http://www.megite.com Megite is the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs. Copyright 2009, Megite 30 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 1:06 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_1 f77ffe08c950d56ac78ef366f9a4fc7e Open-source communities are founded on trust. It's therefore disappointing but not surprising, to see the Eclipse Foundation's executive director, Mike Milinkovich, rip into former Eclipse Foundation director of community Bjorn Freeman-Benson and tell him to take his "steady acid drip of negativity" and "go away." (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 01 Dec 2009 1:06 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_2 ecb395c5c377b762c8931f323e4063d1 Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 01 Dec 2009 1:06 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_3 2396494f97b8c0d21962c380b49b57f0 It's getting harder to focus on the vision of cloud computing these days. While there are still plenty of critical and complex problems to solve, and many, many implications of this disruptive operations model that have yet to be understood, the truth is that we've entered a new phase in the evolution of cloud adoption. Real work now exceeds ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-12-01T00:22:59Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_4 1464d1bbf404c0decb0ae386206c5d2f Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 01 Dec 2009 0:00 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_5 575ed974b247cbfe615adac24c0aebe8 County media spokesman William Boyer says there's no wait to get a free swine flu shot at Earl Warren until 7 p.m., and the eligible pool is expanded. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:45:24 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_6 461e6ca9546e1f72a907940f2bfaa5e2 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T23:12:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_7 bc6133dd81866bd7d2ae0ddfdff900b8 Jvillain writes "India is about to pull the plug on 25 million cell phones in the name of fighting terrorism and fraud. 'The ban by India's Department of Telecommunications has been unfolding gradually since Oct. 6, 2008, six weeks before the attacks in Mumbai killed 173 people and wounded 308. A memo then directed service providers to cut off ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T22:44:10Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_8 39cd2d457176d81ea1b9fd35c13adc18 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T21:33:21+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_9 29fa496402999e0379c59cab4fea1c71 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:18 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_10 431b5810396747deadbd967d4fb91851 As the controversy over Food with Fido simmers down, here's a photo of a pet that got to hang out near a popular State Street restaurant Monday. [pic] (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T22:03:36+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_11 d5f68c67e082fb2e117b77cccb2dd6c3 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T21:46:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_12 60f20c9c524d627d19cd8e6b3158d8d5 Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that scientists have created the first artificial meat by extracting cells from the muscle of a live pig and putting them in a broth of other animal products where the cells then multiplied to create muscle tissue. Described as soggy pork, researchers believe that it can be turned into something like ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T13:35:58-08:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_13 4bf6425b9318e0e8ac85e1b178e6a49d Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:51:57 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_14 0d06eff8f00596dee2e542322c5589f2 What Was Your Favorite Childhood Toy? is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I remember playing with an original Lite Brite when I was a kid. My brothers and I would spend hours on end creating different pieces of artwork. You could use the pre-made sheets to guide you, or create something right ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:15 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_15 975c264eff6b51d580ed26dd86cfe5f1 Volunteers from the Intl. Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Local 413 decorated the 100 tall ?Tree of Light? at Carrillo and Chapala for the 85th year. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:12:37 -0800 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_16 d567583f8d01956f4a2adfad8799b9ec When Twitter is down, how can you tell anyone! We need Twitter2, a backup Twitter that only activates when Twitter fails. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T21:04:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_17 3d200948210aa3b85e40f5d5e2f1b6c1 Jtavares2 writes "In what is being dubbed as Throttlegate, scores of users on many message boards have been complaining about inexplicably aggressive throttling policies on their Dell Latitude E6500 and E6400 laptops which cause its CPUs to be throttled to less than 5% of its theoretical maximum even while in room temperatures. In many cases, the ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T20:59:46Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_18 a38f159e10526cf95ff47171a0c58b2f Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:55:34 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_19 594428469844c0595f98e811c0bfdf1f Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T20:53:44Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/1#item_20 08caa41dfcaf2ddae92b7d3e73c57bdc Tommy Friedman wonders why the Muslim world is so unappreciative of America’s selfless and magnanimous offer on forced fellatio .  