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Shakespeare In Klingon? 80

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 30, 2010 @10:15AM from the you-have-not-experienced-Shakespeare-until-you-have-read-him-in-the-original-Klingon dept.

stevegee58 writes "As if the Klingon opera described recently here at Slashdot weren't enough, here's an interesting offering for Shakespeare buffs. The Washington Shakespeare Company (based in Arlington VA) will soon be performing selections from Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing in Klingon."

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Open Sarcasm Fighting Copyrighted Punctuation 155

Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 26, 2010 @10:51AM from the free-language dept.

pinkushun writes "SarcMark is a copyrighted punctuation mark, that claims 'It's time that sarcasm is treated equally!' Pretty damn cheeky while they're charging for their software, which only inserts their punctuation through a hotkey. Open Sarcasm is destroying SarcMark by advocating a new punctuation mark (not displaying here properly — alt+U0161) as the new open and free sarcasm symbol. Either way, this will be one interesting turnout. With bad unicode support across the web, displaying the characters properly might be an issue. PS Left out sarcastic end sentence as Slashdot doesn't display the U0161 character."

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Recent Sales Hint That Tape For Storage Is Far From Dead 228

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 10, 2010 @05:50PM from the didn't-you-know-that-tar-is-sticky? dept.

hightechchick writes "Staples' business-to-business sales of backup tape for storage are experiencing a bit of a revival. What's next, a return to dumb terminals and mainframes (a la cloud computing)?"

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New LLVM Debugger Subproject Already Faster Than GDB 174

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 10, 2010 @03:38PM from the pop-will-eat-itself dept.

kthreadd writes "The LLVM project is now working on a debugger called LLDB that's already faster than GDB and could be a possible alternative in the future for C, C++, and Objective-C developers. With the ongoing success of Clang and other LLVM subprojects, are the days of GNU as the mainstream free and open development toolchain passé?" LLVM stands for Low Level Virtual Machine; Wikipedia as usual has a good explanation of the parent project.

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Lower Merion School's Report Says IT Dept. Did It, But Didn't Inhale 232

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 06, 2010 @03:46PM from the so-what's-a-few-snapshots-anyhow dept.

PSandusky writes "A report issued by the Lower Merion School District's chosen law firm blames the district's IT department for the laptop webcam spying scandal. In particular, the report mentions lax IT policies and record-keeping as major problems that enabled the spying. Despite thousands of e-mails and images to the contrary, the report also maintains that no proof exists that anyone in IT viewed images captured by the webcams."

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Secret Service Runs At "Six Sixes" Availability 248

Posted by timothy on Friday February 26, 2010 @08:56PM from the only-need-half-as-many dept.

PCM2 writes "ABC News is reporting that the US Secret Service is in dire need of server upgrades. 'Currently, 42 mission-oriented applications run on a 1980s IBM mainframe with a 68 percent performance reliability rating,' says one leaked memo. That finding was the result of an NSA study commissioned by the Secret Service to evaluate the severity of their computer problems. Curiously, upgrades to the Service's computers are being championed by Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who says he's had 'concern for a while' about the issue."

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Comment Re:epson (Upgrade from 2480) (Score 1) 112

by ZahrGnosis on Tuesday April 11, 2006 @08:08PM (#15110042) Attached to: Digitizing a Large Amount of Photos?

I picked up the Epson 2480 when it came out; kind of an earlier version of the 3590. It's fantastic for large volume home-quality photo archiving, but wasn't up to scale for "professional" scans; film, print, or otherwise. I don't know if the 3590 has improved much, but a few tidbits of advice:

I had a lot of photos of varying sizes; even slightly varying, as if from different photo labs, but the same "size". A stack needs to pretty much be exactly the same width or the feeder gets confused.
Keeping the stack in the feeder filled is important. It would be nice if they could increase the capacity, but generally I was feeding 20-30 photos every, well, 15-20 minutes, or longer on higher quality scans.
I improved the quality of scans much better by simply wiping off each print with a lint-free cloth before scanning than I did by changing any settings on the scanner. In fact, the default "Home" mode on Epson's software was very good. Other than removing dust, wiping the photos makes sure none of the photos are stuck together, which makes things go much more smoothly.

Really, tho, great products -- HP had come out with something similar a year or so before the 2480; I forget the product, but it had trouble with scratching the photos that scanned through it. Ouchie. The Epson didn't cause any such trouble.

Enjoy the scanning!

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