207705
submission
Eukariote writes:
Recently, Intel patched bugs in its Core 2 processors . Details were scarce, soothing words that a BIOS update was all that was required were spoken. OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt has now provided more details and analysis on outstanding, fixed, an non-fixable Core 2 bugs. Some choice quotes: "Some of these bugs (...) will *ASSUREDLY* be exploitable from userland code.", "Some of these are things that cannot be fixed in running code, and some are things that every operating system will do until about mid-2008".
180919
submission
B47h0ry'5 CuR53 writes:
XBMC is getting ported to Linux. A few developers of Team-XBMC have begun the porting of XBMC to Linux using OpenGL and the SDL toolkit. In this effort, they are recruiting developers. XBMC is, by far, one of the finest projects to come out of the open source community; and to think it is homebrew. XBMC is a massive project, with the current SVN branch weighing about 350M before compilation. Porting it will be a big effort and any hackers willing to contribute should check out the Linux port project.
180911
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ben_ writes:
The ZD Net UK website has a proposal for the open-source/Linux community to come up with an alternative to Windows Home Server.
From the posting: "There are a lot of Linux experts on this site. I challenge them to come up with a list of applications that work the best for each of the given functions found in Windows Home Server. Show me a list of something that you guys think will beat or meet Windows Home Server, that will work for a lot of people and that you think can be easily reproduced. I will build it and give you an honest appraisal of my experiences while doing it. I will document it well enough that others less skilled will be able to do it. I'd like to be able to release it as a DIY compilation distro if possible."
175647
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destinyland writes:
Last week Sony announced they'd release
34 new PS3 games within the next year — but the Wii just struck back. On July 30, after the release of Mario Strikers Charged, Nintendo will release an astounding 12 new Wii games within the next two months. And the release rate for Nintendo DS is even more amazing, with two new games every week from July through September — 36 in all. If the console wars will be won with games — Nintendo just launched a nuclear missile.
175619
submission
hunte writes:
I'm planning a server/network infrastructure upgrade. I manage a couple of web servers (with circa 300 small/medium web sites), one database server, one mail server and an OpenBSD firewall on a 10 mbps line. I want to consolidate all my old servers into a single "big piece of iron" powered by some virtualization software (like VmWare, XEN, etc... is not the point).
Is a good choice using this virtual machine infrastructure also for the firewall?
Of course, the virtual machine host will be totally fault tolerant and redundant.
175587
submission
Stony Stevenson writes:
One of Google's most popular and controversial services, Google News, is the aggregation and search site that media companies love to hate because it has become a major source of Web traffic and frustrations for many of them.
In this interview, Nathan Stoll, a Google product manager involved with Google News, discusses the future of Google News and a possible marriage with YouTube.
Some of the future additions: "In an ideal world, Google News would show you who broke the story and the other articles that built on that. There are places where we're not doing that perfectly today."
175577
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dalektcalum writes:
Richard Stallman recently gave talk titled "The Free Software Movement and GNU/Linux Operating System". Of particular interest is the open Q&A session where RMS is asked such questions as "Can I use ATI and NVIDIA drivers because Mesa isn't nearly as complete?", and other ethical as well as practical questions.
In keeping with RMS' wishes the talk is only available in Ogg Theora and can be downloaded by http, bittorrent, and dijjer
175535
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ballyhoo writes:
With the new POWER6 announcement earlier this week generating lots of buzz in the high-end server community, it appears IBM quietly announced that they have been working on a new version of AIX. Referred to as simply "AIX 6", the new version seeks to deliver "new approaches to virtualization, security, manageability and mainframe-inspired continuous availability features to the UNIX market." IBM has announced a public preview version of AIX 6 in an open beta format due out sometime this summer. Perhaps most important, they plan to setup a web discussion forum that can be used to discuss issues with other participants and IBM directly. From the look of things, Big Blue sure seems serious about AIX and its future.
