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US Antitrust Judge Examining Windows 7 Documents 225

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 26, 2009 @12:10AM from the fine-toothed-comb dept.

Anonymous writes "After more than 11 years, the US antitrust case involving Microsoft is still alive, with a federal judge overseeing enforcement of provisions under which the software giant must operate. And now, Judge Kollar-Kotelly says she'll take a close look at new technical documents involving Windows 7. This case began during the Windows 95 era."

Va. Tech Students Create Experimental Bricks For the Moon 137

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @11:10AM from the we'll-recycle-our-cans-there dept.

goran72 writes "Students from the college of engineering at Virginia Tech in the US have made highly durable bricks composed of a lunar rock-like material, which one day might be used to build dwellings in colonies on the moon."

Comment Re:And what about BIOS upgrades? (Score 3, Informative) 160

by linuxboredom on Saturday July 26, 2008 @08:19PM (#24352935) Attached to: How Dell Is Making Ubuntu Linux More Attractive

Dell are releasing BIOS upgrades for their laptops to cope with the Nvidia weak component problem (basically the fan will spin up sooner). This includes the laptop models that come with Linux preinstalled. Except there's no BIOS updater that will run under Linux; they're all Windows based (although if you have a DOS floppy knocking around you can use that)

Umm...Dell has a Linux BIOS updater in its SMBIOS library. The only downside is that you might have to install wine for the image extraction (though it says it is still doable without).

Submission + - Portable Nuclear Reactor to Power Homes (sfreporter.com) 1

Submitted by

Xight

on Saturday November 24, 2007 @09:14PM

Xight writes: "Santa Fe Reporter article about a portable nuclear reactor is the size of a hot tub, but is big enough to power 25,000 homes claims the company Hyperion Power Generation. Thing is they don't want to call it a reactor, but a really big battery since it is self-contained with no moving parts. If all goes according to plan, Hyperion could have a factory in New Mexico by late 2012, and begin producing 4,000 of these reactors."

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