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Wireless Networking

Group Wants Wi-Fi Banned, Citing Allergy 525

Posted by CmdrTaco from the oh-you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.
54mc writes "A small group in Santa Fe, New Mexico is claiming that the city is discriminating against them by having wireless networks in public buildings. How are these buildings discriminatory? Simple. These people are allergic to Wi-Fi. And they're suing the city." I've been trying to sue people for the streetlights that I'm allergic to as well.
Government

Submission + - Ohio Voting Machines Tampered With Last Year (columbusdispatch.com)

Submitted by MozeeToby
MozeeToby writes: The Columbus Dispatch is reporting on a criminal investigation currently being performed in Franklin County Ohio. It seems several voting machines listed Jay Perez as withdrawn from the race when in fact he wasn't. By the time the investigations tracked down which machines had been affected, Mr. Perez's name was back on the ballot.

Normally, we could dismiss this as confusion or a mistake on the part of the voter(s) who noticed it. In this case, the person who first noticed the discrepency was Ohio Secretary of state Jennifer Brunner. Further compounding matter, the Franklin County Board of Elections had dissabled virtually all logging on the machines to speed setup of the balot.

Naturally, the county board remains sceptical of these accusations.
Emulation (Games)

Submission + - Nintendo 64DD Emulation May Soon Be a Reality!

Submitted by Croakyvoice
Croakyvoice writes: DCEmu have an article up about the Emulation of the Nintendo64DD now being possible because the ability to dump the games is now a reality. "kammedo of ASSEMblergames has pulled out some awesome & obscure Nintendo 64 development hardware that can potentially dump Nintendo 64DD cartridges. It has been very difficult to begin any Nintendo 64DD emulation, especially since there aren't any ROM Images dumped. With the development suite kammedo has: a Partner Nintendo 64 unit, PC Interface Card, RAM cartridge & cable, and a Nintendo 64DD Development Unit, it is now possible to dump Nintendo 64DD development or retail carts, but don't go around asking for dumps!"
Education

Coping Strategies for Women in IT 648

Posted by CmdrTaco from the grow-a-pair-oh-wait dept.
Ian Lamont writes "Female workers are losing ground in the IT profession, reports Computerworld, citing statistics which show a sharp drop in the number of female CS grads since the 1980s, and a decline in the percentage of women in the IT profession since 2001. According to the article, causes include pervasive stereotypes and the locker-room atmosphere found in some IT shops — attitudes which some readers may recognize from the comments in a Slashdot thread last week. The IT professionals interviewed in the Computerworld article discuss a variety of strategies for coping. They range from trying to 'out-boy the boys' to watching what you say, as one Sun Microsystems executive describes:'It's not unusual to be the only woman at a meeting, she says, and because of that, there's often a tendency to remain silent unless you think you have something really remarkable to say. "As one member of a small group, you feel you have no right to be mediocre ... You're not just representing yourself; you're representing [females] with a capital F.'"
Linux Business

Submission + - Italian parliament bets house on SuSE Linux (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40 957 Italian parliament bets house on SuSE Linux Two-year switch to begin in September By Gijs Hillenius: jeudi 12 juillet 2007, 16:59 ITALY'S parliament is about to undertake Europe's largest governmental migration yet to open sauce. The IT department of the Italian parliament presented plans on Wednesday to begin migrating some 3500 desktop PCs, including those of its 630 MPs, away from Windows to SuSE Linux starting this September. The Camera dei deputati will also run SuSE on all of its two hundred servers. This makes it the second and largest parliament in Europe to choose open sauce. The French parliament, with 577 seats, voted last year to have open sauce installed on all of its 1145 PCs. France decided on Ubuntu this February and the migration in the Parliament should be underway. The size of the Italian migration to open source makes it an important case study, said Pietro Folena, member of the Italian Communist party, who earlier this year proposed the switch. "It will present all public offices with best practices." The Italian MPs may decide for themselves whether they will also have Penguins waddle on their laptops. The laptops were not included in the plans presented Wednesday, explains Folena, as they are private property. Folena estimates the switch makes PCs some 90 per cent cheaper and he expects larger savings to be realise on the servers. He could not immediately provide further details on this. "The savings are important, but the primary motive for this decision is to gain freedom. Freedom from single technology, freedom from a single software owner and a single contractor, freedom to develop our own applications and freedom from viruses."
Communications

Submission + - 75yr old has worlds fastest broadband connection (tech.co.uk)

Submitted by BladeBot
BladeBot writes: Seems a pensioner from lovely Sweden has the honour of having the fastest residential broadband connection in the world at a whopping 45Gbps. The lady, Mrs Löthberg has only recently taken up computing however her son is the more well known Peter Löthberg who arranged the connection. One must ask though, why did he think his mother needed such a huge pipe, perhaps he has plans to compete with The Pirate Bay from his old bedroom? Tech.co.uk is carrying the story: http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/internet-and-broad band/news/75-year-old-woman-has-fastest-broadband? articleid=1857379299
Patents

Submission + - Optimum Copyright period decided by maths!

