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Axentra Rumba Server - Home Do-It-All Box
JigSaw writes "OSNews has an exclusive article on a new Linux-based server appliance product -- the first in the family -- the Axentra Rumba Server. The product is to be launched soon, but details of it have being leaked out already: The device has a mini ITX mobo, VIA C3 800 MHz CPU, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB hdd, USB 1.1, 2 LAN ports and in 1 WAN port (extra Wi-Fi USB device required). The device is useful as an Internet Gateway (DNS, IP filtering, Port forwarding, NAT firewall), as a network service (web server, file server, WebDAV, IMAP/SMTP, Samba, Content/Spam Filtering, photo album). It has an embedded web server so you can administer it via your web browser. It is compatible with Linux, Macs and Windows."
What the hell, more advertising on /. ?
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Chicken satay
1/2 Duck with pancakes
Mandarin sizzling beef
Special fried rice
Banana fritter and Chinese Tea
CASHBACK.
It says that the device is compatible with "Macs". "Mac" is not an operating system (Windows is, and Linux is only a kernel, as we well know). "Mac OS" is an operating system, as is "Mac OS X", and no, they are not short for "Macintosh OS" and "Macintosh OS X". It is simply "Mac OS" and "Mac OS X".
Another pet peeve: The name of the hardware platform, "Mac", is short for "Macintosh". It is not an acronym! It's really annoying when people capitalize it (as in "We do not have any support for MAC computers at this time, although we are investigating MAC support.") What's that supposed to stand for... "Macintosh Apple Computer"?
Go ahead and mod me down for being off-topic; I'm just sick of seeing incorrect usage of technical terms and names on SlashDot, of all places.
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Discrimination and insurance companies...
Women eat up 3x as much health insurance as men and rates stay the same. Every other form of insurance is discrimintory towards men. Sounds like a class action suit.