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Slashback: Sale, Secrecy, Lasers

More details below in tonight's Slashback on the sale of Corel's Linux division, the public posting of the encryption scheme some bright young Irish whippersnapper has come up with, fun details on those toys you can roll around with your computer, and winners of another contest.

That's a lot of Molsen. Bigger R writes contributes this link to a story in the Calgary Herald with more detail on the sale of Corel's Linux division which was mentioned in vague terms the other day. It's going to a company called Xandros, in exchange for cash and equity, so Corel will still have at least some interest in the continued success of Linux, or at least its distro. A snippet: "Xandros Corp. president Michael Bego, who started the Ottawa company recently in preparation for the deal announced Wednesday, is also a shareowner in Linux Global Partners, a privately held New York venture firm that put up $10 million US to start Xandros."

Small, cheap and fun are all good words. An Anonymous Coward writes "There's an announcement of the winners of the embedded linux journal's design contest over at linuxdevices.com. Cool projects -- voting system, digital audio workstation, solar racing vehicle, GizmoCopter Project, and Hacking BigMouth Billy Bass. Follow the urls for the projects which are given in the announcement to learn about each project. Oh, and the prize for winning each category? An all expense paid trip to Costa Rica. Dang, why didn't I enter?"

Stuff that's hard to read. John Sokol writes with an update on the Cayley-Purser Algorithm mentioned here before.

"This story went through some time back about a 16-year-old girl outdoing RSA, but it lacked any discussion of the actual algorithm. This link is her paper that she now has posted on the net. It seems reasonable. Maybe someone here can find a flaw in it?"

Roll 'em. Slide100 writes: "It seems that there is more to the desktop rover that was posted about on Tuesday.

The marketing manager sent me a PDF file that explains some more - apparently, they just don't have the time to update the website.

Each rover comes with a cable that plugs into the transmitter and software to allow control of the rover from your computer (or through TCP/IP).

Additionally, each rover has 'Laser Tag' as an integral part of the vehicle. 10 hits (including sound effects) and your rover is disabled 'till the next match See it here. BTW - I have nothing to do with the company, I just think its very cool."

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  1. fp by !recycle · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

    But i must say that the corel distro wasnt that good anyway. Stick with suse,mandrake, or redhat.

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    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yeah, I guess you know where to stick those.

  2. this FUCKING SUCKS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i hate it when i get frost on my piss. great treat for the kids though!

  3. No more quickies? by joeytsai · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, is Slashdot not doing quickies anymore? These Slashbacks are getting more frequent, have they replaced the good ol' round of quickies?

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    1. Re:No more quickies? by garcia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      they renamed them, they don't want to feel like the only quickies that they are ever going to have are on the web ;-)

    2. Re:No more quickies? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      CmdrTaco gave me a quickie.

  4. Re:First Mormon Masturbation Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    "19. In very severe cases it may be necessary to tie a hand to
    the bed frame with a tie in order that the habit of
    masturbating in a semi-sleep condition can be broken. This
    can also be accomplished by wearing several layers of
    clothing which would be difficult to remove while half
    asleep."

    No, THAT won't increase sexual desire!!!

  5. Re:First Mormon Masturbation Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Score:5 informative

  6. Re:Thoughts on the Cayley-Purser Algorithm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are either very smart or very funny. I suspect it is the latter.

  7. Re:.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's some gay method for determining whether or not your post is garbage or not. It seems that Taco compresses your comment using gzip or something, and then looks at the _size_ of the compressed file to determine whether or not it's garbage. Wow, that's brilliant.

  8. Re:Big Mouth Billy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What the fuck are you talking about?

  9. oh spare me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's just some politically correct crap to try and inspire little girls to study math and technology.

    Typical politically correct feminist crap.

  10. Re:I found the flaw! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh please this chicks daddy did most of it for her.

  11. Re:been there; done that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can you make a version for men?

  12. FYI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's "it's"

  13. Re:Bull! by On+Lawn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This sounds like...

    spaniard: I see you are using Rosettie's Defence...

    man in black: Naturaly, I find it good considering the rocky terain.

    spaniard: You must expect me to counter with Capapelle.

    man in black: Of course, but I find that Tibult cancels out Capapelle, Don't you?

    spaniard: Unless your enemy has studied his Agrippa, which I have!

  14. Re:Thoughts on the Cayley-Purser Algorithm by Glytch · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This reads like a script of a Voyager episode. You just need to modulate something metaphasic and it would be perfect.

  15. Extra Extra by Rogain · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The famous Caley-Hamilton theorem was seen coming out of a swanky LA nightclub with a recently dis-charged Mariah Carey! Check our website, http://www.gosipyfag.com for full details!

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