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You might give this method a try. Brings Windows XP with SP2 down (first a short BSOD, followed by a reboot). Nothing to do with drivers and/or hardware problems.

This page is in german, but the HTML code can be seen with no problems. I managed to bring 2 out of 3 windows XP installations down by this trick (sometimes, you have to wait a little while before it crashes, but it most probably will)

For those of you who are interested in the entire story and its background, here are the links:

• 16 November 2005: The Vienna Conclusion: Sponsorship+Politics=Influence
• 22 November 2005: The next Vienna Conclusion: So it WAS Microsoft that asked to delete Free Software
• 22 November 2005: And the price for DRM promotion goes to...
• 23 November 2005: Vienna manipulations in the press
• 25 November 2005: More news about the Vienna Manipulations
• 25 November 2005: Microsofts implementation of democracy

The best overall analysis and description of the situation so far was written by Germanys largest IT news provider, the Heise Verlag. They have the story online in both English and German.

For those of you who are interested in the entire story and its background, here are the links:

• 16 November 2005: The Vienna Conclusion: Sponsorship+Politics=Influence
• 22 November 2005: The next Vienna Conclusion: So it WAS Microsoft that asked to delete Free Software
• 22 November 2005: And the price for DRM promotion goes to...
• 23 November 2005: Vienna manipulations in the press
• 25 November 2005: More news about the Vienna Manipulations
• 25 November 2005: Microsofts implementation of democracy

The best overall analysis and description of the situation so far was written by Germanys largest IT news provider, the Heise Verlag. They have the story online in both English and German.

For those of you who are interested in the entire story and its background, here are the links:

• 16 November 2005: The Vienna Conclusion: Sponsorship+Politics=Influence
• 22 November 2005: The next Vienna Conclusion: So it WAS Microsoft that asked to delete Free Software
• 22 November 2005: And the price for DRM promotion goes to...
• 23 November 2005: Vienna manipulations in the press
• 25 November 2005: More news about the Vienna Manipulations
• 25 November 2005: Microsofts implementation of democracy

The best overall analysis and description of the situation so far was written by Germanys largest IT news provider, the Heise Verlag. They have the story online in both English and German.

The statement that software should be seen as the cultural technology of digital society was watered down to "the practical and simple use of software." Likewise, the following two passages popped up out of nowhere: "Commercial products bring innovation to the mass of consumers all over the world"; and "To ensure ongoing innovation, Digital Rights Management (DRM) development and deployment must remain voluntary and market-driven."

Here in Germany the voting process is 100% transparent.

During the last election a few weeks ago 2.100 out of 80.000 polling stations used computers.
Of course they had to use computers without paper trail, computers which an expert team of the irish election commission found to be unfit for use due to the usual issues (secret source code, no code audits etc.)

While small manipulations of the elections would have made no difference in the resulting big coalition, remember that the two parties of the big coalition were only some tenths of a percent from each other, so a few votes in the other direction and Schröder would have remained in Office.

I really doubt that there have been any manipulations (yet), but Germany is not safe from close calls where a smalll manipulation could make all the difference.

The first time I heard of CMP was when I got a letter telling me my subscription to BYTE was being phased out, along with BYTE magazine itself. As compensation, CMP generously offered me a choice of one of the worthless other magazines they were carrying. I don't know how long ago this was, but you can probably tell from my tone that I'm still angry about this.

I can no longer call CMP's entire assortment of rags worthless, because there are at least one or two I enjoy reading once in a while, and which I respect. But all in all, I see CMP as one of the first behemoths of dumbed-down conglomerated corporate press. I believe CMP has done useful, unbiased, technically qualified coverage of computer-news a disservice.

I find some small consolation in two publications: ct and SlashDot.

In other Novell news:
Novell Vice-President for their Linux Platform now said that future Novell enterprise products would have the option to choose to install and use KDE. While Gnome will be the default option KDE will now continue to be supported.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/66011

I've just asked the same question in the german c't forum http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?read =1&msg_id=9222866&forum_id=87759 and the others say no. But the FF developers are working on it.

O. Wyss

You're absolutely right. Just last week FFII and Nutzwerk settled in a German court about, amongst others, FFII referencing to the translation of a Dutch article by WebWereld, also published in English on the site of the author, Brenno de Winter. De Winter published statements by Nutzwerk CEO Holzer where he called FFII Chairman Pilch a "catagoric lyar".

