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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Palm Withdraws Linux-Powered Foleo PC
* First Look At New Mexico's Space Terminal
* Facebook Exposes Advertisers To Hate Speech
* Numerically Approximating the Wave Equation?
* Robotic Presence For a Telecommuter
* Why Myths Persist
* Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK
* OOXML Vote and the CPI Corruption Index
* AMD Launches New ATI Linux Driver
* Appeals Court Tosses $11M Spamhaus Judgement
* Silverlight Released, Linux Version Coming
* How PDAs Are Saving Lives In Africa
* After 10,000 Years, Farming No Longer Dominates
* TV Viewing Linked to Attention Problems
* Programming Erlang
* Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod
* Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora
* FEC Will Not Regulate Political Blogging
* Cisco Announces 802.11n Products After All
* Microsoft Ties Windows Live Services to OS
* Mandriva Linux 2008 RC 1 Released
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| Palm Withdraws Linux-Powered Foleo PC |
| from the dead-before-arrival dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 04, @20:18 (Portables) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/04/2210238
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M Saunders writes "Not long after we enjoyed playing with the device at
[0]LinuxWorld 2007, Palm has announced that it is [1]shelving the Foleo
handheld PC, before it was due to ship, so that the company can focus on
a 'next-generation platform.' Palm hasn't ruled out a 'Foleo II' at some
point, but for those of us looking forward to dinky Linux-powered laptops
it's a bit of a disappointment. Still, with the [2]Asus Eee PC nearby ���
and at a very low price point ��� perhaps it was a sensible move by Palm."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/04/2210238
Links:
0. http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/blog/?p=322
1. http://blog.palm.com/palm/2007/09/a-message-to-pa.html
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| First Look At New Mexico's Space Terminal |
| from the ad-astra dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 04, @21:59 (Space) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/04/2221227
|
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[0]Raver32 sends us to space.com for first light on the [1]design of New
Mexico's Spaceport America. Quoting: "The winning design is the work of
URS Corporation ��� a large design and engineering enterprise ��� teamed with
Foster + Partners of the United Kingdom, a group with extensive
experience in crafting airport buildings. When the 100,000 square-foot
facility is completed ��� the centerpiece of the world's first,
purpose-built, commercial spaceport ��� the structures will serve as the
primary operating base for Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic
suborbital spaceliner, and also as the headquarters for the New Mexico
Spaceport Authority."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/04/2221227
Links:
0. mailto:rob.dack@gmail.com
1. http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/070904_virgingalactic_spaceport.html
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| Facebook Exposes Advertisers To Hate Speech |
| from the just-take-it-down dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 04, @23:41 (The Internet) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/04/2318219
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[0]NewsCloud writes "[1]Does Facebook believe that no publicity is bad
publicity? Why else would they leave a group called, [2]"F**k Islam" open
since July 21, 2007 despite more than 53,482 members joining an opposing
group called [3]petition: if "f**k Islam" is not shut down..we r quitting
facebook group? Furthermore, advertisers such as Sprint, Verizon, T
Mobile, Target, and Qwest wouldn't be too happy to learn that they are
paying for ads on the 'F**k Islam' group pages. Shouldn't a startup like
Facebook, [4]reportedly worth more than a billion dollars and with over a
hundred employees, be expected to enforce its own Terms of Use in less
than six weeks?"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/04/2318219
Links:
0. http://www.newscloud.com/
1. http://jeff.newscloud.com/2007/09/03/facebook-brand-left-to-mercy-of-hate-groups/
2. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3533915614
3. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5315112302
4. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/28/1453250&tid=187
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| Numerically Approximating the Wave Equation? |
| from the tools-of-an-arcane-trade dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 05, @02:27 (Math) |
|
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/04/2038226
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[0]ObsessiveMathsFreak writes "I'm an applied mathematician who has
recently needed to obtain good numerical approximations to [1]the classic
second-order wave equation, preferably in three space dimensions. A lot
of googling has not revealed much on what I had assumed would be a
well-studied problem. Most of the standard numerical methods, [2]finite
difference/[3]finite element methods, don't seem to work very well in the
case of variable wave speed at different points in the domain, which is
exactly the case that I need. Are any in this community working on
numerically solving wave equation problems? What numerical methods do you
use, and which programs do you find best suited to the task? How do you
deal with stability issues, boundary/initial values, and other pitfalls?
Are there different methods for electromagnetic wave problems? Finally,
when the numbers have all been crunched, how do you visualize your
hard-earned data?"
