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Open Source-Friendly Smartphones For the Small Office? 222

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 21, 2010 @03:49PM from the ethics-schmethics dept.

Thunderstruck writes "I work in a small office with just two computers. Both machines run long-term-service releases of Ubuntu, with Gnome, and Evolution for scheduling, contact management and electronic mail. We plan to stick with Linux long-term. For telephone service, we're using smartphones. In order to keep everything straight, we need phones that can synchronize easily with the calendars and contact data on each owner's desktop machine. We cannot use cloud based services for this function due to ethics rules, and for security reasons. Right now, we do all of this with older Palm phones, but these are a dying breed. What options are out there right now for phones that will sync with Evolution (or another good Linux PIM suite) which do not require data to go through the cloud first?"

Mars Images Reveal Evidence of Ancient Lakes 128

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @11:39AM from the older-I-get-the-wetter-mars-was dept.

Matt_dk writes "Spectacular satellite images suggest that Mars was warm enough to sustain lakes three billion years ago, a period that was previously thought to be too cold and arid to sustain water on the surface, according to research published today in the journal Geology. Earlier research had suggested that Mars had a warm and wet early history but that between 4 billion and 3.8 billion years ago, before the Hesperian Epoch, the planet lost most of its atmosphere and became cold and dry. In the new study, the researchers analysed detailed images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is currently circling the red planet, and concluded that there were later episodes where Mars experienced warm and wet periods."

FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux 206

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 06, 2009 @12:29PM from the changing-horses dept.

dnaumov writes "FreeNAS, a popular, free NAS solution, is moving away from using FreeBSD as its underlying core OS and switching to Debian Linux. Version 0.8 of FreeNAS as well as all further releases are going to be based on Linux, while the FreeBSD-based 0.7 branch of FreeNAS is going into maintenance-only mode, according to main developer Volker Theile. A discussion about the switch, including comments from the developers, can be found on the FreeNAS SourceForge discussion forum. Some users applaud the change, which promises improved hardware compatibility, while others voice concerns regarding the future of their existing setups and lack of ZFS support in Linux."

Comment My .02 (Score 1) 781

by HuggyPaul on Tuesday August 19, 2003 @11:06AM (#6732948) Attached to: Ph.Ds in IT - Good or Bad for a Career?

I worked with a PhD who was explicitly hired into our group of ~7 or 8 developers because the director of the group wanted a "heavyweight" to lend some academic credence to our R&D group. We developed firmware for laser printers. We also worked with a number of PhD's at IBM's Almaden facility. Later in my career I worked at a smaller firm that hired a PhD into a SW development position, and another small startup firm where a PhD with quite a bit of industry experience was hired as CTO. I've also worked at other companies where PhDs (CS, CompE, or other engineering fielsd) were part of the upper management food chain. In summary, over a 12-year career I haven't encountered a lot of PhD's in the workforce, but the ones I have encountered seem to have gotten along OK, whether it was "grunt" positions, or management, etc. I am currently trying to finish my Masters'. Personally, if I had the time/inclination/opportunity/drive/etc to go further, I would/may do it; I haven't seen or heard anything in the industry that would otherwise deter me from doing so.

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