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That’s right, the Linux kernel community is offering all companies free Linux driver development. No longer do you have to suffer through all of the different examples in the Linux Device Driver Kit, or pick through the thousands of example drivers in the Linux kernel source tree trying to determine which one is the closest to what you need to do.
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If you want to clean your Ubuntu machine you need to follow these simple steps to remove all unnecessary junk files.
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Recently, Wal-Mart quietly created its own electricity company in Texas, called Texas Retail Energy, to supply its stores with cheap power bought at wholesale prices.
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The Gulf Coast is littered with the carcasses of unused oil equipment. Now those structures are being repurposed to build the first offshore wind farm in the United States.
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The drug dichloroacetate appears to target cancer cells, causing them to die. It’s potency as a cancer killing agent has been tested in tissue cultures and mice, with very promising results. However, clinical trials need to be run. Since the drug is not patentable and can be produced very cheaply, pharmaceutical companies won’t fund those trials.
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Debian hacker Robert Millan has just announced the availability of a Debian-Installer Loader for win32. The program, inspired by Ubuntu’s similar project, features 64-bit CPU auto-detection, download of linux/initrd netboot images, and chainloading into Debian-Installer via grub4dos. A frontend site has been setup for advocacy purposes.
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Providing strong evidence that Linux is a serious contender in the enterprise, HP has announced some US$2.5 billion in Linux-based revenue for 2003 — up 40 percent from 2002. The company also unveiled a number of new additions to its Linux portfolio.
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Meet the companies tackling nine of humanity’s biggest problems — and making millions saving us from ourselves.
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The British Medical Journal has counted the online votes and named the biggest medical advance since 1840. And the award goes to… sanitation. Well, actually, it sorta is: “sanitation” refers to both clean water and sewage systems, which have surely saved millions of lives since 1840. Here’s the breakdown of the winner and runners-up…
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A-Data was showing off this 128GB 2.5-inch solid-state drive in the back rooms of CES, and finally a picture of the largest-capacity SSD in the world has surfaced. Not much is known about it except that it’s a SATA II drive and might be shipping about six months from now.
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Blockbuster mobile phone sales during the holiday season last year propelled shipments to over one billion for all of 2006, market researcher IDC said Thursday.
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When writing papers for school, it
’s always good to start your research online. Many academic journals publish their articles online—which can give you a head start on research prior to heading to your local library.
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Brazil has announced the protection of 37 million acres of Amazon rainforest, creating what will be the largest rainforest reserve in the world.
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“I never suffered this problem because I had a very strong family base,” the supermodel told the local Globo newspaper on Friday. “The parents are responsible, not fashion.”
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A robot has been developed to automate the home building process.
“The operation is akin to a 3D inkjet printer, with the robot moving about in three dimensional space, spraying out the home layer by layer. Part of the simplicity of the process comes from the simplicity of the materials: nearly the whole house is built with concrete and gypsum.”
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“The Volt contains two engines, like any hybrid car, a gasoline engine and an electric engine. However, the gasoline engine never actually propels the car. All propulsion is accomplished by the electric engine which, in turn, is powered by the lithium ion batteries.”
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As a founder of the Open Source Consortium, Taylor also has an interest in increasing the level of professionalism in the open source community. He explains that one of the major criticisms of open source is that it is “cobbled together by a bunch of acne-ridden teens” He argues that having a way of demonstrating “provable quality” will really help
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The photo is from an actual test of a single U.S. nuclear missile holding at least 8 dummy warheads. Each line shows the deployed warhead striking the ocean at well over 4,000 miles per hour.
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This guy paints on plain, boring walls, and makes them look 3D! The 10th image down is simply awesome!! Worth a look!
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Many plague survivors had close contact with the bacterium but never caught the disease. For example, Elizabeth Hancock never became ill, despite burying six children and her husband in eight days. A CCR5 gene mutation designated as “delta 32″ was found in a statistically significant number, 14%, of direct descendants of the plague survivors.
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This stunning design sets a hotel constructed in a water-filled quarry in China. Wow.
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In Paderborn, Germany, a driverless Railcab for passengers and freight is born — and its developers are ushering in a new era of rail travel. Railcab is part of a new trend of developing relatively fast, highly efficient and cost-effective individual transportation systems that could radically change the way we travel in the future.
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The founders of Kazaa and Skype4 are hoping that The Venice Project will upend the television experience just as their earlier efforts turned the music and phone businesses on their respective heads.
