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Deutsch embraces change - Aylesbury Automation delivers a flexible solution A flexible robotic production cell solution has been delivered to Deutsch UK by robotics and automation specialist Aylesbury Automation. The robot-based machine has been intr

A flexible robotic production cell solution has been delivered to Deutsch UK by robotics and automation specialist Aylesbury Automation. The robot-based machine has been introduced as a result of increasing product demand. It assembles a range of similar, two pin electrical plugs and sockets and produces one complete part every six seconds.

Mandrake 10: A Long Time User's Experiences

IconI have been using Linux since 1993. I installed the first version of Slackware on a 16MB 386sx-25. Since then I have been using it almost exclusively on one or more of my PCs. So I consider myself as a bit of an expert. I have been using computers since 1982 mostly PCs, but also VAX mainframes and SPARC systems. Operating systems (and GUIs) I have been using include CP/M, DOS, Windows from Version 2 to XP, Geos, Beos, SCO Unix, Solaris, OS/2 and quite a few Linux Distros.

India takeaway gives Kiwi Oram a lift

Had Jacob Oram been fit for the final Test of England's tour of New Zealand, Michael Vaughan and Peter Moores might have been emerging from the mother of all inquests around now. It is difficult to imagine England would have been able to recover from four for three on the first morning and clinch the series 2-1 had Oram, rather than his ineffectual replacement Grant Elliott, been first bowling change at Napier.

Adobe Lightroom worker to mend Windows UI...

An influential Adobe programmer has been tapped to help develop the interface for the next version of Windows, according to an observer at Photoshop News. Lightroom and former Photoshop programmer Mark Hamburg has been recruited by Microsoft to work on the "user experience" of the operating system and has reportedly been given an exceptional offer that persuaded him to switch to the Redmond-based company. The move is also said to have been spurred on by a desire to change fields and comes out of a desire to potentially resolve Windows design decisions.

Open-Source ATI Driver Achieves Major R500 3D Success

"While the RadeonHD developers have been busy working on Radeon HD 3200 / 780 Series support and other features for this open-source ATI R500/600+ driver, the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) support has been lagging behind. Earlier this month Matthias Hopf was successful in getting DRM working on an RS690 GPU and he has published RadeonHD DRM code into his personal development tree, but no code has yet to reach master. Meanwhile, as the xf86-video-ati driver is using AtomBIOS, they are able to spend more time working on the 3D features and other areas and less time 'banging on registers' or even waiting on register documentation to arrive. David Airlie has been working on the R500 3D support along with Alex Deucher and Corbin Simpson. The trio has been making some great headway towards open-source 3D goodness for Radeon X1000 and HD 2000/3

AMD Catalyst 8.5 For Linux

"All of the Catalyst Linux driver releases this year have been... well, boring. There have been a few bug fixes in each release and new product support for the latest ATI/AMD GPUs, but no major features have been introduced in several months. However, during this time we've been telling you to get ready for an interesting summer and that "we have reason to believe AMD does have some Linux work under development that could make 2007 look boring compared to this year." It was in 2007 that AMD had introduced their brand-new driver with AIGLX support. Well, with the release today of Catalyst 8.5 the monthly Linux driver releases are becoming more interesting and we should have several exciting months ahead. What does today's Linux driver bring to the table? We'll give you the run-down in this article, but to get you started there is now Catal

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The players who took part in the African Nations have been allowed more time to rest though and, rather worryingly for him and all his family, Joseph Yobo has been given dispensation to remain out in Nigeria as his brother, Norum Yobo, has been kidnapped by gunmen over there. Apparently it's not uncommon, although there haven't been any ransom demands yet. Presumably if the kidnappers know that they've got the brother of an international footballer then they are going to ask for all sorts of dough soon.

KDE 4.0.5 released

Another maintenance update of the K Desktop Environment has been issued by the KDE organization. The updates to the desktop environment are minor, mainly bugfixes. We assume most of the work is put into KDE 4.1 at this time. What has been upgraded though, is KWin through some graphical fixes, Juk with some keyboard shortcuts, playback and cover art fixes, and Kopete has been updated to remedy a couple of annoying crashes. KHTML has also received some minor updates, but as we said, nothing major has been changed with this update. You can check out the

First Underwater Neutrino Telescope Has Been Constructed

Construction of the first underwater neutrino telescope has just been completed. Since early June, the last two detection lines of Antares have been probing the bottom of the Mediterranean for neutrinos of cosmic origin. There are now 12 detection lines aimed at observing these elementary particles, which provide insight into the most violent phenomena in the Universe.

