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OpenSUSE Beta Can Brick Intel e1000e Network Cards 129

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 23, 2008 @09:23AM from the price-of-progress dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Some Intel cards don't just not work with the new OpenSUSE beta, they can get bricked as well. Check your hardware before you install!" The only card mentioned as affected is the Intel e1000e, and it's not just OpenSUSE for which this card is a problem, according to this short article: "Bug reports for Fedora 9 and 10 and Linux Kernel 2.6.27rc1 match the symptoms reported by SUSE users."

New Speed Record For Magnetic Memory 26

Posted by timothy on Monday September 22, 2008 @11:49PM from the think-fast dept.

Iddo Genuth writes "An experiment performed at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Germany has uncovered that a spin-torque switching of a nanomagnet is as fast as what is permitted according to the fundamental laws of physics' limit. This method of switching, also named ballistic switching, could allow for increased speeds in future non-volatile magnetic memories."

Submission + - Politicians wising up on game legislation?

Submitted by Blackjack on Friday February 23, 2007 @01:31PM

Blackjack writes: Ars Technica looks at recent failures to pass laws regulating the sales of violent video games and asks whether politicians are finally wising up to First Amendment issues and the costs associated with lawsuits resulting from the laws. Recent attemps to pass video game legislation in Mississippi, Utah, and Indiana have either failed or been put on indefinite hold. 'Now, state lawmakers are more cognizant of the constitutionality issues at stake. The judicial landscape is littered with the charred husks of laws passed by Illinois, Washington, Michigan, California, Louisiana, and others. All of them tried in some way or another to regulate the sale of violent video games to children, and all of them were struck down on First Amendment grounds.'

Submission + - A five-gear space rocket engine

Submitted by

Roland Piquepaille

on Friday February 23, 2007 @01:30PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "Georgia Tech researchers have had a brilliant idea. Rocket engines used today to launch satellites run at maximum exhaust velocity until they reach orbit. For a car, this would be analog to stay all the time in first gear. So they have designed a new space rocket which works as it has a five-gear transmission system. This space engine uses 40 percent less fuel than current ones by running on solar power while in space and by fine-tuning exhaust velocity. But as it was designed with funds from the U.S. Air Force, military applications will be ready before civilian ones. Here is how this new rocket engine works."

Recovering a Wrecked RAID 175

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 23, 2007 @01:12PM from the undead-data dept.

Dr. Eggman writes "Tom's Hardware recently posted an article specifying how the professionals at Kroll Ontrack recover data from a RAID array that has suffered a hard drive failure, allowing for recovery of even RAID 5 arrays suffering two failures. The article is quick to warn this is costly, however, and points out the different types of hard drive failures that occur, only some of which are repairable. Ultimately the article concludes that consistent backups and other good practices are the best solution. Still, it provides an interesting look into the world of data after death."

Submission + - Meetings make you dumber

Submitted by Maximum Prophet on Friday February 23, 2007 @11:47AM

Maximum Prophet writes: Robert Heinlein said that the committee was the only life form in the universe with three or more bellies and no brain. Well, here's some proof:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17279961/
So, is slashdot a group subject to this kind of groupthink, or are the participants isolated enough that the effect is minimized? Discuss...

European PS3 To Play Fewer PS2 Games 150

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 23, 2007 @10:59AM from the give-a-little-get-a-little-more-money dept.

Mondrian_was_a_square writes "When Sony launches the PS3 in Europe, consumers there won't be getting the same thing that US and Japanese buyers picked up at launch—they'll be getting less. Sony has just announced that the new revision of the PS3 will be less backwards compatible with PS2 games. 'Sony is looking to decrease the production cost of the Playstation 3, and they have opted to replace dedicated hardware with software that will replace its functionality. The hardware had been providing full backwards compatibility of PS2 games, but Sony makes it clear that the new configuration will not offer the same level of support. Certain PlayStation 2 format software titles may not perform properly on this system, the statement reads.'"

Comment Re:So they've proven they can blow themselves up.. (Score 1) 1623

by Zordas on Monday October 09, 2006 @03:01PM (#16367921) Attached to: North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test

Good Point. But After listening to an Admiral (And other high ranking Officials last night), They basically said this -- "We have about 1/2 the Navy we had back in 1995" . I'm Sure we have a 1 (or a few) LA class Attack Subs in their bay, But what's the grantee? If 1 gets by, it's game over. Not to mention the fact that this pedophile Dictator WILL sell this stuff.

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