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Google Releases Open Source NX Server 257

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday July 13, 2009 @05:54PM from the free-and-good-together-defies-reason dept.

wisesifu writes with news of a new open source NX server, dubbed NeatX, that was released by Google and promptly lost in the shuffle of the Chrome OS announcement. "NX technology was developed by NoMachine to handle remote X Window connections and make a graphical desktop display usable over the Internet. By its own admission, Google has been looking at remote desktop technologies for 'quite a while' and decided to develop Neatx as existing NX server products are either proprietary or difficult to maintain. 'The good old X Window system can be used over the network, but it has issues with network latency and bandwidth. Neatx remedies some of these issues,' Google engineers wrote on the company's open source blog. NoMachine had released parts of the source code to its NX product under the GPL, but the NX server remained proprietary. [...] Neatx is written in Python, with a few wrapper scripts in Bash and one program written in C 'for performance reasons.'"

Submission + - Wordlogic Patented Predictive Interface 1

Submitted by

Packetl055

on Thursday August 23, 2007 @10:43PM

Packetl055 writes: "Have any of you heard anything about this new high tech company (Wordlogic) with a soon to be granted/issued patent with 117 claims for predictability software? They recently received the patent approval/allowance letter from the U.S. Patent Office see link. Their patent application was submitted in March 2000. If I read this correctly any software that gives you any prediction after you type something is infringing on their patent (e.g. vehicle navigation systems, cellular telephones, PDA's, Google with their "Did You Mean" when using Google for a search, the new Apple I-Phone, Blackberry, Sony Playstation-3, etc. etc.). If true, this is going to be huge. Lawsuits after lawsuits because of infringements."

Comment Is this anything but a sales gimmick? (Score 2, Interesting) 235

by troels on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @08:56AM (#18330631) Attached to: HDMI-Enabled Graphics Cards Debut

Is this anything but a sales gimmick really? I mean, you can already get cards with DVI and HDCP which means you just need a DVI to HDMI cable to connect it to a TV anyway. So now they hope to sell more of these because people who have bought a HDTV might already know the HDMI name and think they need that? Well, i guess the one benefit i can see is that you can save the audio cable, but personally i don't want the audio to go to the TV anyway.

Journal Journal: Top 50 Things To Do To Stop Global Warming

Journal by mauriziop on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @10:40AM

Global warming is a dramatically urgent and serious problem. We don't need to wait for governments to solve this problem: each one of us can bring an important help adopting a more responsible lifestyle: starting from little, everyday things. It's the only reasonable way to save our planet, before it is too late.

Golf-Ball Sized Hail Damages Shuttle 118

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @10:15AM from the don't-make-me-stop-this-thing dept.

MattSparkes writes "The Shuttles March launch has been delayed to late April after golf-ball sized hail caused 7000 pits and divots in the foam that shields the fuel tank. NASA say it's the worst damage of its kind that they have ever seen, but hail is not a new problem for the agency. In 1982, a hailstorm damaged the sensitive heat shield tiles on the Columbia's wings. The damaged tiles then absorbed about 540 kilograms of rain. Once in space, the orbiter faced the Sun to allow the tiles to dry out."

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Drawing Near 331

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @09:40AM from the millions-rejoicing-in-the-street dept.

daria42 writes "Ubuntu developers are finalizing preparations for the release of the next version — dubbed Feisty Fawn — of the popular Linux distribution in mid-April. Overnight, Ubuntu developer Tollef Fog Heen announced Ubuntu's main software repository had been frozen — with no changes allowed to the code — as developers got ready to issue a fifth major test version ("Herd 5") of the next version of Ubuntu."

Submission + - IBM to buy AMD?

Submitted by

SpiceMonkey

on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @12:24AM

SpiceMonkey writes: "AMD stock was up 6.74% on Monday on rumors that AMD is a prime buyout target. The AMD message board on Yahoo! is full of speculation that IBM is the buyer. If IBM indeed buys out AMD, the CPU war would become IBM vs. Intel which would be very interesting. Does anyone want to speculate what would happen 2-3 years down the road if IBM buys AMD?"

GE Announces Advancement in Incandescent Technology 619

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 26, 2007 @04:41PM from the never-underestimate-ingenuity dept.

finfife writes to tell us that GE has announced an advancement in incandescent technology that promises to increase the efficiency of lightbulbs to put them on par with compact fluorescent lamps (CFL). "The new high efficiency incandescent (HEI(TM)) lamp, which incorporates innovative new materials being developed in partnership by GE's Lighting division, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, and GE's Global Research Center, headquartered in Niskayuna, NY, would replace traditional 40- to 100-Watt household incandescent light bulbs, the most popular lamp type used by consumers today. The new technology could be expanded to all other incandescent types as well. The target for these bulbs at initial production is to be nearly twice as efficient, at 30 lumens-per-Watt, as current incandescent bulbs. Ultimately the high efficiency lamp (HEI) technology is expected to be about four times as efficient as current incandescent bulbs and comparable to CFL bulbs. Adoption of new technology could lead to greenhouse gas emission reductions of up to 40 million tons of CO2 in the U.S. and up to 50 million tons in the EU if the entire installed base of traditional incandescent bulbs was replaced with HEI lamps."The California legislature may want to revisit the wording of their proposed ban on incandescents (AB 722). How about mandating a level of efficiency rather than assuming that innovation can't happen?"

EMI — Ditching DRM is Going To Cost You 220

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 26, 2007 @01:47PM from the how-not-to-make-a-buck dept.

33rpm writes "EMI has told online music stores that selling its catalog without DRM is going to cost them a lot of money. 'EMI is the only major record label to seriously consider abandoning the disaster that is DRM, but earlier reports that focused on the company's reformist attitude apparently missed the mark: EMI is willing to lose the DRM, but they demand a considerable advance payment to make it happen. EMI has backed out of talks for now because no one will pay what they're asking.'"

Creative Commons v3.0 Launched 39

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 26, 2007 @09:00AM from the veresion-3-of-everything dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Creative Commons announced the release of its licenses on Friday 23 Feb 2007. Changes include "Clarifications Negotiated With Debian and MIT", CC-BY-SA "compatibility structure", endorsement control, etc."

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