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Comment Totally useless (Score 3, Insightful) 157

by linuxgurugamer on Friday January 15, 2010 @09:10PM (#30786514) Attached to: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 vs. Early Fedora 13 Benchmarks

First off, let me say that I use Ubuntu 9.10 on my system at work. I am also running CentOS on servers, various Ubuntu on servers and a couple of Fedora systems. As you can see, I have experience with all of them.

So why is this review useless? Because they are testing development systems, which are not optimized, have loads of debugging flags set, and essentially are not ready for prime time. Of course it may be running slower!

IMHO, you should ignore benchmarks until the release candidates, at least. I generally ignore benchmarks on unreleased systems. I do, however, like to read and learn about new features which may be present in early releases.

Submission + - Security certificate warnings don't work (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by

angry tapir

on Sunday July 26, 2009 @09:42PM

angry tapir writes: "In a laboratory experiment, researchers found that between 55 percent and 100 percent of participants ignored certificate security warnings, depending on which browser they were using (different browsers use different language to warn their users). The researchers first conducted an online survey of more than 400 Web surfers, to learn what they thought about certificate warnings. They then brought 100 people into a lab and studied how they surf the Web. They found that people often had a mixed-up understanding of certificate warnings. For example, many thought they could ignore the messages when visiting a site they trust, but that they should be more wary at less-trustworthy sites."

Submission + - Remote exploit found in DD-WRT v2.4 SP1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @05:22PM

An anonymous reader writes: From theregister.co.uk: "A hacker has discovered a critical vulnerability in open-source firmware available for wireless routers made my Linksys and other manufacturers that allows attackers to remotely penetrate the device and take full control of it...The remote root vulnerability affects the most recent version of DD-WRT."

Link to article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/21/critical_ddwrt_router_vuln/

Link to temporary patch: http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/down.php?path=downloads%2Fothers%2Feko%2FBrainSlayer-V24-preSP2%2F07-21-09-r12533/

Submission + - Performance Testing Windows 7 RTM (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @05:18PM

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy offers a complete view of Windows 7 RTM from an IT perspective, analyzing Vista's successor in terms of critical issues such as security, reliability, and performance to ascertain whether Windows 7 rights the wrongs committed by Vista when compared against XP. Of all the criteria, however, performance remains the key litmus test for Windows 7, Kennedy writes, as Vista's sluggish performance led half of business users to downgrade to Windows XP. Here, moderate gains over Vista may not be enough, as Kennedy finds Windows 7 RTM roughly 4 percent faster than Vista SP 2 — still more than 15 percent slower than XP. And while multicore testing has shown superior scalability for Windows 7 vs. both Vista and XP, 'it will still be years before such an advantage allows the new Windows to overcome XP's simpler, less encumbered code path.' As for resource consumption, Windows 7 consumes 8 percent less RAM and spins 5 percent fewer execution threads than Vista, making Windows 7 a mere 175 percent fatter and 85 percent more thread-intensive than XP SP 3."

Submission + - LiVES 1.0.0 released ! (sourceforge.net)

Submitted by

Salsaman

on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @05:11PM

Salsaman writes: "After over 6 years of development, the 1.0 version of LiVES, a free software video editing and VJ system for Linux/BSD was released today.
Features include:
Loading and editing of almost any video format, with instant opening of dv and ogg/theora video; playback at variable frame rates, forward and in reverse; frame and sample accurate cutting and pasting; streaming input and output; encoding to over 50 different formats; dozens of realtime and rendered effects, generators and transitions; a multitrack window with limitless number of audio and video tracks and much, much more !
LiVES was nominated for Best Project for Multimedia in this year's Sourceforge Community Choice Awards.
The project is now seeking more developers to help it advance even further."

Submission + - Windows 7 Hits RTM at build 7600.16385 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @04:31PM

An anonymous reader writes: 'Microsoft today announced that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have hit the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) milestone. The software giant still has a lot of work to do, but the bigger responsibility now falls to OEMs that must get PCs ready, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that are testing their new apps, and Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs) that are preparing their new hardware. The RTM build is 7600, but it is not the same one that leaked less than two weeks ago (7600.16384). We speculated that Microsoft may end up recompiling build 7600 until it is satisfied, but it only took the company one more shot to get it right: 7600.16385 is the final build number. Microsoft refused to share the full build string, but if you trust leaks from a few days ago, it's "6.1.7600.16385.090713-1255," which indicates that the final build was compiled over a week ago: July 13, 2009, at 12:45pm. This would be in line with the rumored RTM date but it is also the day Microsoft stated that Windows 7 had not yet hit RTM. Although the final build had been compiled, Microsoft still had to put it through testing before christening it as RTM.'