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/04/2038226
Links:
0. http://obsessivemathsfreakatdontbeeveilcompanyma/
1. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/WaveEquation.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_difference_method
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_element_method
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| Robotic Presence For a Telecommuter |
| from the spooky-action-at-a-distance dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 05, @05:12 (Robotics) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/04/2330219
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McGregorMortis writes "Ivan lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and
telecommutes to work in Waterloo, Ontario. But in meetings,
speaker-phones suck: can't hear everybody, can't move around, no visual
contact. So Ivan made an [0]IvanAnywhere robot to give him a physical
presence in the office. If Ivan wants to talk to a coworker, he just
steers radio-controlled IvanAnywhere into that person's office for a
chat."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/04/2330219
Links:
0. http://news.therecord.com/Business/article/236315
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| Why Myths Persist |
| from the say-it-first-and-say-it-loud dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 05, @07:59 (The Media) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/0220212
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lottameez recommends an article in the Washington Post about recent
[0]research into the persistence of myths. In short: once a myth has been
put out there (e.g., "Saddam Hussein plotted the 9/11 attacks"), denying
it can paradoxically reinforce its staying power. Ignoring it doesn't
work either ��� a claim that is unchallenged gains the ring of truth. Over
time, "negation tags" fall out of memory: "Saddam didn't plan 9/11"
becomes "Saddam planned 9/11." From the article: "The conventional
response to myths and urban legends is to counter bad information with
accurate information. But the new psychological studies show that denials
and clarifications, for all their intuitive appeal, can paradoxically
contribute to the resiliency of popular myths... The research is painting
a broad new understanding of how the mind works. Contrary to the
conventional notion that people absorb information in a deliberate
manner, the studies show that the brain uses subconscious 'rules of
thumb' that can bias it into thinking that false information is true.
Clever manipulators can take advantage of this tendency."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/05/0220212
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| Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK |
| from the all-in-it-together dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 05, @08:43 (The Courts) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/1238211
|
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Many readers informed us about the opinion of Lord Justice Sedley, a
senior UK Appeal Court judge, who said that [0]everyone in the UK should
have their DNA recorded in the national database ��� including visitors.
Reader ChiefGeneralManager writes, "Sedley calls the current database
'indefensible' because it contains a hodge-podge mix of people, including
children and those who have been in contact with the police. His view is
that we should make it compulsory for all DNA to be recorded to remove
this anomaly. The UK Information Commissioner has expressed some
concerns, but not dismissed the idea outright." And reader john.wingfield
adds, "Just under two weeks ago, the Independent reported that the
Government has admitted that [1]an eighth of all records on the DNA
database are false, misspelled, or incorrect ��� over half a million
records. This raises the possibility of a breach of the [2]4th data
protection principle of the Data Protection Act 1998: 'Personal data
shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/05/1238211
Links:
0. http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6979138.stm
1. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2896193.ece
2. http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?parentActiveTextDocId=3190610&ActiveTextDocId=3190708
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| OOXML Vote and the CPI Corruption Index |
| from the voting-on-the-merits dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 05, @09:25 (Microsoft) |
|
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/133219
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[0]Tapani Tarvainen writes "It turns out there's an [1]interesting
correlation between Transparency International's '[2]corruption
perceptions index' and voting behavior in ISO's OOXML decision. Countries
with a lower score (more corruption) on the 2006 CPI were more likely to
vote in favor of OOXML, and those with a higher score were less likely.
According to the analysis, 'This statistics supports with a P value of
0.07328 the hypothesis that the corrupted countries were more likely to
vote for approval (one-tailed Fisher's Exact test). In other words,
simplified a bit: the likelihood that there was no positive correlation
between the corruption level and probability of an approval vote, that
is, this is just a random effect, is about 7%.' Of course, correlation
doesn't prove causality."
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/05/133219
Links:
0. mailto:tapani.tarvainen@effi.org
1. http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html
2. http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2006
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| AMD Launches New ATI Linux Driver |
| from the soon-it-will-all-be-faster dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 05, @10:07 (Graphics) |
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/1328225
|
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[0]Michael Larabel writes "AMD has issued a press release announcing '[1]significant
graphics performance and compatibility enhancements' on Linux. AMD will
be delivering new ATI Linux drivers this year that offer ATI Radeon HD
2000 series support, AIGLX support (Beryl and Compiz), and major
performance improvements. At Phoronix we have been testing these new
drivers internally for the past few weeks and have a number of articles
looking at this new driver. The [2]ATI 8.41 Linux driver delivers Linux
gaming improvements from the [3]R300/400 series and the [4]R500 series.
