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Submission + - UK company using javascript to fake spam consent

Submitted by

Bert64

on Saturday March 03, 2007 @06:25AM

Bert64 writes: "The site: http://www.keziefoods.co.uk/registration/ appears to be like any other registration form for buying goods online, but this one uses javascript to automatically check the "subscribe to newsletters" option when you click submit, even when you intentionally left it unchecked!"

Submission + - Making NetBSD Multiboot-Compatible

Submitted by

jmmv

on Saturday March 03, 2007 @04:50AM

jmmv writes: "The Multiboot Specification defines a protocol between boot loaders and operating systems' kernels with the basic aim to allow any compliant boot loader to launch any compliant OS. This simplifies the boot loader's tasks by reducing the amount of knowledge it must have of foreign OSes and, as a side effect, it also removes the burden of writing a custom boot loader for each OS. A while ago I modified the NetBSD's kernel to support this specification, which means that the upcoming 4.0 release will be easier to boot on any dual-boot system with Linux installed (assuming it uses GRUB). I've written an article, titled Making NetBSD Multiboot-Compatible, that provides an introduction to The Multiboot Specification and outlines the steps I took to adapt the NetBSD's kernel to follow it. This can give you enough interest and clues to modify your favourite operating system to also support this protocol."

Submission + - OSS Strategy Game running AI Coding Competition

Submitted by

Semi Anonymous Coward

on Saturday March 03, 2007 @01:22AM

Semi Anonymous Coward writes: "Thousand Parsec, a project to create a framework for building 4x space empire building games, is running an AI Coding Competition. The AI can be coded in any language and there are separate sections for the best designed AI and the one which wins the most games. To top it all off there are a bunch of cool prizes and swag to be won.

The lack of a decent AI has long been one of the major complaints about strategy games (and being specifically poignant with Open Source Games). So why not come out and help fix the problem? With only a month left before entries must be submit everyone better get cracking!

Disclaimer: I'm one of the judges for the competition."

Submission + - FreeBSD SMP greatly outperforms Linux under MySQL

Submitted by

shocking

on Sunday February 25, 2007 @07:25PM

shocking writes: "The recent work on moving FreeBSD to a new framework dealing with SMP issues (SMPng) has been finished, so developers have been benchmarking & profiling the code to find performance bottlenecks. After correcting a few, they found that a multithreaded MySQL benchmark performed extremely well under high load, maintaining throughput in situations where Linux throughput collapsed. The write-up is at http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html "

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