canavan - Slashdot User

Comment Re:What about UDF? (Score 1) 569

by canavan on Friday September 11, 2009 @08:46AM (#29388197) Attached to: Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems?

There was a crash bug in linux quite some time ago (around the 2.6.18 timeframe, CVE-2006-4145) involving large files on UDF filesystems. The workaround fomr 2.6.18 on was a hard limit of the filesize on UDF filesystems of only 1GB. This limit was still around when I last tried to create a UDF DVD filesystem, but that was 1-2 years ago. Is this limit still in current kernels?

Comment Re:S3 has always been a synonym for "avoid" (Score 1) 132

by canavan on Sunday February 15, 2009 @01:00PM (#26863973) Attached to: S3 Graphics Fails At Delivering Linux Driver

My experience from 1996 is quite the oppiosite. I bought a S3 964 based card after those were on the market for more than a year, and I had to find that XF86 was running in false-color so to say. S3 sent me the printed programming for free by international airmail essentially no questions asked.

It turned out that the problem was the way the external IBM RAMDAC was wired to the S3 chip - easily fixed with a 2 or so lines patch, Back in those days manufacturers of graphics cards dodn't just implement a reference design, but had lots of choices which components to connect in which way, which didn't really make things easier for open source developers without access to every hardware variant out there.That essentially ended with the S3 Trio/Virge and the ATI and NVida 3d cards.

Submission + - 5 sins of Vista

Submitted by sproketboy on Monday January 22, 2007 @04:55PM

sproketboy writes: Interesting article discussing 5 major usibility flaws in Vista that weren't there before. Is Windows getting worse — not better over time?

Submission + - Microsoft pays blogger to Wikipedia on OOXML

Submitted by

David Gerard

on Monday January 22, 2007 @04:07PM

David Gerard writes: "Rick Jeliffe from O'Reilly Media has had an offer from Microsoft: to be paid to edit articles on OOXML. As a Wikipedia editor and press contact, I found this interesting — the community is very negative about people being paid to edit Wikipedia, but articles on open source and free software are often a wasteland of advocacy from people who don't know or care about Neutral Point Of View — [[Internet Explorer]] is carefully written, but [[Mozilla Firefox]], [[OpenOffice.org]] (try saying it's fat and slow) and [[Linux]] seem IMO to suffer a surfeit of advocates. Slashdot readers who are Wikipedia editors are invited to look over all our software articles with attention to Neutral Point Of View ..."

Submission + - Big Business Wants Bush to Go Green

Submitted by Nitack on Monday January 22, 2007 @04:03PM

Nitack writes: CEOs of ten major industrial corporations call for Bush to address global warming in the State of the Union. Climate change is finally an issue that has galvanized those would be opponents such as BP, DuPont, and others. Even utility giant PG&E is on board.

Submission + - Climate Challenge game launched on BBC

Submitted by

Gobion

on Monday January 22, 2007 @02:23PM

Gobion writes: "The BBC have launched our game "Climate Challenge" on their Science and Nature website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/cl imate_challenge/

The game mixes a Sim City style strategy game with real scientific and policy data from several sources, including several UK Department of Trade and Industry energy reports (especially on microgeneration), the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports (SRES), and EU data. Along with the scientific assistance we received from Oxford University Centre for the Environment and climateprediction.net (the distributed climate modelling project using BOINC), Climate Challenge game was designed to be both realistic and fun. It is the most ambitious game of its type. The game accompanies the David Attenborough programme "Climate Change: Britain Under Threat" and the BBC's Climate Chaos season.

Climate Challenge is aimed primarily at 20-40 year old professionals and during the development process we conducted extensive testing and found that most players came away from the game feeling more confident about their ability to help prevent major climate change, and also had a better understanding of the issues involved. Hopefully it will spur further discussion in the field!

As the game is meant as a starting point, the game is accompanied by further scientific notes for those interested in learning more about the subject."

Submission + - Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth (shocking!!)

Submitted by thr4wn on Saturday January 20, 2007 @08:44PM

thr4wn writes: Apparently, some elementary math curriculums are no longer concerned if students can multiply or divide well. Instead of teaching the standard algorithms for multiplication and division, they teach some other less-efficient algorithms — of which, some are vehemently abominable! This is hopefully not a sign of some national trend, but is nonetheless scary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI

Submission + - Gonzales denies Americans have habeas rights

Submitted by

TrumpetPower!

on Saturday January 20, 2007 @03:42PM

TrumpetPower! writes: "This past Thursday, in response to questioning by Senator Arlen Specter (R, PA), US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary committee that ``The Constitution doesn't say every individual in the United States or citizen is hereby granted or assured the right of habeas corpus. '' The exchange between Mr. Gonzales and Senator Specter has received virtually no attention from the press; Google News currently has all of a dozen or so stories. Habeas corpus is the right, in America guaranteed by Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution, which ensures that people are not unjustly imprisoned and tried."

Submission + - Worlds biggest wind farm gets the go-ahead

Submitted by

cliffski

on Monday December 18, 2006 @09:24AM

cliffski writes: "According to the BBC website The UK govt has just given the go ahead to two large offshore wind-farm projects. Between them the schemes would produce enough renewable electricity to power about one million households. The larger London Array project covers 144 sq miles (232 sq km) between Margate in Kent and Clacton, Essex and will be the world's biggest when it is completed. The £1.5bn scheme will have 341 turbines rising from the sea about 12 miles (20km) off the Kent and Essex coasts, as well as five offshore substations and four meteorological masts"

Submission + - Matsushita Claims A Safer Li-Ion Battery

Submitted by Anonymous on Monday December 18, 2006 @09:05AM

Anonymous writes: After millions and millions of notebook battery recalls this year, not to mention notebook fires, Matsushita says it has developed a safer way of mass-producing lithium-ion batteries. According to this story, the company says that it offers a "clean" manufacturing process free of the potential for contaminating battery packs; that's the problem Sony said it encountered when it ran millions of suspect battery packs off its assembly lines.

Submission + - Microsoft is King

Submitted by

Reginald Hairston

on Sunday December 17, 2006 @11:00PM

Reginald Hairston writes: "Is it time to jump on the Microsoft bandwagon? Let's face it, Microsoft is the king of castle, and there doesn't seem to be a contender for the throne in sight, so why aren't the geeks and techies of the world leveraging the power of Microsoft to make money for themselves. It just a matter of time before Microsoft moves into and takes over the blogging world so now is the time to get ahead of the power curve. Bottomline, Microsoft self reports as a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44.28 billion and 71,553 employees in 102 countries as of July 2006. The company is the world's largest software company by sales, profit or market capitalization. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its best selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, each of which has achieved near-ubiquity in the desktop computer market. Microsoft possesses footholds in other markets, with assets such as the MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal, and the Microsoft Encarta multimedia encyclopedia. The company also markets both computer hardware products such as the Microsoft mouse as well as home entertainment products such as the Xbox, Xbox 360 and MSN TV. Learn how to get blog traffic to your site instantly by visiting http://www.reprintrightsforyou.com/"

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