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Linux 2.6.17 Released 444

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday June 18, 2006 @11:52PM from the spit-shine dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "After almost three months, Linux 2.6.17 has been released. The changes include support for Sun Niagara CPUs, a new I/O mechanism called 'splice' which can improve the performance greatly for some applications, a scheduler domain optimized for multicore machines, driver for the widely used broadcom 43xx wifi chip (Apple's Airport Extreme and such), iptables support for the H.323 protocol, CCID2 support for DCCP, softmac layer for the wireless stack, block queue IO tracing, and many other changes listed at the changelog"

Labs Compete to Build New Nuclear Bomb 949

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday June 13, 2006 @11:33PM from the who-is-tha-bomb-at-makin'-bombs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that two labs are currently competing to design the first new nuclear bomb in twenty years. The new bomb was approved as a part of the 2006 defense spending bill. From the article: 'Proponents of the project say the U.S. would lose its so-called "strategic deterrent" unless it replaces its aging arsenal of about 6,000 bombs, which will become potentially unreliable within 15 years. A new, more reliable weapon, they say, would help the nation reduce its stockpile.'"

Controller Comparison - PlayStation 3 vs. Wii 203

Posted by Zonk on Monday May 15, 2006 @07:32PM from the dualshake-vs-wiimote dept.

ZiakII writes "Engadet has an article comparing the PS3 Controller to the Wii's Controller. From the article: 'The motion control, however, was another story entirely. Whereas the Wiimote seemed to produce different experiences in different games and scenarios, the only title being shown with motion on the PS3 produced one experience: laggy control.'"

RIAA Approved mp3 Player Reviewed 73

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 01, 2006 @05:06PM from the not-cool-not-pink dept.

buckminster writes "Medialoper has an exclusive review of the soon-to-be legendary Prism DuroSport 6000. According to the review, 'if the RIAA had had designed an industry approved digital media player this is what it would look like'. The player has an extraordinary collection of features including 'disposable flash memory' and built-in DRM system with 'opt-in listening'."

Comment Install went fine (Score 2, Interesting) 190

by deno on Saturday October 08, 2005 @10:36AM (#13746324) Attached to: Mandriva Linux 2006 Released

Installing the ML 2006 on this MB is quite eventless. It works. Watching DVDs works fine (i.e. it`s not too slow for this task) out of the box. Haven't tried the divX yet. No idea how much faster the SP8000 will be when I re-compile the Xorg, but "out of the box" the 3D stuff is deadly slow.

I added the plf and contrib as urpmi sources, and installed the pre-copiled ivtv and myth* rpms. Also seems to work OK, but m still missing the fb device associated with PVR350. Now I'm stuck on trying to get a frequencies list for Austria. :-(

In the meantime I tried recompiling the kernel, which just proved what we already know: this machine shouldn't be used for CPU intensive tasks.

BTW, the machine needs ca. 40W, and runs withouth any fans. Its getting somewhat warm, but seems to be stable for now. Let's see hw long will it survive. .-)

Comment Re:I hate KDE (Score 3, Informative) 708

by davidsansome on Sunday October 10, 2004 @07:14PM (#10488621) Attached to: Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support

it is also the reason why there is a GTK-QT engine and no QT-KDE engine.

When writing the GTK-Qt engine, I actually found Qt's theming system far more flexible than that of GTK. Your "reasoning" for why there is not a Qt-GTK engine is rubbish. I have yet to see a GTK theme that can beat a Qt theme in terms of rendering speed or appearance.

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