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Submission + - Apple Offering 'Fake Steve' Cash to Close Shop (blogspot.com)

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on Saturday December 22, 2007 @12:35PM

An anonymous reader writes: Daniel Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs, made a post earlier today about how Apple was apparently offering him some money (in the wake of the ThinkSecret shutdown) to end his blog 'The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs', and that he was interested in taking it. A few hours later, Lyons made another post, saying that Apple's lawyers had contacted him angrily, saying the details of the deal were supposed to remain private. Could this be the end of the blog which has entertained us with the egomaniac rantings of "Steve" for the past year?

Submission + - POSIX capabilities: Parceling the power of root

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22, 2007 @12:32PM

An anonymous reader writes: Linux has been using capabilities for years, but has recently acquired POSIX file capabilities. POSIX file capabilities split root user powers into smaller privileges. In this article, learn how to program using capabilities and how to switch on the ability of your system setuid root binaries to use file capabilities.

The Next Fifty Years In Space 273

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @09:37AM from the wave-motion-gun dept.

MarkWhittington writes "2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Space Age, agreed by most to have begun with the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik, on October 4th, 1957. While some are taking stock of the last fifty years of space exploration, noting what has been accomplished and, more importantly, what has not been accomplished, others are wondering what the next fifty years might bring."

Sun Says OpenSolaris Will Challenge Linux 405

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @07:57AM from the color-us-skeptical dept.

E5Rebel writes "Sun Microsystems has ambitious plans for the commercial and open source versions of its Solaris operating system. The company hopes to achieve for Solaris the kind of widespread uptake already enjoyed by Java. This means challenging Linux. 'There's an enormous momentum building behind Solaris,' according to Ian Murdock, chief operating platforms officer at Sun, who was chief technology officer of the Linux Foundation and creator of the Debian Linux distribution. Isn't it all a bit late?"

Comment I'm out (Score 1, Redundant) 254

by z80 on Thursday February 01, 2007 @03:32PM (#17848352) Attached to: Flickr To Abandon Early Adopters

I registered very early for Flickr, back when it was in beta and you could email the founders with questions and get a reply within five minutes. I became a paying member last year but this fsckup with the Yahoo login (I don't like, or trust, Yahoo) made me delete my Flickr account.

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