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Ozzy Osbourne's Genome Reveals Some Neanderthal Lineage 151

Posted by samzenpus on Friday October 29, 2010 @04:30PM from the born-to-rock dept.

ByOhTek writes "CNN reports that in July, rocker Ozzy Osbourne became one of few to submit his blood to have his full genome sequenced and analyzed. The results are in, and it turns out his genome reveals some Neanderthal lineage. What does Ozzie have to say about it? 'I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I've guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol... there's really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why,' he wrote."

British Pizza Chain To Install Cones of Silence 122

Posted by samzenpus on Friday October 29, 2010 @02:19PM from the sound-of-silence dept.

itwbennett writes "British pizza chain Pizza Express is installing iPod docks and soundproof domes in booths of their new iPizzeria stores. 'The idea is that you can plug in your iPod and play whatever music you like without disturbing other diners,' says blogger Peter Smith. 'But I'm sure it'd work for talking about government secrets and other spy stuff, too.'"

Licensing an Abandonware Game? 148

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday March 13, 2010 @03:37AM from the rolling-the-dice dept.

WolverineOfLove writes "I'm recreating a 1980s abandonware game with copyrights that have been seemingly unused for the past 18 years. The situation is detailed further in a Slashdot journal entry I just wrote, but in short: Is it worth dealing with all the copyrights and paying money if I want to recreate an abandonware title as an open source game? I know there are legal implications to certain decisions I might make, but there is a real possibility that this game's copyright holder will do nothing with the rights, and I'd much prefer preserving it for others than letting it fade away."

Comment From a school system (Score 1) 414

by MTinCT on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @02:38PM (#30597422) Attached to: How Many Admins Per User/Computer Have You Seen?

We have 9 people to take care of around 3000 users with over 11,000 computers. We are a school system of 17 high schools and 5 offsite locations. At one point we were down to four people. Our schools are a state school system so they are spread across the state. The 9 of us do it all. Network, servers, computer support, etc. I do most of the switch work since I am the "Cisco guy" of our crew. So those of you who think your struggling with a hundred users or computers, count yourselves lucky! SMS, RDP and VNC = three sanity saving tools!

Comment Dell vs HP (Score 1) 132

by MTinCT on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @05:41PM (#21744418) Attached to: Dell's Linux, IT Re-Invention

We normally order desktops in bulk of 500+ at a time. We changed over to HP from Dell due to a cost savings in addition to better hardware. We had around 400 Dell Optiplex 270's and 280's ordered. 80% of them are goign on the third round of motherboards due to 1. popped capaciters, 2. leaking capaciters or 3. racing cpu fans due to bad motherboards.

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