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Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 03, 2009 @11:04AM from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.

diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

Comment Re:Here's the problem (Score 2, Insightful) 443

by hypnotik on Thursday May 28, 2009 @02:17PM (#28126971) Attached to: Microsoft Rebrands Live Search As "Bing"

Uh. No, that language has been around since Windows 95, when they promised us that it was the "fastest, most secure version of Windows yet" and that everything we do "will be more fun!"

Comment Re:out of curiousity (Score 1) 842

by hypnotik on Monday February 09, 2009 @04:41PM (#26789421) Attached to: Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge For More

I bought two Acer Eee Pcs here in Chile, both came with XP Starter Edition. Just for giggles, I installed it on an old PC. Not only is it limited to three apps at a time (the NVIDIA app doesn't seem to count, but trying to configure things through the control panel is sometimes dicey), but video resolution is limited to 1024x768 (since beginning computer users won't know what to do if the resolution is too great!).

All in all, I tend to agree that it's a crap product.

(the netbooks run Linux, of course..)

Comment Re:Single provider and SOA? (Score 4, Interesting) 219

by hypnotik on Friday January 16, 2009 @06:28PM (#26489733) Attached to: The Zen of SOA

That's what SOA aims at: interchangeable components in systems. You're not crafting one big program, or complex of programs, from end-to-end, making it up as you go. You're building uniformly-structured and interchangeable components, and assembling them.

You mean... like Unix?

Submission + - France says no to OpenXML

Submitted by herve_masson on Monday September 03, 2007 @03:57PM

herve_masson writes: vnunet is amongst the first to report that AFNOR rejected OpenXML as a standard. See the french article here (google translation here). According to the article, the reason seems not related to (lack of) technical merits, but because they don't see having two standards for documents as a good thing.

Submission + - KDE on Windows

Submitted by

AlanS2002

on Monday January 15, 2007 @03:05AM

AlanS2002 writes: "This week's KDE Commit Digest tells about an installer for KDE on Windows and the problems the developers encountered setting up a working environment for KDE to run on. Many screenshots included, showing the first applications (such as Konqueror) running natively."

Submission + - How many passwords do you have to remember?

Submitted by G3ckoG33k on Monday January 15, 2007 @01:50AM

G3ckoG33k writes: * less than 20 * 20-39 * 40-59 * 60-79 * 80-99 * 100 or more * none, I have them on paper

Journal Journal: Japanese Instant Ramen Inventor died at age 96 1

Journal by oddmake on Friday January 05, 2007 @12:37PM

Accoding to Yomiuri Online(Japanese article), inventor of modern instant noodle,one of the best frineds of nerds, Momofuku Ando died of myocardial infarction ,on January 5. Ando claimed "chicken ramen" instant noodle was everyday diet of his own and largely contributed his healthy ,long life.Try another cup noodle for your hea

Submission + - Wireless + Biodynamic Farming in Organic Vineyard

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05, 2007 @11:09AM

An anonymous reader writes: From Green RFID Guy: Ceago Vinegarden, an organic winery in Northern California, applies biodynamic farming methods to enhance vineyard biodiversity. It also incorporates a mashup of radio frequency identification (RFID), Google Earth and NASA-developed wireless sensor pods to help monitor grapes' growing conditions.

Submission + - Intelligent satellite notices volcanic activity

Submitted by Dik Zak on Sunday December 03, 2006 @01:36PM

Dik Zak writes: The Indonesian volcano Talang on the island of Sumatra had been dormant for centuries when, in April 2005, it suddenly rumbled to life. A plume of smoke rose 1000 meters high and nearby villages were covered in ash. Fearing a major eruption, local authorities began evacuating 40,000 people. UN officials, meanwhile, issued a call for help: Volcanologists should begin monitoring Talang at once. Little did they know, high above Earth, a small satellite was already watching the volcano. No one told it to. EO-1 (short for "Earth Observing 1") noticed the warning signs and started monitoring Talang on its own. Indeed, by the time many volcanologists were reading their emails from the UN, "EO-1 already had data," says Steve Chien, leader of JPL's Artificial Intelligence Group.

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