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Cory Doctorow goes to Bletchley Park
Travel – Cory says, "The site is just as I'd imagined it -- a rotting, lovely old mansion surrounded by modest, slope-shouldered sheds with a variety of exhibits staffed by knowledgeable, friendly geeks who clearly find…
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Pocket Enigma Machine in a CD jewel case
Gadgets & Tech – Bletchley Park, the "home of the codebreakers" -- where Alan Turing and co cracked the Nazi Enigma machine -- sells "Pocket Enigma Machines" made from a clever cardboard disc inserted into a CD jewel case. This…
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A dash of lime -- a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back…
Science – Scientists say they have found a workable way of reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere by adding lime to seawater.
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It's a brand new day for Dr. Horrible ... in LEGO!
Do-It-Yourself – Seems like a passion for the works of the Whedon, and for LEGO, go together. Andrew at The Brothers Brick has already recreated one fun scene from the web-series in LEGO. [via geekdad]
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Security is no secret
Gadgets & Tech – The Linux community was one of the first groups to embrace Flask. With the help of open-source developers, NSA created a Linux security module based on Flask, called Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux). It is now…
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Automotive Linux drives innovation
Gadgets & Tech – There are vendors developing embedded operating systems for the automotive infotainment market but they do not have the scale to bring all the new and exciting capabilities to the equipment quickly.
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Towards using the FreeRunner as my primary phone
Gadgets & Tech – I installed a PDF reader and downloaded a couple of e-books to the phone. Astonishingly I can (pretty comfortably) read pages formatted for printed books on the FreeRunner's screen.
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Q5 interview - John Bruggeman, Wind River
Gadgets & Tech – Growth of Linux went faster than anyone thought it would. For us the Linux business has grown from zero to $50m in 24 months. Most of our Linux customers originally experimented with free software and then they…
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Linux-powered CherryPal uses just 2W
Gadgets & Tech – The CherryPal mini-desktop runs an embedded version of Debian on a Freescale processor running at 400MHz, with 256MB of RAM and 4GB of internal flash storage.
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Face off: Windows vs Linux real world RAM and disk tests
Gadgets & Tech – Windows' memory usage went up by 0.07GB, or 71.68MB. The CPU still fluctuated madly but hung around 20%. Under Fedora, memory usage increased by only 50MB and with a maximum processor utilisation of 4%, shortly…
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Brazilian Federal Court Unifies IT Infrastructure With Linux
Gadgets & Tech – ...Red Hat solutions across the IT systems of its 16 courts and is leveraging the performance, security and cost-effective benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Cluster Suite.
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Review: Sabayon Linux 3.5
Gadgets & Tech – Sabayon Linux 3.5 really has a something for everyone, and it does an excellent job of fulfilling their motto of "Dreams we can believe in." And Sabayon 3.5 is more than a dream I can believe in, it's a reality…
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RS: Ministry backs localised GNU/Linux distribution and…
Gadgets & Tech – The Serbian Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society last month presented Cp6Linux, a GNU/Linux distribution translated into Serbian, based on the GNU/Linux distributions Debian and Ubuntu.
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Intel UMPC chip enters service as server CPU
Gadgets & Tech – Yes, we're talking Intel's Atom, specifically the 1.6GHz 230, which Bytemark's now using as the basis for what it claimed were its lowest-cost dedicated Linux-running servers yet.
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Intel snubs Microsoft; offers Linux certification
Gadgets & Tech – Intel's enthusiasm for open source is gathering speed: now it is endorsing professional Linux certifications, snubbing the old Microsoft certification program.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / No sinks
Hurricane Watch Issued For Parts Of Texas
News – A hurricane watch was issued for parts of the Texas and Mexico coasts Monday as Tropical Storm Dolly entered the Gulf of Mexico.
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Bush's Approval Drops To 21%
Politics – George W. Bush's overall job approval has dropped to 21% as 76% of American say the national economy is getting worse according to the latest survey from the American Research Group.
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A Change in Policy: Bush Taking Policy Cues From Obama?
News – The new efforts have both critics and supporters of the focus on diplomatic solutions wondering if the Bush administration is taking its foreign policy cues from the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee,…
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In Defense of Christian Bale
Movies – Bale's performance in the film isn't as interesting as Heath Ledger's or Aaron Eckhardt's but he's "a placid Bruce Wayne" because Bruce Wayne is a placid guy, a character invented to disguise the identity of Batman.…
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Worldwide Santa Clauses Meet In Denmark
Do No Evil – It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas At World Santa Claus Congress
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New evidence about the deep biosphere
Science – Biogeoscientists show evidence of 90 billion tons of microbial organisms - expressed in terms of carbon mass - living in the deep biosphere, in a research article published online by Nature.
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Still no cure for cancer hysteria
Science – The newspapers are so profoundly overrun with pseudoscience about food that there's no point in documenting it any longer. They will continue with their Sisyphean task of dividing all the inanimate objects in the…
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Solar Systems Like Ours May Be Rare
Science – As humans look farther into the universe and discover more and more planets beyond the sun, many wonder how typical our own solar system is. Often astronomers in the planet-hunting business say discoveries of Earth-like…
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The Great Global Warming Swindle Swindled Scientists
Do No Evil – A controversial Channel 4 film on global warming broke Ofcom rules, the media regulator says. The Great Global Warming Swindle attracted various complaints, including claims that it misled contributors.
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Creationist Research: Semi-Technical, Also Worthless
Science – Bless their hearts. The Creationists over at Answers in Genesis are working their perfectly designed fingers to the bone. Blowing the Discovery Institute out of the water by not only publishing a for-realsies science…
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