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FreeBSD 7.1 Released 324

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @11:10AM from the for-the-1337-amongst-us dept.

Sol-Invictus writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for amd64 and i386 architectures. The ULE scheduler significantly improves performance on multicore systems for many workloads. Support for using DTrace inside the kernel has been imported from OpenSolaris. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework. A new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client. Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices. KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3. DVD-sized media for the amd64 and i386 architectures."

Comment Put the Netherlands in your list (Score 2, Interesting) 386

by AndreR on Sunday December 28, 2008 @12:02AM (#26246609) Attached to: Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors?

I would also recommend you have a look at Delft University of Technology (www.tudelft.nl) in the Netherlands. As you'd expect from the Dutch, nearly everyone speaks fluent English, and this is particularly true in the academic community.

Last year, I spent two semesters studying abroad in Eindhoven Technical University (better suited for Electrical Engineering, my MSc), where I had all subjects taught in English, and everyone mentioned how TU Delft was a great university for studying Computer Science. Plus, I find the Netherlands to be a great country in terms of freedom ('Live and let live' is their motto, iirc), and it's also a great central hub to fly all around Europe.

And I wholeheartedly agree with what many are saying here: go and study abroad, but focus on getting to know the World, not just more CS. The experiences you'll have abroad will be far more valuable to you, your life, your way of thinking.

Comment Re:TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol 1 by W. Richard Stevens (Score 1) 517

by AndreR on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @06:35PM (#26217033) Attached to: Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books?

I have it right here in my desk as I am implementing a TCP Reno simulator in MATLAB (for learning purposes). I agree, it reads like a classic: concise and thorough.

With this one in the shelf I can even pretend to be a true network researcher :)

Yahoo Changes User Profiles, To Massive Outrage 255

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 19, 2008 @12:20AM from the why'd-you-go-and-do-that dept.

Wiseleo writes "Yahoo decided to massively screw up their entire userbase by changing all user profiles to blank. No warning, no automated way to get data back, and other unwanted changes. The blog has such choice quotes as 'We know this has been a rough transition for some of you and, and are committed to helping you use, understand, and (hopefully) enjoy your new profile,' and, 'We also know lots of you worked hard on your old profiles and want your data. If you feel like you're missing data, we've saved a copy of your old profile (and alias) and our Customer Care team can retrieve this information. You won't, however, be able to revert back to your old profile format, but you will be able to get any data that you think is missing. To do this, please go here to contact Customer Care.' There were 850 comments posted, all negative, on the first day. There are hundreds more today. There is even more outrage on the Yahoo Messenger blog."

Comment Re:Competition. (Score 1) 413

by AndreR on Thursday September 25, 2008 @07:31PM (#25159357) Attached to: SDK Shoot Out, Android Vs. IPhone

I don't see how Android can be fairly compared with the iPhone given that the iPhone is already into it's second iteration and Android has just been released.

You can compare it to iPhone v.1 and it still falls behind. Its opensource nature undoubtedly has great potential, for the things iPhone doesn't do. But have a look at the side-by-side comparisons of basic tasks like browsing (in one of them you can see severe choppiness while scrolling Engadget's website, iirc) and you'll see what I mean.

Or shall we have HTC be the scapegoat for providing a thick, underpowered, multitouch-unable device?

Submission + - XKCD inadvertantly causes Googlebomb (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

MrCopilot

on Saturday January 12, 2008 @05:18AM

MrCopilot writes: "As I noted yesterday (and was joined by many others.), In a off hand observation xkcd has single handedly changed a small section of the internet. Changing the results from a google search for "Died in a Blogging Accident" from 2 to at this writing over 7,170 in a little more than 24 hours. I'm sure slashdot will do its best to be a calming influence.

http://mrcopilot.blogspot.com/2008/01/died-in-blogging-accident.html"

Feed Science Daily: Can Where You Live Lead To An Early Death? (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Saturday December 08, 2007 @07:12PM

For people in five regions of the United States, their choice of where to live may significantly impact longevity. Four areas -- the Mississippi Delta, Appalachia, Coastal Plains along the East Coast, and northern Nevada -- have clusters of counties with some of the highest mortality rates nationwide. At the other end of the scale, the upper Great Plains has groups of some of the lowest mortality rates. Researchers are not sure why.