WebWereld reports(Dutch) that in the settlement FFII and Nutzwerk agreed that FFII stops commenting on Nutzwerk and Nutzwerk stops sueing them.

An interesting detail about Nutzwerk is that they used to maintain a link farm in order to get high ranks in Google. Amongst the files in the farm, was a file scheiss_juden.htm which was apparantly meant to increase the probablility googling jew haters would find their anonymity services. According to a German article, the link farm was set up as to allow only web-crawlers to the farm contents and at some point Google had 51.000 links pointing to the Nutzwerk site. At this moment only 908 remain, after apparantly the Google cache has been wiped.

Now some fun: Google for the combination of "Rene Holzer" (Nutzwerk CEO) and "Michael Koustiniko". You'll probably find this post, where Mr. Koustiniko signs as "Rene Holzer". Digging a little further shows that our friend used this alias to advertise his products.

What's also interesting is that in their previous legal actions against Cobion AG, during which 2 of Nutzwerk's software patents were invalidated, Nutzwerk was represented by Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth, an attorney well known in the computer scene. For instance, he was was behind the much publicised Tanja campaign where he tricked computer users into sending a list of pirated software to "Tanja", on the receiving of which he sent them a cease and desist notice along with a request for payment, he shut down emule.de (German), extorted SuSE, demanded Linus Torvalds to drop the Linux name and last but not least was involved in the cases around MobiliX as the registrar of the trademark Obelix.

You're absolutely right. Just last week FFII and Nutzwerk settled in a German court about, amongst others, FFII referencing to the translation of a Dutch article by WebWereld, also published in English on the site of the author, Brenno de Winter. De Winter published statements by Nutzwerk CEO Holzer where he called FFII Chairman Pilch a "catagoric lyar".

WebWereld reports(Dutch) that in the settlement FFII and Nutzwerk agreed that FFII stops commenting on Nutzwerk and Nutzwerk stops sueing them.

An interesting detail about Nutzwerk is that they used to maintain a link farm in order to get high ranks in Google. Amongst the files in the farm, was a file scheiss_juden.htm which was apparantly meant to increase the probablility googling jew haters would find their anonymity services. According to a German article, the link farm was set up as to allow only web-crawlers to the farm contents and at some point Google had 51.000 links pointing to the Nutzwerk site. At this moment only 908 remain, after apparantly the Google cache has been wiped.

Now some fun: Google for the combination of "Rene Holzer" (Nutzwerk CEO) and "Michael Koustiniko". You'll probably find this post, where Mr. Koustiniko signs as "Rene Holzer". Digging a little further shows that our friend used this alias to advertise his products.

What's also interesting is that in their previous legal actions against Cobion AG, during which 2 of Nutzwerk's software patents were invalidated, Nutzwerk was represented by Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth, an attorney well known in the computer scene. For instance, he was was behind the much publicised Tanja campaign where he tricked computer users into sending a list of pirated software to "Tanja", on the receiving of which he sent them a cease and desist notice along with a request for payment, he shut down emule.de (German), extorted SuSE, demanded Linus Torvalds to drop the Linux name and last but not least was involved in the cases around MobiliX as the registrar of the trademark Obelix.

Not only did they sue FFII, they also registered the domain yaho.co.uk to generate advertising revenues (a fact they now try to suppress), they built sites with anti-semitic content to show up in respective search results, are highly supportive of software patents and generally sue everyone in sight who disagrees with their views.

Or, another, very interesting german article!

Yeah, but remeber heise has also an English Portal site but without the commentary system...
--> http://www.heise.de/english/

If you can read German, see http://www.heise.de/newsticker/search.shtml?T=nutz werk

In any case, mod parent up.

... according to figures from http://www.spiegel.de/ and http://www.heise.de/ ( http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/64790 => 40,2 % in sptember 2005) - two of the most popular .de-websites.

... according to figures from http://www.spiegel.de/ and http://www.heise.de/ ( http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/64790 => 40,2 % in sptember 2005) - two of the most popular .de-websites.

Since a few days this problem should be solved a few steps better - OpenLogos 1.0.0 has been released.
Like the german tech site heise reported last wednesday the GlobalWare AG published in cooperation with the DFKI (The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence: "Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz") the free (as in speech and as in beer) translation system OpenLogos 1.0.0.
It's a PostgreSQL-based, command-line, GPL-licensed translator for Linux, which core is from 1967 but now has the according database to translate from/to english to/from french, german, italian, portuguese and spanish (where a direct tranlation from german to french or spanish is additionaly possible).

