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Submission + - Best PDA for painless use with Linux?

Submitted by mistakenanonymity on Sunday November 18, 2007 @03:03PM

mistakenanonymity writes: I am a lawyer (though I am not your lawyer) and am starting my own practice with rather limited capital. I have run various flavors of Ubuntu at home for a couple of years as my primary OS. I am currently running 7.10, Gutsy, 64 bit, as a dual-boot with Vista (only because that's what my laptop came with). I was running Thunderbird as my email client, but I need calendaring to manage my own practice. I have tried Sunbird and Lightning, but have not found them stable enough for my needs, so I switched to Evolution since it seems well-integrated and (I think) will sync better with a potential PDA. Which brings me to my question(s): What cheap PDA would work best to reliably sync with my Evolution calendar, address book, and email? I'm pretty sure something running a variety of the PalmOS along with gnome-pilot should work, but will it work well?

Submission + - KDE's Oxygen Wallpaper contest winners announced (ruphy.org)

Submitted by

Franz Keferboeck

on Sunday November 18, 2007 @02:25PM

Franz Keferboeck writes: "KDE's Oxygen team finally published the outcome of the August-announced wallpaper contest on Riccardo Iaconelli's blog. The decision defines what a brand new vanilla KDE desktop's face will look like to thousands of users (Although the actual default image, which will be one of the 15 winner submissions, is not yet announced yet)."

Journal SPAM: NOLA council wins white majority - First in 20 years 3

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Sunday November 18, 2007 @02:24PM

Now, will come the "redistricting" of newest, American "Vanilla City".

Analysts had said the race could set a baseline for the changing political landscape in a post-Hurricane Katrina city in which the gap between white and black voters is narrowing.

Blacks remain the majority but are now about 58 percent of the population, down from 67 percent before Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005.

Journal SPAM: 120 US war veteran suicides a week 2

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Sunday November 18, 2007 @02:02PM

THE US military is experiencing a "suicide epidemic" with veterans killing themselves at the rate of 120 a week, according to an investigation by US television network CBS. At least 6256 US veterans committed suicide in 2005 - an average of 17 a day - the network reported, with veterans overall more than twice as likely to take their own lives as the rest of the general population.

Star Trek Home Theater 123

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday November 18, 2007 @01:23PM from the money-to-burn dept.

Critical Facilities writes "Someone thought it would be a good idea to model their home theater after the Enterprise NCC-1701D from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The result is super geeky, but actually rather cool. Named the best theme theater installation at CEDIA 2007, this Palm Beach County, FL home features motion-activated air-lock doors with series sound effects, and a "Red Alert" button on the Crestron TPMC-10 controller to turn all of the LEDs bright red and flashing."

Submission + - Visual Studio 2008 Is Imminent (eweek.com)

Submitted by

eweekhickins

on Sunday November 18, 2007 @11:38AM

eweekhickins writes: "Always cagey, often late, Microsoft seems to be keeping its promise to deliver Visual Studio 2008 by the end of November. It may even be made available via download as of Monday November 19. Fantastic for a company as powerful as Microsoft to make a deadline it set for itself a whole entire month ago. Now we'd like to know why the code names are so much cooler than the go-to-market names they inevitably adopt."

Submission + - 10 Great Snake-Oil Gadgets (wired.com) 5

Submitted by

The Byelorussian Strikes Again

on Saturday November 17, 2007 @10:04PM

The Byelorussian Strikes Again writes: "Wired offers up 10 of the most awesome snake oil gadgets, from industrial cables sold as $200 ionized pain-relieving bracelets to a plastic chip that cures anything, improves gas mileage and cleans swimming pools. One truly sad development: the infamous $500 wooden volume knob is no longer on sale."

Submission + - Universal Offers Classical, Jazz Catalog DRM-Free (gramophone.co.uk) 3

Submitted by Mode_Locrian on Saturday November 17, 2007 @02:21PM

Mode_Locrian writes: Gramophone Magazine reports that Universal Classics and Jazz will be making its entire catalogue available for sale in DRM-free form. While Universal stresses that this will be a trial run, it certainly looks like a step in the right direction. Now, if only they'd offer downloads in formats other than mp3...

