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Debian Delayed by Disenchanted Developers 329

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 20, 2006 @03:45PM from the look-at-all-that-alliteration dept.

Torus Kas writes "Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 was supposed to be due by December 4 and development is currently frozen. Apparently the saga was triggered by disenchantment towards funding of $6,000 for each of the 2 release managers to work full-time in order to speed up the development. Many unpaid developers simply put off Debian work to work on something else."

Journal Journal: A Wii update... 6

Journal by Shadow Wrought on Wednesday December 20, 2006 @03:23PM

Man that name is a godsend to punsters!

My wife called the big N about our broken remote. They diagnosed it as the tilt controller being out of whack and suggested percussive maintenance to correct it!
"Tap it again, that might help"

And, in case that doesn't work, they will be sending us a new one in the mail. Free. Postage paid to return the bad one.

And that good people, is what I call Customer Service!

Submission + - Siemens reaches 107 Gbps data transfer record

Submitted by

prostoalex

on Wednesday December 20, 2006 @03:02PM

prostoalex writes: "Reuters is reporting on Siemens engineers reaching 107 Gbps data transmission record over a fiberoptic cable, and expects the technology to be on the market within a few years: "The test, 2.5 times faster than a previous maximum transmission performance per channel, was done in cooperation with Germany's Micram Microelectronic, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications and Eindhoven Technical University of the Netherlands.""

Submission + - e-greeting + Google Maps = geoGreeting

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday December 20, 2006 @03:00PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "GeoGreeting.com lets you send e-card style messages comprised of letter-shaped satellite images from Google Maps. The recipient of the geoGreeting sees a very cool zooming-in animation that spells out the message. You kind of have to see it. Here's a sample message: http://www.geogreeting.com/view.html?zdG4tlSo+cCkc qQ"

Submission + - Apple - NeXT Merger

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday December 20, 2006 @02:49PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "It's the ten-year anniversary of the Apple — NeXT merger. December 20th, 1996 — December 20th, 2006. http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php? t=582"

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by jkauzlar on Wednesday December 20, 2006 @02:42PM

Submission + - 65nm Athlons debut with lower power consumption

Submitted by

TheRaindog

on Wednesday December 20, 2006 @02:40PM

TheRaindog writes: "AMD has finally rolled out Athlon 64 X2 processors based on 65nm process technology, and The Tech Report has an interesting look at their energy usage and overclocking potential compares to current 90nm models. The new 65nm chips consume less power at idle and under load than their 90nm counterparts, and appear to have loads of headroom for overclocking. An Athlon 64 X2 5000+ that normally runs at 2.4GHz was taken all the way up to 2.9GHz with standard air cooling and only a marginal voltage boost, suggesting that we may see faster chips from AMD soon."

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