Comment Please do not disturb Annual Gift Man (Score 2) 322
That is all.
Comment Recco! (Score 1) 324
Even worse, all of his code was for Webistics.
North Korea's Own OS, Red Star 316
klaasb writes "North Korea's self-developed computer operating system, named 'Red Star,' was brought to light for the first time by a Russian satellite broadcaster yesterday. North Korea's top IT experts began developing the Red Star in 2006, but its composition and operation mechanisms were unknown until the internet version of the Russia Today TV program featured the system, citing the blog of a Russian student who goes to the Kim Il-sung University in Pyongyang."
Ubuntu Desktop In the Cloud 83
jimjimovich writes "One new feature in Ubuntu 10.04 that caught my attention is the Desktop in the Cloud project. Ubuntu already has great EC2 support, and it's getting even better. Now you can launch Ubuntu Desktop instances on EC2 and connect to them with an NX client."
Comment The digital hand-written clock is better (Score 2, Informative) 86
IMHO, the INDUSTORIOUS CLOCK [sic] is the coolest handwritten timekeeper:
http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html
That's still my favorite, although some prefer Human Clock:
That one requires occasional thought, which makes it suboptimal for a quick time check. Yes, I am that lazy. =-)
Hand Written Clock 86
a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."
Comment That's not the first article by a long ways (Score 1) 252
From what I can tell, the first Slashdot article about Phoenix (now Firefox) is from September 2002:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/02/09/24/1215252/Mozilla-Jumps-on-Lean-Browser-Bandwagon
I learned about it here, and have been happily using Firefox since Phoenix 0.3. Thank you Slashdot.
