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Submission + - Eight Financial Reasons Why You Should Use Mac OS (cio.com) 1

Submitted by

truthsearch

on Friday August 03, 2007 @10:52AM

truthsearch writes: "For many years companies have been analyzing and debating the total cost of ownership for various operating systems. Once an investment is made it can be very expensive to switch. With Vista potentially raising the cost of Windows TCO, CIO magazine lists eight financial reasons why businesses should consider Mac OS. Among the reasons: overall value proposition, cheaper licensing fees, less help desk calls, less manual patching, and increased worker productivity."

Submission + - Approaching a woman for the first time, Part 1: Di (blogmackin.com)

Submitted by I Am A Mack on Friday August 03, 2007 @10:29AM

I Am A Mack writes: I was at the gym yesterday and I was doing my usual ab routine and then I looked to my left and notice a really hot blonde girl with some piercings on her ear and one on her nose. I'd probably have to give her a 9. So anyways I wanted to talk to her, so I was thinking for a second about what to say.

Submission + - Wikipedia in mass panic over Colbert jab (com.com) 1

Submitted by

athloi

on Friday August 03, 2007 @10:20AM

athloi writes: "In the wake of "The Colbert Report" host Stephen Colbert waxing philosophical about Wikipedia, making changes to entries on the air and urging his viewers to edit entries to include details he knew were false, an editor of the site has banned the comedian. True open content isn't paranoid, and it's not up for any idiot to edit, either. Wikipedia isn't OS in the same way OSS is, it's OS in the way a graffiti wall is. If OSS developers ran an encyclopedia, they'd assign developer project managers to each entry and the entries would be actually informative, unlike Wikipedia's mishmash of gossip, plagiarism and political revenge fantasies. http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-6102088-7.html?pa rt=rss&tag=6102088&subj=news"

Submission + - General Strike: 9/11/07 (indybay.org)

Submitted by

mikelieman

on Friday August 03, 2007 @09:45AM

mikelieman writes: "A general strike has been proposed for 9/11/07. No work, school or shopping. Even a low number of participants can make a difference. The event will show up on the radar of the Powers That Be."

Submission + - Microsoft releases Home Server to manufacturing

Submitted by

Van Cutter Romney

on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @10:48AM

Van Cutter Romney writes: "After lengthy beta testing in which more than 100,000 users participated, Microsoft finally released Windows Home Server (WHS) to manufacturing. Products built on WHS could hit market as soon as September this year. Microsoft has released WHS directly to end users which means users will be able to use their old machines provided it satisfies the minimum hardware requirements."

Submission + - Jimmy Wales' Wikia Chooses Monetization Platform

Submitted by KingAdrock on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @10:46AM

KingAdrock writes: Wikia released a press release this morning announcing that they had choses LookSmart to provide the technology platform for their site monetization initiative. Wikia, started by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is a wiki hosting service based on the MediaWiki platform.

The announcement also marks LookSmart's first foray into serving display advertising. Traditionally LookSmart's AdServer platform has been for text listings only. Also of note is that the platform will allow CPC, CPM, and CPA billing options for advertisers.

Submission + - Apache loses more ground in latest Netcraft report (techtarget.com)

Submitted by

E. Stride

on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @10:23AM

E. Stride writes: "Is the sky falling? As Apache continued its month-over-month decline in market share in July, Microsoft made subtle gains with IIS."

Submission + - Data stolen from goverment and corporations

Submitted by gerilart on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @10:03AM

gerilart writes: According to yahoo news reporting after Reuters hackers were able steal government and corporate data undetected using NTOS.exe http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070717/wr_nm/internet _attack_dc_2;_ylt=AjQQYRLEU555_ps5jkizO3wE1vAI

Submission + - Funniest MS Support Doc Ever? (microsoft.com)

Submitted by LoaTao on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @09:40AM

LoaTao writes: The strangest, funniest Microsoft support document I've ever seen.

Submission + - The OpenGate, A GNU/Linux Computer For Dummies

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @09:39AM

An anonymous reader writes: Gran'pa and gran'ma now have their own custom made computer: a French ISP (Neuf Cegetel) has released a beta version of the OpenGate, a mini-PC specifically designed for its technophobic users. It uses the x86 plateform, integrates a modem-router to directly connect to an ADSL line, and runs most of the commonly used applications using a very simple interface — a new GNU/Linux distribution called EasyOS. An application form is online; selected beta-testers will receive it for free.

Submission + - Australian Man uses APC to destroy Cell Towers (informationweek.com)

Submitted by

Teslacuted

on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @08:11AM

Teslacuted writes: "A 45 year old Australian has used an APC to mow down six cell towers after an undisclosed dispute with his carrier. Sydney police arrested the man while he was on his way to his seventh."

Submission + - Free energy - free water (israel21c.org)

Submitted by

yoshm

on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @07:26AM

yoshm writes: "A student at the Technion in Israel is making helium-inflatable solar cell balloons to collect solar energy cheaply as they float above your house. Same guy has developed a cheap passive tool to extract fresh water from the air based on ancient Nabatean techniques."

Submission + - Sophisticated Computer Crime Uncovered (reuters.com)

Submitted by Ichabod on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @04:01AM

Ichabod writes: Sophisticated computer criminals stole data from UniSys, Booz Allen, L-3 Communications, Hewlett Packard and Hughes Network Systems. It sounds like they used a combination of social hacking, undetected low-profile malware (reportedly NTOS.exe), compromised Yahoo accounts to steal, encrypt and store sensitive data. An international investigation appears imminent. Yes, unfortunately Reuters calls the criminals "hackers" further blackening the once-revered title. http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1 638118020070717

Submission + - Microsoft Makes Windows Users Lazy (osweekly.com)

Submitted by

slasher

on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @03:02AM

slasher writes: "OSWeekly.com has a new article up that talks about how Microsoft makes Windows users lazy, lock them into its own platform and sway them away from learning new platforms. "At its core, I believe Microsoft has inadvertently created monsters with many of their core user base. Joe Public does not start off knowing how to keep themselves safe from malware and only about half of the typical users out there choose to use the knowledge that they have been provided with after a repair. So what happens when Vista (along with other OS') begin to show that as good as they may be, they're hardly bulletproof? It's going to happen, just wait. And when it does, we can thank companies that make being a moron point-and-click easy."

Submission + - OpenMosix dies

Submitted by paleshadows on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @02:19AM

paleshadows writes: OpenMosix dies. The MOSIX project (which more or less makes a Linux cluster resemble an SMP system) was started at the early 1980s and is still going strong. A few years ago it was GPLed for a short while, but in late 2001 it went proprietary again. Moshe Bar, a former student of Prof. Amnon Barak (which heads the MOSIX project) decided to keep the GPLed version alive, and dubbed it OpenMosix. The latter become quite popular and (according to its homepage) "enjoyed tens of thousands of installation". On July 15, 2007, Bar announced plans to end the OpenMosix project effective March 1, 2008, stating that "the increasing power and availability of low cost multi-core processors is rapidly making single-system image (SSI) clustering less of a factor in computing."

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