ludwigf - Slashdot User

Comment Re:... and the problem is? (Score 2) 107

by ludwigf on Thursday October 13, 2011 @07:34PM (#37707956) Attached to: AMD Ports Open-Source Linux GPU Driver To Windows

The resulting WEC7 driver for Radeon GPUs is proprietary, but that's allowed per the MIT license that the ATI-AMD Linux driver code is provided under."

I wonder what the source of the article is, that the driver will be proprietary.

I wonder if taking the code written by the community, port it to windows embedded and add some proprietary sauce to it was also part of the original plan. So maybe AMD sees Linux community as a form of cheap labor?

Nope. This is a fairly recent project, conceived and started years after we got back into supporting open source graphics drivers, and the request was for a driver that could be released in source code form.

Source

Comment How about improving schools? (Score 1) 294

by ludwigf on Saturday October 08, 2011 @02:53PM (#37649264) Attached to: Florida School District Begins Fingerprinting Students

If schools would be a little bit more fun, if you actually learn something or maybe even learn something you're interested in the pupils might consider coming to school by choice.

Comment Re:external monitor only on laptops? (Score 1) 205

by ludwigf on Thursday September 29, 2011 @04:04AM (#37550970) Attached to: GNOME 3.2 Released

I don't have any problems with Kubuntu or Fedora's KDE spin. I use xrandr to get the setup the way I want, but doing that under gnome locks the whole system up tight. I suppose it could be a hardware issue but then I would think that would also impact KDE as well.

The sad thing is, I actually find the Gnome 3 interface appealing in a lot of ways, even though it's pretty different from what I'm used to. It's really innovative and I think it could do interesting things with my workflow. But that I can't get it working right with an external monitor is really frustrating.

Its seems I've got a similar setup to yours and no such problems and wondering why. Changing display configuration with xrandr works fine for me too. But anyway, did you try using the gui from gnome? The preview there shows where the panel will be and if its on the wrong monitor you can just drag it to the right one.

Comment Re:external monitor only on laptops? (Score 2) 205

by ludwigf on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @07:07PM (#37547300) Attached to: GNOME 3.2 Released

I wonder how it works with a laptop whose lid is closed an external monitor is attached?

I read this one quite often and no it does not suspend if an external monitor is attached. 3.0 didn't either.

With both Fedora and Ubuntu, I find the most recent version still uses the laptop's monitor to show all the controls and panels. I can mirror the display but then my 24 in monitor is running in 1024 x 768. Trying to disable the built-in monitor just locks everything up.

I'd use an older "stable" version, but they don't support the built-in video card of the Intel i7 very well (software render only).

You know, you can just select which one is the primary display in the settings. Not sure what's wrong with your setup but all you describe works fine fore me. (using: Fedora 14, sandy bridge cpu/gpu 24" external monitor with desktop spawning both displays or built-in one deactivated; suspend on lid close - if no external monitor attached as well)

I'd much rather they focus on working with my hardware than working with my chat programs.

It's not like the intel driver developers are writing chat programs instead of doing there work or is it? If you like to complain, complain at the right topic, I don't see how any of your described problems is related to GNOME.

Comment Re:Bad Example (Score 1) 126

by ludwigf on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @03:48PM (#37471800) Attached to: Augmented Reality's Disruptive Potential

Better example: Disruptive app that allows me to be standing in a store and view items on the shelf through my phone with competing prices from nearby stores or online displayed in the air next to them.

Think about it. In theoretical economy transparency is a condition for the market to function. So this is how it is supposed be, right?

Comment Re:It took them 5 years to create an exploit? (Score 1) 3

by ludwigf on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @07:36AM (#37454294) Attached to: Researchers announce TLS1.0 broken

http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/136 describes the thing they're exploiting... Is this news?

If there is a difference between having a theoretical vulnerability based on a theoretical weakness and a working exploit then it is news.

Thanks for the link to the paper.

Submission + - Hacked CA gone backrupt

Submitted by

AVee

on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @06:59AM

AVee writes: "Diginotar, the CA that issued a slew of rouge certificates was is declared bankrupt. Apparently Vasco (Diginotars owner) decided to take it's loss. After OPTA, the Dutch telecom authority, revoked their accreditation to issue certificates for digital signatures there wasn't much business left for them. A dutch court already made the backrupcy official."

