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Submission + - SeventeenOrBust - another 1 down, 7 to go

Submitted by

tqft

on Sunday May 06, 2007 @01:21AM

tqft writes: "" The 'Seventeen or Bust' distributed computing project today announced the discovery of a massive prime number. The new prime is 3.9 million digits long and stands as the largest non-Mersenne prime ever discovered. It is the fifth largest-known prime overall and the tenth such discovery for the project in its five year history."

http://www.seventeenorbust.com/documents/press-050 507.mhtml

Another one down."

Submission + - How do you score the One Job?

Submitted by

dmayle

on Monday March 12, 2007 @10:21AM

dmayle writes: "We all know how to look for a new job. Polish up your resume, look at the job boards, beg your old college roommate, etc., it's not easy, but it eventually works. What do you do, however, when you want a specific job? How do you go about making the contacts necessary and getting through the recruiting process for your dream job? What if your dream job is in another town, or another state?"

Submission + - USPS introduces R2-D2 mailboxes

Submitted by

Parallax Blue

on Sunday March 11, 2007 @09:06PM

Parallax Blue writes: "To help celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Wars, the United States Postal Service will be introducing custom mailboxes wrapped in R2-D2 graphics. It will be interesting to see what measures (or lack thereof) that the USPS takes to prevent these from being stolen the moment they're installed."

ReactOS 0.3.1 Released 189

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 11, 2007 @07:01PM from the fresh-bits dept.

fireballrus writes with news of the release of ReactOS 0.3.1 — press release, changelog, download packages. ReactOS is "an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003)." The press release notes: "Please don't forget this is an alpha-stage operating system, which means it is not suitable to replace your main OS. Also, this release is aimed to be run mostly in virtualizers / emulators (like QEmu, VMWare, Parallels, etc): because of the big amount of changes, our development team was not able to test/fix all problems which arise when running ReactOS on real hardware."

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