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Mandriva

Submission + - Mandriva will not partner with Microsoft (opensourcelearning.info)

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JanStedehouder
JanStedehouder writes: "After some opening shots the Mandriva management decided to release a statement that they are not willing to partner with Microsoft, especially not under the threat of patent infringements. The statement can be found here: http://corp.mandriva.com/webteam/2007/06/19/we-wil l-not-go-to-canossa/

It took a few days and I can only hope that many other distributors follow with clear statements."
Sony

Submission + - Blockbuster chooses Blu-ray

Submitted by bberens
bberens writes: Over the last year the sales of Blu-ray disks have grossly outpaced HDDVD but I'd personally held out hope that HDDVD would make some progress. The uncertainty of the format war has come to an end as blockbuster chooses Blu-ray.
Biotech

Submission + - From Garbage to Plastic?

Submitted by
Van Cutter Romney
Van Cutter Romney writes: "Researchers from Cornell are looking at ways to convert pollutants into green polymers according to this article in the New York Times. The main difficulty which the researchers are trying to overcome is to use CO2, which has no reactivity but is found in large quantities in the atmosphere, as the basis for the polymer. The key is to find the right catalyst for the CO2 and the epoxy to bond."
Google

Submission + - Google Solar Power Monitoring Site (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google is now showing how much power that their solar panels are making. It's live! Well, within the last hour, anyway. It goes well with certain other green announcements that they are making today.
The Internet

Submission + - How to approach Internet startup investors?

Submitted by
centered
centered writes: "I'd like to start an Internet company. To maximize return I'd like to approach people to invest in some development and then a bigger launch, rather than just a grass-roots, trickle revenue approach. However, I'm not sure what the landscape for investors has become since the bubble up to the current day. It seems there's a lot of ambiguity/disagreement as to what the future of the Web is for business. Furthermore, I can't find resources to help me understand how Internet companies that are starting up today are getting resources to do so.

The company I'd like to create will offer services over the Web to registered users, in the field of computer security. I'm aware of more recent terms such as ASP (application service provider), Web 2.0, Web Services, but are these terms still taken seriously by investors? What is the general opinion of investors as to characteristics that would make an Internet startup company viable? Where can I find the resources to help me develop my company into and define it as a company with such characteristics?"
Security

Submission + - Free, Secure VPN solution

Submitted by BrianCaulkins
BrianCaulkins writes: I'm a Windows user who would like to use a VPN solution to access my home network for when I'm on the road. I've looked into a few open source solutions such as openVPN but some people are saying it's not very secure because it's a SSL VPN. Are there any suggestions for what I could use for a free, secure VPN solution?
Movies

Submission + - DreamWorks picks up Neil Gainmans' "Interworld

Submitted by
Lisandro
Lisandro writes: "Geeksofdoom.com reports that best-selling author Neil Gaiman has announced that DreamWorks Animation has optioned the film rights for his upcoming novel, "Interworld". Gaiman said that in 1996 he began working with Michael Reaves on the idea for a story 'about a boy who finds himself in the middle of a war between two equally powerful forces, who joins a super-team consisting of versions of himself from different alternate realities to try and maintain the cosmic balance.' Soon after, the idea was pitched to DreamWorks and other studios, but was turned down."
Programming

Submission + - First look at Eclipse Speed Wizards

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: This article demonstrates the art of using powerful Eclipse wizards that automates the creation of classes, interfaces, projects, and other resources. Eclipse wizards are a great way to define repeatable templates for file types when the built-in template functionality won't suffice. After working through this information, you will be able to implement your own speed wizards in Eclipse to create enhanced functionality very quickly.
Unix

Submission + - OpenMotif 2.3 Released (motifzone.net)

Submitted by
joeljkp
joeljkp writes: "OpenMotif 2.3 has been released, marking the first major release to the venerable toolkit since 2000. Major features include anti-aliased fonts, UTF-8 support, and native support for PNG and JPEG images, among other things. OpenMotif is the open source counterpart to the Motif toolkit, which, according to the site, "is the leading user interface toolkit for the UNIX based operating system.""
Networking

Submission + - A better alternative to Synergy2 the software KVM

Submitted by TechnoTheMage
TechnoTheMage writes: Years ago, in 2003 I believe, I asked slashdot for a solution to a piece of fantastic software that no longer worked under WindowsXP. It was called teleffect and it would allow you to control multiple machines over a TCP/IP connection. So if you had say 2 laptops and a desktop next to each other you could use any of the machines to control all of them with one keyboard and mouse.

Why would you do this? ok short version.. say you have one machine surfing the web and capturing video, the second machine researching outlook email and doing large file copies and a third you are configuring because its a new install and you have to keep rebooting it..

Second scenario: Say you play warcraft and you have two accounts and you want to control both characters at the same time because you are power leveling one of them.. Maybe you have three accounts.. Nuff said for WoW players...

With this software the possibilities for using your nice high end input devices with all your machines becomes wide open. I found Synergy was just not as good as teleffect. There were always slowdowns and gittery control when the cpu was under a large load or even a slight load. This never happened with teleffect and there has got to be something better.

OK so back to 2003.. After trying all the possible options I eventually gave up and have just lived without the software. It has been sorely missed and recently I am in the need of the software again. I have included the link from the original post which outlines all the suggestions and opinions which I am sure will be reproduced again.

Does anyohne know of software like Synergy2 but works better? You should feel like you were sitting in front of any machine you control with no slowdown or stickiness. Yes I have used the latest version of Synergy, I am not just talking about the older version.

Here is the original link on slashdot:

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/17 44251&tid=185&tid=130&tid=201&tid=4

Techno The Mage out......
Spam

Submission + - New type of image spam hides in e-mail wallpaper (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
jbrodkin
jbrodkin writes: "Security products have largely been able to contain early waves of image spam, so scammers have developed a new way to bypass filters: they embed spam within wallpaper backgrounds within e-mail. This new trick could reinvigorate an image spam threat that seemed to be dying down. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/061307-wallp aper.html"
Communications

Submission + - US Interrogation technology

Submitted by
cwatch
cwatch writes: "US Interrogation technologies In the late 90s, someone was developing an intra-cochlear transceiver device for use in remote hostile interrogation, monitoring, tracking and surveillance. The device was designed to sense and transmit sub vocalization (probably like an electromyograph). The device was deployed soon after Bush was elected, along with a bunch of Internet decoy material ("audio spotlight," "acoustic heterodyne,"), to decoy and sidetrack the technologically-challenged subjects. Much of the material appeared to direct subjects to mailing lists mc@topica.com and mc-tech@yahoo.com, where attempts where made to keep them off-track. Does anyone have any additional information on this program?"

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