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Submission + - New Sunage Info and Website Fianlly Released!

Submitted by

Dangerman

on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @01:37PM

Dangerman writes: "For all who may not know. Sunage is a classic style 2d RTS that has been in development for over a decade. The graphics are amazing, and I have been looking forward to its release for months. Vertex 4 (the company that is making it) just gave us the mother load of new FAQs, screen shots, and news on the new website that just opened. The release is slated for September. http://www.vertex4.com/sunage/ There it is, you can thank me later."

Submission + - Bigelow Aerospace Fast-Tracks Manned Spacecraft (space.com)

Submitted by

Raver32

on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @01:20PM

Raver32 writes: "Following the successful launch and deployment of two inflatable space modules, on Monday the owner and founder of Bigelow Aerospace announced plans to move ahead with the launch of its first human habitable spacecraft, the Sundancer. The decision to fast-track Sundancer was made in part to rising launch costs as well as the ability to test some systems on the ground, company CEO Robert Bigelow said in a press statement. "As anyone associated with the aerospace industry is aware, global launch costs have been rising rapidly over the course of the past few years," Bigelow is quoted as saying. "These price hikes have been most acute in Russia due to a number of factors including inflation, previous artificially low launch costs and the falling value of the U.S. dollar.""

Submission + - Attosecond X-ray light pulses

Submitted by

Roland Piquepaille

on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @01:05PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "Before going further, do you know what is an attosecond? It's just a billionth of a billionth of a second. And German researchers have showed that a 'flash of light can be shorter than the time it takes the wave carrying the flash to perform a full oscillation.' They were able to generate flashes of laser light so intense that the atoms exposed to it emit an attosecond X-ray pulse 'whose wave components, if oscillating more slowly, would represent nearly all colors of visible light, all the way from blue through green and yellow to red.' Even if this discovery made the cover of the August 10 issue of Science, don't expect an immediate impact on us, but it sure will accelerate basic research on material properties. Read more for additional references and a schematic of the experimental setup used for attosecond-pulse generation."

Submission + - Microsoft on Linux and Windows Interoperability (technet.com)

Submitted by markstinson on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @01:02PM

markstinson writes: I thought many would find it entertaining. Time to spread some more jam on that Microsoft & Novell sandwich. It's the latest from Microsoft's Port 25 on "Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire" giving at both OSCON in Portland and at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. It even comes with slides.
http://port25.technet.com/archive/2007/08/13/Inter operab-on-the-metal-and-on-the-wire.aspx

Submission + - Crowther's Original Adventure Source Code Found!

Submitted by drxenos on Monday August 13, 2007 @05:05PM

drxenos writes: I don't know how many of you are fans of old-school text adventures (interactive fiction), but Will Crowther's original Fortran source code has been located in a backup of Don Wood's old student account. For fans like me, this is like finding the Holy Grail. link: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.int-fictio n/browse_thread/thread/607acaf1a279d4dd/bd53b672a1 85d177#bd53b672a185d177

Submission + - Java Barcode API 1

Submitted by oddtoad on Monday August 13, 2007 @05:04PM

oddtoad writes: I'm working on a Java project and we need to print bar code labels from our application. I'd like to use an existing API but after quite a bit of googling I've been unable to locate a quality product. Can anybody suggest a good bar code label printing product that can be called from a Java app?

Submission + - How our broadband future was stolen

Submitted by teutonic_leech on Monday August 13, 2007 @04:48PM

teutonic_leech writes: Cringely's final part of a three-part article series explains how Americans were deceived and defrauded by many of their telephone companies to the tune of $200 billion — money that was supposed to have gone to pay for a broadband future we don't — and never will — have.

Submission + - Man surgically alters thumbs to better use iPhone

Submitted by taliesinangelus on Monday August 13, 2007 @03:29PM

taliesinangelus writes: This 'faux article' can be found here on the North Denver News site: http://northdenvernews.com/content/view/922/2/ The editor's note is very revealing: http://northdenvernews.com/content/view/925/2/ The CBN (Christian Broadcast Network) and certain blogs picked this up as a real news story and ran it along with commentary.

Submission + - OLPC news: Children's Reviews of the OLPC

Submitted by A. N. Onymous on Monday August 13, 2007 @02:44PM

A. N. Onymous writes: The OLPCNews got a short story about childrens reaction on the OLPC XO.
My first impression is "its just like when you give a kid a box of Lego".

Submission + - How can you spot secure software at a distance? (360is.com)

Submitted by

nickh01uk

on Monday August 13, 2007 @02:39PM

nickh01uk writes: "Independent security researchers have compiled a list of their most frequently recommended security infrastructure components, drawn out the common threads that each shares, and attempt to answer the question "What makes this software so uncommonly good?". They then use this knowledge to put forward a straw-man for evaluating future tools and software for use in secure environments. Not everyone will agree with their choices, but many will appreciate the conclusions."

Submission + - The Real-Life Colossal Cave (textfiles.com)

Submitted by

Jason Scott

on Monday August 13, 2007 @12:11PM

Jason Scott writes: "While working on my documentary on text adventure games, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dennis Jerz, who has dedicated part of his scholarly studies to Colossal Cave/ADVENT, the original text adventure. This game is based on an actual cave system in Kentucky (part of the Mammoth Cave system) and Jerz actually traveled to this cave, took photos, and worked on a great paper discussing not only the similarities of the cave system, but the differences in approach to the game between the original creator of Adventure (Will Crowther) who was a caver, and Don Woods, who was not. The paper just got published online and is a great read. It turns out you can't just "xyzzy" your way in..."

Submission + - Ziff Davis Launches Green Technology Site (goodcleantech.com)

Submitted by

mikemuch

on Monday August 13, 2007 @11:17AM

mikemuch writes: "Part of Ziff's suite of newer blog-style sites like Appscout and Gearlog, the new GoodCleanTech launched last Thursday and focuses on all things green and technical. Recent entries include stuff like a tidal turbine project in the East River, a wind-up MP3 player, and a combo solar/electric barbecue. And of course there's reportage of Al Gore's every movement."

Submission + - SCO owes Novel 95 percent of UNIX royalties (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by

unixguy56

on Monday August 13, 2007 @11:11AM

unixguy56 writes: "Its finally the end of SCO. A Federal Judge has ruled that SCO never owned Unix copyrights and will have to Pay 95 percent of UNIX Royalties."

Submission + - "Adventure" in Code and in Kentucky

Submitted by Cosmicbandito on Monday August 13, 2007 @10:25AM

Cosmicbandito writes: Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original "Adventure" in Code and in Kentucky. Discussion of original game source code, different versions of the game, hand draw maps, and lots of great photos inside the cave the game is based on.

Submission + - SCO Says It's Down But Not Out In Linux Case (itworld.com)

Submitted by

narramissic

on Monday August 13, 2007 @10:15AM

narramissic writes: "A district court judge ruled Friday that SCO does not own the copyrights to the Unix operating system, undermining its cases against both Novell and IBM Corp. The ruling was seen by many as the death-knell in SCO's legal fight, but the fight may not yet be over. 'Although the district judge ruled in Novell's favor on important issues, the case has not yet been fully vetted by the legal system and we will continue to explore our options with respect to how we move forward from here,' the company in a posting on its Web site."

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