skurrier - Slashdot User

Comment Re:You can't win this one, Linus (Score 1) 457

by skurrier on Wednesday March 05, 2008 @09:50PM (#22658344) Attached to: Linus Denounces NDISWrapper, Denies It GPL Status

Yes, this is true, however I believe (from TFA) that NDISWrapper immediately taints the kernel on load.

So, from a debugging perspective, if you do use NDISWrapper and have a bug, people are going to (rightly) tell you to try it again without your wireless card.

Submission + - HP: Load Linux, Lose Waranty

Submitted by

darkonc

on Tuesday March 27, 2007 @01:22AM

darkonc writes: "Currently highlighted on Groklaw's newsbytes is an article on linux.com about a woman who bought a Compaq laptop and loaded Ubuntu on it. When, some time later, the keyboard started acting up she called the Compaq for warranty repairs..
"Sorry, we do not honor our hardware warranty when you run Linux." she was told. Even an HP PR rep was unable to "do the right thing" when given a couple of weeks to work on it. It looks like HP could be an especially bad vendor for people hoping to avoid Microsoft's Monopoly Tax on arbitrary machines."

Submission + - Market Share vs Installed Base: iPod, Zune, Mac

Submitted by redrum on Sunday March 18, 2007 @03:24AM

redrum writes: Analysts and reporters like to talk about market share statistics, but the conclusions they draw are often misleading, RDM reports. Market Share Myth 2007: iPod vs Zune and Mac vs PC takes a look at how numbers are used to paint grossly inaccurate portrayals of the market share of the Zune among iPods, and alternatively the Mac among PCs. A follow up article, Market Share vs Installed Base: iPod vs Zune, Mac vs PC demonstrates how the conventional wisdom of market share reporting can be turned upside down by simply comparing what vendors actually sell. An eye opening, in depth look at the real numbers behind PCs, music players, and console games.

Researchers Create Artificial Insect Eye 140

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday April 28, 2006 @03:00AM from the fly-spy dept.

maxzilla writes "An artificial insect eye that could be used in ultra-thin cameras has been developed by scientists in the US.The dimpled eye, contains over 8,500 hexagonal lenses packed into an area the size of a pinhead. The dome-shaped structure, described in the journal Science, is similar to a bee's eye. The researchers, from the University of California, Berkeley, say the work may also shed light on how insects developed such complex, visual systems. Darpa is also funding this project with applications expected for digital cameras and high speed motion detectors."

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