Submission + - PDF exploit in the wild (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

carusoj

on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @03:16PM

carusoj writes: "Symantec Security Response is warning that it has found an Adobe Acrobat PDF file that exploits a known vulnerability. When a user opens the file, it drops malicious code onto the user's system and executes it. Symantec says it is working with Adobe on the issue and encourages users to make sure their antivirus definitions are up to date."

Submission + - Gentoo Celebrates 10 Years: 2009/10/04 (gentoo.org)

Submitted by gentoo.org on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @03:07PM

gentoo.org writes: Gentoo is turning 10 years old. For the last ten years, Gentoo has been committed to bringing the cutting edge source based distro to users that need more flexibility than binary packages can give them. With a vibrant community and over 300 developers, much has been accomplished since the beginning, Gentoo remains true to its origin.

What: Gentoo 10 Year Anniversary Party

Where: irc.freenode.net, #gentoo-birthday

When: Sunday, October 04, 2009, in a timezone near you

Submission + - Total Lunar Eclipse This Weekend

Submitted by SeaDour on Friday March 02, 2007 @06:44PM

SeaDour writes: This Saturday night, March 3rd, a total lunar eclipse will be visible from nearly all inhabited parts of the world. A great shadow will stretch across the surface of the moon, eventually casting it in an eerie red glow as sunlight filters through our atmosphere onto the lunar surface. Viewers in Europe and Africa will have the best vantage point, able to watch the entire eclipse in action, while observers in most of the western hemisphere can see it eclipsed as it rises just after sunset.

Feed 'Virtual Gender' and Bias (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday March 02, 2007 @06:12PM

When you look at gender in virtual worlds, how do you leave your biases behind? For some researchers, you don't. In Sex Drive Daily.

Feed Lost in Space: Astronaut's Wasabi (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday March 02, 2007 @05:32PM

Spill a little wasabi at home and, well, it's messy. Spill some in the weightlessness of the international space station and you're looking at a major cleanup job. By the Associated Press.

Submission + - Which NES Clone?

Submitted by NiK0laI on Friday March 02, 2007 @05:11PM

NiK0laI writes: Hello everybody, my girlfriend recently pulled my old NES out of the closet to play some games from my vast collection. I had replaced the ZIF connector on it a couple years ago and it was working fine, however I haven't touched it in a over a year. She plugged it in and it no longer works. My question to everybody is: Does anybody have any experience with using one of the clones on Ebay? If so which one is the best? Thanks, your help is appreciated!

Submission + - Best Buy Confirms 'secret' Website

Submitted by Iberian on Friday March 02, 2007 @05:10PM

Iberian writes: Courant.com confirms Best Buy does indeed maintain a second website for what one could only assume is for fraudulent purposes.

State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal ordered the investigation into Best Buy's practices on Feb. 9 after my column disclosed the website and showed how employees at two Connecticut stores used it to deny customers a $150 discount on a computer advertised on BestBuy.com.

Submission + - Pioneer anomaly

Submitted by

KellyYoung

on Friday March 02, 2007 @05:09PM

KellyYoung writes: "The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft gave us some of the earliest close-up pictures of the outer planets. They also gave us a curious puzzle now known as the Pioneer anomaly. http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11304-comp uter-sleuths-try-to-crack-pioneer-anomaly.html Even though both spacecraft were heading in different directions, both experienced a tiny deceleration. It was as if the Sun's gravity was pulling a little harder than Newton's laws predicted. Scientists are hoping to know within a year whether the Pioneer anomaly is due to an issue with the two spacecraft themselves, namely the heat generated by their onboard nuclear generators. An international team of scientists are re-analyzing the tracking and telemetry data to look for clues."

Submission + - Scientist: Sun is Warming Both Earth and Mars

Submitted by

MCraigW

on Friday March 02, 2007 @05:05PM

MCraigW writes: "Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural — and not a human-induced — cause. Earth is currently experiencing warming, which climate scientists say is due to humans pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures.

In 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.

Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun."

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