Submission + - British Firm Helps Suppress Egyptian Protests (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @05:40AM

An anonymous reader writes: UK firm Gamma International UK have been found to have offered their Skype interception and other software to help Egyptian security services suppress the Arab Spring uprisings based on documents found in the secret police files uncovered following the uprising. They have apparently also been connected to multiple other repressive regimes and are world leaders in providing governents with interception and monitoring systems to break GMail, Hotmail and other supposedly secure services on top of their Skype interception and recording systems. Various torture victims have described how their torturers had access to supposedly secure conversations on Skype, Gmail etc. which were used during their torture.

Submission + - Researchers announce TLS1.0 broken (theregister.co.uk) 3

Submitted by ludwigf on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @05:37AM

ludwigf writes: The plaintext-recovery attack exploits a vulnerability in TLS that has long been regarded as mainly a theoretical weakness. At the moment, [their exploit] requires about two seconds to decrypt each byte of an encrypted cookie. That means authentication cookies of 1,000 to 2,000 characters long will still take a minimum of a half hour for their PayPal attack to work.

TLS 1.1 fixes the problem but: "Actually we have worked with browser and SSL vendors since early May, and every single proposed fix is incompatible with some existing SSL applications," Duong wrote. “What prevents people is that there are too many websites and browsers out there that support only SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0. If somebody switches his websites completely over to 1.1 or 1.2, he loses a significant part of his customers and vice versa.”

Comment No code for "blogging accident" (Score 0) 380

by ludwigf on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @11:12AM (#37399050) Attached to: Medical Billing Codes For Injury Via Turtle Among Thousands Created by New Law

obligatory

But there is: Y93D1 - Activity, knitting and crocheting

Comment Re:Not the same bot as online (Score 1) 427

by ludwigf on Sunday September 11, 2011 @06:19PM (#37371320) Attached to: Has Cleverbot Passed the Turing Test?

The bot you talked to online is not working on the same "level" as the one used on the Turring test. RTFA

Obligatory: you must be new here.

For the lazy rest of us: The online version seems to be a different one for performance reasons. Here the relevant quote from TFA:

While the online Cleverbot searches its banks 3 times before providing an answer, the test version searched 42 times, so it probably has a little different feel.

Comment Re:My mom's husband has hearing aid troubles (Score 1) 698

by ludwigf on Saturday September 10, 2011 @04:53AM (#37360946) Attached to: Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble?

I don't know what they paid for the hearing aid, but it seems to me like something funny is going on.

I don't have a clue about hearing aid but I live in Europe and walk regularly past a shop selling them. There is a sign outside saying you don't have to pay anything as they are covered for by the basic healthcare insurance. Maybe you got to pay some fee to get the high-tech ones - again I've got no clue.

Comment Re:Cost Much? (Score 1) 149

by ludwigf on Friday September 09, 2011 @11:52AM (#37352266) Attached to: App Enables Surfing Over SMS/MMS Through T-Mobile

Is a data plan that expensive in the states?

I pay 10 € for my mobile contract (free calls to land line and same provider included) and additional 10 € for my data plan (250 mb, after that its slowed down till start of the next month). That is ~ 27 USD in total. Got no unlimited SMS though - costs ~ 0.12 USD per SMS ... but I don't care as xmpp is way better anyway.

Comment Re:Interesting ways of benchmarking (Score 1) 298

by ludwigf on Thursday September 08, 2011 @06:52AM (#37337948) Attached to: Linux 3D Games Run Faster On PC-BSD

So it's a benchmark on different hardware that happen to use the same nvidia card (but different motherboard and CPU), and different versions of the compiler, which are known to have performance differences. Way to go.

Looking at the posted specs its looks like the same cpu (AMD Phenom II X3 710) for all tests - on a different motherboard though - wonder why...

Comment Extra Credit (Score 1) 209

by ludwigf on Friday September 02, 2011 @01:05PM (#37288246) Attached to: Why Microtransactions In Games Are Amoral

Extra Credit is a great show about games and their development. I'm into game development myself and please, everyone who is too do as I - watch their shows. Think about what they have to say.

They also got a video about microtransactions and one about the skinner box. They don't talk about moral though. So here for those interested in the topic but to lazy to RTFA. Its a video, just lean back and watch. Kinda entertaining as well.

Their video's are currently hard to find because they got apart from their old home "the escapist" and the videos there all just 404.

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