It's Here! The Debut Of The 'List Of Low-Carb Doctors' Blog

I've been working on an ambitious project lately that I've been wanting to do for a very long time. It's been a lot more work than I thought it would be and it is not as easy as it might seem. But this is too important a resource to not try to get out there sooner rather than later.

Blogging myths

I’ve been into this thing called blogging for several months now. And like millions of people in the planet who are hooked into it, I’ve been unabashedly chronicling my life. I’ve been updating my friends online about great moments in history—like where I went for coffee last night and how I fell into a fishpond last week.

Toilet is Fixed and Kibo is Switched On - A Great Day Aboard the ISS (Video)

It has been a very good day for the crew on board the International Space Station. Not only has the brand new Japanese Kibo science laboratory been activated, much to the crew's relief, the faulty toilet has also been fixed. Russian flight engineer Oleg Kononenko was able to replace the broken urine collection pump in a 2 hour repair job yesterday (Wednesday) and specialists in Moscow checked his work to verify it was working fine. Although this may sound like a bit of minor news, it was make-or-break time for the ISS as if the repair was unsuccessful, this may have seriously hindered the manned presence on the station (and besides, we haven't even had time to play with Kibo yet!)…

HTC Joins Attack Of iPhone Clones

Apple's iPhone (pictured) has been widely successful and it's been available to the public for just under a year. Capitalizing on that success, device makers have been scrambling to add a touch-screen Web-enabled devices their handset rosters. This week is no exception, as HTC unveils the Touch Diamond, which is being billed as the next true iPhone rival.

Selling depreciated rental real estate

We have a house that has been rented for about 29 years. It has been fully depreciated. We understand that the depreciation is recaptured and taxed. We had been told that depreciation recaptured after May 6, 1997 is taxed at a 25-percent federal rate. Is there a different rate that applies to depreciation taken prior to this date?

Hoggard included in Lions squad

LONDON (Agencies): Matthew Hoggard has been named in the England Lions 12-man squad to face New Zealand on 8 May at the Rose Bowl. The seamer has been given an early chance to impress the England selectors after he was dropped after the first Test defeat to New Zealand in March. "He is a fighter and he will not want to give up his England place easily," said national selector Geoff Miller. The Lions will be led by Kent's Robert Key and also include Matt Prior, Ravi Bopara, Owais Shah and Chris Tremlett. But there is no place for Durham's Steve Harmison, who was dropped alongside Hoggard after England's 189-run defeat in Hamilton. Hoggard has been in excellent touch during the early stages of the season, taking eight County Championship wickets for Yorkshire, including 6-57 against Hampshire at Headingley.

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A report from the Linux Foundation details individual kernel contributions and suggests enterprise use is expanding.

Scientists clone cancer associated genes - protein kinases

Washington, May 3 : While the human genome has already been sequenced, researchers have faced a problem when it comes to learning just how genes work as most of them have not been isolated. Now, however, boffins have been able to clone cancer associated genes called protein kinases.

Songbird 0.5 Media Player

Songbird is still in Beta, but in the few weeks we’ve been using it the software has been stable and crashed only a couple of times. It’s worth remembering that Songbird isn’t a Mozilla product - it’s based on the Mozilla platform, which is open source, but hasn’t been developed by the team behind Firefox or Thunderbird. There’s no video player, graphic equalisers or disc burning tools at the moment, but we still think you’ll really enjoy Songbird.

Wine 1.0 — Uncorked After 15 Years

pshuke writes "After 15 years of development, Wine version 1.0 has been released. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. While perfect windows compatibility has not yet been achieved, full support for Photoshop CS2, Excel Viewer 2003, Word Viewer 2003 and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 have been among the goals prior to the release. For further information about supported applications, head over to the appdb. Get it (source) while it's hot."

Warner Music Admits It Hired Police Investigator Before The Pirate Bay Investigation Was Complete

Back in April, we wrote about the fact that a police investigator in Sweden who had been in charge of the case against The Pirate Bay had been hired by Warner Brothers. At the time, there was no proof that he had been hired during the investigation. In fact, it appeared otherwise. Based on this, I didn't see why this was such a problem -- though many people in the comments felt I was being naive. And, indeed, it turns out that a further investigation has now turned up the news that, in fact, the guy was hired while the investigation was ongoing. Though he's now left that job, this does call into question the entire investigation against The Pirate Bay.

Who Owns the Moon? The Case for Lunar Property Rights

for all of human history, but it's only within the past few decades that it's been possible to travel there. And for just about as long as the moon has been within reach, people have been arguing about lunar property rights: Can astronauts claim the moon for king and country, as in the Age of Discovery? Are corporations allowed to expropriate its natural resources, and individuals to own its real estate?

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