Archive for March, 2005

Linux creator Torvalds switches to an Apple Mac

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

Linux creator Linus Torvalds said this afternoon that he's now running an Apple Macintosh as his main desktop, mainly for work reasons, although partly simply because he's a self-described "technology whore". Torvalds, who initially created Linux for the Intel x86 platform, revealed to the Linux Kernel Mailing List in February during ...

Police: Man hit by train had headphones on—

Monday, March 7th, 2005

GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) - Investigators say a man who was wearing headphones was hit and killed by a freight train early today. Twenty-nine-year-old Daniel Snoddy was found by the tracks near the 11-thousand-500 block of Game Preserve Road in Gaithersburg. Police say he died at the scene. This morning's incident caused delays on the MARC ...

Victims Sue Thailand, U.S., Accor Over Tsunami

Monday, March 7th, 2005

Monday, March 07, 2005 9:20 a.m. ET VIENNA (Reuters) - U.S. and Austrian lawyers have filed a lawsuit demanding Thailand, U.S. forecasters and the French Accor group answer accusations they failed in a duty to warn populations hit by December's Tsunami disaster, a lawyer said Monday. The lawsuit was filed Friday at ...

WinFS To Be Available on Windows XP

Monday, March 7th, 2005

Microsoft is back-porting its WinFS file-system technology to Windows XP, the same way that it is doing with its Windows presentation and communications subsystems, according to company officials.