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Submission + - Palm kills Foleo to focus on Linux-only platform (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by

Unequivocal

on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @07:46PM

Unequivocal writes: "The Inquirer is reporting that "Ed Colligan said on his blog that the firm won't be releasing its Foleo 'mobile companion' device, to focus on a 'single software platform' — Linux — for the company's upcoming phones.

The Foleo was 'close to shipping' according to Colligan, and that means that a lot of wonga went down a hole: 'This decision will require us to take a limited charge of less than $10 million dollars to our earnings. This is a lot of money, but it is a small price relative to the costs that would be required to support two platforms going forward.'"

Is this a mark of Linux finally being accepted by corporate IT/development for high profile end-user projects? Would this mean the days of standards-creep and OS lockout are finally waning?"

Submission + - NetBSD 4.0 RC1 Released (netbsd.org)

Submitted by

Daniel Sieger

on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @02:36PM

Daniel Sieger writes: "The NetBSD Release Engineering Team announced the release of NetBSD 4.0 RC1 today. The release candidate is directly available from the project's FTP server. A list of significant changes and features can be found here."

Submission + - Direct to Disk Video Patent Lawsuit (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by

soapthgr8

on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @02:03PM

soapthgr8 writes: "The Inquirer reports on a new patent lawsuit submitted by Mediostream against Apple, Acer, Dell, and Gateway. Allegedly, the four companies infringed upon a patent describing a "method and system for direct recording of video information onto a disk medium.""

Submission + - Sony insults Halo 3 on Wikipedia (n4g.com)

Submitted by on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @01:14PM

An anonymous reader writes: N4G is reporting on the recent finding that Sony has edited the Halo article at Wikipedia to add a slur regarding Halo 3. The edit consisted in adding "(Halo 3) wont look any better than Halo 2.", and has been traced back to a computer at SCEE (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe). Since then, the article has been corrected and protected from further vandalism.

Submission + - Bill Nye, The Atheist Guy? (functionalisminaction.com)

Submitted by

IConrad01

on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @12:40PM

IConrad01 writes: "Functionalism In Action: Bill Nye The Atheist Guy? is a remix of news that might not have gotten the play it should have: Apparently, Bill Nye made the unforgivable cardinal sin — in Waco, TX no less — of correcting the Bible's Genesis story — specifically, Genesis 1:16, which reads "God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars." Turns out, as a guest speaker at a community college, he pointed out that the moon is actually a reflector, not a light.

What's next? Shall we challenge the idea that the sun goes 'round the earth?"

Submission + - Paramount, Dreamworks go HD-DVD exclusive (cnn.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 20, 2007 @02:55PM

An anonymous reader writes: Paramount, Dreamworks go HD-DVD exclusive. Animation and film studios will release movies exclusively in HD DVD format, despite higher sales of rival Blu-Ray.

Submission + - Voyager 2 30 years (nasa.gov)

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Mick Ohrberg

on Monday August 20, 2007 @02:48PM

Mick Ohrberg writes: "The Voyager 2 spacecraft (part of the ongoing Voyager Mission) today celebrates 30 years of faithful service, by far surpassing the 4 years that was its inteded lifespan. Voyager 2 is today 7.8 billion miles from the sun, placing it almost as far out as the heliopause. At the speed of light that's about 12 hours away, and it's clocking about 1 million miles per day. Voyager 1, launched a couple of weeks after Voyager 2, is at 9.7 billion miles from the sun the farthest man-made object. So when are we going to get around to sending up Voyager 6?"

Submission + - Startup Tilera ships multicore. Yes it runs linux

Submitted by

Xiph1980

on Monday August 20, 2007 @01:38PM

Xiph1980 writes: "The article seems to be poorly written, but talks about the new startupcompany Tilera and their multicore chip "TILE64"

Sorry for the not so correct topic, but there seems to be a topic missing for general CPU's, not by AMD, IBM or Intel..

Startup Tilera announced Monday that the company has begun shipping what you might call a "mega-multicore" chip, the TILE64, one that can scale to hundreds or thousands of cores.

Tilera actually builds in a tiny network switch into each core, which it calls iMesh (think "interactive," not Apple), which routes data to all the other network switches, and from there to the other processors. The combination of the switch plus the processor is called a "tile".
The iMesh provides each tile with more than a terabit of bandwidth, creating a more efficient distributed architecture and eliminating the on-chip data congestion, according to Tilera.

