Comment Sounds like we missed the boat on this one... (Score 1) 595
Damn that's ironic.
Comment Has to mean better drivers! (Score 2, Informative) 245
But could they have been any worse? I always loved the way I hacked around for weeks trying to get 3D working after the drivers finally installed correctly and were apparently working correctly... all but 3D... and then to find out on some obscure link on google that the driver did not support it... but no mention to be found on ATI's site. But now that they are opensource these things can change! (Or at least be fscking documented correctly)
Comment 10th post!!! (Score 0, Flamebait) 1184
Sent from my iPhone.
Comment We're not focusing on security because our.... (Score 1) 220
Your customers are not asking about it because they assumed you've handled that.
Submission + - LinuxDNA releases a new 64bit 2.6.32 kernel patch
Thaidog writes: "I wanted to let Slashdot know that we have just released a high performance patch for the x86_64 platform. Benchmarks show this patch to be especially good for multitasking — giving anywhere from 40 to over 150% performance increase compared to the same GCC kernel in context switching. It should be an ideal patch for Atom based systems like Netbooks. We have also made it much easier to compile — simply apply the patch and build your kernel like normal. The patch works for both 2.6.32.7 and 2.6.33 kernels and up."
Comment Re:Once again (Score 1) 313
But they're not really your ideas are they? I mean, unless you invented the religion chances are you've just have a "time share" on your beliefs.... and I hate timeshares.
Comment Security issue? (Score 1) 344
Pretty sure I'd lose my job for posting this kind of stuff on slashdot....
Comment You forgot.. (Score 1) 146
When a hard drive died on one of the servers at my startup... According to management that was definitely the biggest of 2009.
An Open Source Compiler From CUDA To X86-Multicore 71
Gregory Diamos writes "An open source project, Ocelot, has recently released a just-in-time compiler for CUDA, allowing the same programs to be run on NVIDIA GPUs or x86 CPUs and providing an alternative to OpenCL. A description of the compiler was recently posted on the NVIDIA forums. The compiler works by translating GPU instructions to LLVM and then generating native code for any LLVM target. It has been validated against over 100 CUDA applications. All of the code is available under the New BSD license."
Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195
diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."
Comment Malware is... bad... right? (Score 1) 600
So don't release it. Pretty straight forward if you ask me.
Comment Re:Outward facing systems ... (Score 2, Informative) 391
Port knocking is a good way to conceal that ssh is available. Use fwknop!
Comment I thought it sucked (Score 1) 705
The trailer made the movie look like it had much more tension in the plot... but no world ending weapons hosted by intellectually superior aliens. Instead you had a bunch of cat food eating over sized crickets that were stupid... oh and the way the aliens and humans talked so easily... again stupid. The star actor was a complete idiot the entire movie. Let me chop of my finger to stop the spreading... ok right. What part of this movie was great exactly? It was like Independence Day after the stars took a few bong hits.
Comment The actual problem is even more complex (Score 1) 513
The real problem I've found is not only do these companies blatantly deny your privacy with a credit check but those same people who do it *believe* that the credit system is unflawed and is somehow a perfect reflection of your habits. Quite disturbing.
Comment If it's that important you should use hardware (Score 1) 192
There at least a few SAS drives on the market that use hardware encryption baked right in to the drive's on-board controller. Probably faster too but more expensive.