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Taiwan’s IAdea & Star Semi annouce the STR9810/20, the world’s first BitTorrent-optimized microprocessor for integration with existing embedded consumer products such as wireless routers, NAS, smart HDDs, DVD players, set-top boxes, and DLNA appliances. Features: ARM922-based core, network interface, and dual USB 2.0 high-speed ports.
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For my one regular visitor, I hope you like my redesign. I am still playing with fonts and all that. Please let me know how you think I could make my website beautiful, but still a bit zennnnnn. 
Opem OEM discussions have begun. Check out the blog to join the Open OEM community and partcipate in the initial project discussions.
On the new strategy:Tonight in Iraq, the Armed Forces of the United States are engaged in a struggle that will determine the direction of the global war on terror – and our safety here at home. The new strategy I outline tonight will change America’s course in Iraq, and help us succeed in the fight against terror.
On the role of the Iraqis:
Only the Iraqis can end the sectarian violence and secure their people. And their government has put forward an aggressive plan to do it.
On securing Baghdad:
Our past efforts to secure Baghdad failed for two principal reasons: There were not enough Iraqi and American troops to secure neighborhoods that had been cleared of terrorists and insurgents. And there were too many restrictions on the troops we did have. Our military commanders reviewed the new Iraqi plan to ensure that it addressed these mistakes. They report that it does. They also report that this plan can work…and Prime Minister Maliki has pledged that political or sectarian interference will not be tolerated.
On what Iraq must do:
I have made it clear to the Prime Minister and Iraq’s other leaders that America’s commitment is not open-ended. If the Iraqi government does not follow through on its promises, it will lose the support of the American people – and it will lose the support of the Iraqi people. Now is the time to act. The Prime Minister understands this.
On the economic component:
A successful strategy for Iraq goes beyond military operations. Ordinary Iraqi citizens must see that military operations are accompanied by visible improvements in their neighborhoods and communities. So America will hold the Iraqi government to the benchmarks it has announced.
On protecting the American people:
The challenge playing out across the broader Middle East is more than a military conflict. It is the decisive ideological struggle of our time…In the long run, the most realistic way to protect the American people is to provide a hopeful alternative to the hateful ideology of the enemy – by advancing liberty across a troubled region.
On what victory in Iraq will look like:
The changes I have outlined tonight are aimed at ensuring the survival of a young democracy that is fighting for its life in a part of the world of enormous importance to American security…The question is whether our new strategy will bring us closer to success. I believe that it will…Victory will not look like the ones our fathers and grandfathers achieved. There will be no surrender ceremony on the deck of a battleship…A democratic Iraq will not be perfect. But it will be a country that fights terrorists instead of harboring them – and it will help bring a future of peace and security for our children and grandchildren.
On bringing our troops home:
[To]step back now would force a collapse of the Iraqi government…Such a scenario would result in our troops being forced to stay in Iraq even longer, and confront an enemy that is even more lethal. If we increase our support at this crucial moment, and help the Iraqis break the current cycle of violence, we can hasten the day our troops begin coming home.
Written by a leading developer and maintainer of the Linux kernel, Linux Kernel in a Nutshell is a comprehensive overview of kernel configuration and building, a critical task for Linux users and administrators. The book is available for download in either PDF or DocBook format for the entire book, or by the individual chapter.
“The world’s first major offshore wind power plant has since December 2002 produced enough energy to run 150,000 Danish households. Eighty 2.0 MW turbines from the world’s leading wind turbine manufacturer Vestas are sited across an area of 20 sq. km.“
Joseph Black and his team have been working for a while on a project - an open-spec graphics card. This project is on the basis that a GPU should not end up with tons of proprietary software or hardware, containing hidden problems that aren’t mentioned to the press, and yet cause nervous breakdowns for developers worldwide.
Propelled by the release of its Version 2.0 in October, the free Firefox Web browser saw almost a 50% increase in use during 2006 Firefox Web browser saw almost a 50% increase in use during 2006, according to one Web measurement firm.
First, they need a new logo. Their current logo says some guy’s name. Who wants their car to wear some dead guy’s name? There are probably some brands that are like this, but it seems most quality brands aren’t some dead guy’s name. Toyota is probably named after someone, but when you drive a Toyota, the name isn’t plastered on your car in some tacky, outdated font.
Additionally, Ford should make hybrids fashionable. Currently, there seems to be a perception in some social circles that hybrids are flimsy pieces of junk driven by pretentious and arrogant people.
