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Comment Re:FF 4 is nice so far (Score 1) 189

In the last beta, they put the same text you would get hovering over a link in a popup that appears in the same position as the old status bar. Aside from some addons that resided in the status bar (now called addon bar), I've been happy with the recent change. Trying to put that text in the location bar just didn't work, and they fixed it.

Comment Re:Opt out rates are low eh? (Score 1) 102

It's ridiculous to draw such conclusion, and no marketing researcher will simply assume this from two things you like.

Though you can have a lot of fun with the reaction from store clerks if you go and buy condoms and doggy treats. Try it! It really is hilarious.

What you should NOT try is the combination of vaseline, lollypops and condoms. People tend to be hysteric.

The obligatory http://xkcd.com/236/

Be sure to read the alt-text.

Comment Re:Compiz (Score 1) 84

If you ran Fedora, you'd be alpha-testing features included in the OS when it is KNOWN they are not ready for prime time, but included anyway since Fedora is the alpha test environment for RHEL. Some of us are not willing to do this. I was a loyal RedHat user until RedHat went away, so I'm not saying this out of rpm allergy (although now that I've switched, I'm never going back.)

You know, just about any modern distro has this now. Ubuntu, Arch, hell, even Slackware supports DRI2 for ATI out of the box now.

I've run Blender maybe twice and I will never play WoW. But I use Compiz features not just every day, but every hour. Expose and Shrink Windows are tied to hot corners and I use one or the other almost every time I switch windows.

Yeah, I bet you do spin the cube for hours at a time. You so l33t.

"So I know this is gonna kill my karma, but..."

If only.

Given who the GP is, I'm sure he has plenty of karma to burn. I might just have to find his posts and give him some more for making DRI2 and 3D work on my AMD/ATI card in the first place.

Submission + - McAfee kills SVCHost.exe (sans.org) 1

Kohenkatz writes: A McAfee Update today (DAT 5958) incorrectly identifies svchost.exe, a critical windows executable as a virus and tries to remove it, causing endless reboot loops.

Comment Re:Source code (Score 1) 396

And my personal favorite

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='SCHEME'>(define (eval exp env) (cond ((self-evaluating? exp) exp) ((variable? exp) (lookup-variable-value exp env)) ((quoted? exp) (text-of-quotation exp)) ((assignment? exp) (eval-assignment exp env)) ((definition? exp) (eval-definition exp env)) ((if? exp) (eval-if exp env)) ((lambda? exp) (make-procedure (lambda-parameters exp) (lambda-body exp) env)) ((begin? exp) (eval-sequence (begin-actions exp) env)) ((cond? exp) (eval (cond->if exp) env)) ((application? exp) (apply (eval (operator exp) env) (list-of-values (operands exp) env))) (else (error "Common Lisp or Netscape Navigator 4.0+ Required" exp))))</SCRIPT>
AMD

Submission + - AMD Releases Open-Source R600/700 3D Code (phoronix.com)

lldmer writes: Phoronix has reported AMD released open source code for 3D acceleration on R600/700 GPU's:

Since earlier this year we have been waiting for AMD to release documentation and/or code on the ATI R600 series concerning 3D acceleration so that the open-source Linux drivers can begin to support the newer ATI graphics processors. It has taken longer than expected for AMD to complete and release this information, but it's now available. AMD has released the fundamental Linux code needed to begin fostering the development of an open-source R600 3D driver. Furthermore, this code also concerns the latest R700 series of graphics processors! The microcode for the newest GPUs has also been released.


Security

Submission + - SPAM: FBI issues code cracking challenge

coondoggie writes: "The FBI today challenged anyone in the online community to break a cipher code on its site. The code was created by FBI cryptanalysts. The bureau invited hackers to a similar code-cracking challenge last year and got tens of thousands of responses it said. A number of sites host such cipher challenges, including this one at the University of South Hampton. [spam URL stripped]"
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Submission + - AMD Releases Open-Source R600/700 3D Code (phoronix.com)

Michael writes: "AMD has just released code that will allow for open-source 3D acceleration on their ATI R600 and R700 graphics cards, including all of their newest Radeon HD 4xxx products. This code consists of a demo program that feeds the commands to the hardware, updates to their RadeonHD driver, and a Direct Rendering Manager update. With this code comes working 2D EXA acceleration support for these newer ATI graphics processors as well as basic X-Video support. AMD will be releasing sanitized documentation for these new ATI GPUs in the coming weeks. Phoronix has an article detailing what's all encompassed by today's code drop as well as the activities that led to this open-source code coming about for release."

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