Submission + - Comcast targets unlicensed anime torrents (animesuki.com) 3

Submitted by

SailorSpork

on Saturday November 17, 2007 @01:19PM

SailorSpork writes: "According to the linked thread on the forums of AnimeSuki, a popular anime bittorent index site, Comcast has begun sending DCMA letters to customers downloading unlicensed (meaning that no english language company has the rights to) fan-subtitled anime shows via bittorrent. The letters are claiming that the copyright holder or an authorized agent are making the infringement claims, though usually these requests are also sent to the site itself rather that individual downloaders.

My question is have they really been in contact with Japanese anime companies, or is this another scare tactic by Comcast to try and reduce the bandwidth use of their heavier customers now that their previous tactics have come under legal fire?"

Submission + - Photoshop for Politicians (kashmirnewz.com)

Submitted by

Jon Golden

on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @10:38PM

Jon Golden writes: "Source: Kashmir Newz Written by Haroon Mirani Desperate to boost the image of the Chief Minister of Indian administered Kashmir, Ghulam Nabi Azad, the region's Department of Information has turned to graphic software to project a mass support for him. The daily press releases and pictures sent by the Information department off late include doctored photographs showing mammoth crowds at the chief minister's rallies. A keen look at the photographs, however, betrays the computer skills of the department. See larger versions of the retouched images http://www.kashmirnewz.com/n000246pic1.html"

Submission + - Georgia Governor to Pray for Rain (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by

cwolfsheep

on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @10:22PM

cwolfsheep writes: ""What to do when the rain won't come? If you're Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, you pray." According to an AP story, Georgia's governor, Sonny Perdue, plans to hold a prayer service on November 13th to ask God for rain. Most of the State of Georgia is reporting moderate or severe drought as of November 7th."

Submission + - A UNIX/Linux scripting to Windows PowerShell guide

Submitted by

Marco Shaw

on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @10:21PM

Marco Shaw writes: "What are your favorite commands/shortcuts/scripts you use in UNIX/Linux that you'd like to see something similar in Windows PowerShell (http://www.microsoft.com/powershell)? I'm just looking for feedback on things you commonly use, that would be nice to have available on a Windows server. Let's face it, a good number of administrators end up doing work on UNIX/Linux and Windows."

Submission + - Bill Gates voted IT's most influential person

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @09:58PM

Stony Stevenson writes: Bill Gate, Steve Jobs, and Michael Dell rank one, two, and three in a list of the most influential people in IT over the past 25 years. The list was compiled by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), a tech trade group with 22,000 members. The poll got 473 votes, mostly from people who have worked in the tech industry for at least three years. Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, was selected by 84% of the participants. Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple, was selected by 73% of those taking the poll. Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, got the nod from 53% of CompTIA voters. Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, made the list with 47% of the vote, tying for fourth place with Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Strangely absent from the list is anyone responsible for pushing the computer gaming envelope.

Submission + - MadWifi Security Flaw Discovered (net-security.org)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @09:51PM

eldavojohn writes: "The Gentoo Security folks have issued a security advisory against MadWifi as they have discovered a method by which an attacker could "act as an access point and send a specially crafted packet to an Atheros based wireless client, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service (kernel panic)." There currently is no known work around or fix."

Submission + - Red Hat Releases RHEL 5.1, Includes Virtualization (linuxelectrons.com)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @09:45PM

eldavojohn writes: "Red Hat has announced their release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 which includes integrated virtualization. Also of note, "Red Hat Enterprise Linux is also available on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a web service that provides resizeable compute capacity in the cloud. This collaboration makes all the capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including the Red Hat Network management service, world-class technical support and over 3,400 certified applications, available to customers on Amazon's proven network infrastructure and datacenters.""

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