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Submission + - Georgia Governor to Pray for Rain (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by

cwolfsheep

on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @10:22PM

cwolfsheep writes: ""What to do when the rain won't come? If you're Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, you pray." According to an AP story, Georgia's governor, Sonny Perdue, plans to hold a prayer service on November 13th to ask God for rain. Most of the State of Georgia is reporting moderate or severe drought as of November 7th."

Submission + - Bill Gates voted IT's most influential person

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @09:58PM

Stony Stevenson writes: Bill Gate, Steve Jobs, and Michael Dell rank one, two, and three in a list of the most influential people in IT over the past 25 years. The list was compiled by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), a tech trade group with 22,000 members. The poll got 473 votes, mostly from people who have worked in the tech industry for at least three years. Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, was selected by 84% of the participants. Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple, was selected by 73% of those taking the poll. Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, got the nod from 53% of CompTIA voters. Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, made the list with 47% of the vote, tying for fourth place with Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Strangely absent from the list is anyone responsible for pushing the computer gaming envelope.

Submission + - Red Hat Releases RHEL 5.1, Includes Virtualization (linuxelectrons.com)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @09:45PM

eldavojohn writes: "Red Hat has announced their release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 which includes integrated virtualization. Also of note, "Red Hat Enterprise Linux is also available on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a web service that provides resizeable compute capacity in the cloud. This collaboration makes all the capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including the Red Hat Network management service, world-class technical support and over 3,400 certified applications, available to customers on Amazon's proven network infrastructure and datacenters.""

Feed S.E.C. Moves Against Spam That Pushes Hot Stocks (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Friday March 09, 2007 @12:12AM

The S.E.C. suspended trading in 35 stocks promoted in recent spam campaigns and said further investigation could lead to arrests.

Submission + - Fog Machine Blinds Car Thieves

Submitted by

aariasp

on Thursday March 08, 2007 @10:58PM

aariasp writes: "Thieve brakes into car, car sprays him with thick fog so that he can't see anything. He can't take items from the car or try to drive away. Very public too. Story has been picked up by wired, c-net, Gizmodo, etc... http://www.wired.com/news/technology/autotech/0,72 886-0.html?tw=wn_index_6 http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-26476.html http://www.nextlust.com/ http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/flashfog-car-se curity-this-time-the-fog-is-inside-the-car-242183. php We had this product for retail stores, but it's also proving popular for cars. also at http://www.burglarysecurity.com/"

Submission + - Command line list in Windows Vista

Submitted by

JamesVista

on Thursday March 08, 2007 @10:47PM

JamesVista writes: "Windows Vista is seen as a vast improvement graphically, over Windows XP, however for administrators and other power users, the command line will sill be open every half an hour to get to the core of the operating system when the mouse is lost in favor of the keyboard. Hundreds of programs can be spawned from the command line as well with additional switches to give you a much more powerful control over the GUI. The command line may not be Linux but it is still powerful enough not to forget about and sometimes finding those commands can require some serious searching! This list of commands explains it all in terms of commands easily found as well as those tucked away, plus commands to get straight into settings and less known GUI applications contained within the vista operating system."

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