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Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's 515

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 15, 2009 @05:52PM from the aggregated-circumstances dept.

narramissic writes "Doing a download speed test of his Time Warner cable connection, James Gaskin discovered something odd, something that he is quick to note isn't a rigorous benchmarked lab test. The discovery: His Ubuntu machine 'returned a rating from the Bandwidth.com test of 22-25mbps over several tests' while the same test done from a Windows XP PC returned a rating of 12-14mbps. The two computers used in the test are 'almost identical: both off-lease Compaq small form factor D515s, part of the very popular corporate desktop D500 family. Both have Pentium 4 processors running at 2GHz. The Ubuntu machine has 768MB of RAM, while the XP box has only 512MB of RAM. Both run Firefox 3 as their browser.' Gaskin's question: Can a little extra RAM make that much difference in Internet download speeds or does Ubuntu handles networking that much faster than Windows XP?"

Nvidia 480-Core Graphics Card Approaches 2 Teraflops 261

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 09, 2009 @04:54PM from the hotter-than-a-thousand-suns dept.

An anonymous reader writes "At CES, Nvidia has announced a graphics card with 480 cores that can crank up performance to reach close to 2 teraflops. The company's GTX 295 graphics cards has two GPUs with 240 cores each that can execute graphics and other computing tasks like video processing. The card delivers 1.788 teraflops of performance, which Nvidia claims is the fastest single graphics card in the market."

Using Drupal 122

Posted by samzenpus on Friday January 09, 2009 @04:03PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

Michael J. Ross writes "After installing and learning the basics of the content management system Drupal, many Web developers do not know how to best proceed from there. They may realize that much of the programming potential of Drupal — and thus the earning potential of Drupal developers — is derived from the use of community-contributed modules that greatly extend Drupal's power. But there are thousands of such modules, with no objective direction as to which ones are best suited for particular tasks, and what bugs and other flaws could trip up the developer. These programmers need a thorough guide as to which modules are the most promising for the development of the most common types of Web sites. A new book, Using Drupal, aims to fill this need." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.

IE Market Share Drops Below 70% 640

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 01, 2009 @08:06PM from the probably-too-late-to-open-source-ie dept.

Mike writes "Microsoft's market share in the browser dropped below 70% for the first time in eight years, while Mozilla broke the 20% barrier for the first time in its history. It's too early to tell for sure, but if Net Applications' numbers are correct, then Microsoft's Internet Explorer will end 2008 with a historic market share loss in a software segment Microsoft believes is key to its business."

Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet 547

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 03, 2008 @01:59PM from the because-they-can dept.

meridiangod writes "The Air Force is fed up with a seemingly endless barrage of attacks on its computer networks from stealthy adversaries whose motives and even locations are unclear. So now the service is looking to restore its advantage on the virtual battlefield by doing nothing less than the rewriting the 'laws of cyberspace.'" I'm sure that'll work out really well for them.

Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android 384

Posted by kdawson on Saturday October 18, 2008 @09:56PM from the open-in-its-bones dept.

Technologizer writes "It came out this week that Google's Android phone OS, like the iPhone, has a kill switch that lets Android Market applications be disabled remotely. But it's a mistake to lump Google's implementation and Apple's together — the Google version is a smart, pro-consumer move that avoids all the things that make Apple's version a bad idea."

Mandriva Joins Ubuntu With a Linux For Netbooks 64

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 21, 2008 @07:31AM from the good-ideas-love-to-travel dept.

Slatterz writes "Linux publisher Mandriva has unveiled a version of its platform designed specifically for the new breed of mini laptops. Mandriva Mini features a fast boot-up, comprehensive connectivity support and multimedia codecs, and is adapted to work on key netbook platforms such as Intel's Atom. Mandriva previously offered a customised version of its 2008 Spring release for the Asus Eee PC, and was a distributor of Linux for Intel's Classmate PC initiative."

Comment Re:Where to start. (Score 2, Informative) 125

by dzark on Saturday March 18, 2006 @06:27PM (#14949577) Attached to: Learning to DJ?

Final Scratch is pretty good for playing digital music while maintaining the vinyl feel. Check out Ableton Live and Native Instruments Traktor (imho the best). Both support timecoded vinyl a la final scratch but offer a lot more features. I love being able to hit the 'back 32 bars' button in tracktor and seamlessly repeat the chorus.

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