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| RIAA news: Jammie Thomas will appeal |
| Posted: JP @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 5:27 am |
Jammie Thomas will appeal, lawyer says
It's official: Jammie Thomas-Rasset intends to appeal her case, one of her lawyers told CNET News on Wednesday.
"She's not interested in settling," attorney Joe Sibley said in a brief phone interview. "She wants to take the issue up on appeal on the constitutionality of the damages. That's one of the main arguments--that the damages are d...
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| M$ to charge Europe double for Windows 7 |
| Posted: JP @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:13 am |
Microsoft to charge Europeans double for Windows 7
Prices new OS at 41% to 100% more than in the U.S., but leaves out browser
European customers will pay up to twice as much for Windows 7 compared to U.S. users, even though the new operating system will ship without a browser in Europe, according to Microsoft.
When the company launches Windows 7 on Oct. 22, it will price Windows 7 Home ...
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| 2010 will be the breakthrough year for Micro USB |
| Posted: jada @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:32 am |
IP/09/1049 Brussels, 29 th June 2009
Commission welcomes industry's commitment to provide a common charger for mobile phones
Incompatibility of chargers for mobile phones is a major inconvenience for users and also leads to unnecessary waste. Therefore, the Commission has requested industry to come forward with a voluntary commitment to solve this problem so as to avoid legislation. As a...
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| [preview] Opera Unite: a Web server on the Web browser |
| Posted: jada @ Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:17 am |
Opera 10 the Unite preview
By Uwe Vogt [aka Jada] | June 26, 2009 | jada [at] usalug dot net
What's New:
Opera Unite: a Web server on the Web browser
Opera Unite allows you to easily share your data: photos, music, notes and other files. You can even run chat rooms and host entire Web sites with Opera Unite. It puts the power of a Web server in your browser, giving you greater privacy ...
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| Linux on Netbooks: The Smoking Gun |
| Posted: Xeroid @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 4:19 am |
If you have been having trouble finding Linux on a netbook, you can stop wondering why. I suspected it was being monopoly-crushed. Here's the smoking gun, at last, thanks to Dana Blankenhorn of ZDNet, who attended a press conference at Computex and asked the right question . . .
more @ Groklaw
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| Germany gains a foothold on Top 500 supercomputer list |
| Posted: jada @ Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:54 am |
With the US economy still in trouble and investment in academic technology reduced, a German computer is heeding the call for greatness.
In the inaugural edition of What's Now | What's Next, we mentioned that the Jülich Supercomputer Center was boasting it had used the IBM supercomputer design responsible for the world's fastest machine several times over, to build what would likely be recor...
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| Intel and Nokia will partner on mobile Linux |
| Posted: jada @ Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:23 pm |
Someone claiming to be a source "close to the situation" between Nokia and Intel this morning evidently was not close enough, as a Nokia x86 may still be years off.
As it turns out, Bloomberg News' source this morning on Intel's and Nokia's major news was kinda right, kinda not. In a morning press teleconference, Intel's Ultra Mobility Group SVP Anand Chandrasekher and Nokia Executi...
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| Want to work for City of Bozeman, MT ?? |
| Posted: JP @ Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:12 pm |
City requires Facebook passwords from job applicants
If you’re planning to apply for a job with the city of Bozeman, prepare to clean up your Facebook page.
As part of routine background checks, the city asks job applicants to provide their usernames and passwords for their social-networking sites. And it has been doing it for years, city officials said.
“Please list any and all, curr...
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| Solid Oak Software and the Chinese deserve each other |
| Posted: jada @ Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:38 am |
Lockdown with Angela Gunn The allegedly wronged filtering firm has been shady about IP in the past.
Of all the filtering software makers in all the world, it's interesting and appropriate that Chinese software developers chose Solid Oak Software's CyberSitter to (allegedly) pirate -- not because it's the best out there, but because it's historically hewed the closest to enforcing the kind of ...
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| Steve Jobs recovers from liver transplant |
| Posted: jada @ Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:25 pm |
Apple's CEO has battled cancer, and will go forth with a new liver.
Now that the next iPhone launch is at least a solid year away, the truth behind CEO Steve Jobs' six-month medical leave has finally been released to the Wall Street Journal.
In January, Jobs said he had been diagnosed with a hormone imbalance, and the public speculated it was actually intestinal cancer. Tonight, it was rev...
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| FREE Quickoffice 6.0 Upgrade for E-Series Users |
| Posted: jada @ Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:37 am |
Quickoffice® Offers Free Updates for Select Nokia® Eseries Devices
Latest version of Quickoffice, office viewing and editing software suite, now available for download via on-device, e-commerce portal Quickmanager™
Dallas, TX – June 15, 2009 – Quickoffice, Inc., the leading global provider of mobile office productivity software, today announced it will be offering free upgrades to ...
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| Lawsuit against US on IP trade agreement dropped |
| Posted: jada @ Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:33 am |
It's hard to sue the government to learn what's behind a secret treaty if you don't know what there is to be learned, and you're prohibited from finding out.
Opposition to a sweeping trade agreement being negotiated in secret between the United States and at least eleven other countries, plus the European Union, is being voluntarily curtailed after an apparently successful effort by Obama adm...
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| openSUSE Factory is Now Open |
| Posted: jada @ Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:28 pm |
openSUSE development is now even _more_ open than before. Factory development
is changing, and we're making it easier for contributors to take
responsibility for packages and to contribute directly to openSUSE. This means
contributors will be able to be directly responsible for packages, without
having to go through a Novell employee to make changes.
Factory development is being split in...
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| Infrastructure Maintenance Downtimes |
| Posted: jada @ Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:51 pm |
We do a number of software and hardware updates this week for our openSUSE servers. That means that some services will not be available for some time.
Tuesday 10:00 UTC
Maintenance of our content delivery infrastructure for about 1 hour. That means the following service will not be available:
download.opensuse.org
stage.opensuse.org
Wednesday 12:00 UTC
Maintenance of our Build Service infr...
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| USB 3.0 to appear in Linux kernel 2.6.31 |
| Posted: mmmna @ Mon Jun 15, 2009 7:54 pm |
Linux Devices says: "Linux first to offer USB 3.0 driver".
Sarah Sharp ... announced that her xHCI-compliant driver for USB 3.0 will be supported in Linux 2.6.31 in September.
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This should make Linux the first OS to offer a USB 3.0 driver, according to Sharp, who says she has worked a year and a half on the project.
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In November, MCCI Corp. and Synopsys announced they would to...
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