Archive for March 7th, 2006

Tom DeLay Wins Texas Primary Race

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

Embattled Tom DeLay won his primary race by a wide margin.

Linux Growth Doesn’t Offset NetWare Decline

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

steveit_is writes to tell us CommentWire is reporting that the decline in NetWare and Open Enterprise sales is plummeting at a much faster rate than their SUSE Linux sales are growing. It seems that the transition is proving to be every bit as difficult as Novell execs originally suspected. From the article: “When Novell last week announced its financial results for the fiscal first quarter ended January 31, the said that growth in its SUSE Linux and related products was decent, but that sales of its NetWare and Open Enterprise Server–a variant of NetWare that uses Linux as the operating system kernel that was announced last year–declined by 11%.”

No. 7 UConn holds off WVU to nab Big East title

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

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X3’s Pyro Does Slow Burn

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006


Aaron Stanford, who reprises the role of the mutant Pyro in the upcoming X-Men: The Last Stand, told SCI FI Wire that his character has lost all ambivalence about which side he’s on.

Craven Reveals Waiting Game

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006


Horrormeister Wes Craven revealed to SCI FI Wire a few more details about his upcoming supernatural horror movie The Waiting, for which he has tapped his Hills Have Eyes director Alexandre Aja as helmer.

Ghost Promises Surprises

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006


John Gray, executive producer of CBS’s Ghost Whisperer, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming second season will develop from this year’s “big surprise ending.”

Lee Seeks Inner Superhero

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006


Comic-book creator Stan Lee told SCI FI Wire that he taps into something universal in his upcoming new reality show, Who Wants to Be a Superhero?, which heads to SCI FI Channel this summer.

Pratchett Gets His Nebula Nod

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006


British SF author Terry Pratchett, whose novel Going Postal has earned him his first Nebula Award nomination, told SCI FI Wire that he never expected to “get within a mile of” of the award, considered one of SF’s two top honors.

Nulapeiron Reaches Resolution

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006


SF author John Meaney told SCI FI Wire that he writes SF because there’s no other genre in which he could have told his epic Nulapeiron Sequence, which concludes in March with the appropriately titled Resolution.

PSP Katamari To Ship

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006


Namco Bandai Games America announced that Me and My Katamari, a PSP game title based on the hit Katamari Damacy franchise, is ready for manufacture and will ship this month.

Roth To Helm King’s Cell

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

Dimension Films has acquired rights to Stephen King’s latest novel Cell and has set Eli Roth (Hostel) to direct it, Variety reported.

Evil: Extinction Cast Set

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006


Production Weekly reported that Oded Fehr, Mike Epps and Iain Glen will reprise their roles in the next Resident Evil movie, titled Resident Evil: Extinction.