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Submission + - Project at Sun aims for a more Linux-like Solaris

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @10:44PM

An anonymous reader writes: A project at Sun Microsystems code-named "Indiana", led by Debian founder now Sun employee Ian Murdock, aims to make Solaris more like Linux to appeal more to developers who use Linux.

From the article, "Sun has been trying for years to restore the luster of Solaris, a version of Unix that peaked in popularity in the late 1990s, but that since has faced a strong challenge chiefly from Linux. Sun has worked to reinvigorate Solaris by boosting its performance, offering it as a free download, making it an open-source project called OpenSolaris, and pushing a version that runs on servers using Intel's and AMD's mainstream x86 processors ... Sun wants to embrace some Linux elements so 'we make Solaris a better Linux than Linux,' Murdock said, quoting Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, whose latest start-up, Ning, uses Solaris."

Linux has strived to be POSIX-compliant and conform to the Single UNIX Specification, but now it looks like Sun has plans to make Solaris a better fit for Linux users as well.

Submission + - Ways People Screw Up AJAX

Submitted by

foo

on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @10:35PM

foo writes: "People are aware of the good that technologies such as AJAX have added to sites such as gmail, digg, and slashdot. The negative aspects and implementations of AJAX have mostly avoided by the media and are rarely spoken. CGISecurity has published a top 5 list of problems which can be encountered by implementing AJAX improperly."

Submission + - UPDATE : Long Range Eye Tracking for Advertisers

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @10:11PM

Stony Stevenson writes: Roel Vertegaal, the developer of the eyebox2 says although his device is not designed to be used in an Orwellian capacity, it's a very real possibility.

From the article: "But although Vertegaal ruled out the marriage of the eyebox2 technology with retina scanners or image capturing devices, he conceded the possibility was out there and warned that if customers chose to combine the eyebox2 technology with other image capturing devices, there was little his company could do about it.

"[Already], face recognition software is being used in Europe to track shopping mall theft," he said. "While we do not encourage such use, and given that our cameras cannot identify people or provide images, it still seems these directions are already being taken by other companies regardless of our hardware."

Submission + - Domain Profiteering from the Va. Tech Shootings

Submitted by Radon360 on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @09:41PM

Radon360 writes: Within hours of the Virginia Tech shooting rampage, dozens of domain names that reflected this tragedy were snapped up by those looking to profit from the later auction and sale of these names. Cybersquatting on popular word combinations after a big news event is not uncommon. However, at what point does making money from other people's misfortunes cross the line? When the names of the victims were released, domains such as jarrettlane.com were also claimed.

Shredded Secret Police Files Being Reassembled 222

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @09:30PM from the burn-the-papers-from-now-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "German researchers at the Frauenhofer Institute said Wednesday that they were launching an attempt to reassemble millions of shredded East German secret police files using complicated computerized algorithms. The files were shredded as the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and it became clear that the East German regime was finished. Panicking officials of the Stasi secret police attempted to destroy the vast volumes of material they had kept on everyone from their own citizens to foreign leaders."

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