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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."
Software

Submission + - First ever cross distro/OS packaging effort

RichiH writes: Games usually need more patches than most other FLOSS software. Sometimes, they are not maintained by their original developers anymore, sometimes upstream does not care about Unix-compatibility or they won't accept the changes that are required to make games work properly. Traditionally, maintainers of every distribution had to create their own patches and fixes to provide similar funcionality. After successful collaboration between several major distributions, we decided to take this to the next level. Well over 50 members of Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, Fink, FreeBSD, Gentoo, OpenSolaris, PC-BSD, NetBSD, Slackware, SuSE, Ubuntu and Yellow Dog as well as Gnome and KDE have decided to join forces and start working together on games@lists.freedesktop.org and #freedesktop-games on irc.freenode.net. Collaboration on upstream level is common these days, but distributions have largely remained islands and it's time to fix that. Thus, we want to invite everyone, upstream, maintainers and anyone else who might be interested to join us in this collaborative effort. To the best of our knowledge, this effort is unique. But if anyone could share experience or even start something like this in their own fields of interest, it would be great :)
It's funny.  Laugh.

Submission + - Microsoft Censors... Its own Naughty Santa

CajunArson writes: The Register has a story about a rather naughty Santa. It appears that the seemingly nice holiday service provided via Windows Live Messenger took on a mind of it's own. When the AI version of Santa Claus began to talk dirty to underage children, it appears that the ghost of Microsoft management present decided to sent AI Claus packing back to the digital north pole.

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