Comment Re:A rare topic (Score 1) 903
It is, however, very likely that some of the routines remained unchanged.
OLPC To Be Distributed To US Students 338
eldavojohn writes "The One Laptop Per Child Project plans to launch OLPC America in 2008 , to distribute the low-cost laptop computers originally intended for developing nations to needy students here in the United States. Nicholas Negroponte is quoted as saying, 'We are doing something patriotic, if you will, after all we are and there are poor children in America. The second thing we're doing is building a critical mass. The numbers are going to go up, people will make more software, it will steer a larger development community.'"
Submission + - Old Software or Open Source? 7
Pakled writes: I teach a high school multimedia course. We were scheduled to get new software this year but due to several pointy haired bosses, no software was ordered. The software I have to teach is Flash 5, Dreamweaver 2000, Photoshop 7 and (god help me) Movie Maker. The question is: is it better to teach old commercial software or their open source counterparts (Komposer, Gimp, etc.)?
Is the steep learning curve and slightly less uniform design worth a little student frustration to teach them software written in the past 5 years?
Is the steep learning curve and slightly less uniform design worth a little student frustration to teach them software written in the past 5 years?
Submission + - Best home network NAS 2
jammerjam writes: My WD 120GB drive got it's MBR scrambled so it no longer mounts in my W*ndoze box (I can recover the data so I know that's intact). But now that's made me realize I need to implement my data backup plan. Scouring the Internet I can't find a reliable resource for home NAS solutions. For every positive review I can find a negative that refutes it. My first choice from what I found starts at $1200...I've got $500.
Anyone have a suggestion? I'm not looking for enterprise-level storage here — but I do want reliability.
Requirements
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2 500 GB SATA drives, prefer RAID 1 config
— quick read time (most of the access will be write once read many)
Wired to the network 10/100/1000
Scheduled automatic backups
Minimum 1 USB port
Monitoring ability
Optional but preferred
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Streaming music/videos/pics to my LAN
Ability to access over the 'Net
What do you use, would you suggest it — why or why not?
Anyone have a suggestion? I'm not looking for enterprise-level storage here — but I do want reliability.
Requirements
—
2 500 GB SATA drives, prefer RAID 1 config
— quick read time (most of the access will be write once read many)
Wired to the network 10/100/1000
Scheduled automatic backups
Minimum 1 USB port
Monitoring ability
Optional but preferred
—
Streaming music/videos/pics to my LAN
Ability to access over the 'Net
What do you use, would you suggest it — why or why not?
Submission + - 1.6 TB solid state drive unveiled (computerworld.com)
prostoalex writes: "BitMicro announced a 1.6TB solid state drive. The 3.5" flash drive supports 4 Gbps data transfer rate. ComputerWorld says: "SSDs access data in microseconds, instead of the millliseconds that traditional hard drives use to retrieve data. The BitMicro E-Disk Altima 4Gb FC delivers more than 55,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS) and has a sustained data transfer rate over 230MB/sec. By comparison, a fast hard drive for example will run at around 300 IOPS.""
Feed Science Daily: 'Cooling Down' Begins At Svalbard Global Seed Vault (sciencedaily.com)
Refrigeration units began pumping chilly air deep into an Arctic mountain cavern today, launching the innovative and critical "cooling down" phase of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in advance of its official opening early next year as a fail-safe repository of the world's vital food crops. Svalbard is now three days into the three-month "Polar Night" period when there is 24 hours of complete darkness.
Submission + - 1-Click Rejection Rejected
theodp writes: "On Wednesday, a three-judge USPTO panel convened at Amazon's request rejected a USPTO Examiner's rejection of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' 1-Click patent application, ruling that it wasn't obvious to them what the Examiner found obvious. The application has been remanded to the Examiner with instructions to make the obviousness more obvious."
Journal SPAM: 77,000 US bridges in need of urgent repair 11
In the Manchester Guardian there is a revealing piece about transportation infrastructure in the US. "About 77,000 bridges across the US share the same "structurally deficient" rating as the one that collapsed over the Mississippi in Minnesota... many of which were built 40 to 50 years ago and were coming to the end of their life. There are 756 other bridges in the US with a near-identical design to the Minnesota one. But engineers ins
Submission + - Procedural Programming: The Secret behind Spore (bonafidereviews.com) 1
imashoe writes: "Ever wonder how Spore works under the hood? The game seems to be insanely huge and how is it that there can be an infinite amount of different creates created in the game? The answer is Procedural Programming. Read on to learn what exactly it is and how it differs from the traditional way games are made."
Submission + - Blue Blu-ray?
TopSpin writes: According to this story, at Japan's recent euphemistically named Adult Treasure Expo 2007, adult filmmakers said Sony had begun offering technical support — which was later confirmed by Sony PR, which stated that Sony would offer support to any filmmaker working on the format, no matter their industry. Apparently, Blu-ray is now the preferred media for Japanese porn.
Feed Engadget: RIAA wants -- surprise -- DRM on all digital radio (engadget.com)
Filed under: Portable Audio
And we thought these folks claiming that random electrical / WiFi / RF waves could turn you into a toad were off-kilter. Recently, a push has reportedly been going on in content guardian circles which would force anti-stream-ripping DRM software to be latched onto internet radio feeds everywhere, presumably to combat the elusive cash-stealing epidemic going on across the globe. As you'll recall, the RIAA has already demanded that XM-Sirius pay higher royalty rates because of (wait, we're still searching), but thankfully, the Digital Freedom Campaign stepped into action and proclaimed that "requiring webcasters to implement mandatory DRM technologies to prevent any personal recording of internet radio streams is an imposition on both webcasters and consumers." 'Course, this statement came after Mitch Glazier (of the RIAA) purportedly stated that there was no need to wait until the aforementioned ripping became "a big problem to start addressing it," insinuating that we should all just blindly deal with another restriction regardless if there's actually a problem that needs to be solved. Interesting logic, indeed.[Via CreateDigitalMusic]
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Submission + - Linux kernel 2.6.23 to have stable userspace drive
liquidat writes: "Linus Torvalds included patches into the mainline tree which implement a stable userspace driver API into the Linux kernel.
The stable driver API was already announced a year ago by Greg Kroah-Hartman. Now the last patches where uploaded and the API was included in Linus tree. The idea of the API is to make life easier for driver developers:
(more...)"This interface allows the ability to write the majority of a driver in userspace with only a very small shell of a driver in the kernel itself. It uses a char device and sysfs to interact with a userspace process to process interrupts and control memory accesses.
Feed Macworld: News: AT&T softens position on open-access spectrum (macworld.com)
Feed Macworld: Editors' Notes: Ten of my favorite iPhone things (macworld.com)
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