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Submission + - Windows Safari Key to iPhone Success? (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by

oxide7

on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @06:07PM

oxide7 writes: "Here's an important concept that is hard for some people to swallow: Macintosh doesn't matter. Sure, I am sitting here on an airplane (flying to Microsoft) running Word on Mac OS X and writing this column. Like most owners, I love my MacBook Pro, especially since it now runs Microsoft Windows at an acceptable performance level. But, if you take all the Mac users on the planet and get them to buy iPhones, the overall wireless handset market would hardly notice. There just aren't enough of us to matter. Need proof? Look no further than the iPod."

Submission + - Where does a sysadmin go for help?

Submitted by on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @06:03PM

An anonymous reader writes: I believe I have stumbled up a new FreeBSD based rootkit/hack/backdoor/whatever you want to call it. I'm pretty sure I know how it was installed on the server, I've got a pretty good idea of how most of it works, but there are parts that are over my head. I am not an idiot, but I am lacking the reverse engineer skills required to see exactly how it works. I am leery about posting my findings to a public forum because the last thing I want to do is give the script kiddies a new toy to play with without having full knowledge of how it works myself. I would prefer to disclose what I've found to a trustworthy third party who can elaborate on my findings and then have the findings posted publicly should this turn out to be something new. Please keep in mind I have googled, yahooed, searched forums, searched usenet for any mention of what I have found and have come up empty handed. It's entirely possible this is nothing new, and I am a n00b, but in either case my question is: where does a sysadmin go when he doesn't have and can't find an answer? PS: I am already aware that in Soviet Russia, answer finds you. Unfortunately I don't live in Soviet Russia. :(

Submission + - First map of an extrasolar planet

Submitted by

jiawen

on Sunday May 13, 2007 @04:18AM

jiawen writes: "Data from the Spitzer Space Telescope has been used by researchers to make the first-ever map of an extrasolar planet. It's a weather map, more precisely, showing temperature variations over the surface of a Hot Jupiter, HD 189733 b (more, more). It really is hot: even the coldest regions are about 1200 degrees F."

Submission + - Paul Murphy: "Intel Macs Are Killing the Plane

Submitted by Leeenux on Sunday May 13, 2007 @01:18AM

Leeenux writes: According to LinuxInsider's Paul Murphy, Apple's migration from PowerPC to Intel processors resulted in a massive spike in power consumption that has hurt economic diversity of the US and devastated the environment. Even worse, he suggests, it involves scandal on the part of Apple board member Al Gore. RDM disagrees: Paul Murphy's 'Intel Macs Are Killing the Planet' Myth.

Submission + - The oddest iPod accessory ever

Submitted by

Gary

on Saturday May 12, 2007 @11:59PM

Gary writes: "Could the iRosary be the oddest iPod accessory ever? The idea is to help young, hip Catholics learn the prayers. It works by using the iPod's famous white earphones cable which comes with a single bead that can be shifted. The change in position of the bead creates a measurable pulse that can be translated to the sound of traditional beads on a string. Users can choose from "Infidel", "Believer" and "Shepherd" settings — playing back the matching MP3s as the bead is moved."

Submission + - 70 Expert Ideas for Better CSS Coding

Submitted by Patrick Griffin on Thursday May 10, 2007 @06:42PM

Patrick Griffin writes: CSS isn't always easy to deal with. Depending on your skills and your experience, CSS coding can sometimes become a nightmare, particularly if you aren't sure which selectors are actually being applied to document elements. The article 70 Expert Ideas for Better CSS Coding includes over 70 expert tips, which can improve your efficiency of CSS coding. It also has most interesting and useful CSS ideas, methods, techniques and coding solutions as well as basic techniques you can probably use in every project you are developing, but which are hard to find once you need them.

Scientists Claim Major Leap in Engine Design 775

Posted by Zonk on Thursday May 10, 2007 @05:38PM from the but-does-it-still-make-roaring-noises dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Purdue researchers say they have made a major advance in the design of the internal combustion engine, one that could seriously boost fuel efficiency and cut emissions. A key portion involves building intake and exhaust valves that are no longer driven by mechanisms connected to the pistons, a departure from the way car engines have worked since they were commercialized more than a century ago. 'The concept, known as variable valve actuation, would enable significant improvements in conventional gasoline and diesel engines used in cars and trucks and for applications such as generators, he said. The technique also enables the introduction of an advanced method called homogeneous charge compression ignition, or HCCI, which would allow the United States to drastically reduce its dependence on foreign oil and the production of harmful exhaust emissions. The homogeneous charge compression ignition technique would make it possible to improve the efficiency of gasoline engines by 15 percent to 20 percent, making them as efficient as diesel engines while nearly eliminating smog-generating nitrogen oxides, Shaver said.'"

Comment err... (Score 1) 379

by renedox on Thursday April 14, 2005 @06:55AM (#12231910) Attached to: Firefox Site Visits Up 237%

did they account for the fact that mozilla sets their site as the default homepage?

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