Journal SPAM: U.S. website: Mossad killed Iranian nuclear physicist
Last update - 13:55 04/02/2007
U.S. website: Mossad killed Iranian nuclear physicist
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent
A senior nuclear physicist involved in Iran's nuclear program who died under mysterious circumstances two weeks ago was killed by the Mossad, according to a report released in a U.S. website this weekend.
Submission + - Benchmark: VirtualBox vs. Qemu vs. VMware-player
An anonymous reader writes: Recently InnoTek, a company from southern Germany, released their virtualization software "VirtualBox" under GPL. Due this piece of software is based on qemu I thought about performing a benchmark to compare those two open source vmware competitors.
As some people requested, I added the VMware-Player to this article to make a direct comparison of those 2 opensource projects with this freeware tool.
Full article here
Submission + - Google censors blog posts for NZ Government
ESarge writes: Google has removed some posts from a blog at the request of the New Zealand Government. The blog, CYFSWatch, purports to name and shame the actions of social workers working for Child, Youth & Family Service (CYFS), the national child protection agency. The blog has been controversial because it asks people to post addresses and personal details of individual social workers.
For editor only: I suggest that the URL not be posted. The blog is at http://cyfswatch.blogspot.com/. Actual post is at http://cyfswatch.blogspot.com/2007/02/google-moves -on-behalf-of-new-zealand.html. This is being reported on Radio New Zealand National — the equivalent of NPR.
Submission + - Scientific Journals Say Access Equals Censorship
bcrowell writes: "Nature is reporting on e-mails leaked from the Association of American Publishers, which considers itself "under siege" because of NIH and congressional efforts to get all NIH-funded scientific papers posted for free on PubMed Central. The AAP has hired a PR firm, which is advising them to spread the message that "Public access equals government censorship," and that traditional for-profit print publishing is the same thing as peer peer review."
Inside the Windows Vista Kernel 298
Reader trparky recommends an article on Technet (which, be warned, is rather chaotically formatted). Mark Russinovich, whose company Winternals Software was recently bought by Microsoft, has published the first of a series of articles on what's new in the Vista kernel. Russinovich writes: "In this issue, I'll look at changes in the areas of processes and threads, and in I/O. Future installments will cover memory management, startup and shutdown, reliability and recovery, and security. The scope of this article comprises changes to the Windows Vista kernel only, specifically Ntoskrnl.exe and its closely associated components. Please remember that there are many other significant changes in Windows Vista that fall outside the kernel proper and therefore won't be covered."
Submission + - Ubuntu Studio revealed
lukeknipe writes: "Ubuntu announces the April release of the Ubuntu Studio. An exceptionally ambitious project, it is described by Ubuntu as a "multimedia editing flavor of Ubuntu for the Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional who is already familiar with the Ubuntu-Gnome environment.""
Submission + - Language Tools
creolophus writes: I am a college student and I am looking for language tools which will help me with my writing, by giving me useful feedback (on my grammar, usage, etc). I will be writing mostly English prose with very little technical content.
So far, I have been using only Microsoft Word's spelling and grammar checkers, and they don't provide any feedback.
Do you know (or) have you been using any such tools?
So far, I have been using only Microsoft Word's spelling and grammar checkers, and they don't provide any feedback.
Do you know (or) have you been using any such tools?
Submission + - English Wikipedia adds nofollow
Althazzar writes: "After being hit by another surge of spam because of a new SEO contest, Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales has ordered rel="nofollow" to be placed on all outbound links in the english part of Wikipedia to prevent SEO spam."
Submission + - Your web browser, now a graphing calculator
An anonymous reader writes: Taking advantage of the vector graphics features offered by the latest browsers, a recently created website called FooPlot turns your web browser into a function plotter (in 2-D and 3-D), offering a few basic graphing calculator features with a promise for further developments and integration with popular online spreadsheet applications. Gaining popularity in an educational context both in high schools and universities, this is another great example of the potential of the Internet to become the application platform of the future.
As an added extra, FooPlot also permits functions to be tacked onto the URL: http://fooplot.com/x^2+2x+1.
As an added extra, FooPlot also permits functions to be tacked onto the URL: http://fooplot.com/x^2+2x+1.
Submission + - KDE on Windows
AlanS2002 writes: "This week's KDE Commit Digest tells about an installer for KDE on Windows and the problems the developers encountered setting up a working environment for KDE to run on. Many screenshots included, showing the first applications (such as Konqueror) running natively."
Submission + - ODF or Office OpenXML?
frdmfghtr writes: After getting frusterated for the last time with MS Word corrupting documents with embedded objects (pictures, tables, equations, etc.) I started using NeoOffice and saving everything in the OpenDocument format. With the upcoming release of Office 2007 (and later, 2008 for Mac) and support for Office OpenXML, which format does the community see as better from a technical and licensing perspective? I've read some Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_OpenDo cument_and_Microsoft_Office_Open_XML_formats#_note -0) and Groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20051125 144611543) articles on the topic, but I'm really not sure what to make of most of it, yet. Please try to put pro- and anti-MS biases to the side; think of it as a VHS vs. Betamax question. The goal is some reassurance that whatever format I use, it's not going to become useless should I choose to stick with NeoOffice, use MS Office 2008 for Mac, or even both and swap back and forth.
Submission + - Mars probe may have spotted lost Sojourner rover
Maggie McKee writes: "NASA's eagle-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter may have spotted the tiny, toaster oven-sized Sojourner rover just a few meters away from its companion, the Mars Pathfinder lander. It appears to have crawled there in an attempt to re-establish contact with the lander after the lander had already died.
But the pictures aren't clear enough to definitively ID the rover, and it's possible Sojourner simply took off on its own. If it were miraculously still alive after 10 years, it could be 3 kilometers away from Pathfinder — and probably impossible to find, even with MRO."
Submission + - Project aims to put 3D printer on every desktop
holy_calamity writes: Two Carnegie Mellon researchers have designed an open source 3D printer that costs just $2,400. The self-assembly kit is part of what they call the Fab@Home project — they hope it will spark development of 3D printing technology for the consumer market in the same way the Altair 8800 did for personal computing in seventies.
Submission + - Google Tops 100 Best Places to Work For
inetsee writes: "Forbes Magazine
reports
that Fortune Magazine has
released their 10th annual "100 Best Companies to
Work For" list and Google is at number 1.
Some highlights of the benefits of working for
Goolge that caught my eye were the free gourmet
meals and the massages. The chance to spend 20%
of your time working on your own personal projects
also sounds very appealing. Of course, with resumes
rolling in at the rate of 1300 a day, the competition
is fierce. Maybe I should look at some of the other
companies on the list."
