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Submission + - TomTom, Buffalo, NTFS-3G ... Who Is Next?

Submitted by Domdodo
Domdodo writes: Shortly after the TomTom lawsuit and the NAS and router vendor Buffalo settling with Microsoft about FAT patents, the company developing the open source NTFS-3G filesystem, has also signed up with Microsoft. One of the results of the agreement is that they can release exFAT drivers which was made, strangely, the standard file system for the next generation SD cards by the SD Card Association. The trap? It must be closed source ...
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Submission + - UK's oldest computer to be 're-booted'.

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Smivs
Smivs writes: "Britain's oldest original computer, the Harwell, is being sent to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley where it is to be restored to working order. The computer, which was designed in 1949 was built and used by staff at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell, Oxfordshire. It first ran in 1951 and was designed to perform mathematical calculations. It lasted until 1973. When first built the 2.4m x 5m computer was state-of-the-art, although it was superseded by transistor-based systems. The restoration project is expected to take a year. Although not the first computer built in the UK, the Harwell had one of the longest service lives. Built by a team of three people, the device was capable of doing the work of six to ten people and ran for seven years until the establishment obtained their first commercial computer. "We didn't think we were doing anything pioneering at the time," said Dick Barnes, who helped build the original Harwell computer."
Idle

Submission + - SPAM: In praise of the sci-fi corridor

Submitted by brumgrunt
brumgrunt writes: Technically a corridor in a science-fiction movie should just be a means of getting from one big expensive set to the next, and yet Den Of Geek writes lovingly of the detailed conduits in films such as Alien, Outland, Solaris and even this year's Moon by Duncan Jones.
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Comment Re:Problem with "Dual-Hibernate" (Score 1) 289

by irgu (#26845503) Attached to: Dell Selling Dual-Boot Laptops

Trying to mount an NTFS partition in Linux that was left hibernated by Windows can create a real mess.

No, it can not. Read-only mount is allowed but read-write mount is refused unless the 'remove_hiberfile' mount option is specified.

Microsoft designed hibernation in mind for the case when the hibernation file must be removed and they ensure that the filesystem remains consistent. They didn't do it for Linux interoperability but for themself when they are not able too boot otherwise.

Comment Re:Will it fly? (Score 1) 289

by irgu (#26845185) Attached to: Dell Selling Dual-Boot Laptops
The free NTFS-3G driver is slower than the commercial, also FUSE based one which overperforms stable kernel file systems, except ext4. Most file system requests are served by the FUSE kernel module without any user space involvement.
Sun Microsystems

Submission + - ZFS on Linux: It's alive! (linuxworld.com)

Submitted by lymeca
lymeca writes: LinuxWorld reports that Sun Microsystem's ZFS filesystem has been converted from its incanartion in OpenSolaris to a module capable of running in the Linux user-space filsystem project, FUSE. Because of the license incompatibilities with the Linux kernel, it has not yet been integrated for distribution within the kernel itself. This project, called ZFS on FUSE, aims to enable GNU/Linux users to use ZFS as a process in userspace, bypassing the legal barrier inherent in having the filesystem coded into the Linux kernel itself. Booting from a ZFS partition has been confirmed to work. The performance currently clocks in at about half as fast as XFS, but with all the success the NTFS-3g project has had creating a high performance FUSE implementation of the NTFS filesystem, there's hope that performance tweaking could yield a practical elimination of barriers for GNU/Linux users to make use of all that ZFS has to offer.
Microsoft

Submission + - Ubuntu, Red Hat reject Microsoft patent deal (zdnet.com.au)

Submitted by hoyeru
hoyeru writes: Red Hat, the largest Linux vendor, and Ubuntu-maker Canonical have both rejected calls from Microsoft to forge a deal similar to the one the Redmond giant signed with Linux distributors Novell, Xandros, and Linspire.

Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical's CEO, said in a blog posting on Saturday, that Canonical has declined to talk to Microsoft about any agreement that provides legal protection to Ubuntu users related to "unspecified patents".

"Allegations of 'infringement of unspecified patents' carry no weight whatsoever. We don't think they have any legal merit, and they are no incentive for us to work with Microsoft on any of the wonderful things we could do together," he wrote.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Ubuntu-R ed-Hat-reject-Microsoft-patent-deal/0,130061733,33 9278741,00.htm
User Journal

Submission + - Skin Care Products (cosmetics-hair.com)

Submitted by
cosmeticshair
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Now there is useful new e-shop called,www.cosmetics-hair.com, featuring these exclusive, previously unavailable to the world,products from Korea. You will find everything you need for skin, hair and nails in one place of skin care products.
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Space

Submission + - Linux Chosen for Next-Generation Space Hardware (spacemart.com)

Submitted by EraserMouseMan
EraserMouseMan writes: WindRiver has been chosen by Honeywell to develop a Linux-based solution to run on top of Honeywell's next-generation Dependable Multiprocessor for spacecraft.

"Any material put into space is subject to variable accelerations, mechanical shock and vibration, harsh vacuum conditions, extreme temperatures, and often, intense particle and electromagnetic radiation. Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, running in conjunction with GoAhead SelfReliant Software, which provides high availability middleware, and Honeywell''s Dependable Multiprocessing Middleware on Extreme Engineering Solutions'' XPedite6031 boards, will support the demonstration of high availability and high reliability operation for the ST8 Dependable Multiprocessor experiment."

The relevancy and robustness of Linux is being recognized by the biggest players in industry for their mission critical needs. Is Linux finally being recognized as suitable for everything from putting men on Mars to defending our country?
Programming

Submission + - Joining an existing Open Source Project

Submitted by Tathagata
Tathagata writes: I have been using GNU/Linux for quite sometime now. Though I'm from Computer Science background, getting into a project that really involves you into programming was not possible, as people(read teachers) run away, if you utter the word "linux". Being least bothered about mentoring an exciting project, they would suggest you to get settled with visual basic, .NET, — and would prefer a 24 hour solution when it comes to programming.(I'm a student in my final year, from a West Bengal, India). So my programming endeavours have remained limited to writing few lines of C/C++, Java. For last few days I've been googling, and trying to read how to join an existing open source project, and avoid reinventing the wheel by starting yet another. I read people suggesting to start by submitting patches, fixing bugs, becoming package maintainer — but most are overloaded with jargon like upstream/downstream, nightly builds, etc. Added to that how does joining the mailing list, or irc channel help when you don't even understand their slangs, forget about the tech discussion? Distributed/centralised scm, track, bugzilla, launchpad, with sourceforge or freshmeat laden with an unlimited number of projects regarding everything you have ever come across — it quite an overwhelming world to step in. Could you suggest a road map, links to essential tools or a few projects, for people like me, who would want to improve their skills by contributing FOSS?

Pthreads vs Win32 threads 385

Posted by Hemos from the different-situations,-different-needs dept.
An anonymous reader writes "It's interesting when different people have different opinions. While I was searching for something on Intel's website, I came across an article on why Windows threads are better than Posix threads. Curiously, I also came across this article on why Posix Pthreads are better that Win32 threads. The thing is, both of these articles are written by the same author!

So who is right (metaphorically speaking?), or what has changed since the first article was written?"

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