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Submission + - Stereoscopic 3D for VLC media player (videolan.org)

An anonymous reader writes: Support for stereoscopic 3D is under development for the VLC media player. It was started by a student as part of Summer of Code 2011 and continues to be updated. Currently, only NVidia 3D Vision/Windows is supported but more formats (AMD, Quad Buffered OpenGL, Linux support) are planned. You can help out development by donating.
Security

Submission + - Dutch Agency Bars DigiNotar From Issuing Some Cert (threatpost.com)

Trailrunner7 writes: A Dutch agency that regulates the actions of telecommunications providers has revoked DigiNotar's ability to issue certificates for digital signatures. The agency said that because of the way that DigiNotar behaved during the attack on its certificate authority infrastructure, the company no longer has the authority to issued so-called qualified certificates.

In a report released on Wednesday, the Board of the Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority (OPTA) said that because there was evidence of an attacker having compromised the server that was used to issue qualified certificates, the agency couldn't allow DigiNotar to continue issuing those certificates.

Windows

Submission + - Windows 8's Metro browser won't support Flash (techreport.com)

J. Dzhugashvili writes: Microsoft let out an interesting bit of news early this morning: Internet Explorer 10 won't support plug-ins in its Metro incarnation. That means no Flash support. Apparently, the only way to get Flash to run will be to toggle over to Windows 8's classic "desktop" mode and use IE10 in there. Justifying the move, Microsoft says not supporting plug-ins in the Metro version of IE10 "improves battery life as well as security, reliability, and privacy for consumers." Interesting... all of that sounds awfully familiar.

Comment Re:Ubuntu the best choice? (Score 2) 298

Though the table has what I assume is the section detailing the x86_64 machines cut off, the two systems are running two different DEs. And two different versions of X. Also have different amounts of RAM, different sized HDDs, different motherboards, and are using different file systems. Not that those last things will have as much of an effect on the benchmark I don't imagine, but it desperately raises the question why they didn't just dual boot Ubuntu and PC-BSD on the same machine...
Microsoft

Submission + - Windows 8 will have Hyper-V OS virtualization (extremetech.com)

MrSeb writes: "In an interesting twist, Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 8 will feature the enterprise-echelon Hyper-V machine virtualization hypervisor. This will mean that Windows 8 users will be able to run almost every other operating system inside a Remote Desktop window, including Windows 7 and XP, SUSE and Red Hat Linux, and more (including Ubuntu) with a little hacking. At its most basic, this will just mean that you won’t have to download the free (and excellent) VirtualBox software if you want to virtualize a guest operating system — useful for power users and developers who want to try out different build and runtime environments, but not exactly a killer feature for consumers. But what if Hyper-V comes with a copy of Windows 8 (or 7) guest OS pre-installed? It would be the best security sandbox and backwards compatibility layer that money can buy."
Japan

Submission + - Fukushima and Chernobyl side-by-side (nature.com)

gbrumfiel writes: "It's now been six months since an earthquake and tsunami sparked a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. New data from the Japanese government is now allowing a closer comparison of the fallout from the disaster with the Chernobyl. In terms of Cs-137, the contaminant of greatest concern, Fukushima appears to be about a fifth as bad as Chernobyl. Nature News has a Google Earth mash-up that lets you see the two accidents together. Nature also reports that chaos and bureaucracy are slowing efforts to research the crisis."
Microsoft

Submission + - Windows 8 to natively support ISO and VHD mounting (extremetech.com)

MrSeb writes: "With a masterful nail in the optical disc coffin, Microsof has announced that its new operating system will natively mount ISO disc images. On the slightly more enterprisesque side of the equation, VHD files will also be supported by Windows 8. Both new features will be smoothly integrated into Windows 8 Explorer’s ribbon menu, and mounting an ISO or VHD is as simple as double clicking the file. This is obviously an important addition with Windows 8 being available on tablets — and in a year or two, it wouldn't be surprising if all software is made available as an ISO on a USB drive which can be read by tablet and PC alike."

Comment Re:NOT based on Linux? (Score 2) 121

Not really sure what you're saying but Syllable is both a custom Linux distro, which is their server edition, and an operating system which was built from AtheOS which has it's own kernel, which is what is their desktop edition. The server edition is basically just there so that you can have a server with all the capabilities of Linux but a UI similar to the desktop OS's. It's been a while since I've used Syllable so things may have changed a bit though.

I think it's important to develop alternatives to Linux and BSD even if they don't have the app support (though some things can just be recompiled).

And I mean, if the developers enjoy working on it then that's up to them any way.

Comment Re:C and Python complement each other (Score 5, Informative) 878

In case anybody doesn't know, the new standard for C that is currently being planned includes multithreading support in the form of a threads.h header.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C1x

I believe the newest GCC includes some support for some of the features of that standard already (which of the features I can't remember).

Comment Re:Yeah right (Score 1) 686

I agree absolutely. Reminds me of a story on the news a little while ago about how on average women weren't getting paid as much as men. I supposed we were all supposed to be outraged and stop listening by then, because when they went into the actual story it was simply that a large number of women were choosing lower paying jobs. Now, if there was a man and woman both doing the exact same work and the man was being paid more, then yes I would be disgusted, but we can't tell people that they HAVE to do certain jobs simply because it pays more money. It's not like the universities are rejecting female applicants to courses with high paying careers (in fact, I am now at university and most of my friends that are doing the higher paying courses are female). If women don't want to work in IT, then they don't have to work in IT. If women would rather get into a career that they enjoyed, but didn't necessarily pay as much, then that's their choice. And the same thing applies to men.
Linux

Submission + - Linux indemnification from Microsoft - sort of? (desktoplinux.com)

clemenstimpler writes: It may just be an intelligent business idea. Or it is a novel approach to the task of embracing, extending and extinguishing. You now can buy CentOS support — not from Red Hat, but from a startup called OpenLogic. However, a trip to OpenLogic's website proves to be disconcerting.

1. They offer a special Open Source Indemnification Offer. Quote: "There are many benefits to using open source software, but in some cases there are lingering legal concerns around deploying open source in the enterprise. In order for enterprises to fully embrace a broad range of open source software, they need to be able to deploy, manage and control open source while limiting the associated legal and compliance risks. For the first time, enterprises can now access indemnification coverage for a broad range of open source products from a single vendor. By mitigating the intellectual property risks associated with open source software, OpenLogic enables enterprises to safely and securely use open source software and maximize cost savings." Anyone else smelling SCOSource?

2. Their CEO is a former Microsoft employee.

3. To call this company "OpenLinux" can only be a sign of very subtle humor, because Open Linux was the name for the "enterprise linux solution" distributed by former Caldera, now SCO.

 

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