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Submission + - Can Ubuntu reach over 16,000 anime lovers in April (thesilentnumber.me)

Submitted by

shadowmage13

on Monday November 23, 2009 @08:56PM

shadowmage13 writes: "After months of planning, i am happy to finally announce that the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team will be preparing a booth at the upcoming 2010 Anime Boston convention. We need support from the community to secure a booth and print materials including copies of the Ubunchu! manga. I really believe the Anime fandom is a perfect match for Ubuntu, and they are by nature very much in line with open source and remix culture."

Comment Re:games? (Score 1) 201

by hotchai on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @12:55PM (#30145362) Attached to: AMD Radeon HD 5970 Dual-GPU Card Sweeps Benchmarks

AMD cards don't support CUDA.

That's correct, AMD has announced that they support OpenCL as the GPGPU language. And OpenCL is an open standard as opposed to CUDA (NVidia proprietary).

Submission + - Finding Linux easier to use than Windows? 2

Submitted by h c over lambda on Saturday October 31, 2009 @10:41PM

h c over lambda writes: Finally having gotten around to building a computer with gaming in mind, I've sort of had to change over to using Windows (Windows 7 to be precise, but on other computers I use other versions regularly and encounter the same issue). This is the first time I've had to use a Windows OS 'heavily' in a long time — sure, I've used them in passing but for nothing more than typing up some documents or browsing the Internet — and coming from Linux I actually find Windows extremely awkward to use.

Most people seem to have the exact opposite experience to me, finding Linux to be fiddly and generally annoying, but I like the way in which it is possible to quickly alter how the system works and customise it (almost) indefinitely. By comparison, Windows feels clunky and slow. Not slow as in operating speed, since for me Windows 7 runs just as quickly as the vast majority of Linux distros I've used, but slow in the sense that it takes forever to customise the system and generally get things done. Perhaps the biggest example of this for me is the Windows analogue of the Linux home folder; where the Linux home folder is easily modified to suit you, the Windows equivalent slaps permissions on folders that are tedious to bypass and particularly difficult to remove. It doesn't help that recent games have, for some reason, taking to using the 'My Documents' folder to store saved games and the like and if there's a way to change that I'd do it in a heartbeat. I like to have documents for work and the like in there; I'm perfectly happy looking through the game's folder in Program Files if I want to back up a save, install a mod, or so on.

I'm just curious to see if anyone else has encountered this kind of predicament using Windows after an extended spell on Linux, or it's just me thinking unusually.

(As an aside, I'm tempted to try running Windows 7 as a virtual machine on a Linux distro but I'm not too confident that games — the main thing I built this particular computer for in the first place — would run too well on such a virtual machine and with my download speed temporarily throttled to 128 kb/s after I accidentally exceeded my monthly download cap I'm hesitant to find out, though I am changing to an ISP with unlimited downloads on November 6th.)

Comment Re:Needs internet connection (Score 1) 439

by hotchai on Friday October 30, 2009 @03:22PM (#29927621) Attached to: Will Google and Android Kill Standalone GPS?

Yes, there is: OpenStreetMap. You can help make it better.

Comment Re:Err, so just like the Pre? (Score 1) 621

by hotchai on Friday August 21, 2009 @01:35PM (#29148531) Attached to: Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution

which one could be running wesnoth in the future?

Forget the "future". Maemo already runs Wesnoth, and quite well at that.

Comment Re:It would be nice if... (Score 2, Insightful) 183

by hotchai on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @10:53AM (#28265749) Attached to: Novell Ponders "Open-Source Apps Store"

Doc Searls (editor of Linux Journal) is working on such a donation system as part of his "Vendor Relationship Management" or VRM project at the Berkman Center at Harvard. The idea is to be able to make small voluntary donations to the software author, or more generally the creator of any piece of work. The goal is make this easy -- simple click of a button that says "donate $5" and put you in control of how much of your personal information (name, credit card details etc.) you want the recipient to know.

Submission + - Should sites like Wikipedia be blocked at schools?

Submitted by Londovir on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @09:02PM

Londovir writes: Recently our school board made the decision to block Wikipedia from our school district's WAN system. This was a complete block — there aren't even provisions in place for teachers or administrators to input a password to bypass the restriction. The reason given was that Wikipedia (being user created and edited) did not represent a credible or reliable source of reference for schools. My question is: should we block sites such as Wikipedia because students may be exposed to misinformation, or should we encourage sites such as Wikipedia as an outlet for students to investigate and determine validity of information? What's your opinion?

Submission + - Could Sun be the dot in web 2.0

Submitted by

oxide7

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @07:13PM

oxide7 writes: "With the demand for computing power exploding among the distributors of media rich Internet content, some analysts believe Sun (Nasdaq: SUNW) is poised for a rebound in demand following five years in the wilderness. The most notable development, one analyst contends, its UltraSPARC T1 processor, with an architecture fit for tomorrow's "Web 2.0" Internet. "The T1 appears to align Sun perfectly with the needs of mega-scale computing companies whose mission is to deliver content, which is beginning to rapidly migrate from text to video," Wolf says. "These companies are likely to turn to suppliers who can provide sophisticated systems at competitive prices rather than companies focused simply on the assembly of generic boxes.""

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