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Submission + - Haiku Project released Alpha 2

Submitted by drkamil
drkamil writes: The BeOs-inspired Haiku Project announced on sunday the release of Haiku R1 Alpha 2, with over 300 fixed bugs.
From the main site:
The Haiku Project is proud to announce the availability of Haiku R1A2, its second official alpha release. Haiku is an open source operating system that specifically targets personal computing intended for desktop use. Alpha 2 is a stable development release and a milestone on the way to the upcoming Release 1.

After testing the first Alpha i was surprised by the concepts and very pleased about the "haiku experience", possibly because i never had a chance to try BeOs.
I hope the team keeps its good work up so i can use Haiku as my main OS one day, it's unbelievable fast.
Windows

Submission + - 86% of Windows 7 PCs Maxing Out Memory (computerworld.com) 2

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: Citing data from Devil Mountain Software's community-based Exo.performance.network (XPnet), Craig Barth, the company's chief technology officer, said that new metrics reveal an unsettling trend. On average, 86% of Windows 7 machines in the XPnet pool are regularly consuming 90%-95% of their available RAM, resulting in slow-downs as the systems were forced to increasingly turn to disk-based virtual memory to handle tasks. The 86% mark for Windows 7 is more than twice the average number of Windows XP machines that run at the memory 'saturation' point, and this comes despite more RAM being available on most Windows 7 machines. 'This is alarming,' Barth said of Windows 7 machines' resource consumption. 'For the OS to be pushing the hardware limits this quickly is amazing. Windows 7 is not the lean, mean version of Vista that you may think it is.'

Submission + - Amazon lets publishers disable books on Iphone

Submitted by jsmusgrave
jsmusgrave writes: In March 2009 I purchased The Pragmatic Programmer from the Amazon Kindle store. Recently, I found I was no longer able to read it. In a discussion with Amazon support I was told that the publisher decided it shouldn't be read on the Iphone so it has been disabled. They told me I could read it on Windows or on a Kindle, neither of which I currently use. They gave me a full refund, but this makes me wonder, will Amazon allow publishers to disable books on your Kindle 1 or 2 when the kindle 3 becomes available? Do you really "own" an e-book if publishers are allowed to change the rules of the game after you've had the book for some time?

Submission + - StarCraft 2 System Requirements (incgamers.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The System Requirements for StarCraft II are again visible on Blizzard's support pages, and they look real this time.

While the leaked System Requirements from a few weeks ago were just a copy paste job from Wrath of the Lich King for the support pages, these look more in tune with what our technical experts have been talking about. The information can either be leaked, or just put live for the imminent beta test.

On the Russian forums, there has also been a leak of instructions for how to download the StarCraft 2 beta client.

The minimum system requirements for the Starcraft II Beta are as follows:

PC Minimum Requirements:
* Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1/Windows 7
* 2.2 Ghz Pentium IV or equivalent AMD Athlon processor
* 1 GB system RAM/1.5 GB for Vista and Windows 7
* 128 MB NVidia GeForce 6600 GT/ATI Radeon 9800 PRO video card
* 1024x768 minimum display resolution
* 4 GB free hard space (Beta)
* Broadband connection

*Note* the final requirements for Starcraft II have not yet been determined. Due to ongoing development the minimum requirements listed above are subject to change at any time. During this phase a Mac version will NOT be available, please check back.
Earth

Dinosaur Feather Color Discovered 219

Posted by timothy from the horsefeathers-still-a-mystery dept.
anzha writes "Do you remember being a kid and told we'd never know what colors the dinosaurs were? For at least some, that's no longer true. Scientists working in the UK and China have closely examined the fossils of multiple theropods and actually found the colors and patterns that were present in the fossilized proto-feathers. So far, the answer is orange, black and white in banded and other patterns. The work also thoroughly thrashes the idea that fossils might not be feathers, but collagen fibers instead. If this holds up, Birds Are Dinosaurs. Period. And colorful!"

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