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It says what he's been up to in the article...
"If you're unfamiliar with Robert Love, let's just say he's been active in contributing to the Linux kernel for fifteen years and he's currently at Google and was part of the Android team."
Coming up next... our monthly reminder of ipv4's demise.
How many stories can you guys come up with that basically dance around the same issue?
We know its happening, now we're just waiting for everyone to catch up and get compliant.
Not very surprising. Of course Microsoft would say Blu Ray is dead. They also thought their HD-DVD format would succeed. They can just continue their trend of being incorrect.
The movie aisle in any major department store would support the everlasting life of hard copy media.
Channard writes: While there have been occasional reports of previous PS3 firmware upgrades causing system crashes and so forth, Sony's new firmware upgrade for the system, 3.41, is apparently stopping PS3 owners upgrading their hard disks, Slim PS3 owners at least. This problem has been encountered by many users on Sony's forums and occurs when you try to put a new hard disk into a PS3 that already has the firmware upgrade installed. The general course of action for upgrading a PS3's drive is that you download the latest PS3 firmware onto a memory stick and after swapping the hard drive in the PS3, plug the stick in allowing the PS3 to properly prepare the disk for use. But as of upgrade 3.41, the PS3 fails to recognize the firmware on the stick, complaining that it can't proceed until you insert the correct firmware. Repeating the process and re-downloading the does not fix the problem, as I can confirm, having encountered the problem myself.
Users can put the old hard disk back in, provided they've not reformatted it for some other purpose, so all is not lost. Sony have apparently told gaming website CVG that 'The information available to our Consumer Services Department does not suggest that this is a problem PlayStation(R) owners are likely to experience when upgrading the HDD with 3.41 update.' This seems to fly in the face of the currently available information — although whether or not this statement was issued by Kevin Butler is unclear. Either way, PS3 owners encountering this problem will likely have to wait a few days for a fix and use their old HDDs for now.
theverylastperson writes: The guy I work for calls me to come out to his house today. In honor of System Administrator Day he's going to help me fulfill a dream of sending a Satellite into space (We've had a VERY good year). We once had a conversation where we discussed childhood dreams and I had mentioned my desire to send something into orbit. Well, looks like I get my chance. For only $8,000 we can launch a TubeSat (similar to CubeSat). The volume and mass restrictions can be found on the linked page. The problem is, I can't decide what to send. So I'm curious what other Slashdot members would do. If you had a chance to send a TubeSat into space, what would you do? I have to present a plan to him by Monday, so I only have this weekend to come up with the right idea.
An anonymous reader writes: At GUADEC, Dave Neary presented the results of the GNOME Census. The results reveal some very interesting findings. Around 70% of the developers identify themselves as volunteer and 70% of the commits made in the GNOME releases are made by paid developers. Now, here is the part that has started out something like a war – Canonical’s contribution to GNOME is only a mere 1%, while Red Hat contributes 16%.
I don't see why they would not want to make their OS more readily available by allowing other hardware vendors to sell their OS. This makes good business sense.