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Posted by CmdrGrits on Saturday October 16, @01:00PM EDTfrom the we'll-make-it-up-in-volume dept. DayTraderDan writes "Online pet store Petz.com, whose sock puppet mascot has become oddly famous, went public today and closed up 85%. According to the S-1, the company sells 40-pound bags of dog food for less than the cost of shipping them. When asked about the business model, a spokesperson said: 'Eyeballs.'" I'm not saying it's a bubble. I'm saying I just saw a sock puppet with a market cap larger than my town. ( Read More... | 35 of 45 comments )
Posted by Pixelfish on Saturday October 16, @10:05AM EDTfrom the buy-a-new-computer dept. UpgradeUma writes "Final system requirements for Portals 2000 Professional have leaked: a 300MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, and two gigabytes of free disk space. The previous version ran happily in 16MB. Hardware vendors are said to be delighted." My first hard drive was 20 megabytes and I thought I'd never fill it. ( Read More... | 18 of 30 comments )
Posted by Hemlock on Saturday October 16, @07:45AM EDTfrom the write-once-debug-everywhere dept. CoffeeCoder writes "Solar has released the Jolt 2 SDK, with a new graphics toolkit, a faster virtual machine and a 20MB download. The new HotStove compiler promises speeds 'approaching C' on long-running server code, as long as you don't mind waiting for it to warm up, which takes about as long as a pot of coffee." Applets are dead, long live servlets. ( Read More... | 26 of 33 comments )
Posted by jamie_k on Friday October 15, @09:30PM EDTfrom the by-reading-this-headline-you-agree dept. LawGeek writes "A proposed model law called UCLUTA would make shrink-wrap and click-through licenses enforceable in every state that adopts it, let vendors disable software remotely, and allow licenses to forbid publishing benchmarks or reviews. It is being considered in state legislatures right now, mostly without anyone noticing." Write your state representatives. Use paper. They read paper. ( Read More... | 18 of 25 comments )
Posted by Rotundo on Friday October 15, @06:22PM EDTfrom the imagine-a-beowulf-cluster-of-these dept. NodeNinja writes "A 16-year-old in Ohio has built a 64-node cluster out of discarded 486s and Pentium 75s collected from local businesses upgrading for Y2K. It runs Linix and PVM, heats the garage through the winter, and according to the builder's father, 'has made the electric meter spin like a ceiling fan.'" Finally, a story where the joke has already been made for you in the department line. ( Read More... | 12 of 16 comments )
Posted by Hemlock on Friday October 15, @03:45PM EDTfrom the the-lizard-is-getting-big dept. GeckoGuy writes "The open source browser project spun out of Netsail has released Milestone 10, with a working mail client, better standards support, and a first cut at the new skinnable interface. It still crashes when you look at it funny, but it renders CSS better than anything else on the market." Download, test, file bugs. That's how this works, people. ( Read More... | 10 of 16 comments )
Posted by Rotundo on Friday October 15, @12:10PM EDTfrom the back-then-we-had-to-use-two-digits dept. Last month you sent in questions for Walt Ferraday, the COBOL programmer who wrote the payroll system that is still running at a large Midwestern insurance company, and who came out of retirement this year to fix it. His answers are below. He typed them himself, on a terminal, in all capital letters. ( Read More... | 25 of 39 comments | 1035 bytes in body )
Posted by Pixelfish on Friday October 15, @09:05AM EDTfrom the can-you-hear-me-now dept. LowEarthLarry writes "After its bankruptcy, the Ostrich satellite phone network has announced it will steer all 66 of its satellites into the atmosphere to burn up. The handsets were the size of a brick, cost $3,000, and only worked outdoors, which turned out to be a hard sell to business travelers who spend most of their time indoors." Five billion dollars of hardware turned into the world's most expensive meteor shower. ( Read More... | 24 of 32 comments )
Posted by Hemlock on Thursday October 14, @10:15PM EDTfrom the the-daemon-is-alive dept. pitchfork_pete writes "FreeDaemon 3.3-RELEASE is out, with improved SMP support, a new sound driver framework, Linix binary compatibility that actually runs most Linix binaries faster than Linix does, and the usual mountain of bug fixes. ISO images are on the FTP mirrors; the main FTP server is reportedly already maxed out at 2,000 users." Before anyone posts it: no, it is not dying. ( Read More... | 15 of 19 comments )
Posted by Rotundo on Thursday October 14, @07:00PM EDTfrom the s/confusion/clarity/g dept. Gladys Okonkwo-Pratt's new book from Trout & Turtle Press promises to teach regular expressions to people who have previously only used them by copying lines out of other people's Perl scripts and praying. Our reviewer is one of those people. Read on to see if it worked. ( Read More... | 21 of 24 comments | 1143 bytes in body )
Posted by Pixelfish on Thursday October 14, @04:33PM EDTfrom the fruit-salad dept. ClamshellCarl writes "Pear has expanded its translucent clamshell laptop line to five colors: Blueberry, Tangerine, Lime, Grape and a new 'Graphite' for people who want to be taken seriously at meetings. It has a handle, wireless networking that works without wires, and weighs about as much as a medium-sized cat." I want one. I don't know why. I just do. ( Read More... | 14 of 18 comments )
Posted by Hemlock on Thursday October 14, @01:20PM EDTfrom the hello-llama dept. BioBob writes "A research lab in a small Scottish-sounding town that is actually in Oregon has announced the birth of Tina, the first cloned llama. Tina is reportedly healthy, curious, and has already spat at two members of the press." Clearly the ethical implications of cloning will be with us for decades. Also, llamas are great. ( Read More... | 23 of 33 comments )
Posted by Pixelfish on Thursday October 14, @10:00AM EDTfrom the frag-before-you-buy dept. RailgunRhonda writes "ego Software has released a playable demo of Quack III Arena, with four maps, bots, and a Linix version on day one. Download mirrors are melting worldwide. The demo requires a 3D card; the readme suggests that if you are trying to run it on a software renderer you should 'consider a hobby, perhaps knitting.'" Productivity across the industry has just dropped 40%. Mine certainly has. ( Read More... | 10 of 15 comments )
Posted by Rotundo on Thursday October 14, @08:00AM EDTfrom the practice-run dept. NavNerd writes "Remember the GPS week rollover in August, when the 10-bit week counter wrapped from 1023 to 0? A survey of readers finds that most receivers handled it fine, a few thought it was 1980, and one hiker reports his handheld insisted he was standing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for three days." Consider it a dress rehearsal for New Year's. The ocean part was a nice touch. ( Read More... | 18 of 26 comments )
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