What is the goal for White Box Linux?
To provide an unencumbered RPM based Linux distribution that retains enough compatibility with Red Hat Linux to allow easy upgrades and to retain compatibility with their Errata srpms. Being based off of RHEL3 means that a machine should be able to avoid the upgrade treadmill until Oct 2008 since RHEL promises Errata availability for five years from date of initial release and RHEL3 shipped in Oct 2003.
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Shock jock Howard Stern is set to produce a remake of Porky's, the 1982 gross-out comedy that is Canada's top- grossing English-language film.
Although no director or actors have been attached to the project, Stern has drafted screenwriters Craig Moss and Steve Schoenburg to pen the script.
The original, which followed the sexual misadventures of a group of teenage boys, was made during Canada's tax- shelter era on a budget of $4 million US. According to the Internet Movie Database, it pulled in over $105 million in North America alone.
"It's the highest-grossing Canadian film ever," Don Carmody told CBC News Online Wednesday. Carmody, along with director Bob Clark, produced the original Porky's.
Canada will work with the United States to set up a continent-wide early warning system against cyber-attacks.
The move to beef up defences against an assault on key computer systems is part of a national security policy announced Tuesday. "We live in an information age where threats are not just physical," the government said in explaining the new policy. "Attacks can be launched from and against the Internet and the systems connected to it."
Up to $85 million has been set aside within the Defence Department to improve assessments of threats and vulnerabilities to computer networks, increase the ability to respond promptly and develop the early-warning system.
Next month, a nifty little movie called The Day After Tomorrow will arrive in theatres. It looks like your standard Hollywood action-adventure fare, but at least the premise is interesting. It follows what could happen if the Earth's climate abruptly shifted, causing chaos worldwide.
While the movie is based on a real phenomenon - abrupt climate change - it is very much a work of fiction. It's a disaster film, and has no more grounding in reality than the director's last big movie, Independence Day, in which aliens invaded the earth.
The theory behind abrupt climate change goes like this: if the North Atlantic portion of the world's great ocean current slowed down or stopped, warm water from the tropics might not make it up to Europe. And since that warm current is largely responsible for mild temperatures in Western Europe, its loss could cause temperatures in the region to plunge, along with a host of other altered weather patterns around the world, such as droughts in North America.
Imitation is flattering, says designer Giorgio Armani, who has a fake Armani watch to prove it.
Armani said he bought the watch for $22 US in Shanghai. "It was an identical copy of an Emporio Armani watch," he said at a news conference Monday. The real timepiece costs many times as much.
"I know I have some stores in China - Giorgio Armani, Armani Fiori, Emporio Armani - that have nothing to do with me," said the designer, who was in China over the weekend to announce the opening of a store on Shanghai's trendy Bund.
Armani said the imitations can cause "confusion" among consumers.
"On the other hand, it's flattering to be copied. If you are copied, you are doing the right thing," he said with a smile.
Travelers who realize they're carrying a treasured pocketknife or grandma's scissors after arriving at the airport may now have a more convenient way to save the items.
Newsstands in several airports are now carrying special envelopes -- including postage -- designed to allow people to mail their scissors, pocket knife, multi-tool or other item to themselves.
Called MailBack, the envelopes are sold at several Hudson News stands and the manufacturer is planning to expand sales through several news chains in airports.
A Utah couple on a low- carb diet were kicked out of a buffet restaurant after the manager said they'd eaten too much roast beef.
Sui Amaama, who along with his wife have been on the Atkins Diet for two weeks, was asked to leave after he went up to the buffet at the Chuck-A-Rama in suburban Taylorsville for his 12th slice of roast beef.
"It's so embarrassing actually," said Isabelle Leota, Amaama's wife.
"We went in to have dinner, we were under the impression Chuck-A-Rama was an all-you-can-eat establishment."
Not so, said Jack Johanson, the restaurant chain's district manager.
"We've never claimed to be an all-you-can-eat establishment," said Johanson.
"Our understanding is a buffet is just a style of eating."
We have dedicated ourselves to ending the campaign of murder and terror against abortion providers throughout the United States, and to end the war on our right to choose.
This war has taken the lives of doctors, nurses, administrators, and volunteers who go to work each day for one simple and heroic reason: to give each and every woman in the United States the right to choose whether or not to have an abortion.
A computer hacker who allowed himself to be publicly identified only as ''Mudhen'' once boasted at a Las Vegas conference that he could disable a Chinese satellite with nothing but his laptop computer and a cellphone.
The others took him at his word, because Mudhen worked at the Puzzle Palace -- the nickname of the U.S. National Security Agency facility at Fort Meade, Md., which houses the world's most powerful and sophisticated electronic eavesdropping and anti-terrorism systems.
It was these systems, plus an army of cryptographers, chaos theorists, mathematicians and computer scientists, that may have pulled in the first piece of evidence that led Canadian authorities to arrest an Ottawa man on terrorism charges last week.
Karen Hughes, Bush's advisor has just likened pro-choice supporters with terrorists... When asked about this week's pro-choice rally, Hughes revealed that the administration would prefer that voters not distinguish supporting terrorists from supporting a woman's right to exercise control over her own body
"I think that after September 11, the American people are valuing life more and we need policies to value the dignity and worth of every life," she said. "President Bush has worked to say, let's be reasonable, let's work to value life, let's reduce the number of abortions, let's increase adoptions. And I think those are the kinds of policies the American people can support, particularly at a time when we're facing an enemy and, really, the fundamental issue between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life."
