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Submission + - Fluke Donates Real Multimeters to SparkFun as goodwill gesture (facebook.com)

Submitted by Actually, I do RTFA on Friday March 21, 2014 @12:22PM

Actually, I do RTFA writes: We recently heard about the confiscation of a delivery of multimeters to SparkFun for infringing on Fluke's trademark. One common thread in the discussions was the theme that Fluke should have let that shipment through ("lawyers" argued about the legal ramifications of it) as a goodwill gesture to SparkFun and the Maker community. Well, Fluke did one better. They announced they were sending more than $30k worth of official multimeters to SparkFun for them to do whatever they want with.

SparkFun is most likely going to give them away.

A great example of win-win-win?

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Feed Ars Technica: Office 2011 for Mac arrives with Outlook, online collaboration (arstechnica.com)

From feed by feedfeeder on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @12:12PM

Microsoft announced Tuesday that Office 2011 for Mac is now available. The update to the ubiquitous productivity suite includes a number of major additions, including the return of Visual Basic scripting, the replacement of Entourage with a Mac version of Outlook, and integration with Microsoft's online collaboration tools.

In addition to Word, Excel, and Powerpointessentially the standards for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations in the business worldOffice 2011 also includes a brand new version of Outlook, the combination e-mail, calendar, and contact management application. Outlook 2011 is engineered to connect with Microsoft's Exchange enterprise e-mail servers, so Mac users in corporate environments will most appreciate the change.

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Submission + - NVIDIA to exit chipset business (pcper.com)

Submitted by Vigile on Thursday October 08, 2009 @10:23PM

Vigile writes: Once the darling of the enthusiast chipset market, NVIDIA has apparently decided to quit development of future chipsets for all platforms. This "state of NVIDIA" editorial at PC Perspective first highlighted the fact that the company was backing away from its plans to develop a DMI-based chipset for Intel's Lynnfield processors due to legal pressure from Intel and debates over licensing restrictions. That effectively left NVIDIA out in the cold in terms of high-end chipsets, but even more interesting is the later revelation that NVIDIA has only one remaining chipset product to release, what we know as ION 2, and that it was mainly built for Apple's upcoming products. NVIDIA still plans to sell its current offerings, like MCP61 for AMD platforms and current generation ION for netbooks and nettops, but will focus solely on discrete graphics options after this final release.

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Submission + - Dell Uses ARM Processor In X86 Laptop

Submitted by chrb on Friday October 02, 2009 @11:43AM

chrb writes: Dell's new Latitude Z laptop includes an unusual feature — an ARM processor, alledgedly codenamed BlackTop which runs a modified version of Suse Linux, and is capable of near-instant bootup. Dell's research has apparently found that some early users spend 70% of their time in the Linux environment.

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Submission + - AMD Radeon HD 5870 adds DX11, multi-monitor gaming (pcper.com)

Submitted by

Vigile

on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @02:21AM

Vigile writes: "Few people will doubt that PC gaming is in need of a significant shot in the arm with the consistent encroachment of consoles and their dominating hold on developers. Today AMD is releasing the Radeon HD 5870 graphics card based on the Evergreen-series of GPUs first demonstrated in June. Besides offering new best-in-class performance for a single-GPU graphics board, the new card is easily the most power efficient in terms of idle power consumption and performance per watt. Not only that but AMD has introduced new features that could help keep PC gaming in the spotlight including the first DirectX 11 implementation and a very impressive multi-monitor gaming technology called AMD Eyefinity. The review at PC Perspective includes the full gamut of gaming benchmarks in both single- and dual-GPU configurations as well as videos of Eyefinity running on three 30" displays."

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International Field Engineer Travel Tips? 85

Posted by timothy on Friday June 06, 2008 @12:37PM from the just-what's-in-your-emergency-repair-kit dept.

ShamelessHero writes "I was recently hired as a Field Engineer, deploying servers, workstations and peripherals to sites around the globe. I try and travel light, but try as I might, the Emergency Repair Kit has ruined three sets of luggage so far. I know there are Slashdotters here who travel internationally and through some treacherous environs. What are the best travel tips you've come up with? Recommendations for durable, light yet large luggage are much appreciated."

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