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Submission + - RadioShack's 14-foot laptop (technologizer.com)

Submitted by
Harry
Harry writes: "RadioShack wants us to call it THE SHACK from now on, and part of its rebranding involves Netogether, a festival in New York and San Francisco with gigantic laptops broadcasting video back and forth. I visited the San Francisco version and found it pretty empty, so I pondered the implications of a monstrously large notebook computer--and got so into it that a Netogether crew member told me to back away from the laptop."
Windows

The Broken Design of Microsoft's "Fix it" Tool 165

Posted by kdawson from the teething-problems dept.
$luggo writes "Curious about MS Fix It, I recently went hunting in the MS knowledge base for articles that provide the new EZ-button. After locating on few, I decided to click the button to download the Microsoft Installer package containing the executable and/or files that automatically enable the DVD Library feature in Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate — on my XP Media Center. 'Surely, MS will use some scripting, HTTP User-Agent sniffing, or even Genuine Windows validation to verify that I am running Vista,' I thought. It did not and I canceled the download when I received the prompt to save the file. So, I wonder: is there a Fix-it for Fix it? Because I can easily imagine someone doing what I did without scrolling to the bottom of the KB article and verifying that the article applies to their OS/version. This is a great example poor design. Why not simply use the download approach that other articles / fixes / service packs use, whereby the user must select the appropriate OS?"
Mozilla

Submission + - Mozilla Sunbird 0.5 Released (mozilla.org)

Submitted by linux pickle
linux pickle writes: Mozilla has released version 0.5 of Sunbird, its calendar app. New features in this release include numerous stability and usage improvements, Google Calendar synchronization support, as well as much improved printing support. Check out the release notes or go grab a copy!
Google

Submission + - Google Desktop goes Linux (com.com)

Submitted by
mytrip
mytrip writes: "Google was set to launch late on Wednesday a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux in a sign of encouragement by the search giant for Linux on the desktop. Google Desktop allows people to search the Web while also searching the full text of all the information on their computer, including Gmail and their Web search history. Because the index is stored locally on the computer, users can access Gmail and Web history while offline."
Programming

Submission + - Faster handling of Ruby on Rails CRUD

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: ActiveScaffold is a plugin and a model-based "smart" UI systems for Ruby on Rails, that can dramatically simplify the creation and maintenance of your Ruby on Rails application. Instead of having to create pages by hand that display your models, ActiveScaffold will introspect your ActiveRecord models and dynamically generate a CRUD (create, read, update, delete) user interface for managing those objects. Its fast, easy, and sweet.
Intel

Submission + - Pentium E2140, Cheap Conroe - Great Overclocker

Submitted by TrackinYeti
TrackinYeti writes: If you thought Intel's Pentium brand name was dead, think again. This article at HotHardware evaluates the performance, power consumption, and overclockability of Intel's brand-new Pentium E2140 dual-core processor. This chip is derivative of the 'Conroe' core used in the Core 2 Duo but with a smaller cache, lower FSB and lower core frequencies. At under $100, it proved to be a solid value, especially when overclocked to almost 3GHz using stock air-cooling.
Software

Submission + - RPM is dead, long live RPM5

Submitted by
The RPM project
The RPM project writes: "At its 10th anniversary and together with a new roadmap towards version 5.0, the project environment of the popular Unix software packaging tool RPM Package Manager (RPM) was relaunched under the domain rpm5.org by the newly formed RPM project team, further on lead by RPM's primary developer Jeff Johnson. The main RPM development is now focusing on the development of the forthcoming RPM 5.0. The primary goals of RPM 5.0 are the additional support for the XML based archiving format XAR, an integrated package dependency resolver, further improved portability and extended cross-platform support."
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Net taxes proposed for internet sales, email

Submitted by
snobody
snobody writes: "In an article in Cnet News, Washington politicians are planning to break the moratorium on internet sales taxes amd internet access taxes, with one politician even proposing to tax email messages. The politicians make the usual complaints about lost tax revenue to state governments as a justification for repealing the ban. Small businesses with less than $5 million in out of state sales would be exempted. Not discussed is how such tax systems would be implemented. A tax on email would be a non-starter for obvious technical reasons, but that doesn't mean that the politicians would let reality get in the way of their plans."
Security

Submission + - WLAN Driver Vulnerability Assessment

Submitted by
joswr1ght
joswr1ght writes: "WLAN driver exploits escape all wireless security strategies; even when you aren't connected to a WLAN, a vulnerable driver can be exploited for a full compromise of your host. I've written a free tool for Windows administrators to assess their exposure to wireless driver vulnerabilities called WiFiDEnum. WiFiDEnum accesses the registry of a local or remote system to identify installed wireless drivers and uses a local database of known driver vulnerabilities to perform a non-invasive assessment of one or more hosts, generating a simple HTML vulnerability assessment report as the output."
Portables

Submission + - Hitachi Ships World's Speediest Notebook Hard Driv

Submitted by mrneutron2004
mrneutron2004 writes: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) is today announcing volume shipment of the industry's highest-capacity, highest-performing notebook hard drive with new optional data encryption technology. With double the capacity and a 22-percent1 performance improvement over its predecessor, the 200-gigabyte (GB), 7200 RPM TravelstarTM 7K200 reigns supreme as the leader in this elite notebook hard drive segment. http://www.fastsilicon.com/press-releases/hitachi- ships-worlds-speediest-notebook-hard-drive.html?It emid=60
Linux Business

Submission + - Ubuntu on Dell: interesting to a wide audience.

Submitted by serviscope_minor
serviscope_minor writes: You heard earlier today that Dell will be shipping Ubuntu on selected models. Naturally, this is interesting to slashdotters. However, the interest generated by a wider audience will ultimately be more important. Well, apparently, this is the 3rd most popuar topic on the BBC at the moment. So apparently this is interesting to a general audience. I believe that this bodes very well for the future.

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