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Submission + - What's your favourite filesystem?

Submitted by

mu22le

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @07:47AM

mu22le writes: "What's your favourite filesystem?

ext2/ext3

reiserfs

reiser4

xfs

jfs

zfs

fat32

ntfs

HFS/HFSPlus

cowboynealfs

"

Submission + - New Software Stops Mars Rover Confusion

Submitted by

MattSparkes

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @07:28AM

MattSparkes writes: "The Mars rover Spirit used to get quite confused when it came upon a rock. Because it could only plan routes of a metre or two it couldn't understand how to navigate around large objects, and frequently used to rock back and forth for hours trying to figure it out. NASA have written new software called D* for the rover Opportunity, which should allow it to autonomously plan routes up to 50 metres long. The new software still won't be able to avoid sand-traps though."

Feed Why Smart Cops Do Dumb Things (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Thursday February 22, 2007 @07:12AM

The Boston police crackdown on blinking lights is a reminder that homeland security policies are often more about CYA than security. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.

Bookmark MMA against teaching pre-Islamic history (dawn.com)

by alok_naik on Thursday February 22, 2007 @06:18AM

Submission + - Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 2

Submitted by BuR4N on Thursday February 22, 2007 @03:45AM

BuR4N writes: Mark Russinovich takes a look at the Windows Kernel and the changes made in Vista. In this second part he describes how Superfetch and Readyboost works and how it improves system performance. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues /2007/03/VistaKernel/

Submission + - YouTube permanently bans Gisburne, changes story

Submitted by

mijkal

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @08:01AM

mijkal writes: "YouTube has told atheist member Nick Gisburne that he is now permanently banned from the site. This stems from his posting of a video slideshow of quotes from the Quran. Originally YouTube said it was because of 'inappropriate content', but now it has changed its story and is claiming copyright infringement because it has a soundtrack (nevermind that hundreds of lip-synch videos as well as official music videos readily available on YouTube). Had Nick known this was the reason to begin with (YouTube admits it made a mistake), he wouldn't have reposted the video (or encouraged others to do the same). YouTube has decide to evoke the DMCA and its '3 strikes' policy, and is trying to reassure us all that the content has nothing to do with the banning of a certain unnamed account, but rather because of recurring copyright infringement. YouTube is also covering its tracks by changing the reason the videos were removed. All of his videos from all of his accounts have been removed, and anyone who's spent some time on YouTube and seen Nick's videos should clearly see this policy is not routinely executed, so why is Gisburne being unfairly targeted here? Given the context, it seems Gisburne is being treated rather harshly by the YouTube censors. (And just to nip this in the bud, yes, YouTube has the right to censor; and we all have the right to call YouTube on it when we feel its unfair and YouTube can change its policy or we can move on; no one's equating this with government censorship.)"

Submission + - OpenStreetMap maps Baghdad

Submitted by

avantman42

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @07:24AM

avantman42 writes: "OpenStreetMap is an free and open collaborative map of the entire world. It has the most comprehensive map of Baghdad among any of the web mapping services, but they need help from people who know Baghdad. See the blog entry for details."

Submission + - NTFS-3G Version 1.0 Released

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @04:28AM

An anonymous reader writes: NTFS-3G is a free open source NTFS read/write driver. It's already available for over 60 Linux distributions and systems like FreeBSD, BeOS, Haiku and Mac OS X, to big-endian and 64-bit computer architectures, and to new CPU's like AMD64, ARM and MIPS.

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