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The Open source gift guide

There are hundreds of gift guides this holiday season filled with junk you can buy - but a lot of time you actually don't own it, you can't improve upon it, you can't share it or make it better, you certainly can't post the plans, schematics and source code either. We want to change that, we've put together our picks of interesting open source hardware projects, open source software, services and things that have the Maker-spirit of open source. Some are kits, some are open software projects that you'll need to build hardware for before gifting, and some are just support for the projects/groups that do open source. Included in this guide are things you can get from the MAKE store too (we try and have as many open source goods as possible).The Open source gift guide - Open source hardware, software and more for the holidays

Former Microsoft exec now selling desktop Linux

Headed by former Microsoft ME Executive Mohamad Jarrar, Business International is going to start selling Linspire GNU-Linux to the growing emerging markets in the Middle East and African countries. They will be targeting the low-end computer market. Somewhere in Redmond, a chair is about to be thrown.
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Former_Microsoft_exec_now_selling_desktop_Li…

FUN: Bill Gates for President

Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President

nehany kiragadott poen:
Well, this way the President will announce for "America NG" a brand new country for the next generation, designed from scratch, better, more powerful, for a better western expericence.
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I can see it now....

"Your country has performed an illegal operation."
Oh, wait............ it already has. Nevermind.
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Cannot find file "WMD.IRAQ", System Halted.
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As if US politics hadn't enough *Gates in history.

Új ige: sco

Main Entry: sco
Pronunciation: sko
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English screw, that is, to stick it to some one
transitive verb
1 : to threaten your customers with IP infringement
2 : to drive your customers to other vendors
3 : to treat your customers with contempt

SCO

4 petabyte RAM-on fut a google

A wired kozolt egy elemzest, ami tobbek kozott a google tech meretet is megbecsulte:
PC szerverek: min. 450,000
200 petabytes of hard disk storage
four petabytes of RAM.
current load of 100 million queries a day
collective input-output bandwidth must be in the neighborhood of 3 petabits per second
The Information Factories

M$ 348 mill$ fizet a Novel-nek

Microsoft will pay Novell $240 million up front in subscription fees to allow the world's largest software maker to use its Linux software. Microsoft will pay an additional $108 million upfront for use of patents, Novell said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Microsoft agreed not to sign a similar agreement with any other Linux distributor for three years.
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Under the pact, which will run until at least 2012, Novell will also pay Microsoft at least $40 million over five years for use of Microsoft's patents based on a percentage of its revenue from open-source products.