Morthoronus - Slashdot User

Comment And once more, my list grows (Score 1) 1027

by Morthoronus on Monday March 01, 2010 @10:58AM (#31316140) Attached to: The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work

I know for that for me, as an avid gamer I'll be adding Ubisoft's games to my not gonna waste any time on list. Games simply don't have the same hold they used to any more because it is all the same thing. I have enough games in my catalog, all legal of course, to keep me entertained for a few hundred years, many of them go back to 1996. Besides... there are enough open source games out there at this point to pick up any of the slack when I get bored of the ones I have. When a company tells me that I have to play their game when the sun is blue, the moon is green, oh and you have to call us every time and get an authorization key to click on the icon to get an authorization key to load the game....then I simply tell them they have no rights to my money.

After 2 Years of Development, LTSP 5.2 Is Out 79

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 21, 2010 @06:22PM from the terminal-velocity dept.

The Linux Terminal Server Project has for years been simplifying the task of time-sharing a Linux system by means of X terminals (including repurposed low-end PCs). Now, stgraber writes "After almost two years or work and 994 commits later made by only 14 contributors, the LTSP team is proud to announce that the Linux Terminal Server Project released LTSP 5.2 on Wednesday the 17th of February. As the LTSP team wanted this release to be some kind of a reference point in LTSP's history, LDM (LTSP Display Manager) 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 were released on the same day. Packages for LTSP 5.2, LDM 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 are already in Ubuntu Lucid and a backport for Karmic is available. For other distributions, packages should be available very soon. And the upstream code is, as always, available on Launchpad."

Programmable Quantum Computer Created 132

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday November 26, 2009 @12:41PM from the four-out-of-five-ain't-bad dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A team at NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) used berylium ions, lasers and electrodes to develop a quantum system that performed 160 randomly chosen routines. Other quantum systems to date have only been able to perform single, prescribed tasks. Other researchers say the system could be scaled up. 'The researchers ran each program 900 times. On average, the quantum computer operated accurately 79 percent of the time, the team reported in their paper.'"

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