OpenLogos is meant to be a hybrid (mixture between static data and linguistic rules) translation system as a basic system for universities and other research centers to develop further going hybrid translation technologys.
Future versions of OpenLogos will include other database backends and a GUI.

Don't like babelfish? Make it better - the base system is there now.

Note: The following is a bit off-topic.

Limewire will now require licensing in its files, hardly something you'd do for your own personal files.

According to an article at heise.de, LimeWire is going to support attaching a Creative Commons licence to your own works and sharing them.

Although one has to wonder whether this is going to work out. I mean, what prevents your average W4r3Z D00dZ from attaching a Creative Commons licence to a work ripped from a CD? In the end, LimeWire LLC is probably going out of business, anyway.

Your prayers have been heard: Heise Database Contest

The (widely known) german Ct magazine has isued just this contest to its readers.
It uses the "Dell DVD Organizer" wich has "many" database backends.
The software is then (stress)tested with 10 MB and 1GB database sizes.

The contestants are urged to write their own backend, or optimize an existing backend,
or optimize the databse of choise, or do all of the obove :-)

The contest is open until the 13. november 2005 and results will be released some time later.

I know TFA is in german, but I know you can use "the fish".

c't (famous German computer mag) is doing exactly what you are describing. They call for a contest in which everyone can implement their favourite database in a setting with a dvd store and then mail their description on how they do it to the mag.

Rules and everything else is here:
http://www.heise.de/ct/05/20/156/
(but only in German)

Didn't Google have high profile legal troubles with France? 1 2 and the famous 3 Perhaps MSFT chose France because it seems the less Google-happy place on earth.

Well, according to the well reputed, German C't mag features like digital restrictions throtteling functionality and stuff like secure video path (or whatever they call it this week) will work just fine.

Should give you, that's the general consumer, some pause to think about where Microsofts priorities are.

here is an article (in German - Google Translation) about a Trojan that is used to do distributed checks whether >12,000 well known domains have become "free" on various WhoIs databases. Which are then taken over within minutes and used to promote (porno-)dialers and the trojan.

c't has a database of copy-protected CDs. The site's in German, of course, and YMMV if you're not from Germany (since CDs are something sold with copy-protection in one place and without in another), but it might still be helpful. They also have a program for download (UnCDcopy) that allows you to rip copy-protected CDs.

Yes, for several years the PPC604 and G3 were faster than x86 by quite a bit.

I don't dispute that they were competitive at times, but I remember at the time it was much more of an even race (at least when compared by less biased sources than Mac fanzines), or with x86 in the lead. e.g. As has been the history of the PPC, they would come out of the gates with grand claims of remarkable performance, and then the real-world benchmarkers would get ahold of it and render the claims ludicrous.

e.g.

http://www.heise.de/ct/english/96/11/270/

Era of the Pentium Pro and the PPC 604e. They found them to be evenly matched overall.

I found this but it doesnt look very professional
If you understand German you could search the IT-news-site www.heise.de
There you will find articles mentioning the "my-favourite-book"-lawsuit (Telekom apparently lost the suit, but my-favourite-book closed shop (sounded like a typical dot-com-bomb) about a week later so there probably was no reason for Telekom to appeal.

Other examples I found on the first search result page:
Telekom won against competitioner Mobilcom for a call-by-call service advertisment that used magenta for its service number.
Telekom lost an earlier case against telephone company StarCom (apparently using magenta as a nackground color in part of some brochure).
They sent (but later revoked) a kind of a cease and desist letter to "darkpages.de" for using "die schwarzen seiten" ("The black pages") in a title - because they own "Gelbe Seiten" ("Yellow pages")

They sued a "new-media agency" called "Team Konzept" for prominently using the 'T' in their ad-campaign for their service product(name)s
This was later settled (Telekom apparently helped "Team Konzept" to create a new corporate design, allowing them to use up their old business stationery in the meantime)

I found this but it doesnt look very professional
If you understand German you could search the IT-news-site www.heise.de
There you will find articles mentioning the "my-favourite-book"-lawsuit (Telekom apparently lost the suit, but my-favourite-book closed shop (sounded like a typical dot-com-bomb) about a week later so there probably was no reason for Telekom to appeal.