The inaugural [4]Radeon HD 2900XT series support also can be found in the
new ATI Linux driver with 'the best price/performance ratio of any
high-end graphics card under Linux.' While this new driver cannot be
downloaded yet, in their press release AMD also alludes to
[5]accelerating efforts with the open-source community."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/05/1328225
Links:
0. http://www.phoronix.com/
2. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=821&num=1
3. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=822&num=1
4. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=823&num=1
5. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=825&num=1
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| Appeals Court Tosses $11M Spamhaus Judgement |
| from the still-say-you're-a-spammer dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 05, @10:51 (Spam) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/1359232
|
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[0]Panaqqa writes "In a not unexpected move, the US 7th Circuit Court of
Appeals [1]threw out the $11 million awarded to e360 Insight and vacated
a permanent injunction against Spamhaus requiring them to stop listing
e360 Insight as a spammer. However, [2]the ruling (PDF) does not set
aside the default judgement, meaning that Spamhaus has still lost its
opportunity to argue the case. The original judge could still impose a
monetary judgement, after taking evidence from the spammer as to how much
Spamhaus's block had cost them. This is unfortunate considering the legal
leverage the [3]recent ruling concerning spyware might have provided for
Spamhaus."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/05/1359232
Links:
0. mailto:panaqqa@nospam.gmail.com
1. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/appeals-court-v.html
2. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/spamhaus.pdf
3. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/01/1123245&tid=123
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| Silverlight Released, Linux Version Coming |
| from the yet-another-plug-in dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 05, @11:38 (Microsoft) |
|
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/1442254
|
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Today Microsoft announced the release of [0]Silverlight 1.0 for Windows
and Mac OS X. This cross-browser, cross-platform browser plug-in is fully
supported and competes directly with Adobe Flash. Included in this
release was the promise from Microsoft to support the [1]100% compatible
Linux version, called [2]Moonlight.
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/05/1442254
Links:
0. http://silverlight.net/
1. http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Sep-05.html
2. http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
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| How PDAs Are Saving Lives In Africa |
| from the port-it-to-the-olpc dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 05, @12:19 (Handhelds) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/1458210
|
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[0]Mark Goldberg writes "UN Dispatch, the United Nations affairs blog I
write, just posted an item that may interest this community. Joel
Selanikio, a medical doctor and technologist, writes to us from Zambia to
relay how [1]PDA devices are quietly revolutionizing public health
services in sub-Saharan Africa. Selanikio runs a non-profit called
[2]DataDyne.org that trains local health officials to use PDAs equipped
with an open source software tool to track outbreaks, coordinate
vaccination efforts, and perform other vital public health tasks. So far,
says Selanikio, the pilot program in Zambia has been a resounding
success.
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/05/1458210
Links:
0. mailto:markleongoldberg@gmail.com
1. http://www.undispatch.com/archives/2007/09/how_pdas_are_sa.php
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| After 10,000 Years, Farming No Longer Dominates |
| from the long-row-to-hoe dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 05, @13:05 (The Almighty|
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/1523256
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[0]Peter S. Magnusson writes "As reported widely in business and
mainstream press, the ILO recently released world market employment
statistics. Most outlets focused on US economic competitiveness vs. China
and Europe. Few noticed the gem hidden away in the ILO report: for the
[1]first time since the invention of agriculture, farming is not the
biggest sector of the global economy ��� services is. (Aggregate employment
numbers often divide the economy into agriculture, industry, and
services.) Workers are now moving directly from agriculture to services,
bypassing the traditional route of manufacturing."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/05/1523256
Links:
0. mailto:petersmagnusson@yahoo.com
1. http://petersmagnusson.com/2007/09/04/for-the-first-time-in-10000-years-farming-is-not-the-dominating-industry/
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| TV Viewing Linked to Attention Problems |
| from the tired-of-being-told-to-go-play-outside dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 05, @13:57 (Televi|
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/1545240
|
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oDDmON oUT writes "While your mother may have told you that sitting too
close to the TV was bad for your eyes, the folks over at New Scientist
are reporting that too much television may be linked to a [0]bad
attention span 'The study is not proof that TV viewing causes attention
problems, Landhuis notes, because it may be that children prone to
attention problems may be drawn to watching television. "However, our
results show that the net effect of television seems to be adverse."'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/05/1545240
Links:
0. http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12586&feedId=online-news_rss20
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| Programming Erlang |
| from the read-all-about-it dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 05, @14:43 (Book Revie|
|
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/1410213
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[0]gnalre writes "Every day it seems there is a new publication of a book
on perl/python/ruby. Some languages however do not seem to get that sort
of attention. One of those under-represented languages is Erlang, however
for the first time in 10 years a new Erlang book has been published. As
someone who had a brief flirtation with Erlang long ago, I was interested
to see how the language had evolved in the intervening decade. I was also
curious to re-evaluate Erlang to see what solutions it offered to the
present day issues of writing reliable distributed applications." Read on
for the rest of Tony's review.
