Comment Re:I don't care (Score 1) 225
Have you EVER seen a Mac in production running on top of a NTFS read-write RAID?
Never. Only on Linux using WUBI.
Btw, does Mac indeed support RAID already?
Submission + - ZFS on Linux: It's alive! (linuxworld.com)
lymeca writes: LinuxWorld reports that Sun Microsystem's ZFS filesystem has been converted from its incanartion in OpenSolaris to a module capable of running in the Linux user-space filsystem project, FUSE. Because of the license incompatibilities with the Linux kernel, it has not yet been integrated for distribution within the kernel itself. This project, called ZFS on FUSE, aims to enable GNU/Linux users to use ZFS as a process in userspace, bypassing the legal barrier inherent in having the filesystem coded into the Linux kernel itself. Booting from a ZFS partition has been confirmed to work. The performance currently clocks in at about half as fast as XFS, but with all the success the NTFS-3g project has had creating a high performance FUSE implementation of the NTFS filesystem, there's hope that performance tweaking could yield a practical elimination of barriers for GNU/Linux users to make use of all that ZFS has to offer.
Submission + - Ubuntu, Red Hat reject Microsoft patent deal (zdnet.com.au)
hoyeru writes: Red Hat, the largest Linux vendor, and Ubuntu-maker Canonical have both rejected calls from Microsoft to forge a deal similar to the one the Redmond giant signed with Linux distributors Novell, Xandros, and Linspire.
Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical's CEO, said in a blog posting on Saturday, that Canonical has declined to talk to Microsoft about any agreement that provides legal protection to Ubuntu users related to "unspecified patents".
"Allegations of 'infringement of unspecified patents' carry no weight whatsoever. We don't think they have any legal merit, and they are no incentive for us to work with Microsoft on any of the wonderful things we could do together," he wrote.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Ubuntu-R ed-Hat-reject-Microsoft-patent-deal/0,130061733,33 9278741,00.htm
Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical's CEO, said in a blog posting on Saturday, that Canonical has declined to talk to Microsoft about any agreement that provides legal protection to Ubuntu users related to "unspecified patents".
"Allegations of 'infringement of unspecified patents' carry no weight whatsoever. We don't think they have any legal merit, and they are no incentive for us to work with Microsoft on any of the wonderful things we could do together," he wrote.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Ubuntu-
Submission + - Skin Care Products (cosmetics-hair.com)
cosmeticshair writes: "Would you like to unravel the mystery of their beautiful skin?
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Here's the mystery:
Well to put it simply the secret to the flawless Korean skin lies in their cosmetic formulations. Traditional Korean compositions that have been used for centuries.
Now there is useful new e-shop called,www.cosmetics-hair.com, featuring these exclusive, previously unavailable to the world,products from Korea. You will find everything you need for skin, hair and nails in one place of skin care products.
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Better yet, would you like to have access to products that would give you the same results?
For centuries the glowing complexion and flawless texture of the Korean woman’s skin have symbolized the ultimate in beauty and sensuality.
Here's the mystery:
Well to put it simply the secret to the flawless Korean skin lies in their cosmetic formulations. Traditional Korean compositions that have been used for centuries.
Now there is useful new e-shop called,www.cosmetics-hair.com, featuring these exclusive, previously unavailable to the world,products from Korea. You will find everything you need for skin, hair and nails in one place of skin care products.
In short you are a mouse click way from all the skin care products you need to achieve your greatest appearance!
Get in touch with us at:ramapati@gmail.com Site address : http://cosmetics-hair.com/ Name : Ramapati Singhania Address : Varal FZC/LLC PO Box 28121, Dubai, UAE Phone: +9714 359 5824 Fax: +971 4 359 3827"
Submission + - Linux Chosen for Next-Generation Space Hardware (spacemart.com)
EraserMouseMan writes: WindRiver has been chosen by Honeywell to develop a Linux-based solution to run on top of Honeywell's next-generation Dependable Multiprocessor for spacecraft.
"Any material put into space is subject to variable accelerations, mechanical shock and vibration, harsh vacuum conditions, extreme temperatures, and often, intense particle and electromagnetic radiation. Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, running in conjunction with GoAhead SelfReliant Software, which provides high availability middleware, and Honeywell''s Dependable Multiprocessing Middleware on Extreme Engineering Solutions'' XPedite6031 boards, will support the demonstration of high availability and high reliability operation for the ST8 Dependable Multiprocessor experiment."
The relevancy and robustness of Linux is being recognized by the biggest players in industry for their mission critical needs. Is Linux finally being recognized as suitable for everything from putting men on Mars to defending our country?
