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Submission + - NVIDIA Unleashes GeForce 9 Series

Submitted by

Eddy Luten

on Thursday February 21, 2008 @12:23PM

Eddy Luten writes: "Quoted from NVIDIA's Press Release:

NVIDIA® Corporation, [...], has unveiled the first graphics processing unit (GPU) of its next-generation GeForce® 9 Series that may offer the largest single-generation performance jump in the Company's history. Introduced today, the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT GPU delivers up to 116%[i] more performance than its predecessor at a price below $199.

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Submission + - AMD Quad-GPU Performance revealed (pcper.com)

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SizeWise

on Thursday February 21, 2008 @11:00AM

SizeWise writes: "If the idea of combining two different graphics cards for better PC gaming is appealing to you, then AMD's offering of up to four GPUs in a single system will definitely peak your interest. The new CrossFireX technology on display allows for any combination of up to four AMD RV670 GPUs including different cards such as the HD 3850 and the HD 3870 X2. Performance scaling is proving to be somewhat difficult for four GPUs even though three GPUs seem to be working very well on the handful of current titles that were tested. However, the flexibility of the CrossFireX technology over NVIDIA's SLI will allow many more gamers to see the benefits of multi-GPU technology."

Submission + - RIAA expert debunked by Prof. Pouwelse (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Thursday February 21, 2008 @10:34AM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "Last year the Slashdot community "went medieval" on the testimony of the RIAA's "expert witness", Dr. Doug Jacobson, in UMG v. Lindor. Our friends at Groklaw did likewise. Now you can compare notes with a formally retained expert witness, Prof. Johan Pouwelse of Delft University — one of the world's foremost experts on the science of P2P file sharing and the very same Prof. Pouwelse who stopped the RIAA's Netherlands clone in its tracks back in 2005 — who has weighed in with his expert witness report characterizing Dr. Jacobson's work as "borderline incompetence". p2pnet calls the report a devastating blow to the RIAA's expert. (And in the shameless-plug department, if you enjoyed reading Prof. Pouwelse's report, and want to continue helping to get the truth out to judges and juries about the technology and science of the internet, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to the Expert Witness Defense Fund maintained by the Free Software Foundation, which provides funding for expert witnesses and other technical consultants who are assisting defendants in the RIAA cases)."

Submission + - From Windows To Linux - And Back Again

Submitted by jcgam69 on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @05:58PM

jcgam69 writes: Seven years ago, Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, which is situated in a suburb of Melbourne, decided to adopt Linux on the desktop on a fairly large scale, with about 350 workstations being installed with the free operating system. The Linux era ended in December 2007. Today all the Linux machines are back to running Windows.

Submission + - Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize (vt.edu)

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eldavojohn

on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @05:37PM

eldavojohn writes: "A lamp powered by gravity has won the second prize at the Greener Gadgets Conference in NYC. From the article, "The light output will be 600-800 lumens — roughly equal to a 40-watt incandescent bulb over a period of four hours. To "turn on" the lamp, the user moves weights from the bottom to the top of the lamp. An hour glass-like mechanism is turned over and the weights are placed in the mass sled near the top of the lamp. The sled begins its gentle glide back down and, within a few seconds, the LEDs come on and light the lamp ... Moulton estimates that Gravia's mechanisms will last more than 200 years, if used eight hours a day, 365 days a year." The article contains links to the patents and the designer/inventor Clay Moulton's site."

Submission + - SPAM: Study derides feds telework efforts: $13.9B hole

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coondoggie

on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @05:26PM

coondoggie writes: "If all the government's eligible teleworkers worked from home, the Federal government could save $13.9 billion in commuting costs annually and eliminate 21.5 billion pounds of pollutants from the environment each year. The "Telework Eligibility Profile: Feds Fit the Bill" study is based on a survey of 664 Federal employees found that of those respondents, 96% of them should be teleworking, yet only 20% do. In fact, the Federal government telework deficit is equivalent to the gross domestic product of Jamaica, the study said. To offset the amount of CO2 emissions Feds disperse in the environment by commuting, we would need to plant 32 million trees a year... [spam URL stripped]"
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Submission + - Build your own memory manager for C/C++ projects (ibm.com)

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BlueVoodoo

on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @02:59PM

BlueVoodoo writes: "As a developer, one of the most powerful tools that C/C++ arms you with to improve processing time and prevent memory corruption is the control over how memory is allocated or deallocated in your code. This tutorial demystifies memory management concepts by telling you how to create your very own memory manager for specific situations."

