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Red Hat Appoints Robyn Bergeron First Female Fedora Project Leader


Slashdot Feb 7, 2012 | 10:10 am CST
 darthcamaro writes "Red Hat is changing the leadership at the Fedora Project. Jared Smith is out after having been the Fedora Project Leader since June of 2010. In is Robyn Bergeron — who...

Sanctions Or Not, Iranian Competition Yields Successful UAVs


Slashdot Feb 7, 2012 | 9:54 am CST
 garymortimer writes with word of the result from a high-tech student competition that doesn't come with sponsorship from DARPA or Mobil — far from it. Instead, the sponsors include "milit...

Cops Set Up Extortion Sting On Symantec's Source Code Thieves


Slashdot Feb 7, 2012 | 9:11 am CST
 Sparrowvsrevolution writes "Hackers linked with Anonymous leaked another 1.26 gigabytes of Symantec's data Monday night, what they say is the source code company's PCAnywhere program. More inte...

Apple Intern Spent 12 Weeks Porting Mac OS X To ARM


Slashdot Feb 7, 2012 | 8:29 am CST
 An anonymous reader writes "Apple hasn't released a Mac OS X device running on ARM yet, but a recently discovered thesis from a former Apple intern going by the name of Tristan Schapp details a...

KDE Publishes a Book For Beginner Developers


Slashdot Feb 7, 2012 | 8:09 am CST
 jrepin writes "During a recent 5 day sprint, four KDE contributors planned and produced a handbook for beginning KDE developers. The guide is recommended for every new contributor to KDE develo...

First Run of Raspberry Pi Boards To Be Completed Feb 20th


Slashdot Feb 7, 2012 | 7:47 am CST
 An anonymous reader writes "Raspberry Pi has confirmed the first batch of $35 PCs will be constructed on February 20. They've also coaxed Broadcom into releasing the datasheet for the board. Ap...

Halliburton To Dump Blackberry For iOS


Slashdot Feb 7, 2012 | 7:06 am CST
 grub writes "Halliburton has decided to drop Research In Motion's Blackberry platform in favor of Apple's iOS for its workforce. 'An internal newsletter outlined the plan for the nearly 70,000...

Water Droplets In Orbit On the International Space Station


Slashdot Feb 7, 2012 | 6:03 am CST
 BuzzSkyline writes "Astronaut Don Pettit, who is aboard the International Space Station right now, puts charged water droplets into wild orbits around a knitting needle in the microgravity envi...

Canonical Pulls Kubuntu Personnel Funding


Slashdot Feb 7, 2012 | 4:15 am CST
 LinuxScribe writes "An announcement on the Kubuntu-devel mailing list tells the sad story: Canonical is pulling funding for in-house developers to work on the KDE-based Kubuntu flavor. Canonica...

Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password


Slashdot Feb 7, 2012 | 2:08 am CST
 wiedzmin writes "A Colorado woman that was ordered by a federal judge to decrypt her laptop hard-drive for police last month, appears to have forgotten her password. If she does not remember th...

Tapeheads and the Quiet Return of VHS


Slashdot Feb 6, 2012 | 11:05 pm CST
 Hugh Pickens writes "Joshua Phillips writes that something was lost when videos went from magnetic tape and plastic, to plastic discs, and now to digital streams as browsing isles is no more an...

Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun


Slashdot Feb 6, 2012 | 9:10 pm CST
 vikingpower writes "The Little Ice Age, lasting from the end of the Middle Age into the 17th century, may very likely have been caused by the combined effects of four major volcanic eruptions a...

Hacking the NES With Lisp


Slashdot Feb 6, 2012 | 8:00 pm CST
 Andy Hefner has a detailed blog post covering his quest to program an NES with the assistance of Common Lisp. He developed a new 6502 assembler, a mini-language for composing musical sequences,...

Facebook Orders Banks To Stop Leaking IPO Details


Slashdot Feb 6, 2012 | 7:04 pm CST
 redletterdave writes "In the weeks leading up to Facebook's massive $100 billion initial public offering, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and the o...

Lenovo Ordered To Refund 'Microsoft Tax'


Slashdot Feb 6, 2012 | 6:22 pm CST
 angry tapir writes with an excerpt from an article over at TechWorld: "A French laptop buyer has won a refund from Lenovo after a four-year legal battle over the cost of a Windows license he di...

 

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