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Comment Re:Linux (Score 1) 348

by DarthThor on Saturday September 06, 2008 @09:32AM (#24900093) Attached to: Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2

Can't say I've noticed many features in FF Windows builds that isn't in Linux builds (I run pretty much an identical Firefox setup on my home Linux Desktop and my work Laptop in terms of versions, themes and extensions) Not sure about optimisation work however, but each time Windows users have reported speed increases or better memory handling in new Firefox versions, I've noticed it in the Linux builds, so while the performance may not be as good in Windows, I think it is bit much to infer there isn't being any work done.

Journal Journal: Software company sues online forum

Journal by naught101 on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @04:25AM

An Australian accounting software company has sued one of the maintainers of the whirlpool broadband discussion forum. An article in the Sydney Morning Herald explains that the company, 2Clix, sued forum maintainer Simon Wright, after a number of users complained about the company's software not living up to it's claims. The case is an out-

Submission + - Software companies sues popular Australian forum (whirlpool.net.au) 3

Submitted by Pugzly on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @07:25AM

Pugzly writes: In a recent announcement on the Whirlpool front page, it appears that accounting software maker 2clix is sueing the founder of the forums as the founder "allowed statements 'relating to the Plaintiff and its software product that are both false and malicious' to be published on the Whirlpool forums."
Hopefully sanity will prevail, but it is the legal system...

Submission + - Einstein's spooky action leads to quantum computer

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Friday September 07, 2007 @12:25AM

Stony Stevenson writes: Physicists at the University of Michigan have demonstrated how two separate atoms can communicate with a sort of 'quantum intuition' which Albert Einstein referred to as "spooky". In doing so, the researchers have made an advance towards super-fast quantum computing and even a quantum internet.

The scientists used light to establish an "entanglement" between two atoms, which were trapped one metre apart in separate enclosures. "This link between remote atoms could be the fundamental piece of a radically new quantum computer architecture," said Professor Christopher Monroe, the principal investigator on the project who is now at the University of Maryland. "Now that the technique has been demonstrated, it should be possible to scale it up to networks of many interconnected components that will eventually be necessary for quantum information processing."

Australian Comedy Group Prods APEC Security 244

Posted by kdawson on Thursday September 06, 2007 @08:50AM from the blame-canada dept.

ajdlinux writes "Members of the Australian comedy group The Chaser were arrested today after attempting to breach security at the APEC Leaders Conference in Sydney. Chas Licciardello and Julian Morrow were arrested, along with nine crew members (all are now free on bail), just a short distance away from the InterContinental Hotel where President Bush is staying. They had already cleared at least two police checkpoints, according to CNN, disguised as a Canadian motorcade. 'No particular reason we chose Canada,' said Taylor. 'We just thought they'd be a country who the cops wouldn't scrutinize too closely, and who feasibly would only have three cars in their motorcade — as opposed to the 20 or so gas guzzlers that Bush has brought with him.'" CNN has a photo of Licciardello, dressed as Osama bin Laden, being arrested.

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