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ZFS Shows Up in New Leopard Build 351

Posted by Hemos
Udo Schmitz writes "As a follow-up to rumours from May this year, World of Apple has a screenshot showing Sun's Zettabyte File System in "the most recent Build of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard". Though I still wonder: If it is not meant to replace HFS+, could there be any other reasons to support ZFS?"
Television

Submission + - Dutch analog television over the air stopped

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Koos
Koos writes: "In the night between 10 and 11 December 2006, the terrestrial analogue TV transmitters for the Netherlands were switched off, and digital (DVB-T) transmitters took over (page in Dutch!).

For 55 years analogue over-the-air television was available in the Netherlands (history page in Dutch!). The switch to digital was prompted by European regulations pushing the switch to digital and because of the running costs of the high-power VHF and UHF transmitters. The Netherlands was the first country to end analogue terrestrial television broadcast.

About 74000 to 200000 (estimates differ) households depend on terrestrial broadcast for receiving television. In this densely populated country cable tv is available almost everywhere. Satellite receivers are used a lot by people wanting more channels.

The interesting part about the switch was that the same channels used by the old analogue transmitters were going to be occupied by the DVB-T transmitters, so very little testing for correct reach and signal could be done before the switch. Some tests with DVB-T were seen in the previous weeks. DVB-T was available already in the 'Randstad' (area in the west of the country, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and all the cities in between) but transmitters closer to our borders have to be set up not to interfere with German and Belgium transmitters."

A Hands-On Zune Review 279

Posted by Zonk from the zunetastic dept.
jayintune writes "2old2play.com got the chance to sit down with Microsoft's new media player, the Zune, to give some comments and insight into the players User Interface, Video Playback, Music Sharing, as well as software and setup." From the article: "I had expected the player to be fairly heavy, but after holding the Zune in my hand it was clear that I was wrong. It is not as light as the latest video iPod, but compared to my fourth-generation iPod, the Zune was lighter. The top of the Zune had a clear glass layer while the exterior had a tactile feel to it, nothing like the hard metal and plastic of the iPod devices. The 'skin' of the Zune was a 'rubberized' material that had a smooth seductive feel to it. I found myself unable to stop stroking the device, so much that the demo assistant asked me to put it down."

Opera to Start Phoning Home? 197

Posted by Zonk from the they-know-what's-good-for-you dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Near the end of a story about Opera's determination to stay in the game: 'Earlier this week, Opera announced an addition that will keep it in step with its rivals. Johan Borg, a developer working on the browser, said Tuesday in a blog that the next edition, Opera 9.1, will include beefed up anti-phishing and anti-fraud features. Rather than simply indicate that a site is secure with a notation in the address bar, Opera 9.1 will also query Opera-owned servers for information on any site visited. Those that Opera has identifies as fraudulent will be automatically blocked by the browser.'"

MySpace Predator Caught By Code 374

Posted by kdawson from the true-names dept.
An anonymous reader writes, "Wired News editor and former hacker Kevin Poulsen wrote a 1,000-line Perl script that checked MySpace for registered sex offenders. Sifting through the results, he manually confirmed over 700 offenders, including a serial child molester in New York actively trying to hook up with underage boys on the site, and who has now been arrested as a result. MySpace told Congress last June that it didn't have this capability." Wired News says they will publish Poulsen's code under an open-source license later this week.

Root Exploit For NVIDIA Closed-Source Linux Driver 548

Posted by kdawson from the dangerous-blobs dept.
possible writes, "KernelTrap is reporting that the security research firm Rapid7 has published a working root exploit for a buffer overflow in NVIDIA's binary blob graphics driver for Linux. The NVIDIA drivers for FreeBSD and Solaris are also likely vulnerable. This will no doubt fuel the debate about whether binary blob drivers should be allowed in Linux." Rapid7's suggested action to mitigate this vulnerability: "Disable the binary blob driver and use the open-source 'nv' driver that is included by default with X."

Wikipedia Goes Mobile 118

Posted by kdawson from the what's-that-in-your-pocket? dept.
eldavojohn writes, "Webaroo has added Wikipedia to their services on mobile devices. There have also been open source efforts to deliver it to the iPod (also check out the wiki) or a PDA. I guess if I were still a bartender, this would be a necessity in solving bar disputes before they escalate to fisticuffs." Wikipedia requires 6 GB of free space, 10 GB recommended. And remember: Don't Panic.

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