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Comment Focus on quality assurance (Score 1) 283

by pieleric on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @07:14AM (#33867708) Attached to: Grad Student Looking To Contribute To Open Source

Don't start by adding big features to the project. It's the hardest part, and there are many people doing this already. The best is to first concentrate on the quality assurance:
* Look at bug reports, try to reproduce them, add your insights, and maybe even find a fix for them
* Write test cases, that's what is most missing nowadays in open-source projects. It's the best way to ensure that the library will work correctly on every kind of hardware/software combination. Only someone like you who know both about programming and about the domain of the tool (mathematics) can do it right!

Comment They are already at it (Score 1) 182

by pieleric on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @02:56AM (#33866740) Attached to: Should Sony Team With Google On a PlayStation Phone?

Sony Ericsson has recently moved to only use android in their smartphones, and apparently they are already considering mixing PSP and android 3.0 (gingerbread).

Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 03, 2009 @11:04AM from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.

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."

Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @01:32PM from the a-jetwing-and-a-prayer dept.

Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."

Comment Original article (Score 4, Informative) 388

by pieleric on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @06:09AM (#26706987) Attached to: US Becomes Top Wind Producer; Solar Next

The original article can be found here. It has more figures, including some on China, and an interesting remark that Europe in total generates 66GW, which is another way to the per capita computation to moderate this first rank of US...

Comment Re:Strategy fail (Score 3, Informative) 828

by pieleric on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @12:30PM (#26450163) Attached to: Qt Becomes LGPL

Which is just not possible. Where is the CD burning program in GNOME that beats K3B?

Brasero, it's there now. I was honestly a fan of K3B, but version 0.9 of Brasero is great. It looks like it has as many features as K3B, but everything is damn simple and clear.

Where is the music player that beats Amarok?

Unfortunately neither Banshee nor Rhythmbox can beat this one. Hopefully, competition will push them to become better!

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