Other examples I found on the first search result page:
Telekom won against competitioner Mobilcom for a call-by-call service advertisment that used magenta for its service number.
Telekom lost an earlier case against telephone company StarCom (apparently using magenta as a nackground color in part of some brochure).
They sent (but later revoked) a kind of a cease and desist letter to "darkpages.de" for using "die schwarzen seiten" ("The black pages") in a title - because they own "Gelbe Seiten" ("Yellow pages")

They sued a "new-media agency" called "Team Konzept" for prominently using the 'T' in their ad-campaign for their service product(name)s
This was later settled (Telekom apparently helped "Team Konzept" to create a new corporate design, allowing them to use up their old business stationery in the meantime)

I found this but it doesnt look very professional
If you understand German you could search the IT-news-site www.heise.de
There you will find articles mentioning the "my-favourite-book"-lawsuit (Telekom apparently lost the suit, but my-favourite-book closed shop (sounded like a typical dot-com-bomb) about a week later so there probably was no reason for Telekom to appeal.

Other examples I found on the first search result page:
Telekom won against competitioner Mobilcom for a call-by-call service advertisment that used magenta for its service number.
Telekom lost an earlier case against telephone company StarCom (apparently using magenta as a nackground color in part of some brochure).
They sent (but later revoked) a kind of a cease and desist letter to "darkpages.de" for using "die schwarzen seiten" ("The black pages") in a title - because they own "Gelbe Seiten" ("Yellow pages")

They sued a "new-media agency" called "Team Konzept" for prominently using the 'T' in their ad-campaign for their service product(name)s
This was later settled (Telekom apparently helped "Team Konzept" to create a new corporate design, allowing them to use up their old business stationery in the meantime)

I found this but it doesnt look very professional
If you understand German you could search the IT-news-site www.heise.de
There you will find articles mentioning the "my-favourite-book"-lawsuit (Telekom apparently lost the suit, but my-favourite-book closed shop (sounded like a typical dot-com-bomb) about a week later so there probably was no reason for Telekom to appeal.

Other examples I found on the first search result page:
Telekom won against competitioner Mobilcom for a call-by-call service advertisment that used magenta for its service number.
Telekom lost an earlier case against telephone company StarCom (apparently using magenta as a nackground color in part of some brochure).
They sent (but later revoked) a kind of a cease and desist letter to "darkpages.de" for using "die schwarzen seiten" ("The black pages") in a title - because they own "Gelbe Seiten" ("Yellow pages")

They sued a "new-media agency" called "Team Konzept" for prominently using the 'T' in their ad-campaign for their service product(name)s
This was later settled (Telekom apparently helped "Team Konzept" to create a new corporate design, allowing them to use up their old business stationery in the meantime)

I found this but it doesnt look very professional
If you understand German you could search the IT-news-site www.heise.de
There you will find articles mentioning the "my-favourite-book"-lawsuit (Telekom apparently lost the suit, but my-favourite-book closed shop (sounded like a typical dot-com-bomb) about a week later so there probably was no reason for Telekom to appeal.

Other examples I found on the first search result page:
Telekom won against competitioner Mobilcom for a call-by-call service advertisment that used magenta for its service number.
Telekom lost an earlier case against telephone company StarCom (apparently using magenta as a nackground color in part of some brochure).
They sent (but later revoked) a kind of a cease and desist letter to "darkpages.de" for using "die schwarzen seiten" ("The black pages") in a title - because they own "Gelbe Seiten" ("Yellow pages")

They sued a "new-media agency" called "Team Konzept" for prominently using the 'T' in their ad-campaign for their service product(name)s
This was later settled (Telekom apparently helped "Team Konzept" to create a new corporate design, allowing them to use up their old business stationery in the meantime)

I found this but it doesnt look very professional
If you understand German you could search the IT-news-site www.heise.de
There you will find articles mentioning the "my-favourite-book"-lawsuit (Telekom apparently lost the suit, but my-favourite-book closed shop (sounded like a typical dot-com-bomb) about a week later so there probably was no reason for Telekom to appeal.

