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Comment Re:My take on this (Score 3, Interesting) 405

by CoolVibe (#30253648) Attached to: OpenSolaris Or FreeBSD?
I'd have to agree here. Although FreeBSD's ZFS support is getting quite good now. I'm using it on a production system and it hasn't let me down. It even saved my bacon a couple of times (yay, ZFS snapshots). I guess it depends on what you want to do. Both have strong features. OpenSolaris has Crossbow, but FreeBSD will have vimage soon. Both have Dtrace and ZFS. Solaris has zones, FreeBSD has jails. But I think FreeBSD is easier to tinker around with (personal opinion).

Submission + - Pirate Bay closes tracker (thepiratebay.org)

Submitted by CoolVibe
CoolVibe writes: The pirate bay has closed their tracker for good, relying solely on distributed torrent methods (a.k.a. Magenet-links). What will this mean for their legal position? BrokeP twitters: "OMG The Pirate Bay has no longer a tracker, officially as well. And moving away from links. I.e. all old verdicts no longer applies.".
Music

Submission + - A Brief History of DRM and the Music Industry (grooveshark.com)

Submitted by
Brooksnt
Brooksnt writes: "DRM was never meant to be the controversial, music industry dividing subject it has become today. Beginning with Napster, when music "piracy" entered the public consciousness to the RIAA's most recent court cases against everyone from children to the dead, DRM and music have been intrinsically linked. Supporters of DRM believe that the technology must exist, citing that it is the only way to protect the rights of copyright holders, while opponents claim that the software not only fails to do this, but completely undermines the rights to Fair Use. In the wake of DRM controversy, organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Free Software Foundation have come forward as opponents of DRM, and most recently, DRM-Free alternatives have appeared to possibly usher in a new era in music distribution. This article explores all of these issues, and provides a time line to DRM and music."
OS X

Submission + - Actually, Leopard will have ZFS says Apple

Submitted by Angostura
Angostura writes: An Apple spokesperson has contacted InformationWeek to clarify the statement by an official that ZFS wouldn't be included within Leopard according to a comment to the original story posted by West Coast Editor Michael Singer. The official was meant to say that " ZFS would be available as a limited option, but not as the default file system." The site is preparing a follow-up story with more details.
Sun Microsystems

Submission + - ZFS will offer a new level of Data Protection

Submitted by
widhalmt
widhalmt writes: "According to a blog posting by Richard Elling, a further release of Suns ZFS Filesystem will introduce a technique called "ditto blocks" which will allow to automatically copy data within one storage device or meta device.

As you can set this per filesystem one can create one large metadevice out of e.g. many Raid devices and create "low security" filesystems without ditto blocks and and "high security" filesystems with instant copies spread over the different raid arrays. Even if one whole Raid Array fails, the filesystem with ditto blocks enabled will still work as normal.

This adds further levels of data protection to really important data as well as more granularity to chose how "secure" your data should be.

Some Maths about what combination of raidlevels and copy levels is best suited for your needs can be found within the posting linked above."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft to take over Yahoo! ?

Submitted by cyberianpan
cyberianpan writes: The New York Post is writing that Microsoft has made a formal approach to take over Yahoo! Redmond is working with Goldman Sachs & a price tag of $50 billion is being suggested. This would represent a huge move by Microsoft, its largest acquisition & an acknowledgement that they missed out on the internet ?
Sun Microsystems

Submission + - Sun joins development of OpenOffice.org for Mac

Submitted by
widhalmt
widhalmt writes: "In a Blogpost a member of Sun Microsystems announces the new effort of Sun Microsoystems to help with porting OpenOffice.org to Mac OS X.

The Open Source Office Suite is well known on Linux and Windows, but lacks support for Mac OS by now. For a long time Sun did not want to join the development of that port but now they will actively push it."
The Internet

Submission + - The Internet of Things: What is a Spime?

Submitted by
CoolVibe
CoolVibe writes: "From the abstract in the talk: "World-renowned Science Fiction writer and futurist Bruce Sterling will outline his ideas for SPIMES, a form of ubiquitous computing that gives smarts and 'searchabiliity' to even the most mundane of physical products. Imagine losing your car keys and being able to search for them with Google Earth." It's a very interesting lecture given by Bruce Sterling about something we might see in the near future. The lecture can be viewed here on Google Video."
Input Devices

Submission + - Person behind writing 235 USB webcam drivers!!!

Submitted by
b1ufox
b1ufox writes: "Well, many of us love Linux and its really good compatibility with a lot of hardware devices. Webcams are no exceptions.Imagine writing a device driver for an unsupported webcam.What would you do?

Meet Michel Xhaard, a 60 year old physician by profession who is responsible for writing single handedly writing drivers for 235 low cost USB webcams!!!.

And surprisingly he did so without any help from big corporations.All on his own as a hobby.

More about Michel and can be found here http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39 291."
Operating Systems

Submission + - No Windows on OLPCs (officially)

Submitted by
Kadin2048
Kadin2048 writes: "Despite reports last week in major news sources indicating that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project was in negotiations with Microsoft to bring Windows XP to the low-cost platform, Walter Bender, president of Software and Content at OLPC, said in an interview with Ars Technica, "We are a free and open-source shop. We have no one from OLPC working with Microsoft on developing a Windows platform for the XO.""
Security

Submission + - How the (US)feds do Secure IDs.

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Presidential directive hspd-12 required a complete overhaul of the requirements for identification, backgrounds checks and access control for employees at federally funded sites (this includes people who are not federal employees and are working at sites that are not run by the government — like Sandia or JPL). The deadline for the overhaul is rapidly approaching and somewhere this year there will be millions of Americans who will be issued one of these new secure badges. Or are they secure? Anybody out there who can tell me what this PDF is really telling me and whether the proposed mechanisms make sense and/or whether/how/where they have weak spots?
Software

Submission + - The Text Editors of KDE

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: One of the more overlooked, but very useful features of KDE is its text editors. In a full standard install of KDE there are 3 of them. Kate, Kedit, and Kwrite. Each has its advantages, disadvantages, and general uses. This article looks at each of these and what each one offers the end user in terms of features, usability, and functionality.

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