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Submission + - The Device NASA Is Leaving Behind

Submitted by iminplaya on Sunday December 02, 2007 @02:39AM

iminplaya writes: After years of delays, NASA hopes to launch this week a European-built laboratory that will greatly expand the research capability of the international space station. Although some call it a milestone, the launch has focused new attention on the space agency's earlier decision to back out of plans to send up a different, $1.5 billion device — one that many scientists contend would produce far more significant knowledge. "...it would be a true international disgrace if this instrument ends up as a museum piece that never is used."

Submission + - Google Pages to be replaced by JotSpot (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

fyc

on Sunday December 02, 2007 @01:10AM

fyc writes: "According to a presentation by Scott Johnson, ex-JotSpot executive and recent Google employee, the JotSpot wiki service acquired late last year by Google is to replace Google's own Pages service. The new service will be called as "Google Sites" and will launch next year. From the presentation: "Based on JotSpot collaboration tools, Sites will allow business to set up intranets, project management tracking, customer extranets, and any number of custom sites based on multi-user collaboration.""

Submission + - New 64-bit Operating System Released (losethos.com)

Submitted by

losethos

on Saturday December 01, 2007 @11:34PM

losethos writes: "LoseThos is a free, open-source 64-bit PC operating system written from a clean slate. It features graphics, links and trees in source code and at the command-line. The command-line feeds into a C compiler line by line so you don't have a crappy shell like linux — you have a real programming language at the command line. See videos for a truely unique interface. Instead of icons, you have unbounded scalable vector graphics which send a macro to the command line. Version 3.13 has been release. It has compiler optimizations and much faster disk access."

Submission + - Shatner and Mr. T Wow players?

Submitted by SpacePunk on Saturday December 01, 2007 @11:25PM

SpacePunk writes: Ok, unless you've been living under a rock you've seen the World Of Warcraft commercials featuring William Shatner and Mr. T. Do they actually play WoW, or is it just false advertisement?

Submission + - Google Desktop for Linux released (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

Cyvros

on Thursday June 28, 2007 @03:13AM

Cyvros writes: "After a long wait and a release for Mac OSX, Google has released Google Desktop for Linux. From the article:

Not only can you rediscover important documents that have been idling on your hard drive for years, but you can also search through emails saved in Gmail or other applications. All office files, including documents and slides created with OpenOffice.org can be easily found.

Now a serious competitor to existing desktop search systems, such as Beagle, all three versions (Windows, OSX and Linux) are now available on the Desktop site."

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