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Linux Notebooks Selling Well On Amazon Germany 207

Posted by kdawson on Sunday July 26, 2009 @04:40AM from the next-stop-world-domination dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "The LinuxTech.net blog points out that Linux notebooks are currently selling quite well on Amazon's list in Germany. The blog includes screenshots showing the Linux Asus and Aspire notebooks in positions 2 and 4, respectively, on that list. These machines are not netbooks, but full notebooks, albeit on the moderate to low side regarding price and performance. That LinuxTech.net blog was dated 23 July 2009, and the Asus machine is still holding second place more than one day later, while the Acer machine slipped to fifth position, despite the volatile nature of Amazon bestseller lists. While these two data points are just snapshots in time, they are consistent with other data showing that Microsoft itself attributes some of its recent weak earnings to surging sales of low-end notebooks, as well as data showing that the Linux-powered and Unix-powered computers topped Amazon's sales charts in all categories for 2007. If there is to ever be a 'year of desktop (or laptop) Linux', it won't happen all at once, but will creep up in ways similar to what we are seeing now."

Opera Develops Search Engine For Web Developers 31

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 18, 2008 @02:06AM from the web-devs-need-love-too dept.

nk497 writes "The Metadata Analysis and Mining Application (MAMA) doesn't index content like a standard search engine, but looks at markup, style, scripting and the technology behind pages. Based on those existing MAMA-ed pages, 80.4 per cent of sites use cascading style sheets (CSS), while the average web page has 47 markup errors and 16,400 characters. Should you want to know which country is using the AJAX component XMLHttpRequest the most, MAMA can tell you that it's Norway, with 10.2 per cent of the data set." Additional coverage is available at Computerworld, and a deeper explanation is up at Opera's Dev site.

Comment Re:How motherboards are made (Score 1, Interesting) 141

by Chronowerx on Saturday June 16, 2007 @09:36AM (#19531553) Attached to: How Motherboards Are Made

That about sums up the reporters knowledge of the process - why they didn't send someone with an ounce of insight into the process escapes me!
"I don't know what this machine does, maybe it makes the boards" - it's the damn screen printer that pastes the solder onto the board, and the woman isn't "removing the edges" she's stuck in a tiny booth all day removing flux from the through hole components.
I can think of heaps of peole, myself included, who would have loved a trip like this, and could have made a detailed write up that made sense, and did justice to the hard work and conditions those people work in.
/rant over

Future of Video Games Outside the Home, DisneyQuest 103

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 29, 2006 @02:24PM from the taking-your-quarters dept.

gatzke writes "Some interesting developments have been coming online with new technology being developed that may lead to new and exciting gaming outside the home. DisneyQuest in Orlando mixes classic / modern video games with virtual reality and interactive games. MagiQuest in Myrtle Beach is an immersive interactive treasure hunt environment with a simple wand interface."

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