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Submission + - Linux 3.6 released

Submitted by diegocg on Monday October 01, 2012 @10:11AM

diegocg writes: Linux 3.6 has been released. It includes new features in Btrfs: subvolume quotas, quota groups and snapshot diffs (aka "send/receive"). It also includes support for suspending to disk and memory at the same time, a TCP "Fast Open" mode, a "TCP small queues" feature to fight bufferbloat; support for safe swapping over NFS/NBD, better Ext4 quota support, support for the PCIe D3cold power state; and VFIO, which allows safe access from guest drivers to bare-metal host devices. Here's the full changelog.

Submission + - EU says Apple's Warranty Advertisements are Unacceptable (tekgoblin.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01, 2012 @07:46AM

An anonymous reader writes: The European Union believes that Apple should be investigated for the way that it advertises warranties on their products. EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding wrote to the member countries which is 27 to ask them to check whether Apple retailers failed to let buyers know about the right to a minimum 2-year warranty for products such as the iPhone and iPad under EU law.

Comment Telit Python + GSM (Score 1) 197

by artymiak on Monday July 23, 2012 @01:34AM (#40733891) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Scripting-Friendly Smartphones?

Telit has nice GSM modules with Python scripting built-in.

http://www.telit.com/en/products/gsm-gprs.php?p_id=12&p_ac=show&p=3

US Teen Trades Hacked iPhone for Nissan 350Z 230

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday August 29, 2007 @06:02PM from the something-for-nothing dept.

PieGuy107 writes to mention that seventeen-year-old George Hotz of Glen Rock, NJ has made the trade of the summer. Hotz traded his hacked iPhone for a new set of wheels (Nissan 350Z to be exact) and 3 more 8GB iPhones. "[Terry] Daidone, who's the co-founder of Louisville, Kentucky-based CertiCell, has apparently also offered the young man a paid consulting job, but stresses the company doesn't have 'any plans on the table right now to commercialize Mr. Hotz' discovery'."

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