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Linux 2.6.37 Released 135

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @04:59PM from the new-and-improved dept.

diegocg writes "Version 2.6.37 of the Linux kernel has been released. This version includes SMP scalability improvements for Ext4 and XFS, the removal of the Big Kernel Lock, support for per-cgroup IO throttling, a networking block device based on top of the Ceph clustered filesystem, several Btrfs improvements, more efficient static probes, perf support to probe modules, LZO compression in the hibernation image, PPP over IPv4 support, several networking microoptimizations and many other small changes, improvements and new drivers for devices like the Brocade BNA 10GB ethernet, Topcliff PCH gigabit, Atheros CARL9170, Atheros AR6003 and RealTek RTL8712U. The fanotify API has also been enabled. See the full changelog for more details."

Comment Too little, too late.. (Score 1) 238

by wave84 on Friday October 29, 2010 @05:43AM (#34060672) Attached to: For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011

It seems like the guys at Mozilla "lost" their direction some time ago. I mean, I remember 2004 when Firefox first came out - I was so excited that I could finally ditch IE (yeah, i know Opera was around for a long time but somehow I never got to like it). Compared to IE, Firefox was blazing fast, light and secure. Fast forward a few years later... and it seems like the tables have turned. Chrome is so much faster than Firefox that I simply can't look back. And I'm not talking about the damn javascript benchmarks which everyone seems to be posting all over the Internet; the general program and system responsivness is light years ahead. Starting the browser, opening tabs, opening websites, everything is faster on Chrome. Even switching or dragging tabs around is prefectly smooth on Chrome while Firefox has delays. Not to mention the superior interface (which everyone seems to be copying now). In the meantime Mozilla releases new versions on a slow schedule and sometimes buggy as hell (version 2.0 or 3.0 kept crashing for me). The program's memory issues have become a subject for jokes all over. This is not the Firefox I fell in love with so many years ago. I think the future looks grim for Mozilla... they are alone on a market surrounded by software giants (Microsoft, Apple, Google) and they lost their biggest advantage (being the rebel, the alternative). I think it's a matter of time until they slowly get "eaten" by the rest.

China's Nine-Day Traffic Jam Tops 62 Miles 198

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 23, 2010 @12:08PM from the living-on-the-road dept.

A traffic jam on the Beijing-Tibet expressway has now entered its ninth day and has grown to over 62 miles in length. This mother-of-all delays has even spawned its own micro-economy of local merchants selling water and food at inflated prices to stranded drivers. Can you imagine how infuriating it must be to see someone leave their blinker on for 9 days?

Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex 397

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @04:02PM from the there's-a-lap-for-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to OK Cupid's survey of 552,000 user pictures iPhone users have more sexual partners than BlackBerry or Android owners. By age 30, the average male iPhone user has had about 10 partners while female iPhone users have had 12. By contrast, BlackBerry users hover around 8 partners and Android users have a mere 6. As the blog's author's wryly observe: 'Finally, statistical proof that iPhone users aren't just getting f*@ked by Apple.'"

Comment Nice (Score 1) 63

by wave84 on Saturday July 10, 2010 @12:10PM (#32860496) Attached to: Online Chess With Physical Pieces On a Chessboard

It's kind of amazing when you consider it; all this work has been done by just one guy. He could turn this into a business, there are lots of chess hobbyists around..

Website Sells Pubic Lice 319

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @03:23PM from the gift-that-keeps-on-giving dept.

A British website called crabrevenge.com will help you prove that there is literally nothing you can't find online by selling you pubic lice. A disclaimer on the site says the creators "do not endorse giving people lice," and the lice are for "novelty purposes only." The company also boasts about a facility "where we do all of our parasite husbandry and carefully considered selective breeding." Three different packages are available: "Green package - One colony that can lay as many as 30 eggs for about $20. Blue package - Three colonies to share with your friends or freeze a batch or two for about $35. Red package - A vial of 'shampoo-resistant F-strain crabs' which can take up to two weeks to kill for about $52."

Decades-Old Soviet Reflector Spotted On the Moon 147

Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 26, 2010 @05:16PM from the always-in-the-last-place-you-look dept.

cremeglace writes "No one had seen a laser reflector that Soviet scientists had left on the moon almost 40 years ago, despite years of searching. Turns out searchers had been looking kilometers in the wrong direction. On 22 April, a team of physicists finally saw an incredibly faint flash from the reflector, which was ferried across the lunar surface by the Lunokhod 1 rover. The find comes thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which last month imaged a large area where the rover was reported to have been left. Then the researchers, led by Tom Murphy of the University of California, San Diego, could search one football-field-size area at a time until they got a reflection."

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