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Submission + - Novell humor: Linux video shot at "Get a Mac&#

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coondoggie

on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @12:05PM

coondoggie writes: "This is great. Novell takes on the Get a Mac ads with a Linux video ad of its own. Here you'll see the usual suspects, PC and Mac kind of trading insults but they are interrupted by a pretty woman — Linux is her name and their destruction is her game. Or something like that. In addition here's a bonus Get a Mac ad that's a pretty funny shot at Microsoft's Vista security. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1272 3"

Journal Journal: KDE 4.0 Release Schedule Finalised

Journal by Joe Snipe on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @11:06AM

The KDE Community and the release team have put together a release plan for the long anticipated version 4.0, which is planned to be released in October 2007. KDE 4.0 will be a major milestone for the Free Desktop, as it offers a new foundation and set of frameworks that will shape the desktop user experience for years to come. Users will benefit from improved speed through Qt 4, integration of hardware through Solid, multimedia performance via Phonon, usability enhancements by close collabor

Submission + - Scientists Question Global Temperature

Submitted by Information Retrieval on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @10:43AM

Information Retrieval writes: Global temperature, a widely cited measure of global warming, is being challenged by Bjarne Andresen, a professor at The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen in collaboration with professors Christopher Essex from University of Western Ontario and Ross McKitrick from University of Guelph, Canada. According to http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/07031 5101129.htm, the professors challenge the metric as

thermodynamically as well as mathematically an impossibility
I've also noticed that the wikipedia has no free standing, detailed definition or justification of the global temperature metric. Given that this is such a hot topic, I wondered if Slashdotters could elaborate on the physical basis for relating this particular metric to global warming.

UK Schools At Risk of Microsoft Lock-In 162

Posted by kdawson on Thursday January 11, 2007 @12:51PM from the apple-for-the-teacher dept.

Robert writes "UK schools and colleges that have signed up to Microsoft Corp's academic licensing programs face the significant potential of being locked in to the company's software, according to an interim review by Becta, the UK government agency responsible for technology in education. The report also states that most establishments surveyed do not believe that Microsoft's licensing agreements provide value for money." In a separate report, Becta offered the opinion that schools should avoid Vista for at least another year, since neither Vista nor Office 2007 offers any compelling reasons for schools to upgrade.

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