Other examples I found on the first search result page:
Telekom won against competitioner Mobilcom for a call-by-call service advertisment that used magenta for its service number.
Telekom lost an earlier case against telephone company StarCom (apparently using magenta as a nackground color in part of some brochure).
They sent (but later revoked) a kind of a cease and desist letter to "darkpages.de" for using "die schwarzen seiten" ("The black pages") in a title - because they own "Gelbe Seiten" ("Yellow pages")

They sued a "new-media agency" called "Team Konzept" for prominently using the 'T' in their ad-campaign for their service product(name)s
This was later settled (Telekom apparently helped "Team Konzept" to create a new corporate design, allowing them to use up their old business stationery in the meantime)

I found this but it doesnt look very professional
If you understand German you could search the IT-news-site www.heise.de
There you will find articles mentioning the "my-favourite-book"-lawsuit (Telekom apparently lost the suit, but my-favourite-book closed shop (sounded like a typical dot-com-bomb) about a week later so there probably was no reason for Telekom to appeal.

Other examples I found on the first search result page:
Telekom won against competitioner Mobilcom for a call-by-call service advertisment that used magenta for its service number.
Telekom lost an earlier case against telephone company StarCom (apparently using magenta as a nackground color in part of some brochure).
They sent (but later revoked) a kind of a cease and desist letter to "darkpages.de" for using "die schwarzen seiten" ("The black pages") in a title - because they own "Gelbe Seiten" ("Yellow pages")

They sued a "new-media agency" called "Team Konzept" for prominently using the 'T' in their ad-campaign for their service product(name)s
This was later settled (Telekom apparently helped "Team Konzept" to create a new corporate design, allowing them to use up their old business stationery in the meantime)

Ah, and I nearly forgot: Starting from Oct 2005 you can get a 18 MBit/s flat incl. telephone line for 49,90 EUR.

Though, the 25MBit mentioned in my post above is a trial, this one is RETAIL! You can get it in 14 cities of germany ... so move.

p.s. sorry for the german links. Maybe try babel or google translation to get a clue.

Come to Hamburg, Germany .... here you can get a 25 MBit/s DSL line for 28,99 EUR + 29,95 EUR if you want all this flat.

In addition, you have none of the above bads and no hurricanes, earthquakes et al. Maybe the weather is bad, but who cares if you have that much bandwidth.

... this was a german company, with its product named "G-Mail, und die Post geht richtig ab" (roughly translated "G-Mail, and the mail really gets going"). They also tried to sue people selling GMail invitations on eBay. a legal case is open in Germany, and GMail is obliged by a court order not to give @gmail.com-adresses to german users - those ones get @googlemail.com adresses instead [which also work with gmail, but this is not yet well-documented.])

The fact that the british and the german trademarks are so similar to each other makes me think... does anyone know if there are connections between those companies?

Guess you're wrong :-) There's a picture and a german article that describes that you can use your own substitute load. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/63699

Here's a picture http://www.heise.de/bilder/63699/0/1 . The aparatus just takes a small part of the weight. However, you have to put something in your backpack, whatever it is, to generate power.

Their ink has built in expiration dates and region coding. Epson has built in expiration dates too. In either case, the printer will not let you use the cartridge beyond the date specified. I'm not sure about Brother's inks.
Only one I know of without lockout chips are the Canon series. Look at the ink for a Canon iP4000 or even the i9900. No chips whatsoever.

Your information, while technicaly accurate, is out of date. The Pixma ip4200 is a similar style tank, but has a chip on it. Where was that damn link

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/63332

Now in theory the new chips *MIGHT* only keep track of ink use, and not actually stop your printer from printing, but franky I have no clue as I don't own one nor do I know if anyone else has one. As a bonus they are using new ink, ink which you "could" get in the BCI-7 tank which is near as i'm aware the same size as the BCI6, but according to support anyway the new inks in America and Europe the CLI-8 (BCI-8 was taken by the Canon Aspen printer same as sold under the apple label) and PGI-5 black won't fit in the current generation printers meaning if you want the new enhanced product you gotta buy a new printer or order the inks from japan.

If what I suspect is true... and you can continue to print when the chips read empty... it makes them less evil than epson.

You can say Canon were among the last to offered chipped cartridges.... this was true. This is no longer true, just check out the new fall line.

The busses are submerged and thus may not be started anymore (a motor magazine warned to start submerged cars because they are very likly to break. Although if this is the only chance one should at least try to start them). Btw. you are missing the point. The New Orleans desaster is only secondary caused by the hurricane but by the breach of the levee's. These very leeves where in very bad condition because a lot of money has been shiftet to the irak war. This issue has been known at least since 2002 (http://www.nola.com/hurricane/?/washingaway/).

