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Comment Re:Oh really? (Score 4, Informative) 389

by featurelesscube (#30361836) Attached to: Linux Reaches 32% Netbook Market Share
I'm so tired of hearing this 'no professional level music tools on linux' rubbish. Try Ardour. You can even use VST plugins if you really want to (though I wouldn't, too many are rubbish). I've been a recording engineer for close to twenty years and I find the only barrier I have to using it professionally is uninformed bigotry from ProTools users who regard themselves as the centre of the universe. Also, if it taking you DAYS to get jack working, you are definitely doing it wrong or your computer is from Mars.

Comment Re:CRT? Are you from the past? (Score 1) 393

by featurelesscube (#29601037) Attached to: NVidia Cripples PhysX "Open" API
Oh come on, I used to be a tech for a computer refurbisher so I have dealt with literally hundreds of rather abused ex-corporate CRTs. You make it sound like you have to tune the things like an old radio every time you turn them on. I'd say about one in every thirty of these old, old units would benefit from a five minute alignment as they passed through the shop, then the vast majority would be fine until they were retired by the new owners.

Submission + - Quantum computers set to move beyond classical dev (newscientist.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Generating entangled photons in a reliable way is impossible right now, stalling the development of the optical quantum computers that would use entangled photons as quantum bits (qubits). Because entangled photons can only be produced at random — which takes time — the most powerful optical quantum computing device use only 6 qubits.

UK and Israeli quantum physicists have designed a blueprint for a "quantum machine gun" that fires out barrages of entangled photons on demand. They think within a few years this device will be built, and could lead to quantum computing using 20-30 qubits. Every additional qubit doubles the computing power, so these quantum computers could perform better than classical computers, the researchers say. The quantum machine gun is described as "one of the most exciting theoretical proposals I've read in five years" by a leading quantum physicist.
The Internet

Submission + - BKO: Boot Linux from HTTP (kernel.org)

Submitted by
rvalles
rvalles writes: "BKO provides a way to boot Linux with a minimal client-side requirements. All that's needed is an Internet connection and a minimal (less than 64KB) client-side tool which can be installed on usb drives, cdrom or floppy disks. It downloads the next stage via HTTP and brings up the whole system from the Internet.

It currently offers a few LiveCDs, distribution installers, and some tools like memtest86."
Role Playing (Games)

Mythic Shutting Down 63 Warhammer Servers 137

Posted by Soulskill from the consolidation-of-quality dept.
Gamasutra reports that Mythic Entertainment is consolidating a number of their Warhammer Online servers to keep population levels within an acceptable range. 43 servers are set to close in North America and Oceania, and 20 more in Europe. Mythic posted details of the character transfers at the game's website. CEO Mark Jacobs also made a "State of the Game" post, highlighting the live expansion that's currently underway, as well as the changes and updates they have planned for the near future.

Comment Re:Something better than OOo (Score 1) 451

by featurelesscube (#25521401) Attached to: OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows
Or you could use Lyx. You get the beautiful output you expect from LaTeX and the most common functions are handled for you in a what-you-see-is-a-bit-like-what-you'll-get editor, - if you need anything especially funky you can always add it manually.

I always used to think latex users were mad, but after I saw the output quality I now use it for all of my official writing.
Operating Systems

How to Turn a PlayStation 3 Into a Linux PC 276

Posted by timothy from the sleek-box-of-ubuntu dept.
MahariBalzitch writes "Popular Mechanics shows step by step guide on how to install Ubuntu Linux on a PlayStation 3 and still keep the PS3 gaming functionality. Now I just need to get my hands on a PS3." Not bad specs for the price, either, since Blu-Ray players still aren't cheap. And though the article calls the procedure "somewhat complicated," it's a lot simpler than was installing Linux from floppies not so many years ago.
Programming

A Bare-Bones Linux+Mono+GUI Distro? 158

Posted by timothy from the essentials-only dept.
nimble99 writes "I am a computer software engineer, focused mainly on the Windows platform — but most of my development time is spent in .NET. I would like to move my .NET development to Linux in the form of Mono, in an attempt at building a media-center type of device. All I require, is a base operating system with simple hardware support, Mono, and a window manager that (preferably) does nothing but act as a host for mono applications. Is this available? I dont know a lot about Linux, so I thought I would ask if there is already something like this available. Obviously a 'Mono Operating System' would be the cleanest solution, but a similar thing could be achieved with the barest minimum of Linux distros right?"
Google

Submission + - Microsoft's Biggest Threat: Google? OSS? Both? (redmondmag.com)

Submitted by
Glyn Moody
Glyn Moody writes: "Google always plays down suggestions that there's any looming clash of the titans between itself and Microsoft. Meanwhile, it is pushing open source in every way it can: directly, by contributing code to projects and employing top hackers like Andrew Morton, Jeremy Allison and Guido van Rossum, and indirectly through the $60 million fees it pays Mozilla, its Summer of Code scheme and various open source summits held at its offices. Google+OSS: could this be the killer combination that finally breaks Microsoft?"
IBM

Submission + - How to really bury a mainframe (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Some users have gone to great lengths to dispose of their mainframe but few have gone this far. On November 21, 2007, the University of Manitoba said goodbye to its beloved 47-year-old IBM 650 mainframe Betelgeuse by holding a New Orleans style jazz funeral. In case you were wondering what an IBM 650's specifications were, according to this Columbia University site, the 650's CPU was 5ft by 3ft by 6ft and weighed 1,966 lbs, and rented for $3200 per month. The power unit was 5x3x6 and weighed 2,972 pounds. The card reader/punch weighed 1,295 pounds and rented for $550/month. The memory was a rotating magnetic drum with 2000 word (10 digits and sign) capacity and random access time of 2.496 ms. For an additional $1,500/month you could add magnetic core memory of 60 words with access time of .096ms. Big Blue sold some 2,000 of the mainframes making it one of the first successfully mass-produced computers. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/23123"

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