This story continues at:
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/1410213
Discuss this story at:
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/05/1410213
Links:
0. mailto:tonyp.nospam@gmail.com
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| Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod |
| from the apple-loans-to-afford-all-the-new-toys-coming-soon dept.|
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 05, @15:31 (Music)|
|
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/1830228
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[0]JSM writes to tell us that Apple released a new version of their
popular iPod music player today that boasts, among other things, an
[1]iPhone-like touch screen and Wi-Fi capabilities. "The iPod Touch will
feature the Safari Internet browser and, like the iPhone, play YouTube
videos. Apple also announced a new version of its iTunes music store that
will allow users to buy songs wirelessly. iTunes will also sell
customizable 99-cent ringtones for the iPhone."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/05/1830228
Links:
0. mailto:josmar52789@gmail.com
1. http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/05/technology/apple_announcement/?postversion=2007090514
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| Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora |
| from the thunderous-applause dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 05, @16:20 (Mozill|
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/1557210
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Stony Stevenson writes to mention that the Mozilla Foundation has quietly
released the first beta version of the [0]revised Eudora email
application. This is the first development Eudora has seen since Qualcomm
stopped development and turned it over to the open source community in
2006. "Eudora first appeared in 1988 and quickly became one of the first
popular email applications, enjoying its heyday in the early 1990s as it
developed over the early days of the internet. Use of Eudora began to
wane in the mid-1990s as the third-party application was muscled out of
the market by web-based services such as Hotmail and bundled applications
such as Outlook." Linux.com has a bit more explanation about why many may
not consider this simply a [1]new release of Eurdora. According to the
release page the new Eudora application is [2]not intended to compete
with Thunderbird, but instead to complement it.
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/05/1557210
Links:
0. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/60642,mozilla-quietly-resurrects-eudora.aspx
1. http://www.linux.com/feature/119019
2. http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope_Releases
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| FEC Will Not Regulate Political Blogging |
| from the still-free-to-speak-your-mind-for-now dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 05, @17:11 (United|
|
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/1624239
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[0]eldavojohn writes "Despite complaints that political bloggers should
be subject to campaign finance laws since they are donating huge amounts
of money in the form of advertising and media services to candidates, the
FEC [1]will not regulate political blogging. From the [2]FEC statement:
'While the complaint asserts that DailyKos advocates for the election of
Democrats for federal office, the commission has repeatedly stated that
an entity that would otherwise qualify for the media exemption does not
lose its eligibility because it features news or commentary lacking
objectivity or expressly advocates in its editorial the election or
defeat of a federal candidate.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/05/1624239
Links:
0. mailto:my/.username@@@gmail.com
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6896751,00.html
2. http://www.fec.gov/press/press2007/20070904murs.shtml
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| Cisco Announces 802.11n Products After All |
| from the if-you-can't-beat-em-join-em dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 05, @18:02 (Wirele|
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/1617227
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[0]Kurtz'sKompund writes to mention that by announcing new
802.11n-compliant products Cisco has [1]reversed their previous claims
that the 802.11n standard was not ready for business use. "The Aironet
1250 access point can be used on its own, or as a thin access point
connecting to Cisco's wireless switches - an approach that appears to
duck the architectural issues which have split other Wi-Fi players. The
AP, due next month, is capable of a theoretical rate of 300 Mbit/s
(actual throughput probably around 100 Mbit/s) compared with todays
802.11g access points, and will cost $1299."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/05/1617227
Links:
0. http://kurtz.vnunetblogs.com/kurtzs_kompound/
1. http://www.techworld.com/mobility/news/index.cfm?newsid=9987
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| Microsoft Ties Windows Live Services to OS |
| from the adoption-by-ramrod dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 05, @18:54 (Micros|
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/2058201
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[0]narramissic writes "Microsoft is [1]tying its Windows Live services
directly to Vista ��� a move that should sound vaguely familiar, as it is
precisely what the company did to make IE ubiquitous among Internet
users. 'A new unified installer for Windows Live services will help users
download Wednesday's updates of photo-sharing, mail, instant messaging,
online safety and other services, the company said on its [2]Windows Live
Wire blog. The new installer also will automatically update those
services on Windows Vista and XP going forward.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/05/2058201
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2218/070905mslivesvcs/index.html
2. http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/
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| Mandriva Linux 2008 RC 1 Released |
| from the marching-on dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 05, @19:43 (Mandri|
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/2125207
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[0]AdamWill writes "The first release candidate of Mandriva Linux 2008,
codenamed Galilee, [1]is now available. The [2]release notes are also
available via the wiki. A guide to [3]major new features (some of which
are not yet implemented in this release candidate), and the [4]detailed
technical specifications are also available. This release candidate is
available as a three CD or one DVD Free edition (containing no non-free
software or drivers) for the x86-32 and x86-64 architectures, with a
traditional installer, and as a mini-CD edition for both x86-32 and
x86-64 architectures. A One combined live / install CD edition will be
released in the near future (problems with unionfs prevented the One
edition from being release at the same time as the other editions)."
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1. http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Development/RC1
2. http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Notes
3. http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/What's_New
4. http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Ideas/Technical_specs_2008
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