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Republicans

Submission + - Congressman Orrin Hatch caught pirating software

Submitted by
Rocketship Underpant
Rocketship Underpant writes: "Orrin Hatch, the Congressman viewed by many as a shill for corporate copyright interests, recently stated that people who download copyrighted materials should have their computers destroyed as punishment. However, as Wired.com reports, Hatch's own website uses copyrighted software without permission — a Javascript menu system developed by a British company. Is Mr. Hatch accepting volunteers to go through his home and office destroying all his computers, or were his comments to Congress just a bunch of hypocritical hot air?"
Windows

Submission + - PC Makers Say Vista Is Not a Seller

Submitted by TekkaDon
TekkaDon writes: According to computer and component manufacturers, Vista is not the hotcake that they were hoping for. Take Acer's president, Gianfranco Lanci, who has just said that "PC makers are really not counting on Vista to drive high demands for the industry." Or Samsung Electronics, who now says that DRAM demand has not matched anyone's predictions based on Vista's now failed projections, something that is being echoed by the industry as a whole. This seem to agree with Ars Technica article on the 20 million Vista copies sold as a "huge success" by Microsoft, which just can be accounted by the natural growth of PC sales over the years. (BTW, apparently, this story has been buried in Digg by a big group of MS-sponsored trolls)
Music

Submission + - Is piracy at a large company a safe haven?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Perhaps I have not kept up with the latest news about how the Music Industry has been approaching piracy, but it seems to me that they are mostly interested in persuing those that will cave in quickly or who are sharing to a very large audience (by on-line distribution, for instance). I wonder if the Music Industriy is hesitant to investigate piracy inside companies that are large enough to have expert lawyers on retainer. Even when is clearly against official company policy, I have seen numerous instances where employees at said companies will readily and openly share their collections of ripped music (or movies) with others. Perhaps the employees feel insulated from any fallout. Perhaps they don't even think about it.

I am wrong in this perception? Have I missed reports of cases where the Music Industry has come down hard on companies with internal piracy? Or do these companies get to quietly iron out the issues to avoid publicity? Is such internal piracy happening at places you know?

Your thoughts? I know you have them.
OS X

Submission + - "Erased" one side of my XRAID volume. I'm

Submitted by Xraidissues
Xraidissues writes: First. I'm an idiot. I know. In the last 36 hours I've considered changing careers, moving to Atlanta to marry my ex-girlfriend and resigning to become a full time bum. It happened in 11 seconds. I didn't mean to do it. I got confused and took my eye off the proverbial ball. The Setup... Xserve raid @ RAID 50, 10 drives @ 500 GBs total, 5 on each side, 2 sides with 1.82 TBs, 3.64 TBs in RAID 50 total. We were out of space on our Xraid. We use it for video editing, DVD creation, etc. We needed to max it out by adding four more drives. I rented another Xraid to use as storage during the upgrade. I plugged in the rented Xraid and opened Disk Utility. LOTS of partitions showed up. I started clicking and "erase"ing. The third partition I erased was one half of my Xraid configuration. This drive was erased and a new volume showed up as "untitled" on the desktop. My heart beat faster, thoughts of all the hours of video, audio, projects and man hours surged through my head in an instant. I realized what I had done. So far I've talked to Apple support who says to call DriveSavers. I've talked to DriveSavers. They quoted between $9K — 86K, depending on turn around time, ease of the fix, etc. I talked to another company who quoted $3500 — $18,000. I have Disk Warrior, Norton System Tools, and Tech Tools in house. I am afraid this is going to either cost a huge amount of money or more than likely, we'll need to opt to rebuild everything from scratch. Either way... I'm pretty screwed. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the Xraid back to its previous state without costing us a fortune?
Announcements

Submission + - Kernel 2.6.20 released!