"

Submission + - White Number 7 Appears On Cow Born July 7

Submitted by Rio on Thursday July 12, 2007 @05:56PM

Rio writes: A large white birthmark resembling the number 7 has become visible on the forehead of a cow born on July 7, 2007, or 07-07-07, according to a WKMG-TV report. The cow, born at Dry Gulch Farms in Wild Rose, Wis., on July 7 is named Lucky 7. "It's quite remarkable I think," Garth Towne said.

Submission + - Playing Games With Your Significant Other

Submitted by rabydanimal on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @02:52PM

rabydanimal writes: I'm sure many a Slashdotter has been vexed by this conundrum: What video games can I play with my significant other? Sure there are hardcore female gamers out there but the fact of the matter is most male gamers have girlfriends and wives that just can't be bothered with space marines, gun fights, and racing sims. Growing up with the NES, the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis many people from my generation enjoy simple, classic gaming. My girlfriend is no exception. She enjoys games that she can learn quickly, are challenging and don't involve killing people. I have contemplated buying entirely new game systems (i.e. the Wii) with the hope that at least one game for that system is appealing to her so we can play together. What modern, non-violent games and systems does the Slashdot community recommend for a girlfriend of a gaming nerd?

Submission + - Are XServers on Win32 (Xwin/Xming) dead?

Submitted by afa on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @10:21AM

afa writes: Unlike the continuous development of Xorg trunk, the XServers for Win32 platforms, i.e. Cygwin/X and Xming seems to be laid aside for quite long time. Although there are something already running at present, even part of OpenGL accelerations, fully support of indirect OpenGL acceleration (see also, Cygwin/X To-Do List ) is still somewhere halfway. Does that mean that we could never show off beryl's eye-candy upon VMWare or simply we do not need such functionality in MS Windows?

Submission + - Does SPF really work?

Submitted by

Intelopment

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @12:08AM

Intelopment writes: "My Domain name has recently been used a lot as the REPLY field by some inconsiderate spammer and my ISP has suggested that I consider using the Open SPF service (http://openspf.org/) as a way to stop spammers from using my domain name for their REPLY field. From what I can tell it requires the receiving mail server to actually participate in the SPF service, which is where I get my doubts. Does anyone have any experience with this service? Does it work? Are many ISPs using openSFP?"

Submission + - Are spaces in filenames worth it?

Submitted by innocent_white_lamb on Monday May 28, 2007 @05:48PM

innocent_white_lamb writes: After yet another episode of having a perfectly good script (this one straight out of a book, in fact) fail due to a space in a filename, I was just thinking.... Do you think that the "convenience" of having spaces as allowed characters in a filename outweighs the special processing that having a space in a filename requires when you are trying to do something from the commandline? Even if you're typing a simple command, you still have to use a \ in front of every space in the filename, which adds characters to what you're typing. And in bash scripting you get into little joys like single and double quotes and so on.

In the day of DOS, you had to work at it to get a space into a filename. (And with 8.3 you generally wouldn't want to waste that character even if you could do it easily.)

My Letter to Aunt Sally.txt is indeed somewhat more readable than MyLetterToAuntSally.txt, but is it sufficiently better as to justify the additional special handling it will require if you're trying to deal with it from a commandline?

Submission + - Alternative Enterprise Desktop Solutions?

Submitted by sinco on Saturday May 26, 2007 @02:35AM

sinco writes: Since Microsoft Vista's pricing and hardware requirements increased, I am currently in the process of evaluating alternative solutions for our enterprise desktop computing environment. I have been evaluating Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 as well looking into the other potential cost saving solutions such as using thin-clients. Our organization has about 3,000 computers. Out of that we'd like to target employees that use the basic applications (word processing, email, web browsing) and if successful move forward from there. I was wondering what was your recent experience of migrating from Windows to Linux on the desktop with your enterprise in relation to cost and ease? Also, what is your opinion or experience of using thin-clients as an alternative to the traditional fat client for the enterprise desktop?

Submission + - NFS vs. Samba for backing up a Mac to Linux?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24, 2007 @08:22PM

An anonymous reader writes: I want to back up my MacBook Pro to a big hard drive on my Linux server. How should I mount the Linux filesystem on OSX for maximum throughput for the backup? I've been using Samba so far, but it is far slower than it should be on my Gigabit network, using Apples otherwise very nice Backup.app software. Any recommendations for the optimal setup? Are there other choices than NFS and Samba?

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