What Tommy doesn’t understand is that those crazy exotic Arabs prefer you to ask them out to dinner before bombing their countries, killing hundreds of thousands of their countrymen/co-religionists, ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T20:53:44Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_1 0681264e5a3b6ac8fbae481f7fe607f0 Developer testing practices are a vital, yet often under-used art. Learning how to write more effective tests is an excellent way to write better designed, more maintainable and more reliable code. It also helps keep development focused on the real requirements, resulting in a higher quality product for the end user. This is a skill that every ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T20:22:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_2 ea1c95302ed8a10ca7e05a512f1508d7 Ponca City, We love you writes to tell us that a new software approach to police sketch artists is finding surprising success in a trial run of 15 police departments in the UK and a few other sites. The software borrows principles from evolution with an interactive genetic algorithm that progressively changes as witnesses try to remember specific ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T20:14:02+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_3 42b7402a3af25dcdb0f44818fc9eeeeb Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T19:37:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_4 a33499adcaebb83c360e864e56280705 Theodp writes "Fortune's Dear Annie takes on the case of poor Dazed and Confused, an independent webmaster who's expected to be on call for his client at all hours of the day and night, but doesn't get paid for being on call, only for the 40 hours a week that he's in the office. Surprisingly, Annie throws cold water on the contractor's dreams of ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T19:37:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_5 5ebee4ff6f023522b1385d8922cc6884 When new users are first coming to Linux, the biggest thing that can confuse them is amount of choice. Most computer users are used to having one set UI (user interface) to do things. So with the amount of choice Linux throws up in front of a new user, it can be overwhelming. The first thing that new users need to know about UI in Linux is that ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T18:54:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_6 29c22f0d4522c440239f0b1ad1140744 The LHC has become the world's highest-energy particle accelerator, weighing in at over one trillion electron volts. "Until now the LHC had been operating at a relatively low energy of 450 billion electron volts. On Sunday, engineers increased the energy of this 'pilot beam,' reaching 1.18 trillion electron volts at 2344 GMT. The previous record ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T18:51:32+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_7 5dbd34d8aeb5761544dd56874db35f26 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T18:51:32+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_8 496a4821980a137335eba30f26d35370 A pub owner has been fined £8,000 because someone unlawfully downloaded copyrighted material over their open Wi-Fi hotspot, according to the managing director of hotspot provider The Cloud. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T10:14:31-08:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_9 f6ddef422c21f5394ff8d6f80119d490 Stock markets in the United Arab Emirates opened sharply down on Monday, as worries over defaults in the region’s business hub of Dubai depressed sentiment and sent local and international investors heading for the exit. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T17:56:48+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_10 83bfef9f41f677217b506f0d23d523da Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T17:25:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_11 d6a67ba4ad11f6a49fe18b939cd5b6b2 Blackbearnh writes "The work of making high-volume web sites perform well is an ongoing challenge, and one that continues to evolve as the nature of web content changes. According to Google Performance Guru Steve Souders, fat JavaScript libraries and rich content are creating new problems for web site tuning, but one of the biggest problems lies ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:08:32 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_12 de318a56865a1f4aacf36b910fc9f499 One of OpenOffice.org's greatest strengths is its emphasis on styles. Some users balk at styles, claiming they are restrictive, but no other feature repays a little organization with so much ease of use and saving of time. Yet even those who are used to styles in Writer tend to overlook the styles used in other applications. That is especially ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T17:04:04Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_13 fa2e6986aa6c9f23df332d6866960118 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T17:04:04Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_14 6662d4364234657dee27f67dbb319b2a My sister-in-law's iPhone screen is literally held together with scotch tape. Phone still works fine. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T16:14:56Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_15 51708cfd2b8ed1dc75e3774147f5e526 I find myself reflexively stroking my chin, nodding and offering a harumph when I read this . One of President Barack Obama’s closest Republican allies in the Senate urged him to put health care reform on the backburner and focus on Afghanistan. Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), a trusted GOP voice on foreign policy matters, told CNN’s &# ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T16:14:56Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_16 a50a3d8c5dc18f1eb1c27d01787ee3be Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T16:14:56Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_17 f22f0dd1292116d01100b818cbeccd01 As much as anything else, a user's impression of a web site has to do with how fast the site loads. But modern Web 2.0 websites aren't your father's Oldsmobile. Chocked full of rich Flash content and massive JavaScript libraries, they present a new set of challenges to engineers trying to maximized the performance of their sites. You need to ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T16:14:56Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_18 006974c0bf9a7c399628d7e13f68bdee Paywall Performance, News Decisions, Sony Subsidising US Supercomputer, Invisible Open Source Business Model Paywall Performance for News -- the National Business Review (NBR) in New Zealand went to a paywall in mid-July, and Foo Camper Lance Wiggs says their visitor numbers reveal a grim picture. As a commenter says, of course, visitor numbers ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:20:34 -0500 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_19 d652a83d847abd01e11618d23f731afa Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:20:34 -0500 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/21#item_20 3ebd77822b72c5e0fd60d7d0ad17485b One other aspect of the data I was analyzing in the long post below is the fact it uses a CRU generated comparison of a 2008 temp run (b) with a 2005 run – all captured in a pdf file made in July of this year. One has to wonder how CRU was able to do this data run when it supposedly lost the data many years ago? I guess Dr Jones can answer ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:20:34 -0500 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259661971/41#item_1 e248b360bc3a950c0261c8a6402b1ddf Read on Source) ]]>