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Walmart has a change of heart, decides to maintain DRM servers

October 10, 2008

Engadget / Darren Murph

Filed under: Portable Audio Back by popular demand, it's the Walmart DRM servers! You heard right -- just days after Wally World announced its plans to turn the screw on its digital rights management ...

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Apple says some MacBook Pros affected by faulty Nvidia chips

October 10, 2008

AppleInsider

Apple said this week some of its more recent MacBook Pro models may contain faulty Nvidia graphics chips that produce distorted video or fail completely.

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WalMart now says they'll keep the DRM servers on forever

October 10, 2008

Boing Boing / Cory Doctorow

After announcing that they'd be shutting off their DRM servers and nuking their customers' music collections, Wal*Mart has changed their mind.

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Sun Microsystems: A Lesson in Failed Cosmetic Surgery

October 9, 2008

New York Times / By Ashlee Vance

Less than a year after a reverse stock split, Sun finds its stock price back where it started and with close to enough cash to buy itself.

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Dell Inspiron Dual Core Laptop $499.99

October 12, 2008

AntiRebate.com

Offer #17493 Best Buy has the Dell Inspiron Laptop with Intel Dual Core Processor T3200, 3GB DDR2, 160GB hard drive, DVD burner, b/g wireless, Vista Premium, for a low $499.99.

Asterisk PBX installation in Dedicated server by pathivara

October 12, 2008

GetAFreelancer.com New Projects

We need experianced provider to customise and install open source Asterisk PBX with following capabilities: 1. Call queuing 2. Multiple Que 3. Call centre agents and hunt 4. Call recording 5.

Your Apple Macbook Pro Might Be Affected By Faulty Nvidia Chips

October 12, 2008

TechLime / Rajan

Apple issued a support message for Apple MacBook Pro regarding potential distorted video issues related to faulty NVIDIA graphics chips.

PXE Boot

October 12, 2008

LinuxQuestions.org / rahuldevalone

Hi ! Everyone :cool:, This is rahul.Anybody can tell me How can I make PXE Boot Server by RHEL 5 & Fedora Core 8 ? :scratch: give me good web link & process. .

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Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2 next week

October 10, 2008

ZDNet News - Front Door

It sounds like Monday October 13 is the day that Microsoft will announce that Silverlight 2 is done. by Mary Jo Foley

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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Final on a Server Near You [OpenOffice.org]

October 10, 2008

Lifehacker / Adam Pash

If our first look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 has you salivating for the official download of this free Microsoft Office replacement, the final release has already been pushed to a mirror near you (like...

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Sprint’s Xohm Network is Only Half Open

October 8, 2008

GigaOM : On Broadband, VoIP & The Next Generation Internet / Stacey Higginbotham

Today marks the formal launch of Sprint’s Xohm network, and celebrants are gathered in Baltimore to show off their new WiMAX-enabled gadgets.

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Apple dumping Intel chipsets for NVIDIA's in new MacBooks

October 11, 2008

AppleInsider

Apple will announce as part of its special media event Tuesday a new family of MacBooks that will abandoned Intel's integrated graphics chipsets for those part of NVIDIA's new mobile platform, ...

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Asus Planning to Release Touchscreen Eee PC Within Six Months [Eeeeeeeeee!!!!!]

October 9, 2008

Gizmodo / John Herrman

Asustek executive Samson Hu has confirmed his company's plans to release a touchscreen Eee PC variant for sale by Q1 of 2009.

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Wal-Mart joins MSN and Yahoo, leaves DRM servers online

October 10, 2008

Ars Technica / jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)

Wal-Mart is the latest company to change its mind about pulling its DRM key servers offline.

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Apple Says MacBooks May Have Bad Nvidia Chips

October 10, 2008

PCM Breaking News

Apple has acknowledged that some MacBook Pro notebooks may suffer from the same sort of faulty Nvidia GPUs that have affected other manufacturers.

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Wikipedia adopts Ubuntu for its server infrastructure

October 10, 2008

Ars Technica / segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)

The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the hugely successful Wikipedia project, is migrating all of its server infrastructure to the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

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Intel expresses concern about the AMD split and intellectual property

October 8, 2008

BetaNews.Com

For the better part of two decades, AMD has been a producer of x86 chips, and at times sold more of them to consumers than Intel.

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Some MacBook Pros Affected by NVIDIA GPU Failures

October 10, 2008

MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

Apple has posted a tech note which reveals that some MacBook Pros may be affected by the manufacturing defect reported in July.

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Sierra Shutting Down 21 Old Game Servers

October 8, 2008

Shacknews Games

Game publisher Sierra is shutting down 21 master servers for multiplayer games dating from 1998 through 2006.

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Microsoft SQL Server Strategy: Getting the Costs Right.

October 12, 2008

Geekswithblogs.net / Dave Oliver

For the next few weeks I'm going to be turning my attentions to Microsoft SQL Server as the new version, 2008 is now with us and even has it's first big patch CU1.

HP admits 38 desktops have defective Nvidia chips

October 12, 2008

The Inquirer / Charlie Demerjian

Charlie Demerjian the Inquirer, Sunday 12 October 2008. 10:43:00 Time to update the 8-K filing IT LOOKS LIKE Nvidia was being a little economical with the truth about the defective chips fiasco.

Apple will repair MacBooks that have faulty Nvidia GPUs

October 12, 2008

Aviran's Place / Aviran Mordo

An investigation by Apple shows some MacBook Pros may have faulty Nvidia graphics processors after all, despite Nvidia’s earlier assurances to the contrary, the computer maker has announced.

Lenovo 3000 G510 405624Q Notebook

October 12, 2008

CyberIndian Tech / Kiran Pal

The Lenovo 3000 G510 405624Q notebook PC is powered by Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor and it features 15.4-inch WXGA display,  integrated Bluetoth v2.

Birdstep Technology Adds ENEA's OSE RTOS to the List of Operating Systems Supported by Their RDM Server, Embedded Database Product

October 12, 2008

PRWeb Sports Golf

Birdstep Technology's high availability embedded database, RDM Server 8.1 now available for ENEA's carrier grade OSE RTOS. (PRWeb Oct 12, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.

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