TRNick writes "How can developers who are working for free protect themselves and avoid getting exploited by business users of Linux? TechRadar has an interview with former Fedora project leader Max Spevack to find out how his new role as manager of the community architecture team is designed to help. Quoting: 'About two-thirds of the Fedora packages are maintained by community people, and if we didn't have that community, that chunk of work would either not get done, which would significantly harm Red Hat's entire value, or would have to made up by more [paid] engineers. The challenge on the flip side of that is to make sure that everyone in the Fedora community feels valued, that everyone who contributes can be proud of the way that Red Hat uses their code.'"

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The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "As per usual, we're doing our best to find some quirky and/or original humor out there on the web, since no one ever wants to work on the weekend, much less read about it."

Get paid for solar power on your roof
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 1 hour ago
HOUSEHOLDERS who put solar panels on their roofs and generate power that feeds back into the electricity grid will be paid a fee, but how much will not be ...
NSW to introduce solar feed-in tariff The Age
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Cold cash on its own can't cool a warm globe
The Australian, Australia - 1 hour ago
A good illustration is Denmark, which early on provided huge subsidies for wind power, building thousands of inefficient turbines across the country from ...

Push to take the wind out of B&B
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 1 hour ago
A MAJOR shareholder of the debt-distressed wind power offshoot of Babcock & Brown is pushing for a complete separation of the fund from its one-time ...

Solar control window films available from GOCUBE
Infolink Architecture & Building, Australia - 1 hour ago
People can increase the comfort and energy efficiency of their home this summer with the application of solar control window films. The Window Energy Rating ...

IHateEverybody writes "Scientists have found evidence that the solar wind is ripping off chunks of the Martian atmosphere, which could possibly explain why Mars has such a thin atmosphere today. The chunks are being ripped up along 'magnetic umbrellas,' which are bubbles of magnetic fields which rise from the ground and extend above the Martian atmosphere. This is surprising because scientists previously thought that these magnetic umbrellas protected the Martian atmosphere. Now it looks like exactly the opposite might be true."

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Surging issues over wind power
Signal, CA - 5 minutes ago
When completed, the project is expected to generate more than 4000 megawatts of wind power during a continuous flow. "It's a critical project for the region ...

Barence writes "Google has launched a new service that allows users to tailor to their own search results. Called SearchWiki, the service allows Google account holders to move results up or off the rankings, or even add their own choice of site to the top of the search results. Google claims that any changes a user makes will only affect their results, and not those of fellow surfers, although it's difficult to believe that some of the feedback generated from the SearchWiki won't be used to fine tune the Google search algorithm. Is this a cunning way to encourage people to sign in while they search, thus providing Google with a richer set of data that can be mapped to specific user accounts?"

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NSW to introduce solar feed-in tariff
The Age, Australia - 1 hour ago
NSW households generating solar power will be paid for surplus electricity they pump into the grid under a new state government scheme. ...
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Controversy erupts like Old Faithful
The Casper Star Tribune, WY - 4 hours ago
There are also geothermal power plants in Nevada, Utah, and Hawaii. Most famously, Iceland gets more than 25 percent of its electricity from geothermal ...

Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "I'm back from my vacation and this is a smallish post before we return to our regular programming (I'm full of puns.)

Garry Griggs, Our Ocean Backyard: There's power in those waves
Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA - 14 minutes ago
With the exception of nuclear, geothermal and tidal power, almost every other source of energy being considered today, including fossil fuels, ...

gupg writes "NVIDIA announced a new category of supercomputers — the Tesla Personal Supercomputer — a 4 TeraFLOPS desktop for under $10,000. This desktop machine has 4 of the Tesla C1060 computing processors. These GPUs have no graphics out and are used only for computing. Each Tesla GPU has 240 cores and delivers about 1 TeraFLOPS single precision and about 80 GigaFLOPS double-precision floating point performance. The CPU + GPU is programmed using C with added keywords using a parallel programming model called CUDA. The CUDA C compiler/development toolchain is free to download. There are tons of applications ported to CUDA including Mathematica, LabView, ANSYS Mechanical, and tons of scientific codes from molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, and electromagnetics; they're listed on CUDA Zone."

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Learning the drill on solar cars
Orange Central Western Daily, Australia - 6 hours ago
The students, three from year 10 and one from year nine, will travel to Bathurst on Friday, November 28 to race in the Solar Car Challenge. ...

Solar farm plan meets resistance
London Free Press, Canada - 6 hours ago
At Sarnia, OptiSolar is mere weeks from going online with the first phase of a 60 MW solar farm there. The company is developing smaller solar farms near ...

Needs 'appropriate opportunity'

Comment Western Digital is open to entering the solid state drive (SSD) market when it presents "appropriate opportunity."…

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tiffanydanica writes "For all the flack Mozilla gets about its new security warnings for https sites, at least it warns the user when a mismatch occurs. Sadly the new Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop (released in part to fix some security issues), doesn't bother validating the SSL certificate on the other side before sending along the username and password, making it vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack. This is certainly a step up from transmitting the information in the clear, since the attacker must switch from being passive to active, but with all of the DNS security problems, it would be fairly trivial for a malicious attacker to grab a large number of Yahoo! accounts (be it for phishing or spaming). Hopefully this issue will get fixed shortly, but for now Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop users may wish to use the webmail interface."

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Third spacewalk to work on solar panel joint begins - Summary
Earthtimes (press release), UK - 8 hours ago
... conducted a seven-hour spacewalk, completing a third mission outside the International Space Station to get a solar panel on the in working order. ...
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Schnurman: Despite obstacles, Pickens is not giving up on wind energy
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 4 hours ago
To end our dependence on foreign oil, he proposes that compressed natural gas be widely used as a transportation fuel and that wind power and other ...