Archive for July, 2010
Posted in July 31st, 2010
[Geordy] wanted to use some IDE devices but he didn’t have an interface card for his XT system, which can’t handle 16-bit IDE. He looked around for 8-bit ISA controllers but they were hard to find and quite expensive. Lucky for him there’s an open source project that makes a solution to this problem. The [...]
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(Posted 31 Jul 2010 by mcasperson)
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
The Magic Trackpad (if I must call it that) has generated some controversy on the TC network. MG thinks it signals the end of the mouse era. I think it’s a great tool but is being lauded by a group of people unfamiliar with decent mice (read: Mac users). I happen to love both Apple’s trackpads and great mice at the same time, but it seems to me that we’re overlooking the real conflict here. And as it turns out, mice and trackpads (magic or otherwise) are on the same side.
The next generation of input is already here; chances are you have it in your pocket. Yet, advanced as it is, there are fundamental shortcomings that will prevent it from completely supplanting the interfaces we’ve grown up with.
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
(Posted 31 Jul 2010 by falko)
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
You Americans have all the good stuff. Stuff like BP pumping oil in the Ocean and guns, lots of guns. And then you have Netflix and we people outside the U.S. are wondering what could it feel like to have a service like that. Now I know.
In Europe we also have online movie services. They are completely useless unless you are prepared to pay 3€ ($5) for a single movie for 24 hours. The content of these services is not very satisfying either. This is of course not an option for people who know that such things as Netflix exist. In Germany for example there are lawyers who make a living off scouting torrent trackers to see if you download a single MP3 or a movie. If they get you they will try to get your name and address from your ISP. First your ISP will refuse to hand your data to the rats. This leads to a pile up of legal costs. Finally 3-4 months later you will find a letter in the postbox saying that you have to pay a 1000€-5000€ + penalty because you downloaded something plus the legal fee that they spent on suing your ISP to give them your personal data.
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
The details are out for the DefCon 18 badges. The new design has a lot of goodies packed into it, most notably a 128×32 LCD display. You can’t see it in the image above because it’s on the other side of the badge; the ribbon cable passes through a slit in the substrate to reach [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
At a hearing last week, experts told Congress that VA staff was “intentionally delaying research and treatment for our veterans.â€
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
By Richard Albert, Race-Talk contributor
Speaking from the heart of the Muslim world in Turkey’s Cankaya Palace in April 2009, President Barack Obama answered the question with the nuance that has come to characterize his public statements: America, …
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
Earlier this month, I attended OpenWebAsia – South East Asia in Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia, a two-day tech and web industry event that attracted over 350 international attendees. The event shined a spotlight on a market that’s still largely overlooked: a whopping 600 million people live in South East Asia, which boasts a rapidly growing web and mobile population.
What follows is a short summary of just a few presentations, panel discussions, and startup demos I witnessed at OpenWebAsia (those with a focus on Asia only).
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
Krebs On Security: Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch for Critical Windows Bug
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
The Linux scheduler, in both the mainline and realtime versions, provides a couple of scheduling classes for realtime tasks. These classes implement the classic POSIX priority-based semantics, wherein the highest-priority runnable task is guaranteed to…
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
Music education is a field of study connected with the learning and teaching of music. Music is an essential part of the fabric of our society, and the intrinsic value of music is widely recognized. Human culture uses music to carry forward its ideas a…
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
The Black Hat security conference attracts the creme de la creme of the security industry. This year the organizers even offered a paid live stream for those unable to make the trip to Vegas. Called Black Hat Uplink, the service carried a $395 price ta…
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
Japanese mobile Linux software firm Access announced a major push toward Android, joining the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), and releasing a free "Graffiti" handwriting recognition app for Android, among other developments. Meanwhile, Access’ IP Infusion subsidiary has added MPLS-Transport Profile support to its ZebOS Network Platform software, says the company.
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
Light Blue Touchpaper: Passwords in the wild, part IV – the future
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
PC World: How to Steal Corporate Secrets in 20 Minutes – Ask
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
WSJ: Wal-Mart Radio Tags to Track Clothing
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
We have recently covered how to use your Android phone to access the internet on your computer. This process is known as tethering. By connecting your phone, via a USB cable, to your computer you are able to use the phone’s data connection to browse …
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
In this quarterly update, the project manager of opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM discusses recent changes to make opentaps easier to set up, configure, and customize.
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
Nearly Consulting, which specialises in community relations and free software strategy, has published the results of its GNOME Census. According to Nearly Consulting founder Dave Neary, the census report analyses how developers participate in the GNOME…
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
One thing you can say about the Flickr team – there’s some fight in ‘em. They apparently were not super pleased with our coverage of their annual (and unofficial) Grant-Pattishall Award given each year to the Yahoo engineer who “who breaks Flickr in the most spectacular way.” I’m not sure why, I think the award is fun.
So now they have a new award, called the Bogan-Martin Award: “The Bogan-Martin Award is given yearly to the Flickr staff member who inadvertently generates the most spectacular media overreaction to a personal comment or inside joke.”
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
Help us push back against TIME Magazine’s distortion of women’s issues in Afghanistan.
Tomorrow, TIME Magazine will treat newsstand customers everywhere to one of the most rank propaganda plays of the Afghanistan War. The cover features a w…
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
The old "Ubuntu doesn’t contribute back" argument cropped up again when Dave Neary released a report of the talk he gave at GUADEC on the contributions made to the GNOME desktop environment. He found that Red Hat and Novell contributed the most and that Ubuntu and Mandriva (primarily a KDE distribution) was among the lowest. A firestorm of debate ensued and Shuttleworth was accused of name calling and guilt to try to win the argument.
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
Shrimper Diane Wilson might be going to jail for her high-profile protests against BP. Why is she so sure it’s worth it?
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
Pamela Geller has some crazy ideas, which the corporate media seem content to disseminate uncritically.
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
The idea that our inborn predispositions dictate how we live our lives was once seen as antiquated and even reactionary. No more.
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
This summer, NOM — an anti-gay marriage group — took their hate on the road. The Courage Campaign has captured their bigotry on camera.
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
Back in March an announcement came out of NVIDIA as they were getting ready to launch the GeForce GTX 400 "Fermi" graphics cards that they would be dropping support for the xf86-video-nv driver. The xf86-video-nv driver really didn’t provide much of a feature set and was far behind the Nouveau KMS and Gallium3D drivers even though these were reverse-engineered by the open-source, so NVIDIA announced they would be discontinuing this open-source DDX driver and advised its customers to just use the VESA driver until they are able to download and install NVIDIA’s proprietary Linux graphics driver. However, today they have decided to release an updated driver.
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Posted in July 31st, 2010
As Linux has become more widely used in embedded systems, the number of file systems which work directly with the flash storage (i.e. via MTD device as opposed to some block device hardware emulation layer such as the one present on most DiskOnKey devi…
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