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Comment Re:Wow, that's hypocracy (Score 1) 425

by valexa on Monday October 05, 2009 @05:12AM (#29642115) Attached to: Apple Takes Action Over Australian Logos

So long ? how about never , Beatles are STILL not available on itunes.

Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 236

by valexa on Saturday August 01, 2009 @09:29AM (#28908203) Attached to: BIOS "Rootkit" Preloaded In 60% of New Laptops

M.A.C. Mac Ain't Crap

Comment rendering html is interpreting it (Score 1) 509

by valexa on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @01:00AM (#28766077) Attached to: How Apple's App Review Is Sabotaging the iPhone

by using a UIWebView you realize that the content sits outside , and apple has to scrutinize that content , and if that content has javascript or even html , technically they are both code you are interpreting.

Unsung, Unpaid Coders Behind Federal IT Dashboard 99

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 12, 2009 @09:10AM from the where-credit-is-due dept.

theodp writes "The Federal CIO got a standing ovation for the new Federal IT Dashboard. Federal contractors got the cash. But sneak a peek at the 'customcode' directory behind the Dashboard, and you'll see that some individuals also helped bring it to life with their free software. For starters, there's Timothy Groves' Auto Suggest (Creative Commons License), Alf Magne Kalleland's Ajax Tooltip and Dynamic List (GNU Lesser General Public License), and Gregory Wild-Smith's Simple AJAX Code-Kit (SACK) (modified X11 License)."

Jeff Roberson Begins FreeBSD SMPng VFS Integration 54

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 24, 2005 @11:10AM from the building-it-into-the-operating-system dept.

A FreeBSD User writes "Jeff Roberson has announced that he has has begun integrating the Giant-lock free VFS code into the FreeBSD 6.x development tree. These changes will permit the UFS file system to run on multiple CPUs at a time on SMP systems (hyper-threaded, dual-core, or regular SMP), leading to substantially improved efficiency. It will also permit the VFS code to be fully preemptible on uni-processor systems, improving interrupt handling latency. With this change, almost all of the FreeBSD kernel is able to run fully threaded and in parallel on multiple CPUs with much less contention. He anticipates merging this work as an "opt-in" feature to the FreeBSD 5.x branch in the future. He indicates that the testing will be "opt-in", i.e., this change will not be fully enabled by default for the time being, and that it will take a while (a few hours) to complete the merge, so users of the 6-CURRENT branch may want to hold off updating for a few hours while he finishes the merge. The work was sponsored by Isilon Systems."

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