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Submission + - Ubuntu Linux 24.04 now optimized for Milk-V Mars RISC-V single board computer (betanews.com)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: Canonical has officially released the optimized Ubuntu 24.04 image (available here) for the Milk-V Mars, a credit-card-sized RISC-V single board computer (SBC) developed by Shenzhen MilkV Technology Co., Ltd.

The Milk-V Mars is the worldâ(TM)s first high-performance RISC-V SBC of its size. Powered by the StarFive JH7110 quad-core processor, the board is equipped with up to 8GB of LPDDR4 memory and supports various modern interfaces, including USB 3.0, HDMI 2.0 for 4K output, and Ethernet with PoE capabilities. It also offers comprehensive expansion options with M.2 E-Key and extensive MIPI CSI channels, making it an ideal choice for developers and tech enthusiasts.

Submission + - Iceland Volcano Ash Grounds European Air Travel (cbsnews.com)

Submitted by Ch_Omega
Ch_Omega writes: From the article at CBSNews:
"An ash-spewing volcano in Iceland emptied the skies of aircraft across much of northern Europe on Thursday, grounding planes on a scale unseen since the 9/11 terror attacks. British air space shut down, silencing the trans-Atlantic hub of Heathrow and stranding tens of thousands of passengers around the world.

Aviation officials said it was not clear when it would be safe enough to fly again and said it was the first time in living memory that an ash cloud had brought one of the world's most congested airspaces to a standstill. "

BBC News, Deccan Herald and Barents Observer has more coverage.

Comment Re:Had this for decades... (Score 1) 216

by miike (#28703365) Attached to: Microsoft Readies a Rival To Spotify

mine stopped playing adverts too - i heard that it's a bug in the linux client

I run spotify under wine it definitely plays ads from time to time, at least the "Jonathan from spotify" one. There is however a bug in wine or the client that prevents the banner ads in the client from showing.
Software

Submission + - India decides to vote "No" for OOXML. (indiatimes.com)

Submitted by Indian
Indian writes: India on Thursday gave Microsoft a thumbs-down in the war of standards for office documents. In a tense meeting at Delhi's Manak Bhawan, the 21-member technical committee decided that India will vote a 'no' against Microsoft's Open Office Extensible Mark Up Language (OOXML) standard at the International Standards Organisation (ISO) in Geneva on September 2.
AMD

Submission + - AMD previews new processor extensions

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It has been all over the news today. AMD announced its "x86 extensions for parallelism", a series of x86 extensions to make parallel programming easier. The first extension are the so called lightweight profiling extensions [that] would give software access to information about cache misses and retired instructions so they can optimize data structures for better performance. The specification is here and it has much wider applicability that parallel programming. It can be used to accelerate Java, .Net and dynamic optimizers.
Media

Submission + - Things not looking for the BBC's iPlayer (binaryfreedom.info)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The future of iPlayer, the BBC's new online on-demand system for delivering content is continuing to look bleaker. With ISPs threatening to throttle the content delivered through the BBC's iPlayer, consumers petitioning the UK government and the BBC to drop the DRM and Microsoft-only technology, and threatened legal action from the OSC, the last thing the BBC wanted today was street protests at their office and at the BBC Media Complex accompanied by a report issued by DefectiveByDesign about their association with Microsoft.
Operating Systems

Submission + - Kernel devs say VMware violates Linux copyrights (venturecake.com)

Submitted by Nailer
Nailer writes: Bloomberg believe VMware's IPO today may the largest technology offering since Google. But doubts have been cast over the company's supposedly proprietary ESX product, as top 10 Linux contributor Christopher Hellwig claims the software violates Linux kernel copyrights.
Operating Systems

Submission + - Majority of businesses will not move to Vista

Submitted by oDDmON oUT
oDDmON oUT writes: An article appearing today in Computerworld quotes polling results from a PatchLink Corp. survey, saying that the majority of it's enterprise customers feel there are no compelling security enhancements in Windows Vista, that they have no plans to migrate to it in the near term and that many will "...either stick with the Windows they have, or turn to Linux or Mac OS X".

A majority, 87%, said "they would stay with their existing version(s) of Windows".

This comes on the heels of a disenting view of Vista's track record in the area of security at the six month mark, which sparked discussion on numerous forums.
Sony

Submission + - Blue Blu-ray?

Submitted by TopSpin
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.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft pledges conditional support for ODF

Submitted by
Macthorpe
Macthorpe writes: "BetaNews is reporting that Microsoft have announced in a letter that they will support ODF if it doesn't 'restrict choice among formats'. Citing their lack of opposition to the ratification of ODF as a standard, they go on to say: "ODF's design may make it attractive to those users that are interested in a particular level of functionality in their productivity suite or developers who want to work that format. Open XML may be more attractive to those who want richer functionality [...] This is not to say that one is better than the other — just that they meet different needs in the marketplace.""
Graphics

Submission + - Instrumented GIMP to Identify Usability Flaws

Submitted by Mike
Mike writes: New users of the GIMP often become frustrated at the application's unwieldy user interface. For this reason Prof. Michael Terry and a group of researchers at the University of Waterloo have created ingimp, an modified version of the GIMP that collects real-time usability data. Terry recently gave a lecture about ingimp and the data it collects. During each session, ingimp records events such as document creation, window manipulation, and tool use. A log of these events is sent to the ingimp server for analysis. The project hopes to answer questions such as "What is the typical monitor resolution of a GIMP user?" and "Is GIMP used primarily for photo editing or drawing?" Answers to these questions will help the GIMP developers find and fix GIMP's usability problems. For more information about ingimp, visit the project's web site.

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