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Google

Submission + - Gmail Paper

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irabinovitch
irabinovitch writes: "Google is offering a new service, Gmail Paper". As part of this service they will print and mail you copies of any e-mail you have received / sent at no cost. The postage / printing costs will be offset by selling ads on the back of the paper."
Google

Submission + - Google Unveils TiSP

Submitted by
martinelli
martinelli writes: "Google has finally unveiled TiSP, a "a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines." Hopefully, this is not another Google Labs project that gets flushed down the drain. http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html"
Linux Business

Submission + - First Sighting of Pirated Linux

Submitted by mpapet
mpapet writes: A Linux distribution called Pioneer Linux distributed by TechAlign Inc. may be the first ever to claim that Linux can be pirated. The Pioneer Linux distro boldly declares As a business, you should purchase a copy of Pioneer and not pirate it.

Their announcement of a new re-branded Ubuntu distro on distrowatch.org states, " commercial establishments will be required to purchase a copy...". See the distrowatch.org announcement.
Microsoft

Submission + - Vista buyers beware: it is a one way ticket

Submitted by
SirSpammenot
SirSpammenot writes: "HP Customer Service reports there is no retention policy for users of Vista that find the OS "not yet there". You buy it, you are stuck with it. I work for a mid size Real Estate office supporting corporate plus 50 agents. The agents are contractors and provide their own equipment... so the first of the Vista laptops from Best Buy are tricking in. Problem is our *expensive* workgroup level Panasonic printer/fax solutions do not have Vista drivers (and there is no scheduled release date either!). So aside from the usual apps that won't install, our Vista enabled agents cannot print to our existing infrastructure. HP Customer Service (mumbai branch) told me the only recourse is to return the laptop for full refund (and buy another one with XP). Maybe you can still find one with XP and an upgrade coupon? Vista buyers beware!"
Security

File Sharing — Harmful to Children and a Threat to National Security 342

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the root-of-all-evil dept.
jkrobin writes to mention that a recent report from the US Patent office calls peer-to-peer file sharing harmful to children and a threat to national security. "Interestingly, the report makes numerous references to RIAA and MPAA legal actions against file actions, as well as cites a 2005 Department of Homeland Security report that government workers had installed file-sharing programs that accessed classified information without their knowledge."
Data Storage

Submission + - What do you do when you can't afford a SAN?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: What's the next best solution to having a full SAN setup for central data storage? Setting up an enterprise level SAN is so expensive that the company I work for wants to know what other solutions there are to this situation. NAS is cool for at home, but would it work for a high trafficked website? I don't know of any self contained NAS solutions that offer data redundancy. The only way I can think of to get that would be to have an actual server with RAID set up on the disks. I have searched the web, reading white papers and other material, but I would like to hear from the horse's mouth what works best and is easiest to set up. One thing to keep in mind, and I know many /. readers will not like this but, we are in a Windows environment, and the gears that turn will not be able to change this.

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