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Networking

Submission + - Beating AVG's fake traffic spew (theregister.co.uk)

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Corrado
Corrado writes: "Remember how AVG started spamming the Internet by pre-checking pages for virus? Well, now it looks like there is a way to filter out all the fake IE6 traffic; at least temporarily. AVG say they are working on the issue and will have a fix soon, but until then you can use this info to clean up your logs and maybe even head off some of the useless load on your site."
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - Blizzard's EULA compliant WoW spyware (rootkit.com)

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Corrado
Corrado writes: "rootkit has a fairly good look at the "warden client" that comes with every copy of World of Warcraft. Apparently, this little piece of software is very liberal in what it does to your computer and gathers quite a bit of data. Every 15 seconds it looks at all your open windows, every process, URLs, IMs, etc. and checks to see if your cheating. This feels like a massive invasion of privacy and its all perfectly legal through the WoW EULA."
Operating Systems

Submission + - Removing the Big Kernel Lock (kerneltrap.org)

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Corrado
Corrado writes: "Over at Kernel Trap there is a big discussion going on over removing a bit of non-preemptable code from the Linux kernel.

"As some of the latency junkies on lkml already know, commit 8e3e076 in v2.6.26-rc2 removed the preemptible BKL feature and made the Big Kernel Lock a spinlock and thus turned it into non-preemptible code again. This commit returned the BKL code to the 2.6.7 state of affairs in essence," began Ingo Molnar. He noted that this had a very negative effect on the real time kernel efforts, adding that Linux creator Linus Torvalds indicated the only acceptable way forward was to completely remove the BKL."
Microsoft

Submission + - Office 2007 Fails OOXML Test With 122,000 Errors (griffinbrown.co.uk)

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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "Groklaw is reporting that some people have decided to compare the OOXML schema to actual Microsoft Office 2007 documents. It won't surprise you to know that Office 2007 failed miserably. If you go by the strict OOXML schema, you get a 17 MiB file containing approximately 122,000 errors, and 'somewhat less' with the transitional OOXML schema. Most of the problems reportedly relate to the serialization/deserialization code. How many other fast-tracked ISO standards have no conforming implementations?"
Music

Submission + - Rock Band Footage (canada.com)

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Corrado
Corrado writes: "Just cruising around the web and I found some details and a video of the upcoming Rock Bank video game. Basically the video shows a team of 4 Harmonix engineers going through Welcome to the Jungle by GnR and it's awesome!"

Feed Apple toughens iPhone screen, boosts battery life (theregister.com)

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Glass display to hinder scratches?

Apple has upped its claim for the iPhone's battery life, now saying the touchscreen smart phone will offer an eight-hour talk time. It's also decided to ship the machine with a glass front in a bid to beat the scratches spotted by so many early iPod Nano buyers.

Feed iPhone to feature eight hours of talk, new glass surface (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Apple's tooting its own horn about some new spec upgrades to its imminent iPhone. No, it's not 3G, GPS or anything crazy like that, but we'll settle for a battery life upgrade anytime, and screen durability doesn't hurt neither. Apple claims that its preliminary estimates of 5 hours of talk time, internet use and video playback were a tad conservative, and the iPhone instead will be boasting of 8 hours of chatting, 6 hours of internet and 7 hours of video. Audio playback has been boosted from 16 to 24 hours, and standby is at a welcome 250 hours. Of course, Apple does have tendency to exaggerate slightly on the battery life front, but these are promising figures, and should manage to provide a day or two's worth of solid use out of the thing. On the screen side, Apple has upgraded the original plastic surface of the phone to some "optical-quality glass" to improve scratch resistance and clarity. Check after the break for a handy battery life chart.

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Linux Business

Submission + - Xandros acquires Scalix (linuxmagazine.com.br)

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phess
phess writes: "After establishing a still secret contract with Asus for US$ 15 million (for 5 million Intel's Classmate PC licenses), Xandros acquired groupware solution maker Scalix for a value still unrevealed. More details should come throughout the day."
Communications

Submission + - Is the DUB phone the perfect cell phone?

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An anonymous reader writes: Everyone turns into a critic when they are presented with a new product yet few are brave enough to suggest an alternative. But it looks like Andrew Lim, CNET.co.uk's mobile phone editor, has had enough of criticizing and has come up with what he thinks is the perfect cell phone. The DUB phone, which stands for design, usability and battery life, is the "fruit of years of observations". One of the more ingenious parts of the design is a dual battery system — one for MP3 player, one for phone.

Feed AMD's Smart Strike: Athlon X2 BE-2350 (pheedo.com)

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AMD's new sub-$100 low-power (45 W) dual core processor defines a new segment in the efficient desktop computing market. How does it compare to Intel's $100 Pentium Dual Core 2160?
Novell

Submission + - Novell says desktop Linux costs 10% of Vista

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Robert writes: Novell Inc might have signed a patent and interoperability deal with Microsoft Corp but it is not about to give up competing with the software giant and last week released a study that suggests its Linux desktop product is better value than Windows Vista. The Waltham, Massachusetts-based company's competitive guide compares SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop with Windows Vista and claims that the Linux product provides 90% of Vista's functionality and 10% of the price.

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