Submission + - To scam or not to scam.

Submitted by Deepak Shetty on Saturday December 08, 2007 @06:49PM

Deepak Shetty writes: I first read an article related to Project Erin in Neil Gaimans Journal. Ordinarily I would have dismissed it as a scam if it wasn't for Neil's advice — read the FAQ. And I did. Here's the scoop, a lady suffering from a disease needs $10,000 and decides to do it using the internet. Megaupload pays 10,000 dollars if a file is downloaded 5 million times and so she uploads a text file and hopes people will download it (at current rates it will take 400+ weeks). I originally wanted to write this scoop as the moral dilemma we face due to the variety of 'save these people by forwarding this mail 10 times scams versus someone who might really need it.But when I read this FAQ i'm impressed. if this is a scam she deserves the money. I hope people reading this visit the site and decide for themselves. I have no answer to the moral dilemma either. Oh and Merry Christmas to you too.

Submission + - Unlocked iPhones officially available in Germany (t-mobile.de)

Submitted by

LKM

on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @10:03AM

LKM writes: "It's finally happened: officially unlocked iPhones can be bought. T-Mobile sells them for 999 Euros in Germany, due to a lawsuit by Vodafone D2. Here's the press release (Google Translation). German iPhones bought after 19.11.2007 can be unlocked for free. Let's see how long it takes for hacks to appear which replicate the official unlock, resulting in hacked iPhones that can be updated."

Submission + - Germany: Unlocked iPhone from T-Mobile (gulli.com)

Submitted by

cribb

on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @07:27AM

cribb writes: "The restraining order Vodafone were given against T-Mobile in Germany comes into force midnight tonight. T-Mobile have now announced that the iPhone will be available for a *tempting* 999 Euros ($1450) in all T-Mobile shops in Germany from tomorrow. The phone will originally still be locked, you have to post your IMEI to Apple's website to have it unlocked within 24 hours.

gulli.de the fully story (German only, fish for you from German will translate )"

Submission + - Apple is NOT tracking iPhone IMEI's

Submitted by Dualage on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @07:21PM

Dualage writes: Guess Apple's NOT tracking these supposed iPhone IMEI's. From the website http://iphonehacks.com/2007/11/iphoneimeirumor.html all of these "IMEI's" are actually the same number, regardless of the iPhone being used.

Submission + - Apple Mail in Leopard vulnerable again (heise-security.co.uk)

Submitted by

juct

on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @10:37AM

juct writes: "In March 2006 Apple defused a security problem in Apple Mail that made it possible to inject disguised malignant code. In Leopard, the patch was apparently forgotten. This means that you can inadvertently start an executable by double-clicking a mail attachment that looks like a JPEG image file. This works with special attachmnets of the MIME type AppleDouble, that carry information which application should be used to open a file. In Tiger you got a warning about a program being opened, Leopard silently executes a shell script with Terminal.app. heise Security provides a demo, where you can check for yourself."

Submission + - Windows XP SP3 Build 3205 Released w/ New Features (neosmart.net)

Submitted by jBubba on Sunday October 07, 2007 @09:53AM

jBubba writes: Windows XP SP3 build 3205 is the first official & authorized release of the next Windows XP service pack; and has been made available to testers as a part of the Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista SP1 beta program. NeoSmart Technologies has the run-down on the included 1,073 patches/hotfixes including security updates. Contrary to popular belief, Windows XP SP3 does ship with new features/components, most of which have been backported from Windows Vista.

Submission + - Bill Gates on software, from 1989 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07, 2007 @02:39AM

An anonymous reader writes: The University of Waterloo has uploaded a talk by Bill Gates, on software, that took place there in 1989. Available here, the talk was only recently digitized and contains many predictions from someone who was already starting to become an industry leader at that time. Many are surprisingly accurate and quite relevant today.

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