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Submission + - Steve Ballmer to retire from Microsoft within 12 months

rjmarvin writes: In a surprise move this morning, Microsoft SEO Steve Ballmer has announced http://sdt.bz/64033 he will retire from the tech juggernaut sometime in the next 12 months, the timeframe hinging on how long it takes to find his successor and transition to new leadership. A special search committee including Bill Gates among other members of the Board of Directors will spearhead the search.

Submission + - Top 8 Funny Linux Commands! (efytimes.com)

Atithya writes: The most powerful feature of Linux lies in its Command Line. But Terminal isn’t meant to be this serious always, you can also have fun using some funny and amusing command lines. If you aren't aware of these yet, here are some amusing commands that will bring up the funny side of Linux

Submission + - Two US Representatives Mouth Identical DMCA Talking Points at Same Hearing (xrepublic.tv)

Jeremiah Cornelius writes: Comedy gold, as US House members sellout to the copyright industry. Watch two Congressional Representatives ask identical leading questions, framed for them by entertainment industry lobbyists, word-for-word. No pause, one right after the other. Ultimately, its the voter/taxpayer/consumer who is both paying for this directly and subsidizing it, while subject to the restraints that are being demanded.

Comment Really? (Score 1) 2

>> Simply by taking a picture of a wine label, Drync can identify and describe nearly any bottle of wine.

Me too. By reading the label and Googling it.

Submission + - Google Play Downloads Beat Apple App Store (appannie.com)

tlhIngan writes: With Android devices outselling iOS ones 4-to-1 or more, it should come as no surprise that Google Play downloads exceeded Apple App Store downloads by 10% in the second quarter of 2013 for the first time since the stores were established 5 years ago. No reasons were given for why Android (which has been outselling iOS since 2010, if not earlier) took this long to overtake iOS in downloads.

Submission + - You Can Thank The Koch Brothers For The Big, Dirty Cloud Floating Over Detroit (thinkprogress.org)

Lasrick writes: This is appalling. Includes video of a large black cloud spotted over the Detroit River last weekend and caught on camera by residents across the border in Windsor -from the petroleum coke piles they have been storing illegally on behalf of Koch Carbon. The company was supposed to obtain a permit first, but they've only just filed for a permit yesterday.

Submission + - Watch the Crab Nebula expand over a 13 year period

The Bad Astronomer writes: A thousand years ago, the light from the explosion of a massive star reached the Earth. We now call this supernova remnant the Crab Nebula, and a new image of the Crab taken by astronomer Adam Block shows the physical expansion of the debris, made obvious in a short video comparing his 2012 observations with some taken in 1999. The outward motion of filaments and knots in the material can be easily traced even over this relatively short time baseline.

Comment Re:new feature: shortened support (Score 3, Informative) 177

No, you won't have to upgrade to 13.10 "no matter what". The recommended way to do upgrades is to always go to the next version (as that's what gets the majority of testing), but 13.04 makes no major changes (like replacing upstart) that would prevent it from directly upgrading to anything to which 12.04 or other recent versions could directly upgrade.

You won't 'be screwed" if you have hardware compatibility problems in 13.10; you simply boot an older kernel (since that's where the hardware drivers are). I've done it with several previous alphas - but users are unlikely to discover major problems by the time it gets to a final release. I already have one system using the 13.10 (saucy) repos now (though they have no updates beyond what's in the raring repos). Expect me and the others that enjoy the bleeding edge to find/report the problems so that you don't have to.

I'm not sure why any of this would be an issue anyway: When the OS keeps all your app settings in /home (which you should put on a separate partition), complete re-installs of newer/older versions take no more time than the upgrades.

Submission + - AMD Releases UVD Engine Source Code (phoronix.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Years of desire by AMD Linux users to have open source video playback support by their graphics driver is now over. AMD has released open-source UVD support for their Linux driver so users can have hardware-accelerated video playback of H.264, VC-1, and MPEG video formats. Support for this UVD support on years old graphics cards was delayed because AMD feared open-source support could kill their Digital Rights Management abilities for other platforms.

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