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Comment Immersive Education node (Score 1) 83

by pr0fess on Monday July 07, 2008 @04:43PM (#24089079) Attached to: Rare Tour of Sun Microsystems' "Wonderland"

I help admin the Immersive Education node (http://ImmersiveEducation.org) mentioned in TFA. In addition to business use of Wonderland the Immersive Education Initiative is using Wonderland for learning. In collaboration with Sun Microsystems the Immersive Education Initiative recently announced the "Education Grid" to give educators a sneak peak at what's possible with Wonderland.

The Children of Hurin 209

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @02:41PM from the pre-rings dept.

stoolpigeon writes "Throughout much of his life, J.R.R. Tolkien worked on a series of stories set in his well known middle earth. A few he considered his "Great Tales" and he would return to them often, writing them multiple times and in multiple forms. One story that he worked on often over many years was the tale of Hurin and his children Turin and Nienor. Following his death, Tolkien's youngest son Christopher has worked to collect, edit and publish much of what his father wrote but never published. The tale of Hurin's children has been told in part already in some of those works. But it is in this book that for the first time the complete tale is told from start to finish of The Children of Hurin." Read below for the rest of JR's review.

Journal SPAM: Shuttle KPC 2

Journal by stoolpigeon on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @05:44PM

I started hearing about the Shuttle KPC yesterday. There are still not many details available - so I guess technically it is vaporware at this point. But they are saying it will be $199 built, $99 bare bones and will run linux. this endgadget article has the pic of it from the press kit. If they are going to be selling it this year, hopefully more meaningful details aren't too far out.

Submission + - Boston University Student Challenges RIAA

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Thursday June 14, 2007 @11:20AM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "A Boston University student identified only as one of the 21 "John Does" in Arista v. Does 1-21 has challenged the RIAA's alleged right to get his or her identity from the school, bringing a motion to vacate the ex parte discovery order obtained by the RIAA, and to quash the subpoena served on the university. John Doe's court papers (pdf) argue, among other things, that the RIAA's papers are "based on a flawed theory that having copyrighted music files on an individual's computer or on an assigned folder on Boston University's server is a "distribution" of such copyrighted music files, where such folder is merely accessible by others." (Memorandum of Law, pp. 4-5)."

Submission + - Cisco routers to blame for huge Japan net outtage

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 17, 2007 @07:15AM

An anonymous reader writes: Cisco routers were the source of a major outage May 15 in an NTT network in Japan, according to an investment firm bulletin. Between 2,000 and 4,000 Cisco routers went down for about 7 hours in the NTT East network after a switchover to backup routes triggered the routers to rewrite routing tables, according to a bulletin from CIBC World Markets. The outage disconnected millions of broadband Internet users across most of eastern Japan. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/051607-cisco -routers-major-outage-japan.html

Submission + - Editorial: Compiz and Beryl Merger

Submitted by

invisibastard

on Monday April 02, 2007 @12:34PM

invisibastard writes: "Linux Tech Daily has an editorial on the proceeding merger or Compiz and Beryl. LTD believes this is a good thing and the community overall will benefit. What do you think? Will it be possible for these teams to work together? One thing is certain, the 3D desktop space is drawing a lot of attention to Linux."

Journal Journal: Mozilla Foundation sues Microsoft over tabbed browsing 149

Journal by Alphager on Saturday March 31, 2007 @06:28PM

According to the german tech-site heise.de, the Mozilla Foundation is suing Microsoft over the use of tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer 7.
The Mozilla Foundation owns the patent 5,160,296 through one of their developers (Solomon Katz, a former Opera dev) and has begun suing Microsoft in Mountainview, California.
The Foundation wants that MS imediately

Submission + - Serious Magnet Failure at CERN's New Accelerator

Submitted by GrepNut on Friday March 30, 2007 @02:40PM

GrepNut writes: CERN is reporting that the giant magnets that steer the particle beam in the new and highly anticipated Large Hadron Collider have just failed catastrophically in a stress test, apparently due to a design oversight. It doesn't help that the magnets were designed and built by CERN's US competitor Fermilab. News is still breaking, but blogs are starting here and here.

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