Comment Re:EEE (Score 1) 181
EEE only applies to open standard Microsoft targets. And exFAT is a proprietary standard solely developed by Microsoft. What is the point for ruining their own standard and make their customers and manufacturers angry?
Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195
diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."
Comment Re:Where can I send disks? (Score 5, Funny) 265
You're trying to offer DDOS (Disk Delivery Overseas Service) to Russia?
Microsoft Plans Largest-Ever Patch Tuesday 341
CWmike writes "Microsoft said it will deliver its largest-ever number of security updates on Tuesday to fix 13 flaws in every version of Windows, as well as Internet Explorer (IE), Office, SQL Server, important developer tools and Forefront Security client software. Among the updates will be the first for the final, or release to manufacturing, code of Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system. The 13 updates slated for next week, eight of them pegged 'critical,' beat the previous record of 12 updates shipped in February 2007 and again in October 2008." Update Reader Kurt Seifried writes to correct the math a bit, pointing to Microsoft's Advance Notification page for the release, which says that rather than 13 flaws, this Patch Tuesday involves "13 bulletins (eight critical and five important), addressing 34 vulnerabilities ... Most of these updates require a restart so please factor that into your deployment planning."
Comment Re:Charles Kao != Father of Fiber Optics (Score 1) 74
Maybe "Father of Long Range Fiber Optics" or "Father of Practical Fiber Optics"?
Comment Re:Fallout (Score 5, Interesting) 341
To enjoy a natural one, without the radioactive waste, all you need is a volcano eruption.
Comment Re:Space Quest (Score 1) 1120
And now this once great piece is available on Steam. Though I think it's overprice since it does not have the treatment LucasArts done to Secrets of the Monkey Island: Graphics upgrade, and full voice over.
Comment Re:What do you expect? (Score 1) 142
In China, you don't have the opportunity to elect someone to run the government...
No, you have no rights to choose your leader (even false hope is not given)
Comment My story (Score 1) 727
It's not ready to the mass yet.
Yes. I'm Ubuntu user. And it's brilliant. Interface is great, lots of quality software to use.
But it suffers some bizarre problems you don't see on Windows.
For example, two weeks ago I bought an Agere PCI-E GB Ethernet NIC. First of all it works as expected, plug it in and it just works. However after some time the system has high resources usage all in a sudden and it got disconnected from the LAN. I thought I bought a dud, but it works completely normal on Windows.
After searching through the forum and launchpad for advices, it was found that if I compile and install the kernel module for the card it works fine. So I have to download it from Windows, and compile it after dual boot to Linux.
So, Ubuntu is a friendly OS only when you could get connected to the net.
Comment Re:Radeon 4770 Discontinued (Score 1) 186
It was just announced and go on sale in April and you suggested that it was discontinued on May?
Check your news source.
Comment Re:Good work. (Score 1) 118
And knocking it down the speaker attached from it should say "I don't hate you".
Comment Re:One Question (Score 1) 374
Of course! By putting porn to your mobile storage or taking hot shower pictures from your neighborhood with a digital camera, you are eligible to enjoy the advancement of speed of USB 3.0!
Olympic Media Village – Most Expensive Internet In the World? 389
An anonymous reader writes "Working for the Olympics as an IT contractor, I recently moved to the Media Village (where all of the reporters live) and was surprised the there was no free internet. BOCOG (Beijing Organizing Committee of the 2008 Olympic Games) is charging a ridiculous amount of money for ADSL service: for 512/512 it costs 7712.5 RMB (1131.20 USD); for 1M/512 it costs 9156.25 (1342.95 USD); for 2M/512 it costs a whopping 11,700 RMB (1716.05 USD). That is for only one month! For extra features like a fixed IP? That costs an additional 450 RMB (66 USD). I just can't believe that not only do I have to deal with the Great Firewall of China, but also pay through the nose to use it!"
Submission + - Linux alternatives to Apple's Aperture (ubuntuproductivity.com)
somethingkindawierd writes: "An experiment focusing on open source tools for Ubuntu Linux to compete with Aperture on the Mac. The author didn't think he would find a worthwhile open source solution, but to his surprise he found some formidable raw processing tools. A good read for any Linux fan or photographer looking for capable and inexpensive tools"
Submission + - Active glacier found on Mars (bbc.co.uk) 1
FireFury03 writes: "The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft has spotted an icy feature which appears to be a young active glacier. Dr Gerhard Neukum (what a cool name :), chief scientist on the spacecraft's High Resolution Stereo Camera said "We have not yet been able to see the spectral signature of water. But we will fly over it in the coming months and take measurements. On the glacial ridges we can see white tips, which can only be freshly exposed ice". Estimates place the glacier at 10,000 — 100,000 years old."
