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OpenBSD 3.9 Released 130

Posted by Hemos on Monday May 01, 2006 @07:56AM from the free-willy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "OpenBSD 3.9 was released this morning and is now available for download from the OpenBSD mirror sites. Among the new features is integrated framework for monitoring hardware sensors, a BSD licensed driver for nvidia nforce ethernet, and loads of new drivers and bug fixes. Of course you can still purchase the CD-ROM set which includes support for five platforms: i386, amd64, macppc, sparc, sparc64, and also includes the complete blob free source tree and prebuilt packages for many architectures. As always your contributions help to continue the devlopment of this great opeating system."

Store Your Own Juice 415

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 27, 2006 @07:26PM from the you-know-you-want-to dept.

sfeinstein writes "Power companies using dynamic pricing models to charge more for electricity during hours of peak usage is nothing new. Now, however, one company has decided to take advantage of this by using technology to buy (and store) capacity when rates are low and use that capacity when rates are at their highest." From the article: "The device, called GridPoint Protect, is the size of a small file cabinet and connects to the circuitbreaker panel. (The company also offers a lower-capacity version designed for homes, which costs $10,000.) A built-in computer powered by a Pentium chip will make intelligent purchase decisions, buying when prices are low, then storing the electricity for later use. That will make it possible to run your company during the workday with cheaper electricity that you purchased at 3 A.M."

Comment Re:How about LEARNING the English language? (Score 1) 503

by finker on Wednesday September 14, 2005 @11:07PM (#13563328) Attached to: A Useful Grammar Checker?

I hope you are joking around just for laughs. You are not really attempting to tell me that you are under the honest impression that "high school" is one word, right?

Compare this: highschool

To this: high school

Catching the drift? Perhaps you would be more "at home" having Google tell you right from wrong (considering Slashdot is a Google fanboy site):

Google: highschool - ~3,840,000 results

Google: high school - ~247,000,000 results

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