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6000-Year-Old Tomb Complex Discovered 83

Posted by samzenpus from the nobody-knows-who-they-were-or-what-they-were-doing dept.
duh P3rf3ss3r writes "National Geographic reports that a 6000-year-old tomb complex on 200 hectares (500 acres) has been discovered on the Salisbury Plain just 24 km (15 miles) from Stonehenge. The site has come as a surprise to the archaeologists who had thought that the area had been studied in such depth that few discoveries of such magnitude remained. The site, fully 1000 years older than Stonehenge, has been called 'Britain's oldest architecture.'"

Comment Re:The web (Score 1) 345

by dextromulous (#28271899) Attached to: AT&T Dropping Usenet Netnews; Low-Cost Alternatives?

I prefer hellanzb.

It is written in python. All you do it put an nzb in the directory that it is watching, wait a few hours, and you have all your data, par'ed, decoded, patched together, and unrared, sitting in the output folder.

If you have a network storage server, you can conveniently share the queue directory with samba or NFS, and centralize all your downloading.

It's also open source and you can use it over SSH, so you can have downloads ready for you when you get home from work!

Comment Re:Can they not use... (Score 1) 379

by dextromulous (#27368393) Attached to: Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth?

Consider a page that is full of URLs. Think about how many URLs are transmitted to your computer right now just to load this page. I count 1295 right now, just in tags.

Personally, I'm not concerned, but if you want to see how many tags are in any page, paste this into your address bar and press Enter.

javascript:alert(document.getElementsByTagName("A").length)

I've only tried this in FF3, and of course URLs can be more places than in an href="" string of an tag...
Linux Business

Submission + - Dell to offer more Linux PCs

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head_dunce
head_dunce writes: "According to this article, Mark Shuttleworth from the Ubuntu camp says Dell is seeing a demand for the Linux based PC and, "There are additional offerings in the pipeline."

I'm starting to see flashbacks of the days when Microsoft partnered up with IBM to gain control of the desktop market. Will other Linux flavors find there way to the likes of Lenovo or HP, etc, or will Ubuntu claim the desktop market working with other PC manufacturers?"
Operating Systems

Submission + - Historical Look At First Linux Kernel (kerneltrap.org)

Submitted by LinuxFan
LinuxFan writes: KernelTrap has a fascinating article about the first Linux kernel, version 0.01, complete with source code and photos of Linus Torvalds as a young man attending the University of Helsinki. Torvalds originally planned to call the kernel "Freax", and in his first announcement noted, "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." He also stressed that the kernel was very much tied to the i386 processor, "simply, I'd say that porting is impossible." Humble beginnings.
BSD

OpenBSD Foundation Announced 151

Posted by samzenpus from the check-it-out dept.
OpenBDSfan writes "KernelTrap is reporting on the creation of the OpenBSD Foundation, a Canadian not-for-profit corporation intended to support OpenBSD and related projects, including OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, and OpenCVS. The announcement explains, "the OpenBSD Foundation will initially concentrate on facilitating larger donations of equipment, funds, documentation and resources. Small scale donations should continue to be submitted through the existing mechanisms.""
Education

Submission + - Better than a TI?

Submitted by
aaronbeekay
aaronbeekay writes: "Hey guys, I'm a sophomore in high school taking an honors chem course. I'm being forced to buy something handheld for a calculator (I've been using Qalculate! and GraphMonkey on my Thinkpad until now). I see people all around me with TIs and think "there could be something so much better." The low-res, monochrome display just isn't appealing to me for $100-150. Is there something I can use close to the same price range with better screen, more usable, and more powerful? Which calcs do you guys use? I'm hoping for this to last through college."
Graphics

Submission + - Intel discrete graphics chips confirmed

Submitted by Arun Demeure
Arun Demeure writes: There have been rumors of Intel's re-entry into discrete graphics for months. Now Beyond3D has found that Intel has copped to the project on their own site. They describe it as a 'many-core' architecture aimed at 'high-end client platforms', but also extending to other market segments in the future, with 'plans for accelerated CPU integration'. This might also encourage others to follow Intel's strategy of opensourcing their Linux drivers. So, better watch out NVIDIA and AMD/ATI — there's a new player on the horizon.
X

XFCE Adds Icons, Switches to Thunar in v4.4 83

Posted by timothy from the longtime-companion dept.
b100dian points out yesterday's release of XFCE 4.4, writing "If you have already followed the release candidates, you know that XFCE is really evolving. Besides adding desktop icons, introducing Thunar (in lieu of xffm) and MousePad, applications that are as simple as they are effective, and Terminal, which has built-in support for desktop composition (supported by the window manager out-of-the-box), it also introduced (finally!) a shortcut for the pop-up menu (you can see in the tour that Ctrl-Esc is bound to this menu). Congratulations for the lightest and slickest window manager ever:)" I've been using Thunar a lot lately (mostly under Gnome) because the renaming feature is powerful but reasonably intuitive -- very handy for cleaning up digicam photo names.
Biotech

Submission + - The birth of quantum biology

Submitted by
Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "Just when you finally have grasped the concept of quantum mechanics, it's time to wake up and to see the arrival of a nascent field named quantum biology. This is the scientific study of biological processes in terms of quantum mechanics and it uses today's high-performance computers to precisely model these processes. And this is what researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) are doing, using powerful computer models to reveal biological mechanisms. Right now, they're working on a "nanoswitch" that might be used for a variety of applications, such as targeted drug delivery to sensors. Read more for additional references and a picture showing how a protein could be used as a nanoswitch."
Windows

Vista To Be An Indie Games Killer? 113

Posted by Zonk from the argh-my-toblo dept.
Via GigaGamez (which has a breakdown of the problem), a GameDaily article about the unfriendliness of Vista towards Indie games. The problem is this: Vista has a setting which allows parents to restrict user profiles from accessing ESRB games 'above' a certain rating. IE: Timmy can't play F.E.A.R., or any other 'M' rated game. The problem is that getting ESRB rated is expensive: '$2000-3000 for the privilege', according to GigaGamez. Shoestring budget Indie games just may not have the money for that kind of expenditure. From the GameDaily article: "'It's unfortunately a mercenary way of doing things,' [GFW Group Manager Chris Donahue] explains, 'but, even though we're Microsoft, we do have limited resources. And we do look at the sales charts to determine where our help will have the most impact. Certainly we want Blizzard's 'World Of Warcraft' [currently the most popular massive multiplayer online game] to work flawlessly on day one of Vista because 8 million tech support calls would be a very bad thing. The casual developers don't sell quite as many.'"

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