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Comment Only homos buy macs anyway (Score -1, Troll) 89

by vistahator on Saturday October 11, 2008 @03:35PM (#25341173) Attached to: Apple Admits Nvidia GPU Defect In Some MacBook Pros

Fact

Lenovo Requires NDA For Windows License Refund 321

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 28, 2008 @02:36PM from the deserves-a-raise dept.

tykev writes "A customer wanted to return the license for preinstalled Windows Vista Business that came with his Lenovo laptop. After some lengthy negotiations with representatives of Lenovo's technical support and management, he was offered financial compensation for returning the license in the amount of CZK 1950 (USD 130, EUR 78), pending his acceptance of a non-disclosure agreement that would cover the entire negotiations with the company and its results. He declined and published his experiences on a Czech Linux website. The website editors decided to reward the customer for publishing the article by paying him an author's royalty in the same amount as was the offered compensation for returning the license."

China Blocks More Internet Services 69

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 27, 2008 @03:53PM from the how-totally-amazing dept.

Dave writes "China continues to block more and more popular services. This week they blocked iTunes and YouTube, and now it's TringMe, a popular VoIP 2.0 service. From TringMe's Blog: 'We received close to hundred complaints from our China users that TringMe services is not accessible from yesterday. We have found after our investigation that TringMe is blocked by Chinese government. Earlier China blocked Skype and now they are turning their eye to TringMe. TringMe is extremely popular in China and we have a large number of paying customers in China including a Chinese social network with 3 million users using TringMe's API & services.'"

Cat Talk 14

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 27, 2008 @03:47PM from the thin-walls dept.

I guess you have to watch next week to find out how Muffins got her name and whether or not she likes wet food.

Ubuntu Is Hyper-Active At OSCON 379

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @05:41PM from the as-one-might-expect dept.

ruphus13 writes "Ubuntu and Canonical have been very active at OSCON this year. They showcased a new distro, announced improvements to their code-hosting platform, and made Mark Shuttleworth available for a couple of talks and panel sessions. Quoting: 'Ubuntu Netbook Remix, a complete distribution designed to run on Atom-based Netbook PCs. The main difference that sets it apart from its big brother Hardy Heron is the Ubuntu Mobile Edition (UME) Launcher, a user interface created specifically for use on the teensy screens and keyboards of today's popular ultra-portable computers.' Canonical also announced Version 2.0 of Launchpad, their code-hosting platform. Enhancements include 'a planned API that'll allow third-party applications to authenticate, query and modify data in the massive Launchpad database, without a user needing to manually access the system via a browser.' Mark Shuttleworth went on to state that Linux's market share will grow when it has better eye-candy than Apple's."

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