"Any material put into space is subject to variable accelerations, mechanical shock and vibration, harsh vacuum conditions, extreme temperatures, and often, intense particle and electromagnetic radiation. Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, running in conjunction with GoAhead SelfReliant Software, which provides high availability middleware, and Honeywell''s Dependable Multiprocessing Middleware on Extreme Engineering Solutions'' XPedite6031 boards, will support the demonstration of high availability and high reliability operation for the ST8 Dependable Multiprocessor experiment."
The relevancy and robustness of Linux is being recognized by the biggest players in industry for their mission critical needs. Is Linux finally being recognized as suitable for everything from putting men on Mars to defending our country?
Submission + - Joining an existing Open Source Project
Tathagata writes: I have been using GNU/Linux for quite sometime now. Though I'm from Computer Science background, getting into a project that really involves you into programming was not possible, as people(read teachers) run away, if you utter the word "linux". Being least bothered about mentoring an exciting project, they would suggest you to get settled with visual basic, .NET, — and would prefer a 24 hour solution when it comes to programming.(I'm a student in my final year, from a West Bengal, India). So my programming endeavours have remained limited to writing few lines of C/C++, Java.
For last few days I've been googling, and trying to read how to join an existing open source project, and avoid reinventing the wheel by starting yet another. I read people suggesting to start by submitting patches, fixing bugs, becoming package maintainer — but most are overloaded with jargon like upstream/downstream, nightly builds, etc. Added to that how does joining the mailing list, or irc channel help when you don't even understand their slangs, forget about the tech discussion? Distributed/centralised scm, track, bugzilla, launchpad, with sourceforge or freshmeat laden with an unlimited number of projects regarding everything you have ever come across — it quite an overwhelming world to step in. Could you suggest a road map, links to essential tools or a few projects, for people like me, who would want to improve their skills by contributing FOSS?
BitTorrent Legit Service Launches 158
The launch of the BitTorrent Entertainment Network came out today; there's the AP write-up, which is decent enough but the interview with Bram about it is more interesting. Tangentially, the the education of lawmakers on video DRM is an interesting countweight to all this.
Pthreads vs Win32 threads 385
An anonymous reader writes "It's interesting when different people have different opinions. While I was searching for something on Intel's website, I came across an article on why Windows threads are better than Posix threads. Curiously, I also came across this article on why Posix Pthreads are better that Win32 threads. The thing is, both of these articles are written by the same author!
So who is right (metaphorically speaking?), or what has changed since the first article was written?"
So who is right (metaphorically speaking?), or what has changed since the first article was written?"
Rosetta Probe Reveals Martian Cloud Systems 26
MattSparkes writes "The ESA's Rosetta probe swooped around Mars on Sunday, completing a key manoeuvre in its 10-year mission to land on a distant comet. The 3-tonne probe came within 155 miles of the planet's surface, and took some incredible images that reveal cloud systems on the planet. "At this time of the Martian year, a large fraction of Mars' atmosphere is evaporating from the southern polar cap and will migrate to the northern polar cap during nothern winter. Over most of the Martian disk one can see large cloud systems.""
Submission + - Stable Open Source NTFS After 12 Years of Work
irgu writes: "Open source NTFS development started in 1995 by
Martin von Loewis
under Linux, which was
taken over
by Anton Altaparmakov in 2000.
Two years ago Apple hired Altaparmakov to work on Mac OS X and made a
deal with the team to
relicense the code
and return the new one, soonest
in the spring of 2008.
But the team also continued the work
and Szabolcs Szakacsits announced the
read/write NTFS-3G driver
for beta testing last year. Only half year passed and
NTFS-3G reached the stable status
and has been already ported to
FreeBSD,
Mac OS X,
BeOS, Haiku, 64-bit and big-endian architectures, and new CPU's!"
Bacteria To Protect Against Quakes 81
Roland Piquepaille writes "If you live near the sea, chances are high that your home is built over sandy soil. And if an earthquake strikes, deep and sandy soils can turn to liquid with disastrous consequences for the buildings built above them. Now, US researchers have found a way to use bacteria to steady buildings against earthquakes by turning these sandy soils into rocks. 'Starting from a sand pile, you turn it back into sandstone,' the chief researcher explained. It is already possible to inject chemicals into the ground to reinforce it, but this technique can have toxic effects on soil and water. In contrast, the use of common bacteria to 'cement' sands has no harmful effects on the environment. So far this method is limited to labs and the researchers are working on scaling their technique. Here are more references and a picture showing how unstable ground can aggravate the consequences of an earthquake."
Submission + - NTFS-3G Version 1.0 Released
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.
Submission + - NTFS-3G going stable AND NTFS released for Mac
JDShewey writes: The NTFS-3G project just announced that they will be going stable and have just released their first release canditate (NTFS-3G RC1) This comes shortly after NTFS support is announced for mac (as well as many other file systems) through MacFUSE which is the framework needed by NTFS-3G to mount.
