zougloub - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Practical arguments against? (Score 1) 336

by zougloub on Friday January 06, 2012 @02:25AM (#38607164) Attached to: China Cuts 'Excessive Entertainment' From TV

My GF heard the news from the source and told me about it a few days ago.
She was very happy about this responsible/authoritative decision, because of the excessive garbage they have on TV.
Most of the shows are totally pointless and yet addictive, while aggressive for the eyes and ears.

Entertainment shows reduced to a "maximum of 90 minutes daily between 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m." - that's better, and still a lot !

The movies usually get aired later, so perhaps they'll be shifted, and working people will have a chance of watching more cinema.

While I can attest on Internet censorship in PRC, regarding this particular issue I think the censorship / population control accusations are IMHO exaggerated; what's worse than the shows being purged ?

+ - How Open Source Hardware is Kick-Starting Kickstar-> 2

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ptorrone

on Thursday October 20, 2011 @03:57PM

ptorrone writes "Imagine waking up and seeing your design for a circuit being used in a product by someone who never contacted you to ask if it was okay. You will not get any payment for their usage of your design, they’ve raised over $31,000 dollars, and they’re selling something you worked really hard on. You have no control over what someone does with something you made. Is this a nightmare? Perhaps for some, but this is actually a dream come true for others who do open-source hardware. MAKE magazine profiles a maker using open-source hardware for his now-funded project and how many are using open hardware for their works."
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Comment: Good starting point for new Open Hardware dev (Score 1) 1

by zougloub on Thursday October 20, 2011 @03:46PM (#37781722) Attached to: Open Source CPUs Coming to a Club Near You?

A working device with a purpose that may be uninteresting for some, but the technology is here, and we can suppose that it being (almost) completely open will help a lot of open hardware developments.

Good work guys !

+ - Open Source CPUs Coming to a Club Near You?-> 1

Submitted by lekernel on Thursday October 20, 2011 @02:19PM

lekernel writes "The Milkymist project have started shipping their so-called "video synthesizer", a device used by concert and other event organizers to create live visual effects. Most interestingly, the device is based on their fully open source system-on-chip design, including both a CPU and graphics accelerators — the latter being a significant part of what Open Graphics is still struggling with."
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Comment: Re:No, ntfsclone is what you're looking for. (Score 3, Informative) 133

by zougloub on Sunday October 09, 2011 @02:53PM (#37655442) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Create Custom Recovery Partitions With FOSS?

For NTFS partitions, ntfsclone --save-image / --restore-image is really efficient. You probably want to feed its output to lzop instead of gzip, because gzip/bzip2/xz would be a bottleneck and you don't gain that much with it: - compressing is longer - decompressing is longer - space gain is not magical (when performing an initial disk image (whole disk, with dd/cat) of an OEM laptop with a 640GB disk, I had 26GB with xz --extreme instead of 44GB with lzop -3). xz file was too slow to decompress, so I finally deleted it. Note: if the MBR or partition boot is broken, you'll need to boot with a Windoze rescue CD to fix that.