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Submission + - Is Linux.org hurting Linux?

Submitted by xivulon
xivulon writes: Linux.org is not the official Linux website, but millions of people believe it is. Is it a nice, modern, exciting page fostering Linux adoption? Hardly so. Even worse, far too many energies seem to be dedicated to raising money in a way that may even hurt the Linux image... I guess you have to turn adblock off for this one.
Privacy

Submission + - University E-Mails Not Private?

Submitted by Anonymous University Student
Anonymous University Student writes: Hello Slashdot. I go to a large Canadian university where all students are given an e-mail account when they enroll. I've recently been receiving a lot of targeted spam (for study programs, student surveys, et cetera,) sent to my University e-mail account. The problem is that nobody has ever been given this address — the only people who should know are Professors who are given access to a class list. When I first got the account, I set it to forward to my GMail account, simply because I wasn't interested in using multiple e-mail addresses. When I e-mailed my school's network services to explain the problem and see if it was a known issue, I was actually told that all e-mail addresses are on a public list that anyone can view. This, in my opinion, is an enormous breach of privacy, and I've been basically told that there's nothing I can do to stop this. So, Slashdot, I ask you — is this common practice for most universities, or is my school just not concerned about the privacy of its students? Many people would not care, however I get enough spam in my inbox that any more is just ridiculous.
SuSE

Submission + - Distribution building for everybody !

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The openSUSE project just released all their tools which they use to build their distribution. What it makes extra cool is that not only SUSE is supported, but also other rpm based distros. deb packages for Debian based distros can be build as well and even Windows targets are planned ! And that by building directly from a tar ball or any public svn server ...
Graphics

Submission + - NVIDIA and ATI Talk About MXM

Submitted by jkwdoc
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=
Democrats

Submission + - Rough Start for First Impeachment Resolution

Submitted by Dr. Eggman
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.
Mandriva

Submission + - Next Mandriva to include Metisse 3D desktop

Submitted by
dBera
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."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Extends XP Home & MCE Support

Submitted by
innocence18
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."
Programming

Submission + - Process XForms in Firefox

Submitted by IdaAshley
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.
United States

Submission + - Worlds Oldest Human Dies

Submitted by
inexion
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."
Supercomputing

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

Submitted by euice
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?
Businesses

Submission + - Relocation Package Bait and Switch

Submitted by
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?
Security

Submission + - Graphical Debugger for Netscreen and Cisco devices

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
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.
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Linux Car computer

Submitted by
dragos
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."
Linux Business

Submission + - Industry At Odds On GPL 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
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.
Linux Business

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

Submitted by daria42
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.

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