Comment Re:Android is what you want (Score 1) 222
- HP48GX emulator (some Android scientific / graphic calcs are close, but not really feature complete yet)
Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month 273
An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix is reporting that an Indian technology company has been porting the ZFS filesystem to Linux and will be releasing it next month as a native kernel module without a dependence on FUSE. 'In terms of how native ZFS for Linux is being handled by this Indian company, they are releasing their ported ZFS code under the Common Development & Distribution License and will not be attempting to go for mainline integration. Instead, this company will just be releasing their CDDL source-code as a build-able kernel module for users and ensuring it does not use any GPL-only symbols where there would be license conflicts. KQ Infotech also seems confident that Oracle will not attempt to take any legal action against them for this work.'"
Comment Okay (Score 3, Funny) 426
You're crazy.
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 Re:Useless (Score 1) 815
In today's world, OSS4 is open source, it is actively being developed, and it WORKS!
If OSS4 is such a great magic bullet, why hasn't it it included (much less default!) in a single distribution? Why isn't it part of the stock kernel package? Until both of those things are the case, OSS4 will continue to be an also-ran, just like devfs2 and GGI.
Comment Re:who's to blame. (Score 1) 815
I've been using Linux for over 10 years now and I've been telling people over and over again how even your grandma could use it, but sadly, I have to conclude that in some ways it still sucks balls for people who don't like fiddling around with obscure settings, configuration files, 4 layers of sound settings etc.
Yeah, I guess grandma will just have to use SPDIF output instead of HDMI. I'm sure she'll be heart-broken.
Comment Re:who's to blame. (Score 1) 815
Bah!
As a computer user I do not have time to do that.
Okay, then pay someone else to. Even if that means paying Microsoft or Apple to deliver you a working sound system. You aren't entitled to anything for free.
Image Recognition Neural Networks, Open Sourced 98
sevarac writes "The latest release of Java Neural Network Framework Neuroph v2.3 comes with ready-to-use image recognition support. It provides GUI tool for training multi layer perceptrons for image recognition, and an easy-to-use API to deploy these neural networks in end-user applications. This image recognition approach has been successfully used by DotA AutoScript tool, and now it is released as open source. With this Java library basic image recognition can be performed in just few lines of code. The developers have published a howto article and an online demo which can be used to train image recognition neural networks online."
Linux Games For Non-Gamers? 460
Nethead writes "Due to some down-time, I'm looking for some Linux games to pass the time. I've been playing BattleMaster, a PHP web game but it's only two turns a day, and I'd like something a bit faster. I've not really played PC games since the Doom era so I'm really out of touch here. I don't have a real gamer box, just a simple video card. What do Slashdotters think I should try? A simple FPS or some type of networked game would do. What's out there for Linux?"
An Electron Microscope For Your Home? 125
CuteSteveJobs writes "Could microscopy be in for a new golden age? Wired previewed the desktop-sized Hitachi TM-1000 Electron Microscope a while back. Light microscopes can magnify up to 400X (1,000X at lower quality) — just enough to see bacteria as shapes — but this one offers 20X to 10,000X, giving some amazing pictures. Unlike traditional electron microscopes, this one plugs into a domestic power socket and specimens don't need any special preparation; it's point-and-shoot, much like your typical digital camera. So easy a grade-schooler could use it, and earlier this year that's what happened: The kids at Iwanuma Elementary School in Miyagi, Japan got their own electron microscope. At $60,000, you'll have to give up on the BMW, but the hope is with economy of scale (so far 1,000 have sold) and miniaturization, the price will continue to drop. The only bad news? It runs XP."
Comment Re:I used to work for Canon..... (Score 1) 557
Where does your HP=Canon comment come from?
That's a laser statement. HP does not make any of their own laser print engines. They use Canon print engines.
Comment Re:HP (Score 1) 557
My wife and I have a Dell 1710 printer at home, that's a B&W non-duplex model made by Lexmark, and I'm waiting for it to die to replace it with an HP equivalent. The Dell prints great at first, but altogether too quickly , the output becomes shoddy. I've not had such problems with the HP printers in my lab (again, with 25k pages per year at work).
Out of curiosity, are you seeing print quality issues with the OEM toner, or are you using aftermarket toner?
Comment Re:Except they're here to teach you to fish (Score 4, Informative) 213
So you're complaining and threatening to remove the drivers in the next release unless they commit resources in perpetuity to maintaing the drivers vs. *your* code base.
I don't think that's the situation. The drivers currently only exist in the -staging tree. That is far different than Linus' official tree. The -staging tree is home to driver code that does not meet the standards of Linus' tree, and it's purpose is to assist the maintainers of the code to increase its quality such that it can be included in Linus' tree. MS is not being asked to "commit resources in perpetuity," but merely to get the code up to the state where it can be included in Linus' kernel tree.
This is really a stupid demand on your part;if the kernel level APIs (what Sun calls their DDI/DKI - Device Driver Interface/Device Kernel Interface) in Linux were stable and not such a moving target, you could just forget the drivers and they'd keep working indefinitely.
See above. Once the driver is included in the kernel proper, the kernel developers themselves fix drivers when API's change. That's one of the primary benefits of being included in the kernel proper. If you're developing driver code and just dropping it on some corner of the web, then You're Doing It Wrong.
Integrating Wikipedia With a Local Intranet Wiki 121
An anonymous reader writes "I work for a large company taking a preliminary look at developing an honest-to-goodness wiki. We have tried to launch a company-wide wiki before, but with little success. The technical domains of each part of the company are different, thus each article needs a good deal of background to be useful. Of course, due the proprietary nature of our work we cannot share our articles outside of the intranet. What we would like to do is leverage existing wikis by augmenting our internal wiki with an external wiki. When a user accesses Wikipedia from inside our intranet, they receive the wikipedia content, plus the local domain specific information. For example, links to company-specific wiki pages would be available in Wikipedia pages. Has anyone else tried to do something like this? I know it sounds like a logistical nightmare; are there any thoughts on how to make this successful?"
Comment Re:Holding out for the underdog (Score 1) 283
I'm using an Android phone with Sprint. The Sprint Touch/HTC Vogue runs Android like a champ.
