Cody Taylor

billybob2 writes “CoreBoot (formerly LinuxBIOS), the free and open source BIOS replacement, can now boot Windows 7 Beta. Videos and screenshots of this demonstration, which was performed on an ASUS M2V-MX SE motherboard equipped with a 2GHz AMD Sempron CPU, can be viewed on the CoreBoot website. AMD engineers have also been submitting code to allow CoreBoot to run on the company’s latest chipsets, such as the RS690 and 780G.”

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Microsoft made the release candidate of Internet Explorer 8, the next version of its popular web browser, available for download midday Monday.

Stephen Larson alerts us to the out-of-court settlement of Gatehouse v NY Times, a lawsuit that attempted to stop the Boston Globe from linking to headlines and excerpting initial sentences from a competitor’s Web site. At issue was the Globe’s practice — barely distinguishable from those of Google News, Yahoo, and others — of linking to another news source’s coverage of local news. The upshot is that the Boston Globe will stop the linking. No judicial precedent was set, because the case was settled before reaching a judge.

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Great iPhone application, wonderful idea.

If you need further evidence of how delusional the GOP really is, take a look at this screen shot from the NRCC website. The first line is all you need to see: “Thanks to Republican economic policies, the U.S. economy is robust, and job creation is strong.” Well, they got one thing right: all of this is “thanks to Republucan economic policies.”