technology - "computer"

Oleg.salenko points out a ComputerWorld story with some bad news for Russia's wireless users, which starts out 'Business travelers to Russia might want to keep their laptops and iPhones well-concealed — not from muggers,necessarily, but from the country's recently formed regulatory super-agency, Rossvyazokhrankultura (short for the Russian Mass Media, Communications and Cultural Protection Service). ... Rossvyazokhrankultura's interpretation of current law holds that users must register any electronics that use the frequency involved in Wi-Fi communications, said Vladimir Karpov, the deputy director of the agency's communications monitoring division, according to an English commentary provided by website The Other Russia.' of this story at Slashdot.

the_kanzure writes 'I'm going to start at a university lab a few days after my high school graduation ceremony. The lab is an eclectic blend of computer science, evolutionary engineering and molecular biology, essentially it's research/development and — best of all — the research is worth something to me and my other pet projects. What I do know of science, tech and research has been gleamed from the internet. The open access research repositories (arxiv, PLoS, etc.) have been a life-saver. But showing up to get real, hard experience is not the same as those late hours into the night spent debugging software. In person, you can't just call up a favorite bash script to open up a few hundred tabs to do some quick research on feasability and past research ... how is this supposed to work — does anybody really get stuff done this way? So I've been wondering how Slashdotters have handled transitioning from learning in front of a screen and a good net connection, to actuall

Macolytes around the world were buzzing this week with news that an online hardware vendor called 'Psystar.com' is selling a US$555 PC called the 'Open computer' that runs the Macintosh OS X Leopard operating system. In fact, for about the same price, you can buy the machine with Windows or Leopard installed -- or buy it for $400 with the open source Linux operating system.

Long ago and far away -- about 1982 or 1983 -- there was a database called 'Nutshell' which used the simple metaphor of index cards to let you store and use information. I remember Nutshell fondly even if it and the MS-DOS platform that supported it are only fit for computer museums. A Macintosh version of Nutshell evolved into the successful software program FileMaker.

Jack Hughes, cofounder of TopCoder, admits that if he were to compete in one of his company's online computer programming competitions he'd be laughed off the screen. Hughes, a computer programmer, said his inability to write elegant code at cyber-speed doesn't bother him a whit.

Asustek computer Inc. on Friday confirmed that it will launch the Eee PC 900 in the U.S. on May 12, and will set $549 as the list price for the new ultralight notebook. The Eee PC 900, which the Taipei-based computer maker unveiled last Tuesday, can be configured with either Microsoft Corp.'s Wi...

Hamburg - Finding a laptop for as little as 600 euros (944 dollars) for everyday use is not as difficult as one would imagine, according to a test of 10 laptops conducted by German magazine computer Bild. All the computers tested cost less than 660 e...

Hamburg - Consumers generally won't go wrong buying any CD blanks on sale with reputable dealers. A recent test by computer Bild magazine showed that 41 of 45 blanks provided satisfactory overall results. In its 9/2008 issue, the Hamburg-based maga...

Washington - Vista may be Microsoft's hottest operating system, but it hasn't forgotten about Windows XP. Microsoft is preparing service pack 3 for Windows XP, due to be available soon. Service pack 3 includes all bug fixes released since its predece...