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Slashback: Tableturkey, Stromlo, Mandrake
The silver lining.dragonsister writes "Regarding the recent slashdot story on Mount Stromlo Observatory being hit by fire, it seems the damage is not nearly as extensive as it might have been. The Australian National University has posted details here. In particular, the office buildings were spared, meaning that the work of staff and students is safe, and the many years worth of data collected should still be usable. The main question remaining in my mind is whether or not there were backups of the data on the computers that were actually located in the telescope buildings themselves, as these contained information crucial to the interpretation of some of the data. The importance of off-site backups has just been demonstrated. Everybody backup now!"
And blakduk writes "We were able to enter the site and retrieve computing equipment that survived the fire. This enabled us to set up our servers and have all staff back on-line within 24 hours."
Other than that, how was the parade? Back in November, I posted an article about the DocuNote, an inexpensive tablet PC available with Linux. According to richardbondi , maybe "cheap" would be a better word. He writes:
"I bought one, it arrived today. It was clearly used, not new, and didn't work. If you tilted it, it hung. I gave up after a dozen reboots. Only purchasable from www.microsono.com, where all sales are final.The handwriting recognition software turned out to be trialware.
And although the stepupcomputing.com site says it works with Windows 2000, it came with a note that said now it has to be OEM installed.
One user's bad experience -- bad hardware, deceptive advertising re software."
Looks nice over two monitors, too. Znonymous Coward writes "Mandrake is trying to prove it's not dead yet. Yesterday[Note: the 19th, that is], they released Beta 2 of Mandrake 9.1. You can get the 2 ISO images from the usual mirrors." There's a (critical but mostly positive) review of this 2nd beta running at DistroWatch, too.
Once this starts it always gets messy. Per Hansson writes
"Yesterday we at Techspot posted a Interview with Nvidia plus high-resolution pictures of the Geforce FX.A few sites rightfully claimed that this material had been stolen from Nordichardware however this was not the case, we interviewed Nvidia at the same time and therefore our Interviews looks so similar."
Anton Nilsson, assistant editor in chief of Nordic Hardware writes, in contrast,
"... [I]t seems as if they have used my material as found here.I've spoken to the TechSpot staff and the person who reported the news item to you and it seems as if they overheard me doing my interview with nVidia at Comdex. Since they didn't want to bug nVidia with the same questions again they later on read the interview at my page and then posted it on theirs. Still that doesn't make up a fair excuse in my opinion."
You'll have to make up your own mind on this.
Mandrake reminds me of the guy in the holy grail say: "I'm not dead yet"
except i somehow dont think that they are saying 'i feel happy'..
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You spent $1300 at a place that said "all sales final"? You should read up on a nice man named P.T. Barnum.
If you tilted it, it hung. I gave up after a dozen reboots.
But, it's running Linux, so it must be the hardware. Yeah, it's probably the hardware.
"Mandrake is trying to prove it's not dead yet. Yesterday[Note: the 19th, that is], they released Beta 2 of Mandrake 9.1. You can get the 2 ISO images from the usual mirrors."
:)
I'm sorry, but you gotta laugh. Mandrake is facing bancruptcy, And this guy is instructing everyone to download the iso's. That's just brilliant.
Yes, I know it's the betas, but everyone seems to think that this shit is just always gonna be free. Well, I found it humorous anyway. LOL.
If the product was misrepresented (used instead of new, software not really applied etc), you can return it and, if not, sue in small claims court as such behavior is fradulent.
Considering the price, you may want to do that.
Test your net with Netalyzr
Slashdot got the sequence of events wrong. It was not Microsoft lost contract, complained. The real sequence was only one company bid on the contract. People asked why the city was spemding so much money on a product nobody had ever heard of to be installed in public libraries. Then there was an investigation in which all the bidders thought that the bid had been rigged so that only IAT could win.
So really the story has nothing to do with Microsoft. It is simply business as usual for Enron city.
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Try http://dotcrimeManifesto.com/
I'd think that this is one of those classic situations where you tell Visa that the product did not meet its advertised specifications, that you're not going to pay for it, and would be happy to return it.
-Zipwow
I don't know which is more depressing, that 2/3 didn't care enough to vote, or that 1/2 of those that did are crazy.
A few sites rightfully claimed [x] however this was not the case.
Ahem, sorry, How can you rightfully claim anything that is not the case?
Me lost me cookie at the disco.