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Comment Re:FTFA: 2000 bugs fixed (Score 1) 394

by rbochan (#27010711) Attached to: Are Windows 7 Testers Going Unheard?

This is assuming NICs represent a major driver problem in Vista/7. They don't. Virtually all NICs (I'm willing to say 99%) will WORK (that is FUNCTION) "out of the box" with Windows 7. There are a number of generic fallback drivers. There might be some issues, like jumbo frame support on gigabit cards, and some settings you can't tweak, but they will almost always work. This has been the case since Windows 98.

Find another straw man.

I take it you've never had a machine with an onboard nvidia NIC. No, they do not work out of the box.

Comment Re:A Debian release! (Score 1) 386

by rbochan (#26862645) Attached to: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" Released

Sarge really was the source of these endless jokes. Almost three years, on a Linux that was considerably less mature than it is today was forever...

Sure, the release time from Woody to Sarge was funny until you realized that even with the umpteen thousands of packages included with Sarge, the Debian team still beat release times between Microsoft's bare-bones desktop OSes Windows XP and Vista.
Movies

Submission + - DreamWork's Linux rendering farm

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stoilis
stoilis writes: "(Via LWN) Linux Journal takes a look at how Linux helps make movies. "All the big film studios primarily use Linux for animation and visual effects. Perhaps no commercial Linux installation is larger than DreamWorks Animation, with more than 1,000 Linux desktops and more than 3,000 server CPUs.""
Privacy

Submission + - Parents monitoring teenagers as they drive (usatoday.com)

Submitted by hsqueak
hsqueak writes: A U.S. insurance company has brought out a package where parents can monitor their teenagers' driving habits remotely. The package can notify parents if the driver is speeding, if the car is in use after curfew or used outside an agreed-upon area. Parents can also use GPS to find their car over the internet. Safeco maintain that the driving information, being collected by an independent firm, will not be used to determine fault or eligibility in the event of an insurance claim.
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Talking paper made by scientists (bbc.co.uk)

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avengex
avengex writes: "Digital paper that can speak to you has been created by scientists. Researchers from Mid Sweden University have constructed an interactive paper billboard that emits recorded sound in response to a user's touch.

Finally! Something better than those blasted musical birthday cards.."
Businesses

Submission + - No-Vacation Nation

Submitted by reno
reno writes: Reuters reports on a new study from the Center for Economic and Policy Research that found that the United States is the only advanced economy in the world that does not guarantee its workers any paid vacation or holiday time: 'Most U.S. firms do in fact give employees vacations, but the lack of government guarantees means one in four private sector workers does not get paid leave... [According to economist John Schmitt,] "It's a national embarrassment that 28 million Americans don't get any paid vacation or paid holidays."'
Security

Submission + - $16,000 Bounty for Sendmail, Apache 0Day Flaws

Submitted by Famestay
Famestay writes: Verisign's iDefense is putting up a $16,000 prize for any hacker who can find a remotely exploitable vulnerability in six critical Internet infrastructure applications. The bounty is for a zero-day code execution hole on the following Internet infrastructure technologies: Apache httpd, Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) daemon, Sendmail SMTP daemon, OpenSSH sshd, Microsoft Internet Information (IIS) Server and Microsoft Exchange Server.
Space

Submission + - Polar ocean 'soaking up less CO2'

Submitted by
gollum123
gollum123 writes: "One of Earth's most important absorbers of carbon dioxide (CO2) is failing to soak up as much of the greenhouse gas as it was expected to, scientists say ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6665147. stm ). The decline of Antarctica's Southern Ocean carbon "sink" — or reservoir — means that atmospheric CO2 levels may be higher in future than predicted. This effect had been predicted by climate scientists, and is taken into account — to some extent — by climate models. But it appears to be happening 40 years ahead of schedule. As CO2 is absorbed by the oceans, it makes them more acidic, harming populations of marine organisms such as coral. The latest study suggests that phenomenon will only get worse over the century."

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