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Submission + - NVIDIA and ATI Talk About MXM

Submitted by jkwdoc on Thursday January 25, 2007 @07:00AM

jkwdoc writes: Two years ago, NVIDIA announced its MXM initiative for the mobile market. This new technology would allow for a modular GPU slot in all laptops, thus making servicing and upgrades much easier. But two years later, the consumer still can't go into a store and buy a graphics card to upgrade their laptop, and the entire mobile graphics market is a mess. [H] investigates and gets ATI and NVIDIA to talk about the problems. http://consumer.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTI2N iwxLCxoY29uc3VtZXI=

Submission + - Rough Start for First Impeachment Resolution

Submitted by Dr. Eggman on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @08:23PM

Dr. Eggman writes: According to The Santa Fe New Mexican, a bill has been introduced in the state senate that would call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. However, the bill has already come across hurdles in the form of it's committee assignments. I has been assigned to three separate committees, making leaving the Democrat controlled Senate hard pressed to clear them all and make it to the floor before the 60-day session ends. This would make New Mexico the first state to pass an impeachment resolution.

Submission + - Next Mandriva to include Metisse 3D desktop

Submitted by

dBera

on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @07:46PM

dBera writes: "Mandriva Spring 2007 is going to include the 3D Matisse desktop from the In Site project. Right now a live CD based on Mandriva 2007.0 and GNOME is available for download. One has to see the screencasts to believe what can be done with linux desktop; all I can say is copy-paste, window and workspace management was never this interesting."

Submission + - Microsoft Extends XP Home & MCE Support

Submitted by

innocence18

on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @07:37PM

innocence18 writes: "Microsoft has announced that it will be adding an "Extended Support" phase for both Windows XP Home and Media Center Editions. This brings the support life cycle of both products to 5 years mainstream (April 2009) and 5 years extended which matches the support policy of XP Professional."

Submission + - Process XForms in Firefox

Submitted by IdaAshley on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @07:14PM

IdaAshley writes: Using the experimental Mozilla XForms extension, you can process XForms in your browser today. XForms makes development of Web-deployed applications faster and easier. This article demonstrates basic XForms processing as currently supported by Firefox and the Mozilla XForms plug-in.

Submission + - Worlds Oldest Human Dies

Submitted by

inexion

on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @06:20PM

inexion writes: "From The Associated Press Emiliano Mercado del Toro was born when Puerto Rico was still a Spanish colony and trained as a soldier the year World War I ended. On today, having spent just a month as the world's oldest person, he died at his home on the northern coast of Puerto Rico he was 115. Mercado del Toro never married and had no children. When 116-year-old Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden died in December at a nursing home in Tennessee Mercado del Toro became the oldest known person in the world. A 114-year-old Connecticut woman, Emma Faust Tillman, is now believed to be the oldest living person. She was born Nov. 22, 1892."

Submission + - d-wave announces usable 16 qubit quantum computer

Submitted by euice on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @06:18PM

euice writes: A company called D-Wave Sys claims to have developped the first commercially usable 16 qubit quantum computer.

FTA: Please join us in February as we demonstrate a technological first: an end-to-end quantum computing system powered by a 16-qubit quantum processor, running two commercial applications — live.

Is there any breakthrough I missed? What would you expect them to show up with?

Submission + - Relocation Package Bait and Switch

Submitted by on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @05:55PM

An anonymous reader writes: I got a R&D job offer with a large company in Philadelphia area last week. It includes a relocation package that they told me was standard for my position.

After I accepted the offer and made plans to terminate my current job, the recruiter handed me off to their relocation department, where I was told that my relocation package is significantly less than what I was promised. The relocation manager tells me that whenever there is conflict between their relocation policy and the offer, their internal relocation policy supersedes.

What I want to know from my fellow Geeks are : 1) Is this type of switch-and-bait common practice in corporate America? 2) If you have gone through this nightmare before, any advice on how to respond to it?

Submission + - Graphical Debugger for Netscreen and Cisco devices

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @05:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: A bunch of dudes from Germany have apparently created a graphical debugger that, aside from debugging the usual OS's, can also be used for embedded debugging of Netscreen or Cisco devices. It seems you can just hook up their software to the serial port, read out the memory, disassemble, and debug the device live. This should facilitate security research on these otherwise 'closed' platforms. Check http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/ and make sure you scroll down — that's where the eye candy is.

