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Submission + - AMD will deliver open graphics drivers

Submitted by

derrida

on Sunday May 13, 2007 @12:06PM

derrida writes: "After Intel's announcement, AMD also announced that they will soon deliver open graphics drivers, as Henri Richard said, at the opening keynote of the Red Hat Summit. Richard, AMD's executive vice president of sales and marketing, promised: "I'm here to commit to you that it's going to get done." He also promised that AMD is "going to be very proactive in changing way we interface with the Linux community.""

Submission + - hardware makers to blame for lack of Vista Drivers

Submitted by

rs232

on Sunday May 13, 2007 @09:55AM

rs232 writes: "'Don't shout at Microsoft — it's the people who make hardware who have been slow to build drivers'

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/insideit/s tory/0,,2070661,00.html"

Submission + - Are .tmp files necessary or just bad programming?

Submitted by planckscale on Saturday May 12, 2007 @06:10PM

planckscale writes: After spending another hour deleting .tmp files from a bloated XP machine I started to wonder, is the .tmp file necessary when coding an application on the MS platform? Why do so many apps produce .tmp files and is it just because of bad coding or does the use of them dramatically speed up an app? Don't coders use dev/null to reduce them in linux? I can understand the use of them in case an app crashes for recovery purposes, but why don't more apps have the capacity to delete their own .tmp files once they are done with them? Is it too much to ask to at least have the option when closing an app to delete your temp files?

Submission + - MRT Issues Cease and Desist to MS, Apple, Adobe

Submitted by

St0nY

on Saturday May 12, 2007 @05:25PM

St0nY writes: "Media Rights Technologies (MRT) and BlueBeat.com have issued cease and desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, Real Networks and Apple with respect to the production or sale of such products as the Vista OS, Adobe Flash Player, Real Player, Apple iTunes and iPod. MRT asserts Apple, Microsoft, Real and Adobe have produced billions of these products without regard for the DMCA or the rights of American Intellectual Property owners, actively avoiding the use of MRT's technologies. Failure to comply with this demand could result in a federal court injunction to any of the above named parties to cease production or sale of their products and/or the imposition of statutory damages of at least $200 to $2500 for each product distributed or sold. "Together these four companies are responsible for 98 percent of the media players in the marketplace; CNN, NPR, Clear Channel, MySpace Yahoo and YouTube all use these infringing devices to distribute copyrighted works," states MRT CEO Hank Risan. "We will hold the responsible parties accountable. The time of suing John Doe is over.""

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