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Comment Re:Runs on Windows? (Score 3, Insightful) 202

by dasOp on Tuesday January 01, 2008 @10:18AM (#21873968) Attached to: Computer Glitch Halts Seattle New Year's Fireworks

To be honest, I'd much rather read stories in the line of

"The magnificent fireworks display in <insert city here> was actually controlled and detonated from a laptop running <insert favorite distro here> with a soon-to-be foss-application written in <insert programming language of choice here>. <online mag of choice> had a talk with the man responsible, <insert name here>."

Anders

Leopard Upgraders Getting "Blue Screen of Death" 542

Posted by kdawson on Saturday October 27, 2007 @03:58PM from the they're-called-haxies-for-a-reason dept.

Z80xxc! writes "Some Mac users upgrading to Apple's new Leopard operating system are encountering long delays on reboot — an experience they liken to the Windows 'Blue Screen of Death.' While some of those upgrading were able to access their computer after waiting for as long as several hours, others were forced to do a complete reinstall. Some suspect that a framework called 'Application Enhancer' by Unsanity LLC may be causing the problem, but there has been no official word from Apple at this point."

Why Apple Should Acquire AMD 340

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @09:23AM from the what-else-do-you-do-with-mad-ipod-money dept.

slashdotLIKES writes "CoolTechZone.com columnist Gundeep Hora has a new column up that discusses why Apple should acquire AMD and how both companies would be a good fit for each other. From the article, "After private equity groups, let's look at a more strategic acquisition. For that, Apple is the best bet. Yes, I know it sounds way too radical to be taken seriously. However, Apple could drop Intel altogether and adopt AMD for its Macintosh PCs. Sure, the transition is going to take sometime, and it would probably make Apple announce a brand new line of PCs. However, it will be well worth it. We know Steve Jobs is ruthless when it comes to making interesting deals with powerful companies. This makes AMD a perfect match. Obviously Intel isn't going to be too delighted, but other companies don't bother Jobs. We all know he's the type of executive who crafts deals on his own terms. If Intel wants to be associated with Apple, then they won't really have much of a choice."

Submission + - Human blood may contain a cure for AIDS

Submitted by

Lisandro

on Friday April 20, 2007 @10:39AM

Lisandro writes: "German scientists at the University of Ulm have identified a natural ingredient of human blood that prevents the HIV-1 virus from from infecting immune cells and multiplying. The molecule, which they call virus-inhibitory peptide (VIRIP), promises new types of effective treatment for HIV in the future."

Submission + - OpenOffice Could Soon Become Network-enabled

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20, 2007 @10:38AM

An anonymous reader writes: Linuxtoday.com has picked up a message from the OpenOffice Dev mailing list in which a new company is introducing the GravityZoo OpenOffice porting project with the aim of bringing it to the Internet. GravityZoo is a networked computing platform that looks very interesting. "When OpenOffice.org is "GravityZood", it will become a suite of productivity applications that are always available, online, via a broad range of devices. It will be possible to share and collaborate in real-time, to switch from one device (e.g. a PC) to another (Mobile) device. There will also be no need to save data, because everything you produce is saved automatically on the network. There is no need to download, install or update, the latest version is just available and accessible from any GravityZoo enabled client.

Bookmark NC State Engineer Creates First Academic Playstation 3 Computing Cluster (ncsu.edu)

by AlanS2002 on Monday March 12, 2007 @02:42PM

Submission + - Intel stomps into flash memory

Submitted by

jcatcw

on Monday March 12, 2007 @02:33PM

jcatcw writes: "Intel's first NAND flash memory product, the Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive, is a challenge to other hardware vendors. Intel claims read rates of 28 MB/sec, write speeds of 20 MB/sec., and capacity of 1GB to 8GB, which is much smaller than products from SanDisk. 'But Intel also touts extreme reliability numbers, saying the Z-U130 has an average mean time between failure of 5 million hours compared with SanDisk, which touts an MTBF of 2 million hours.'"

Vista Security The 'Longest Suicide Note in History'? 467

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 25, 2006 @07:28PM from the /wrists dept.

rar42 writes "The Inquirer is reporting on an analysis of Vista by Peter Gutmann — a medical imaging specialist. This isn't the usual anti-Microsoft story — just a professional looking at what is going to happen to his computer if it is upgraded to Microsoft Vista. From the article: 'Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called "premium content", typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost,' says Gutmann."

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