AMD Releases Open-Source R600/700 3D Code 307

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @12:27AM from the playing-nice-with-others dept.

Michael writes "AMD has just released code that will allow for open-source 3D acceleration on their ATI R600 and R700 graphics cards, including all of their newest Radeon HD 4xxx products. This code consists of a demo program that feeds the commands to the hardware, updates to their RadeonHD driver, and a Direct Rendering Manager update. With this code comes working 2D EXA acceleration support for these newer ATI graphics processors as well as basic X-Video support. AMD will be releasing sanitized documentation for these new ATI GPUs in the coming weeks. Phoronix has an article detailing what's all encompassed by today's code drop as well as the activities that led to this open-source code coming about for release."

Journal SPAM: Google Hacked? Spam Sites Infesting Search Results 207

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Monday October 01, 2007 @02:24AM

The Google Watchdog blog is reporting that "Spam and virus sites infesting the Google SERPs in several categories" and speculates, ...Google's own index has been hacked. The circumvention of a guideline normally picked up by the Googlebot quickly is worrisome. The fact that none of the sites have real content and don't appear to even be hosted anywhere is even more scary. How did

Feed Babelgum opens up for all (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Friday June 08, 2007 @07:52AM

Beta IPTV for everyone

Babelgum, another peer-to-peer telly service, opens up for new beta testers from today.

Comment Re:Ugh (Score 1) 256

by ShivanDragon on Sunday March 04, 2007 @01:25PM (#18227492) Attached to: When a CGI Script is the Most Elegant Solution

To be fair, one of the web-apps above was basically a Lotus Notes database converted into a web-app, and Lotus Notes has its own enormous GUI blackhole which seems to suck in any good GUI and mutilate it into something frightening.

I agree how Lotus Notes is terrible in converting stuff to the web, But I don't really care. It's perfectly possible to make a good webapp, fast in notes, except for the Rich Text rendering which is terribly annoying :P

look at what people at www.codestore.net or www.openntf.org can do...

Comment fp (Score -1, Troll) 132

by rkz on Saturday July 22, 2006 @02:04PM (#15763508) Attached to: Linux Laptop from R Cubed Reviewed

nigz i still got the skillz 2 pay da billz

Comment Oh, I see what you did there. (Score -1, Offtopic) 144

by James A. D. Joyce on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @07:32AM (#13387875) Attached to: New 'Pentop' Computer To Help Children Learn

I hi hi hi hi hi hi, dig a pony
Well you can celebrate anything you want
Yes, you can celebrate anything you want
Ooh

I hi hi hi hi hi hi, do a roadhog
Well you can penetrate any place you go
Yes, you can penetrate any place you go

I told you so
All I want is you
Everything has got to be
just like you want it to
Because

I hi hi hi hi hi hi, pick a moondog
Well you can radiate everything you are
Yes, you can radiate everything you are
Ooh

I hi hi hi hi hi hi, roll a stoney
Well you can imitate everyone you know
Yes, you can imitate everyone you know

I told you so
All I want is you
Everything has got to be
just like you want it to
Because

I hi hi hi hi hi hi, feel the wind blow
Well you can indicate everything you see
Yes, you can indicate everything you see
Ooh

I hi hi hi hi hi hi, cold and lonely
Well you can syndicate any boat you row
Yes, you can syndicate any boat you row

I told you so
All I want is you
Everything has got to be
just like you want it to
Because...

Comment fp (Score -1) 521

by W32.Klez.A on Tuesday November 23, 2004 @03:56PM (#10902049) Attached to: World of Warcraft Launches

too bad it sucks.

Comment Re:Solaris Vs Linux? (Score -1) 432

by GNAA Lysol on Tuesday September 14, 2004 @09:56AM (#10245420) Attached to: Solaris 10 to be Open Source

Because Solaris is a professional Operating System while Linux is a hokey, unreliable, amateurish piece of garbage.

Journal Journal: FREE GMAIL INVITES FOR THE TAKING

Journal by rkz on Sunday September 12, 2004 @10:05AM

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=20721&cid=10226650
have fun

Journal Journal: hawt new slashdot email crawler coming to a email near yuo

Journal by rkz on Sunday September 05, 2004 @09:59AM

lol

Journal Journal: LOL LOL SUBMIT THIS AS A STORY - SLASHDOT SONG 2

Journal by rkz on Monday August 23, 2004 @01:15PM

fatboy silm has made a song about our very own shitpile
you can listen to a clip here (30 sec, real player - or if you hate realplayer try the alternative)

Comment Re: the Phantom... (Score -1) 258

by James A. C. Joyce on Saturday May 15, 2004 @08:06PM (#9163972) Attached to: E3 Wrapup Documented

It doesn't seem from the BBC article that they did any more than throw random specs about. When is Infinimum Labs going to give us some real information about what is so far nothing but vapourware?

Comment The eternal question: (Score 5, Insightful) 417

by Tirel on Sunday May 02, 2004 @11:08AM (#9033659) Attached to: Unofficial Windows98SE Patch

Can you trust him?

I don't know about you, but I'll rather be keeping my win98 systems safely protected behind nat and a strict firewall than trusting some stranger offering me unofficial service packs.

Comment Re:So? (Score 5, Insightful) 596

by U.I.D 754625 on Friday April 23, 2004 @03:33PM (#8953203) Attached to: Satellites Show That Earth Has a Fever

The study is important and needs to continue, but you can't assume a rise in temperature over 2 decades means something bad is happening. I don't think we'll ever have enough data to prove whether we are right or wrong until the damage has been done (or apparently not done).

Journal Journal: Gentoo Linux on my Sun Ultra 1 Creator

Journal by U.I.D 754625 on Friday March 19, 2004 @04:49PM

This was my first venture into Sun territory, and it went well. Gentoo set up really well and I'm very impressed with Sun's OpenBoot software and the architecture of the machine in general. If only x86 PCs hadn't dominated so well.