Comment Re:What services will be online? (Score 3, Informative) 133
It is not just http traffic. The participants include the Xbox network as well.
List of participants - http://worldipv6day.org/participants/index.html
Comment Torrent (Score 5, Informative) 171
The direct download was quite slow for me. Torrent was faster for me. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Submission + - Fedora 15 Released –Dynamic Firewall & G (digitizor.com) 1
dkd903 writes: After months of development, Fedora 15, codenamed "Lovelock" has finally been released today. In keeping up with Fedora's love for the latest software, Fedora 15, too, has a lot of amazing new features some of which are a Dynamic Firewall, GNOME 3, LibreOffice, Systemd and much more.
Comment Senior Product Manager Says Rumor Not True (Score 2) 205
Rob Osherove was joking when he tweeted that VB6 is being open sourced. If you look at his tweets, he followed that tweet with another with a link to "video of the official announcement" which is actually a link to Never Gonna Give Up. Looks like he was rickrolling.
Anyway, Dough Seven, the Senior Product Manager of the Visual Team, had also tweeted that the rumors are not true. https://twitter.com/#!/dseven/status/71352709785198592
via http://digitizor.com/2011/05/20/microsoft-visual-basic-6-not-open-source/
Submission + - 180 - Hipster Game Development Blues (youtube.com)
An anonymous reader writes: My buddy is shooting a little indie documentary on Food Trucks in LA (I do deliveries), and we got to riffing about my experiences trying to sell my iPhone & Android game.
Please share it if you enjoy it :)
Please share it if you enjoy it
Submission + - Ubuntu 11.10 To Switch From GDM To LightDM (digitizor.com)
dkd903 writes: Earlier, during the Natty development cycle we reported that LightDM is being considered as a replacement for GDM. That did not happen for Ubuntu 11.04, but today it has been confirmed at the Ubuntu Developer Summit at Budapest that LightDM is finally replacing GDM in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric.
Submission + - Domesday Project reborn online after 25 years (bbc.co.uk)
clickclickdrone writes: A good idea, combined with the right technology, can change the world. 25 years ago, the BBC dreamt up an inspired scheme. However, in the case of the Domesday Project, it was the tech that doomed it.
The premise was straightforward enough — create a 20th century version of William the Conqueror's 900-year-old page-turner, the Domesday Book.
Instead of land rights and livestock, it would chronicle life in 1980s Britain, based on photographs and written accounts submitted by ordinary people.
It was an incredibly ambitious undertaking and, in many ways, the Domesday Project was a success.
The BBC received more than a million contributions and the electronic version was released commercially.
However, the system was based on laserdiscs, a BBC Master computer and a trackball and over the years, the ability to access the data has been all but lost. Until now...
The premise was straightforward enough — create a 20th century version of William the Conqueror's 900-year-old page-turner, the Domesday Book.
Instead of land rights and livestock, it would chronicle life in 1980s Britain, based on photographs and written accounts submitted by ordinary people.
It was an incredibly ambitious undertaking and, in many ways, the Domesday Project was a success.
The BBC received more than a million contributions and the electronic version was released commercially.
However, the system was based on laserdiscs, a BBC Master computer and a trackball and over the years, the ability to access the data has been all but lost. Until now...
Submission + - Einstein's Immigration Papers Found at Heathrow (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: "When representatives from the Merseyside Maritime Museum paid a routine visit to Heathrow Airport, they were in for a surprise. Looking for any tidbits of the UK's immigration control history, they came across Einstein's Dover landing card dating back to 1933. Apart from being a wonderful snippet of physics history, having been handled by the legendary physicist who transformed the way in which we view the Universe with his general and special theories of relativity, the landing card is a stark reminder about the harrowing pre-war history of Nazi Germany. Stating his nationality as "Swiss," the landing card shows that Einstein, a Jew, had denounced his German nationality only weeks earlier in protest of Adolf Hitler's oppressive regime."
Submission + - India's Largest Online Payment Gateway Hacked (digitizor.com)
kai_hiwatari writes: In what can be termed as one of the most disastrous online incidents, hackers have managed to get pass the "whatsoever security" implemented by India's leading payment gateway — CCAvenue. It is being said that the hack has been made possible by "Hidden SQL Injection".
Here is what all the hackers have laid their hands on:
- All administrative passwords at CCAvenue
- list of databases
- some information on tables within the databases
Here is what all the hackers have laid their hands on:
- All administrative passwords at CCAvenue
- list of databases
- some information on tables within the databases
Comment Hardly Unprecedented (Score 3, Informative) 129
The S2's dual screen form factor is hardly unprecedented. Sprint released a very similar Android device - Kyocera Echo - back in February.
http://gadgetizor.com/kyocera-echo-is-a-dual-screen-android-phone/6820/
Submission + - Canonical Launching A Ubuntu Developer Portal (techie-buzz.com)
orion writes: There is no doubt about Mark Shuttleworth's aim for Ubuntu (see Bug #1), but this should come as a pleasant surprise to many – Canonical is launching a Ubuntu Developer Portal. This shows that Canonical is planning to market Ubuntu as a viable platform for application developers. They already have the Ubuntu Software Center, which supports paid applications from Ubuntu 10.10, as a platform to sell the applications.
Submission + - Sandy Bridge Is Broken Under Linux (semiaccurate.com)
kai_hiwatari writes: If you try to use Sandy Bridge under Linux, it is simply broken. We tried to test an Intel DH67BL (Bearup Lake) with 2GB of Kingston HyperX DDR3, an Intel 32GB SLC SSD, and a ThermalTake Toughpower 550W PSU. At first we tried to install vanilla Ubuntu 10.10/AMD64 from a Kingston Datatraveler Ultimate 32GB USB3 stick. The idea was that it would speed things up significantly on install.
Submission + - Nokia To Take Over Development Of Symbian (digitizor.com)
kai_hiwatari writes: Today the Symbian Foundation announced that they will be shutting down the websites. The Foundation will now be responsible for licensing software and other intellectual property, such as the Symbian trademark. The development of Symbian will now be taken over by Nokia.
Submission + - Microsoft Says Kinect Left Open By Design (digitizor.com)
kai_hiwatari writes: With new cool hacks for Kinect coming up every other day, Microsoft has taken an u-turn from their earlier decision. Around two week ago when Adafruit announced a bounty for developing an open-source driver for the Kinect, Microsoft made it clear that they condone it.
Now Microsoft seem to have realized the potential of their device and has made an u-turn. Alex Kipman, Xbox Director of Incubation, now says that they left the Kinect open by design.
This is what Alex Kipman said:
"What has happened is someone wrote an open-source driver for PCs that essentially opens the USB connection, which we didn’t protect, by design, and reads the inputs from the sensor."
Now Microsoft seem to have realized the potential of their device and has made an u-turn. Alex Kipman, Xbox Director of Incubation, now says that they left the Kinect open by design.
This is what Alex Kipman said:
"What has happened is someone wrote an open-source driver for PCs that essentially opens the USB connection, which we didn’t protect, by design, and reads the inputs from the sensor."
Submission + - Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating In SunSpider (digitizor.com) 2
dkd903 writes: A Mozilla engineer has uncovered something embarrassing for Microsoft – Internet Explorer is cheating in the SunSpider Benchmark. The SunSpider, although developed by Apple, has nowadays become a very popular choice of benchmark for the JavaScript engines of browsers.
