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Xfce 4.8 Released 193

Posted by timothy on Monday January 17, 2011 @12:02AM from the when-snappy-matters dept.

PerlDudeXL writes "Today, after almost two years of work, we have the special pleasure of announcing the much awaited release of Xfce 4.8, the new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.6. [..] Xfce 4.8 is our attempt to update the Xfce code base to all the new desktop frameworks that were introduced in the past few years. We hope that our efforts to drop pieces like ThunarVFS and HAL with GIO, udev, ConsoleKit and PolicyKit will help bringing the Xfce desktop to modern distributions."

Graphic Map of Linux-2.6.36 25

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 16, 2011 @09:51PM from the under-the-hood dept.

conan.sh writes "The Interactive map of Linux Kernel was expanded and updated to the recent kernel linux-2.6.36. Now the map contains more than four hundred important source items (functions and structures) with links to source code and documentation."

Cassandra 0.7 Can Pack 2 Billion Columns Into a Row 235

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 16, 2011 @08:58PM from the but-only-if-they're-really-thin dept.

angry tapir writes "The cadre of volunteer developers behind the Cassandra distributed database have released the latest version of their open source software, able to hold up to 2 billion columns per row. The newly installed Large Row Support feature of Cassandra version 0.7 allows the database to hold up to 2 billion columns per row. Previous versions had no set upper limit, though the maximum amount of material that could be held in a single row was approximately 2GB. This upper limit has been eliminated."

Facebook Opens Up Home Addresses and Phone Numbers 459

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 16, 2011 @06:06PM from the 1600-pennsylvania-avenue-should-do dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Do you really want third-party app developers on Facebook to be able to access your mobile phone number and home address? Facebook has announced that developers of Facebook apps can now gather the personal contact information from their users. Security firm Sophos describes it as 'a move that could herald a new level of danger for Facebook users' and advises users to remove their home address and phone numbers from the network immediately."

Embedded Linux 1-Second Cold Boot To QT 141

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 13, 2011 @07:31PM from the why-does-my-phone-need-2-minutes? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The blog post shows an embedded device cold booting Linux to a QT application all in just one second. This post also includes a link which describes what modifications were made to achieve this."

Mozilla To Release Firefox 4 Next Month 266

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 13, 2011 @02:05PM from the battle-still-waging dept.

Neil writes "Damon Sicore, Senior Director of Platform Engineering at Mozilla, has announced that the company is almost ready to ship Firefox 4. On its mailing list, Mozilla has revealed it has around 160 hard blockers to fix, before proceeding to Release Candidate stage. Both the RC and the final version would arrive in February, according to Sicore. Mozilla was originally planning on having Firefox 4 out by the end of last year, but it had to delay the release till 2011. Last month, Firefox 4 Beta 8 was released for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux 32-bit/64-bit, with support for 57 languages. Mozilla's roadmap says it still wants to release a Beta 9, a Beta 10, and at least one Release Candidate build before the final version."

Dual-Core Chips Coming To All Smartphones In 2011 244

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 13, 2011 @11:10AM from the waiting-for-the-triple dept.

An anonymous reader writes "All top of the range smartphones will be sporting dual-core chips this year. So is it time to ditch your current pocket rocket? Not necessarily — dual-core will give a bit of a boost to multitasking and media streaming but probably won't persuade iPhone owners to switch to Android, says the writer."

Comment Re:slow network? (Score 2) 364

by xgr3gx on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @12:04PM (#34836192) Attached to: T-Mobile Slashes Fair Use Policy, Says Download At Home

To quote their US commercial "The new MyTouch 4G, video chat with out needing WiFi. On America largest 4G network" (please don't use the video chat feature, it's killing our network)
It's like the high speed internet providers who run all these ads touting how fast their service is, and how easy it is to "download music, and watch streaming video" then they go and cap you from downloading too much music and streaming video. I understand they have to manage their bandwidth capacity, but come on.

Intel To Integrate DirectX 11 In Ivy Bridge Chips 199

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 10, 2011 @01:15PM from the keeping-up-with-the-jonses dept.

angry tapir writes "Intel will integrate DirectX 11 graphics technology in its next generation of laptop and desktop chips based on the Ivy Bridge architecture, a company executive revealed at CES. AMD has already implemented DirectX 11 in its Fusion low-power chips. Intel expects to start shipping Ivy Bridge chips with DirectX 11 support to PC makers late this year. Ivy Bridge will succeed the recently announced Core i3, i5, and i7 chips, which are based on Intel's Sandy Bridge microarchitecture."

Comment Re:More allergenic? (Score 1) 760

by xgr3gx on Monday January 10, 2011 @11:21AM (#34823424) Attached to: Scientists Advocate Replacing Cattle With Insects

Grass fed is the cow's natural diet. Cows are not supposed to be eating corn and grain. It messes with the ph levels of their stomachs, causing issues with the balance of bacteria. That warrants more medication to treat ailments caused by the bacteria levels being off.

FreeBSD Running On PS3 127

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 10, 2011 @10:48AM from the what-took-so-long dept.

An anonymous reader writes "One week after Sony's PlayStation 3 private cryptography key was obtained, FreeBSD is up and running on the PS3. Nathan Whitehorn writes: 'Yesterday, I imported support for the Sony Playstation 3 into our 64-bit PowerPC port, expanding our game console support into the current generation. There are still a few rough edges due to missing hardware support, but the machine boots and runs FreeBSD stably. These rough edges should be smoothed out in time for the 9.0 release.'" Update: 01/10 15:04 GMT by KD : As several commenters have pointed out, the submission was misleading in that BSD runs in OtherOS, making no use of the cracked keys.

Scientists Advocate Replacing Cattle With Insects 760

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 10, 2011 @05:57AM from the beetle-stroganoff dept.

rhettb writes "Scientists in the Netherlands have discovered that insects produce significantly less greenhouse gas per kilogram of meat than cattle or pigs. Their study, published in the online journal PLoS, suggests that a move towards insect farming could result in a more sustainable — and affordable — form of meat production."

Is Mark Zuckerberg the Next Steve Case? 470

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday January 09, 2011 @09:14AM from the case-in-point dept.

theodp writes "With all signs for Facebook pointing up, author Douglas Rushkoff goes contra, arguing that Facebook hype will fade. 'Appearances can be deceiving,' says Rushkoff. 'In fact, as I read the situation, we are witnessing the beginning of the end of Facebook. These aren't the symptoms of a company that is winning, but one that is cashing out.' Rushkoff, who made a similar argument about AOL eleven years ago in a quashed NY Times op-ed, reminds us that AOL was also once considered ubiquitous and invincible, and former AOL CEO Steve Case was deemed no less a genius than Mark Zuckerberg. 'So it's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won,' concludes Rushkoff. 'It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.'"

AMD Puts Out Radeon HD 6000 Open-Source Driver 138

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 07, 2011 @12:26PM from the incremental-promise-fulfillment dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AMD has just released their open-source driver for the Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards (sans the Cayman GPUs) with KMS, 2D, and 3D acceleration."

'SMS of Death' Could Crash Many Mobile Phones 108

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 07, 2011 @11:25AM from the can-we-find-better-names-for-these-things dept.

space_in_your_face writes "Research presented at a conference in Germany last week shows that phones don't even have to be smart to be vulnerable to hackers. Using only Short Message Service (SMS) communications, a pair of security researchers were able to force low-end phones to shut down abruptly and knock them off a cellular network. The trick works for handsets made by Nokia, LG, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and Micromax, a popular Indian cell-phone manufacturer."

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