Submission + - Linux Car computer

Submitted by

dragos

on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @05:46PM

dragos writes: "For those who love the automotive in your car VoomPC is suited for navigation and entertainment with superior audio and video performance. The new car pc comes with a more powerful mini-ITX motherboard, based on a 1.5GHz Via C7 processor. Despite that Linuxdevices.com claim that the voompc is starting at just $399. And now you can play the favorite CD because the VoomPC-2 can take a SlimCD drive."

Submission + - Industry At Odds On GPL 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @05:22PM

An anonymous reader writes: CRN reporter Stacy Cowley has an article that characterizes GPL 3.0 as an "open-source earthquake." She reports that there's disagreement provisions in the new GNU Public License's provision on patents and DRM. "It's almost like an iceberg waiting. There's been so much less awareness and discussion than I would have expected, given the likely implications of the new license," said Bernard Golden, CEO open-source solutions provider Navica.

Submission + - Linus on why the kernel is "special"

Submitted by daria42 on Monday January 22, 2007 @12:07AM

daria42 writes: In this one minute video, Linus explains why the Linux kernel is "special". "I have always felt that the thing that makes the kernel special is it never does anything on its own ... It has no agenda. It is at the mercy of all the "real" programs that actually do something for the user," he says. "I try to see what are the issues that users have with programs and what are things that we in the kernel can help them do better," he said.

Submission + - Viral Music Distribution and Donation Downloads

Submitted by

Unknown_monkey

on Sunday January 21, 2007 @11:40PM

Unknown_monkey writes: "A folk singer, a music producer, and a hot lip-syncer make a video parody. The video gets shared with a few friends, and then someone uploads it to youtube and BOOM! http://myboxinabox.typepad.com/ has the great parody video and the song and interviews with the artists. The amazing thing is that they are distributing the song and video free with an available donation box. And a limit of $2.00 on the donation. And people are paying it. Could this be a vision of future pop stars making songs and videos at home and then opening their own Pop-tunes store? People are paying $2.00 for a song that on Itunes would be a dollar. Does this provide further incentive for Itunes to raise prices?"

Submission + - 10 reasons not to get Vista

Submitted by BillGatesInABikini on Sunday January 21, 2007 @11:04PM

BillGatesInABikini writes: APC Magazine has an interesting counterpoint [http://www.apcmag.com/5049/10_reasons_not_to_get_ vista] to the hype leading up to Vista's consumer launch — reasons to not get Vista. Most of the points will be familiar to the /. crowd, but it's a good summary of the key issues for those unaware, and includes some being down played by Microsoft. Interestingly, it looks like Aussies are going to pay through the nose for it too.

Submission + - OSDL and the Free Standards Group to Merge

Submitted by

Andy Updegrove

on Sunday January 21, 2007 @10:18PM

Andy Updegrove writes: "On Sunday afternoon, the Free Standards Group (FSG) signed an agreement to combine forces with Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) to form a new organization — The Linux Foundation. The result of this consolidation will be to dedicate the resources of the combined membership to "accelerate the growth of Linux by providing a comprehensive set of services to compete effectively with closed platforms." Jim Zemlin, currently the head of FSG, will lead the new organization as its Executive Director. The new organization will continue to support Linux in a variety of ways, including by providing economic support to Linus Torvalds and other key kernel developers, managing the Linux trademark, and providing legal protection to developers through such initiatives as the Open Source as Prior Art project, the Patent Commons, and the Linux Legal Defense Fund. It will also continue FSG's standardization efforts by maintaining the Linux Standard Base (LSB) and the Linux Developer Network (all major Linux distributions comply with the LSB today). Finally, it will "respond with authority" to disinformation and other attacks, and foster innovation by hosting collaboration in areas such as desktop interfaces, accessibility, printing, and application packaging, among many others. All in all, a tall order, but eminently possible given its membership: The Linux Foundation's founding members will include every major company in the Linux industry, including Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, NEC, Novell, Oracle and Red Hat, as well as many community groups, universities and industry end users. http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/articl e.php?story=2007012113540789"

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