Submission + - SFLC's Legal Guide on Free Software

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @02:29PM

An anonymous reader writes: Last week the Software Freedom Law Center published A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects. The primer, written for developers, has sections on copyrights, trademarks, patents, and organizational structure. Linux-Watch has reviewed the guide, saying "I think any open-source developer or open-source group administrator must read this paper."

Submission + - The List of Obsolete Technical Skills 3

Submitted by

Ponca City, We Love You

on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @02:09PM

Ponca City, We Love You writes: "Robert Scoble had an interesting post on his blog a few days ago on obsolete technical skills — "things we used to know that no longer are very useful to us." Scoble's initial list included dialing a rotary phone, using carbon paper to make copies, and changing the gas mixture on your car's carburetor. The list has now been expanded into a wiki with a much larger list of these obsolete skills that includes resolving IRQ conflicts on a mother board, assembly language programming, and stacking a quarter on an arcade game to indicate you have next. "Feel free to contribute more if you can, and if you have the time, please make a page with a short description of the skill," writes Brad Kellett."

Submission + - Why Flash is Dying as a Website Platform (foscommerce.com)

Submitted by

Jgoodman22

on Monday February 18, 2008 @07:49PM

Jgoodman22 writes: "Kevin Fleming at FOS Commerce has written an interesting article explaining why he believes the demise of Flash as a medium for websites is upon is. He says "People in the design world eat Flash sites up, because from a design aspect it can produce incredible results. With that said however, from a technical and business perspective, if a website is built with Flash incorrectly it can be a nightmare, and ultimately lead to the downfall of a site. As we all know, form follows function.""

Submission + - Porn site hacks Facebook (cheer10s.com)

Submitted by

wraithguard01

on Monday February 18, 2008 @07:32PM

wraithguard01 writes: "Apparently a Canadian porn site has hacked Facebook and stolen 200,000 pages worth of proprietary information. Facebook is now suing them.
From the article:

This complaint goes on to allege that "the defendants knowingly and without permission took, copied, or made use of, data from Facebook's proprietary computers and computer network" with the intention of spamming its users.

Facebook claims that its website suffered substantial damages in excess of $5,000. It is suing for an undisclosed sum.

Since when have the porn companies tried drumming up business from underage people?"

Submission + - Gen Con Files for Chapter 11 (gencon.com)

Submitted by

Heartless Gamer

on Monday February 18, 2008 @11:33AM

Heartless Gamer writes: "Gen Con LLC announced today that it has filed for Chapter 11 protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the State of Washington. This action became necessary as a result of significant unforeseen expenses associated with attempts to expand its core business to encompass externally licensed events. Gen Con's flagship show, Gen Con Indy, remains a vibrant, profitable event. Gen Con Indy will take place as scheduled August 14-17, 2008, in Indianapolis, Indiana."

Submission + - Is Copyrigtht Infringement Stealing? 1

Submitted by gooman on Monday February 18, 2008 @10:52AM

gooman writes: An interesting opinion piece in the L.A. Times today regarding file sharing semantics. It also happens to be one of the Times rare opportunities to "Discuss" the topic, so don't forget to share your thoughts with them. It seems to me that the major media outlets have a lot of catching up to do on this subject.

Submission + - Latest release of SAPDB not open-source anymore

Submitted by ThatbookwritingWheel on Monday February 18, 2008 @09:32AM

ThatbookwritingWheel writes: SAP has announced quietly that the latest release of SAP DB, their own database technology, which has been distributed by MySQL in the past years, and was released under open-source, will not be open source anymore. This starts with the latest 7.7 release, https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/MaxDB/FAQ&>SAP SDN SAPDB FAQ While probably few people run SAPDB outside of SAP environments, from a license perspective, this is quite substantial

Submission + - How PR Uses Slashdot 1

Submitted by

theodp

on Monday February 18, 2008 @12:18AM

theodp writes: "Having received sufficient Karma from her Slashdot submissions to gain access to The Firehose, PR firm owner Alice Marshall observes that negative stories which are hot and appear headed to the front page are often suddenly rated down. Is that because readers spontaneously decide stories are not the best, wonders Marshall, or are corporate flacks down-rating the stories as a form of damage control? Slashdot is a valuable public square, concludes Marshall, and it's inevitable that PR flacks will be attracted to it, leaving Slashdot editors with the challenge of finding ways to prevent them from taking over."

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