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Moonlight 1.0 Brings Silverlight Content To Linux 346

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 12, 2009 @11:08PM from the cue-the-brouhaha dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Novell has unveiled some of the fruits of its technical collaboration with Microsoft in the form of Moonlight 1.0, a Firefox plug-in which will allow Linux users to access Microsoft Silverlight content. Officially created by the Mono project, it is available for all Linux distributions, including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat and Ubuntu. Also included in Moonlight is the Windows Media pack, with support for Windows Media Video, Windows Media Audio and MP3 files."

Comment Canadian Debit Card != US Debit Card (Score 1) 526

by apoKalypse on Thursday January 08, 2009 @04:07PM (#26376181) Attached to: Blu-ray Update Sent To User Via Credit Card Records

One thing I noticed while traveling to the US is the different meaning of a debit card. Up here in Canada, a debit card is a bank card used for Interac transactions. This does not exist widely in the United States. We also have credit cards, which are issued by Visa/Mastercard/etc. Down in the states, a debit card is a credit card.

Solyndra's Thin-Film Solar Cells Draw $1.2 Billion In Orders 131

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 07, 2008 @11:22AM from the beaming-down-upon-them dept.

SolarSells writes "Solyndra makes funky-looking cylindrical solar cells that resemble compact fluorescent lightbulbs. Their products are meant for office buildings, and are made from a thin coating of copper indium gallium diselenide on glass tubes. Although they might not be able to fill them till 2012, the company has already received $1.2 billion in orders. Their manufacturing tricks make the cells so cheap that they may be competitive with other forms of power even after solar subsidies are phased out."

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