Lots of links are burried in this small article:
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20848/1.html

So if you still think that there is no administration error, well i can't help you :-(

2 Years ago a space probe crashed on Jupiter, killing my rich uncle....

That sounds interesting. At the moment, I'm dreaming of a "textual exchange service center" for pupils at my school or even schools in whole Hamburg/Germany. (in other words: a good, dialer-free, non advertising, trusted, backfeeded homework exchanger).
I've heard of Lucene through my fav. Computer magazine (http://www.heise.de/ct), but I was more interested in indexing algorithm at that time.
So how much weight does the book give into algorithms? Is there anyone out there who's as mathematically/scientific interested in that topic as me?
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You've been intentionally poked. Prepare to get an access violation ;)

When billboards know your name that's when to really worry.

I saw the headline, thought of Bill Gates, and to my mind came, "The police? With all the flaws in Hotmail and Outlook he allows EVERYONE to monitor your email".

On the other hand, perhaps it's not such a joke...

Phillip.

After years of constant growth, the music industry is, at present, in a serious crisis. The extent becomes obvious, in particular, on the basis of the substantial losses in revenue and sales in recent years. For example, the sales of sound storage mediums declined in 2003 in Germany by almost 20%. In addition, the resulting economic implications from this are already visible. Consequently, a number of record companies have significantly reduced their staff and their portfolio of artists. Furthermore, consolidation in the music industry has increased. Indeed, the future development is highly uncertain, but, nevertheless, most experts agree about the fact that the crisis in the music industry will continue in the years to come.

While the causes of the current crisis are largely contentious, the representatives of the music industry predominantly assume that this is a consequence of the rising extent of unauthorised copying. Therefore, the music industry reacted thus far with almost repressive measures, like the broad adoption of copy protection on compact disks. Since these are afflicted with a multitude of problems, the tightening of copyright protection represents the central claim of the representatives of the music industry. But this measure is also strongly disputed, since it implies a number of negative economic effects, for example, the increasing monopoly power of the right holders. Apart from the necessity for copyright protection as such, the question about its welfare-optimal level arises.

...

After years of constant growth, the music industry is, at present, in a serious crisis. The extent becomes obvious, in particular, on the basis of the substantial losses in revenue and sales in recent years. For example, the sales of sound storage mediums declined in 2003 in Germany by almost 20%. In addition, the resulting economic implications from this are already visible. Consequently, a number of record companies have significantly reduced their staff and their portfolio of artists. Furthermore, consolidation in the music industry has increased. Indeed, the future development is highly uncertain, but, nevertheless, most experts agree about the fact that the crisis in the music industry will continue in the years to come.

While the causes of the current crisis are largely contentious, the representatives of the music industry predominantly assume that this is a consequence of the rising extent of unauthorised copying. Therefore, the music industry reacted thus far with almost repressive measures, like the broad adoption of copy protection on compact disks. Since these are afflicted with a multitude of problems, the tightening of copyright protection represents the central claim of the representatives of the music industry. But this measure is also strongly disputed, since it implies a number of negative economic effects, for example, the increasing monopoly power of the right holders. Apart from the necessity for copyright protection as such, the question about its welfare-optimal level arises.

...

This in no way means 20 dollar phones for anyone.

Also, today TI demonstrated a prototype phone using the chip to make an actual call; back in January, they just announced the chip.

Well... last month infineon introduced a mobile phone for under $20.
(link in german)
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/result.xhtml?url=/n ewsticker/meldung/61656&words=Infineon%20Handy

It's an ugly beast, this cannot be denied. To me it looks like a shamelessly rebadged Sager machine. Regardless, there are a few other HP laptops one can order with Ubuntu onboard. Here's a site that covers this lightly (german only).

Strangely I cannot find information about this on the HP page even though there was quite alot of hubbub about it when the news was announced. I think it's an 'on-request' thing, which equates to a tentative commitment to promoting this product on HP's part.

Anyway, there are a ton of companies out there that ship laptops with Linux. I hear very good reports about for instance.

A lot of lip service but no action. Does anyone remember this announcement:
Linux notebooks by Hewlett-Packard? Has anybody been able to actually buy a linux laptop from HP? I haven't and I've tried. German customer support told me, rather irritated, that no Linux laptops are for sale from HP. Buying a laptop running linux is still difficult and HP sending out false press releases does not make the situation any more comfortable.