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Submission + - Qt Creator 3.4.0 Released

Submitted by jones_supa on Thursday April 23, 2015 @10:18AM

jones_supa writes: Qt Creator 3.4.0 has been released with many new features. Qt Creator is a C/C++ IDE with specialized tools for developing Qt applications, and it works great for general-purpose projects as well. The new version comes with a C++ refactoring option to move function definitions out of a class declaration, auto-completion for signals and slots in Qt5-style connects, experimental Qt Test and Qt Quick Tests support in the Professional and Enterprise edition, support for 64-bit Android toolchains, and various other improvements. More details on the new version can be found in the official announcement and the changelog.

Comment Re:good thing all of us use no-script add on 100% (Score 0) 134

by jones_supa on Thursday April 23, 2015 @03:31AM (#49534623) Attached to: New Javascript Attack Lets Websites Spy On the CPU's Cache

Do you also wear a respiratory mask and rubber gloves when you visit public places?

Comment Re:No disrespect to GCC, but why not LLVM? (Score 1) 78

by jones_supa on Thursday April 23, 2015 @03:23AM (#49534603) Attached to: GCC 5.1 Released

I wouldn't consider LLVM to be much experimental anymore. It has already gone through strong quality assurance.

GCC, LLVM and Microsoft C/C++ Optimizing Compiler are all very good choices and have a lot of professional people working on them.

Submission + - Microsoft Announces Device Guard for Windows 10 (softpedia.com)

Submitted by jones_supa on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @01:05AM

jones_supa writes: Microsoft is making big efforts to increase the security of Windows 10 and turn the new operating system into a robust working environment, so several new features will be available in this regard when it comes out. Redmond is adding yet another feature called Device Guard that would give organizations full control over the apps that are allowed to be launched on a device running Windows 10. The administrator is in control of what sources Device Guard considers trustworthy and it comes also with tools that can make it easy to locally sign Universal or Win32 apps that may not have been originally signed by the software vendor.

Comment Re:It all depends on the workload... (Score 1) 162

by jones_supa on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @10:54AM (#49519707) Attached to: New PCIe SSDs Load Games, Apps As Fast As Old SATA Drives

If we are talking about the original Quake PAK format, it is never compressed.

Comment Re:It all depends on the workload... (Score 1) 162

by jones_supa on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @03:43AM (#49517599) Attached to: New PCIe SSDs Load Games, Apps As Fast As Old SATA Drives

PAK is not compressed.

Comment Re:The end of a dimension of competition (Score 1) 162

by jones_supa on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @03:29AM (#49517559) Attached to: New PCIe SSDs Load Games, Apps As Fast As Old SATA Drives

It will be interesting if at some point games will begin listing a certain minimum disk transfer speed in the system requirements.

Submission + - AMD Releases New "amdgpu" Graphics Driver For Linux (freedesktop.org)

Submitted by jones_supa on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @01:16AM

jones_supa writes: The AMD Linux driver team is announcing a new open source GPU driver for Linux. The amdgpu driver targets the newer line-up of AMD ASICs, and is a partial replacement for the previous open source radeon driver, which will continue providing support for older chips. A number of software components remain shared between the two drivers. Most of the team's focus has been on providing good support for Carrizo architecture, so there are some gaps in Tonga and Iceland support (notably power management), but those gaps are said to be filled in eventually.

Comment Re:Better protection against SEO. (Score 1) 276

by jones_supa on Sunday April 19, 2015 @06:32AM (#49503857) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Features Would You Like In a Search Engine?

I am not seeing any advertisements on Google search as well.

Comment Re:No (Score 1) 51

by jones_supa on Sunday April 19, 2015 @03:50AM (#49503569) Attached to: Kingston HyperX Predator SSD Takes Gumstick M.2 PCIe Drives To 1.4GB/sec

Do not eat iPod Shuffle.

Comment Situation in Finland (Score 2) 293

by jones_supa on Saturday April 18, 2015 @11:41PM (#49503015) Attached to: Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017

In Vinnland there was experimental DAB broadcasting set up during years 1997-2005, but it was discontinued due to low interest. It's like how Blu-Ray had a bit stiff adoption over DVD -- people felt that FM was good enough.

Comment Re:What happens in case of fire? (Score 1) 117

by jones_supa on Friday April 17, 2015 @05:04AM (#49491819) Attached to: UK Company Wants To Deliver Parcels Through Underground Tunnels

A huge blast of fire quickly scorches through the entire tunnel and destroys the whole business.

Submission + - KDE Plasma 5.3 Beta Brings Lot of Improvements

Submitted by jones_supa on Thursday April 16, 2015 @09:06AM

jones_supa writes: The KDE project today announced the release of KDE Plasma 5.3 beta. It brings better power management, improved Bluetooth support, improved widgets, Wayland support, new media center, and nearly 350 bugfixes. The power management improvements include settings that can be independently configured per activity, there is a new energy usage monitor available in KInfoCenter, and a battery applet identifies applications that hog power. Bluetooth applet brings added support for blocking and unblocking devices. New touchpad module has been added as well. The combined window manager and compositor KWin is now able to start a nested XWayland server, which acts as a bridge between the old X11 and the new Wayland world.

Comment Re:Still vapor (Score 1) 104

by jones_supa on Thursday April 16, 2015 @04:29AM (#49483673) Attached to: The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers

Cool idea, but it still makes me nauseous. We already live in a somewhat overengineered world.

Comment Re:Losing Your Computer (Score 2) 104

by jones_supa on Thursday April 16, 2015 @04:25AM (#49483661) Attached to: The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers

Great. There are some days where I forget where I've put my smartphone. So now I can expect to lose my entire computer because it dropped and I might have vacuumed it up with the dust bunnies?

Today we have computers collecting dust. In the future we will have dust collecting computers.

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