Submitted by lo7k
lo7k writes: The long awaited linux kernel version 2.6.20 was just released. With virtualization enhancements like KVM integration and Playstation 3 support this is really something we want to see in our favorite distros.
Software

Submission + - Linux kernel 2.6.20 released

Submitted by
diegocgteleline.es
diegocgteleline.es writes: "After two months of development, Linux 2.6.20 has been released. This release includes two different virtualization implementations: KVM: full-virtualization capabilities using Intel/AMD virtualization extensions and a paravirtualization implementation usable by different hypervisors. Aditionally, 2.6.20 includes PS3 support, a fault injection debugging feature, UDP-lite support, better per-process IO accounting, relative atime, relocatable x86 kernel, some x86 microoptimizations, lockless radix-tree readside, shared pagetables for hugetbl, and many other things. Read the list of changes for more details."
Spam

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Spammers Hijacking Your Domain Name

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An anonymous reader writes: Recently I have begun to receive a lot of undeliverable emails... from emails that I never sent. Apparently, some spammer has gotten the domain name of my business and is using it to send tons of spam. Now, I am starting to have legitimate email bounced back because some servers have identified me as a spammer. This is having an impact on my ability to do business. Is there anything I can do about it either logistically or legally? I know the Slashdot community will know.
Sun Microsystems

Submission + - Sun to use Intel

Submitted by
snilloc
snilloc writes: "AP reports a source close to the deal says Sun will be introducing Intel based server products and that Intel will "endorse" Solaris. Sun will continue to produce AMD and Sparc products. Official announcement set for some time Monday."
X

Submission + - XFCE 4.4 Released

Submitted by
kernelpanicked
kernelpanicked writes: "After more than two years of development, the world's greatest desktop, Xfce 4.4.0 has just been released. Xfce 4.4 features new tools such as the much awaited Thunar file manager as well as several improvements in its core components. Benedikt Meurer had also prepared a tour for the newcomers."
Networking

Submission + - Small Office Network

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A friend of mine (with limited computer knowledge) is a small business operator and has asked for my help in upgrading his office computers.

His current setup/network is a Server (Netware) & 4 computers (P2 & P3 — Windows 98). This is used for file storage, network printing & fax server (I think).

He believes the current setup & computers is antiqued and he wants to replace it with new computers, networked to share document (Word) & financial files (MYOB), networked printing to a new laser printer & faxing plus connection to the Internet.

A computer retailer has recommended the following;

5 new computers; one with 2 hard drives for file storage running Windows XP Professional and four computers running Windows XP Home networked though the existing ethernet switcher.

I have some knowledge of computers but no experience in networking computers/servers.

My questions are;

Is the setup that the retailer is recommending going to suitable for my friend's requirements?

Or, are there better options to pursue (i.e.; proper server software).
The Courts

Submission + - Hussein Executed

Submitted by
J.D.Donahue
J.D.Donahue writes: "As you may or may not know, the former dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein has been executed. According to CNN: "Throughout the day, there were conflicting reports about who had custody of Hussein. Giovanni di Stefano, one of Hussein's defense attorneys, told CNN the U.S. military officially informed him that the former Iraqi dictator had been transferred to Iraqi but that the move in U.S. court could have meant that Hussein was back in U.S. custody." The day's just beginning over there, and some analysts are forecasting retaliation from the 50% of Hussein loyalists (that's 14 million people)."
United States

Submission + - Saddam Executed

Submitted by
Lethyos
Lethyos writes: "From the associated press: 'Some Arab media, including Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya and the U.S.-financed Al-Hurrah, reported about an hour before daylight Saturday (about 10 p.m. EST Friday) that Saddam had been executed. There was no confirmation from the Iraqi government.' While some might say the second Iraq war was a comma, this is most definitely a period."
Censorship

Submission + - Saddam Hussein executed in Iraq

Submitted by
thelost
thelost writes: "Less than an hour ago it's reported that Saddam Hussein has actually been executed. The execution as reported by the BBC was attended by a Doctor, Lawyers and Officials.
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at an unspecified location, reports say. Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT).
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