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: So how long SHOULD a copyright be valid for? There are as many opinions here as there are humans. But a Cambridge student has stepped into the discussion with a dispassionately calculated estimate of the optimal period a copyright should be granted for. Here is ArsTechnica's take: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070712-rese arch-optimal-copyright-term-is-14-years.html, and here is the original paper for all you maths dudes out there: http://www.rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/optim al_copyright.pdf
SuSE

Submission + - Italian parliament bets house on SuSE Linux

Submitted by AnotherDaveB
AnotherDaveB writes: ITALY'S parliament is about to undertake Europe's largest governmental migration yet to open sauce. The IT department of the Italian parliament presented plans on Wednesday to begin migrating some 3500 desktop PCs, including those of its 630 MPs, away from Windows to SuSE Linux starting this September. The Camera dei deputati will also run SuSE on all of its two hundred servers.
Software

Submission + - Skelta participates in Microsoft Worldwide Partner (skelta.com)

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Skelta Software showcased its new product, Skelta SharePoint Accelerator 2007 at the Microsoft Worldwide partner conference which is currently underway in Denver, Colorado. Powered by Skelta BPM.NET 2007, Skelta's award-winning BPM workflow solution, Skelta SharePoint Accelerator 2007 provides a comprehensive suite of business process management features for SharePoint Server and WSS 3.0. Seamlessly integrating with SharePoint and other Microsoft technologies, Skelta SharePoint Accelerator extends advanced BPM functionality to SharePoint 2007 to create a powerful integrated platform for collaboration, business intelligence, enterprise content management and strategic business solutions. Key features include a web-based process modeler with Visio-type interfaces within SharePoint, initiation of BPM workflows from document libraries, lists and content types, Wizards for process creation with option to save processes as templates, a rich set of SharePoint actions that inherit and manipulate SharePoint metadata during a workflow process, Web services and XML for integrating SharePoint forms with business processes and business applications, Workflow initiation on all SharePoint events including "ING" events and option to invoke Windows Workflow Foundation activities within Skelta Process Modeler. Skelta SharePoint Accelerator 2007 is business user-friendly and facilitates creation of an automated BPM environment without significant investments in software development. About Skelta Software Skelta Software is an innovative software product company specializing in enterprise-wide Business Process Management (BPM) and Workflow solutions for small to large-sized businesses worldwide. Its flagship product, Skelta BPM.NET 2006 is a BPM workflow software that is built on cutting-edge Microsoft .NET, XML, and Web services technologies. It is also the world's first embeddable workflow engine. Skelta enables business users and developers to design and deploy workflow applications using software tools with which they are already familiar. In addition, Skelta enables businesses to leverage on their existing investments in Microsoft technologies such as InfoPath, BizTalk Server, and SharePoint. Skelta's products have won several awards at industry forums such as Microsoft 2006 Regional Winning Customer Award, Microsoft Tech-Ed 2007 Attendee Choice Award , Finalist in 2007 International Business Awards (Stevie Awards), Best of Tech Ed award in the Software Components category and NASSCOM IT Innovation 2005 Award. Skelta has also been named one of Asia's top 100 companies by Red Herring magazine and acknowledged as one of the fastest growing technology companies in India and Asia Pacific region by winning Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India & Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2006 Awards. For more information on Skelta and its products, visit www.skelta.com. Skelta may also be contacted on phone at +1 (703) 652-8359 and on email at sales@skelta.com. For Media enquiries, contact: Kalpa Shah, VP — Marketing Tel: 91 (80) 2552-2996 email: publicrelations@skelta.com"

Matrox's Extio Reviewed 204

Posted by CowboyNeal from the serious-kvm-solutions dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Matrox isn't as dead as some of us thought. This box of tricks lets you connect four displays up to a PC that's 250 meters away. All the graphic data is sent down a fiber optic cable to the Matrox box that then connects to the screens. To the end user it feels like they're working directly on the PC, but the PC can be locked away somewhere safe."
Software

Submission + - Free Windows Installer (MSI) authoring tool (caphyon.com)

Submitted by Todd G. Erickson
Todd G. Erickson writes: Advanced Installer Professional 5.1 is a Windows Installer authoring tool which enables developers and system administrators to easily build reliable MSI packages. Advanced Installer runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista, and the install packages it creates run on all Microsoft Windows 9x/ME/NT/2k/XP/Vista operating systems.

Windows Installer is a powerful, but very complex technology. Mastering it on your own takes months of hard work. That's where Advanced Installer comes to help. It creates a high level abstraction on top of the underlying technology. With a clean, simple user interface, each operation is logical and intuitive. Everything is done in the user interface, without complicated scripts to learn or arcane database tables to edit.

Advanced Installer is built on standard, open formats. The project files are saved as XML files for easy integration with source control systems. Advanced Installer is FREE for the simplest, most common usages. It also offers three additional licensing levels for more sophisticated needs: Professional, For Java and Enterprise.

What's new in Advanced Installer 5.1

The 5.1 version adds support for sequencing patches, specifying custom connection strings for running SQL scripts, configuring different install parameters per each build and the ability to permit selecting the language when installing multi-language packages.

The Repackager gets improved scanning filters, support for applications requiring reboot, snapshot diff export and comparison. An option to wait for other operations before continuing was added, allowing repackaging multiple installs into a single one.

Two major new time-saving enhancements are searching and editing multiple components and features at the same time and the ability to recognize hard-coded paths and replace them with Windows Installer properties when importing from Registry or INI files.

- Patch Sequencing
- Language selection in bootstrapper for multi-language installers
- Support configuring different "Install Parameters" for each build
- Custom SQL connection string
- Replace hard-coded paths with properties when importing from registry or INI files

The application can be downloaded from:
http://www.advancedinstaller.com/download.html

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