Comment Re:They're all just stupid labels nowadays (Score 2, Informative) 693
Gutsy, Feist, Hoary, etc are codenames. The actual release is Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 7.10, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, etc. Which is stupid, but for another reason altogether.
Apple Delays Leopard to October 545
SuperMog2002 writes "Apple Insider has the sad news that Mac OS X Leopard has been delayed until October. Apparantly software engineers and QA had to be reassigned to the iPhone in order to get it out on time, costing Leopard its release at WWDC. For now the original press release from Apple can be found on the 'Hot News' part of their site, though Apple did not provide a permanent link to the story. 'While Leopard's features will be complete by June, the Cupertino-based company said it cannot deliver the quality release expected by its customers within that time. Apple now plans to show its developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship the software in October.'"
Journal Journal: IBM tests prototype system by blasting it with proton beam
In an article at news.com titled IBM's Power6: Bigger iron, lower power, the author notes at the end of the article that "To simulate adverse conditions, IBM runs Power6 systems at the wrong end of a proton beam. The testing showed that a system is able to recover from about 3,400 random software errors before one slips through and causes undetected data corruption..."
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