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Knoppix on the Intel-Based Macintosh
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Practical.
eWeek: New Safari Flaw, Worms Turn
Spotlight on Apple Security
Publish: Web Users
Are Slackers, and That's a Good Thing
eWeek:
Virtualization Edges Towards PCs
Gene and Grayson
Steinberg welcome Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus, Kirk McElhearn, Intego and
Xerox this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE\0x00
HREF=#213>eWeek: Google Denies Acting Illegally in China
Knoppix on the Intel-Based Macintosh
osnews.com's Thom Holwerda and Jaime Ieong report:
"We reported a few days ago that we had
Linux booting on the Intel-based Macintosh. We have been looking at
Linux on this hardware some more, and we are glad to report that we now
have a full-fledged Knoppix distribution working, complete with the X
Window system. We are releasing the first pictures of Knoppix 4.0
running on a 17-inch iMac Core Duo..."
For the full report visit here.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13743
Battery Breakthrough Could Finally Make Electric Cars
Practical.
technologyreview.com's Kevin Bullis reports:
A new high-capacity battery material
could lead to super-efficient hybrid cars and electric vehicles, helping
to slash U.S. gas consumption.
Researchers have long known that a material based on lithium, nickel,
and manganese could be used to make lithium-ion batteries that store
large amounts of energy. The problem is that batteries based on this
material could be charged and discharged only slowly, otherwise the
amount of energy they could store would drop dramatically.
Now researchers at MIT and the State University of New York in Stony
Brook have shown a way around the problem. The breakthrough came last
summer, when Kisuk Kang, a materials science graduate student at MIT,
created a computer model that showed that when\0xC2\0xA0under conditions
of high power, disorder in the lithium-nickel-manganese material caused
it to compress and trap the lithium ions that allow electricity to flow.
The researchers then synthesized a version of this material without this
disorder, freeing the ions to move quickly.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.technologyreview.com/NanoTech-Materials/wtr_16384,318,p1.html
eWeek: New Safari Flaw, Worms Turn Spotlight on Apple
Security
"A serious new vulnerability in Apple
Computer Inc.'s Safari Web browser and new worms that target Apple's OS
X operating system have raised awareness of the growing number of
threats to computers that do not run the Windows operating system.
Security and anti-virus companies issued advisories Feb. 21 about a
dangerous new hole in the Safari browser that could enable attackers to
install malicious code on Apple OS X systems without any user
interaction."
Read more at: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1929342,00.asp
Publish: Web Users Are Slackers, and That's a Good
Thing
Opinion: A new report shows that goal-directed Web surfing is out, and
passing time and having fun online is in.
Read more at: http://www.publish.com/article2/0,1759,1929029,00.asp
eWeek: Virtualization Edges Towards PCs
"Virtualization is becoming commonplaceRead more at:
in the data center as companies seek to wring more out of their servers.
But its broad use on the desktop is a year or two away at best, experts
say.
Chip makers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices have begun paving the way
to client-side virtualization-the technology can partition a computer to
run multiple different types of software simultaneously-by building
their respective virtualization technologies into desktop and notebook
processors."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1929010,00.asp
Gene and Grayson Steinberg welcome Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus,
Kirk McElhearn, Intego and Xerox this week on The Tech Night Owl
LIVE\0x00
Meet the Night Owl himself, the incomparable Gene Steinberg,
best-selling Mac author and columnist. Get to know Gene, and discover
his unique, thought-provoking viewpoints about the technology universe,
from Macs to consumer electronics.
This week Gene and his irreverent son and co-host Grayson will feature
cutting-edge conversation on a wide range of subjects. You'll hear the
latest news about that recently-discovered Oompa-Loompa Mac virus from
Intego's David Loomstein and noted author Kirk McElhearn. You'll get an
update on the latest goings on in the Mac universe from Bob "Dr. Mac"
LeVitus. And Shell Haffner, Product Marketing Manager for Xerox's Office
Group, will be on hand to talk about the company's solid ink technology.
When it comes to The Tech Night Owl LIVE, you never know what's going
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eWeek: Google Denies Acting Illegally in China
"Internet giant Google, which has agreed to block politically sensitive
items on its new China site, rejected Chinese newspaper reports on
Tuesday that the new platform does not have the correct license.
The Beijing News reported on Tuesday that Google.cn, the recently
launched service that accommodates China's censorship demands, has not
obtained the Internet content provider (ICP) license needed to operate
Internet content services in China."
Read more at: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1928930,00.asp
Charles W. Moore
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