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Submission + - Intel reveals Penryn family CPU details

Submitted by

Steve Kerrison

on Saturday January 27, 2007 @04:57AM

Steve Kerrison writes: "Coming in the second half of 2007 is a new family of CPU cores for Core 2 desktop and Xeon products. Today, Intel's lifted the veil on some of the technology it's successfully implemented on the new 45nm chips. It reckons 'other' CPU manufacturers won't be using such technologies until a 32nm process. HEXUS.net looks at the technology in Penryn: 'Intel say they've achieved a greater than 5x reduction in source-drain leakage power and a greater than 10x reduction in gate oxide leakage power, compared to current 65nm processes.'"

Submission + - First Xbox 360 Homebrew Emulator - XNASharpNES

Submitted by

Ikari

on Saturday January 27, 2007 @02:28AM

Ikari writes: "Awesome news for XNA gamers, Bryan Livingston and Adam Helps have created the first homebrew emulator for the XBox 360 using XNA. XNASharpNES is a NES emulator in its early stages. They note at the current stage "It runs at 60% or 70% of normal speed on the 360, so it's playable but slow. There's probably some very easy optimizations and cleanups to be done still. Right now there is no rom loading menu, so to switch roms you have to include the rom in the SharpNES360 project and set it to 'Copy to Output Directory', then edit the filename in Program.cs. Anybody who would like to try this emulator should remember that it "requires a creators club account which runs $99 a year or $49 for four months. You'll also need Visual C# Studio Express which is free.""

Submission + - The Basics of XSLT

Submitted by IdaAshley on Saturday January 27, 2007 @01:13AM

IdaAshley writes: Transform XML data from one format to another with Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). This tutorial explains how to create XSLT stylesheets, and the basics of XPath, which enables you to select specific parts of an XML document.

Submission + - Microsoft wanted to "whack" Dell

Submitted by pboyd2004 on Friday January 26, 2007 @11:29PM

pboyd2004 writes: According to emails obtained in Iowa's antitrust case against Microsoft. Microsoft wanted to "whack" Dell over their Linux sales. "We should whack them, we should make sure they understand our value," wrote Paul Flessner, a senior vice president in Microsoft's server applications unit. The email exchange can be found here.

Submission + - Google Responds to criticism - by deleting it

Submitted by Matt423 on Friday January 26, 2007 @10:37PM

Matt423 writes: Information week reports about changes to Google Groups: Google Groups users, however, detest the changes, at least those who have gone to the effort of posting. While there's probably a silent majority that ranges from neutral to enthusiastic about the new interface and features, the users posting their opinions online have few nice things to say. A person posting as "Matty F" wrote, "This new version of Google Groups is almost completely unusable. Can we have the old one back please?" Such sentiment reflects a common theme among the disgruntled users. Another poster identifying himself as "Rich Jordan" wrote, "I'll have to add my dismay over this change. The new interface is ugly and slow compared to the previous one, and much, much less intuitive." "The new interface is really awful," a person with the user name Gabriele complained. Google apparently rushed into action today and apparently deleted or scattered hundred of posts that were critical including one thread that had almost 100 posts. http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArti cle.jhtml?articleID=197000377 http://groups.google.com/group/Google%20Groups-Bas ics/browse_thread/thread/12b929f18ed762a7

Submission + - Court Documents Show Microsoft's Tiger Envy

Submitted by

phillymjs

on Friday January 26, 2007 @10:01PM

phillymjs writes: "PC Pro is reporting on another juicy e-mail nugget from the Sent Items of Jim Allchin, (nyud link, PDF) courtesy of Iowa's Comes v. Microsoft trial. It's a lengthy e-mail conversation from late June, 2004 — in which several Microsofties ooh and ahh over features of the yet-unreleased Mac OS X 10.4. IMHO the award for best quote goes to Lenn Pryor, who said, 'It is like I just got a free pass to Longhorn land today.'"

Submission + - Microsoft patents BlueJ

Submitted by

Yremogtnom

on Friday January 26, 2007 @07:30PM

Yremogtnom writes: "From Michael Kölling's Blog: "This is my attempt at catchy headline writing. But the truth isn't far off. It really should have said: Microsoft applies for patent for core BlueJ functionality. And that's really true. After blatantly copying BlueJ (without reference or attribution), Microsoft have now filed for patent for the functionality they knowingly copied from us. Why? To sue us out of the market? To make us pay? Who knows. Sad fact is that this could destroy BlueJ."

If you don't know, BlueJ is an Interactive Environment for teaching Java."

Submission + - Does every posting have to be a question?

Submitted by gregger on Friday January 26, 2007 @07:27PM

gregger writes: The growing trend for Slashdot posts appears to be that you must end your headline with a question mark. At least 63 posts in January 2007 have been posed as questions. Now, why is that? Are people afraid of making a statement?

Submission + - KDE 3.5.6 Released

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26, 2007 @06:22PM

An anonymous reader writes: The announcement has been made that K Desktop Environment 3.5.6 is now available for download.

This release includes a number of bugfixes for KHTML, Kate, the kicker, ksysguard and lots of other applications. Significant features include additional support for compiz as a window manager with kicker, session management browser tabs for Akregator, templating for KMail messages, and new summary menus for Kontact making it easier to work with your appointments and to-do's. Translations continue as well, with Galician translations nearly doubling to 78%.
Due to the latest translation efforts, 65 languages are now supported!

Submission + - MS copies feature, then patents it

Submitted by

jbgreer

on Friday January 26, 2007 @05:46PM

jbgreer writes: "Michael Kölling, a senior lecturer at the University of Kent and one of the developers of BlueJ, an educational development environment, realized last year that Microsoft had copied one of the BlueJ features into Visual Studio. Flattery, right? Recently he was informed that Microsoft has filed a patent describing the very same feature. For more details, read Michael's blog entry."

Journal Journal: MS copies feature, then patents it

Journal by jbgreer on Friday January 26, 2007 @05:42PM

Michael Kölling, a senior lecturer at the University of Kent and one of the developers of BlueJ, an educational development environment, realized last year that Microsoft had copied one of the BlueJ features into Visual Studio. Flattery, right? Well, recently he was informed that Microsoft has filed a patent describing the very same feature.

Michael's blog entry describing this here

Submission + - Daylight Savings time change in 2007

Submitted by goDzi7la on Friday January 26, 2007 @04:04PM

goDzi7la writes: In the United States & Canada the start and end of daylight savings times are being changed in 2007. Daylight savings time will now start on March 11, 2007 (rather than early April) and will end on November 4, 2007 (rather than late October). I've begun going through all my machines to apply the patches, but I want to make sure I don't miss anything. So besides OS patches or fixes, what other sofware needs updating? I've seen that some versions of Java SDK & JRE need to be updated. Whadda bout stuff like PHP? Perl? Oracle? MySQL? Anybody have a good list of what things need to be updated? What about the ramifications of not updating certain things?

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