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| Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Monday, October 29 2012 @ 01:16 PM EDT |
"Valve: Linux More Viable Than Windows 8 for Gaming"
http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/10/valve-linux-more-viable-than-windows-8.html
Does this mean there is an outright OS and HW war now? Gaming and Linux used to
be the big taboo, to even speak of if you were a developer. But now, the market
may be saturated, the consoles are here, the game has changed.
Win vs Linux vs MacOS vs iOS vs Android
Intel vs ARM vs AMD vs QualCOMM vs Texas Instruments vs more and more
Still, it is good to read "Valve: Linux More Viable Than Windows 8 for
Gaming".
The old hegemonies are they dying?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 29 2012 @ 08:08 PM EDT |
Clearing one of my intermittent routing problems this morning,
traceroute was giving me icmp times of 4.1 seconds.
It's all fixed now.
Aside, I note Atlantic City Airport at 7pm their time has
a sea level pressure of 948.3 millibars.
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| Authored by: kh on Monday, October 29 2012 @ 10:03 PM EDT |
Some of the groklaw themes have gone awry for me. In firefox with many security
extensions. Particularly, groklaw, Groklaw blue and red dress essayage. I get
the content in a narrow column on the right with the space in the middle of the
page filled with a background of repeated vertical lines.
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| Authored by: artp on Monday, October 29 2012 @ 11:47 PM EDT |
... before posting the canonical threads.
No biggie, but it does create some small problems for some
those who choose not to view anonymous posts. And two
canonical threads each makes a mess of the article for those
of us who don't block anonymous. Very messy.
See Off Topic thread below for posting.
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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 01:10 AM EDT |
A month before the controversial “six strikes” anti-piracy plan goes
live in the U.S., the responsible Center of Copyright Information (CCI) is
dealing with a small crisis. As it turns out the RIAA failed to mention to its
partners that the “impartial and independent” technology expert they retained
[Stroz Friedberg] previously lobbied for the music industry
group.
[...]
Ironically enough, the CCI owes most of the bad press
it received over the past months to itself. The group has been very reluctant to
give out information to the public, thereby allowing rumors to continue and
conspiracy theories to bubble up.
This might be a good time for them to
start realizing that sharing information is not always a bad
thing.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 05:42 AM EDT |
See here:-
2 top executives leaving Apple
http://news.yahoo.com/2-top-executives-leaving-apple-221444530--finance.html
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| Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 08:22 AM EDT |
| The Titan supercomputer, launched at the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, will help scientists conduct research on climate change and
materials science. ---
The following program contains immature subject
matter.
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| Authored by: hardmath on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 09:30 AM EDT |
I'd like to nominate a new canonical thread for Zombies, the
Pick Your
Brains thread. (Happy Halloween!)
When Google rolled out their Compute
Engine service earlier
this year, I sent in a request to join but didn't hear
back.
I'm a bit of a dinosaur when it comes to what I use
computers for
(writing math-like programs and running them
still gives me a rush), so I
wasn't too surprised not to
hear back.
However I did get a "free for 1
year" (as in beer) account
at Amazon's AWS, which certainly is a generous deal.
My
problem is that AWS is a real patchwork of services: you do
instance
logon security one way, attach persistant storage
resources another, and God
help the brain cells if you want
to make a database connection. I printed out
copious notes
and tutorials, but if I don't use it daily it quickly fades
in
memory. Build up and tear down...
Any Groklawdites doing something similar?
I'd probably be
willing to use a paid service for marginally better
convenience; going rates seem to be like 4 cents/CPU hour.
regards,
hm
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 01:13 PM EDT |
"Scifi author Leonard Richardson and his spouse Sumana Harihareswara
are pleding up to $10,000 from their own pockets to match donations to the
Ada Initiative made before November 1st.
They say: 'This is make-or-break
time for the Ada Initiative. Leonard and I make our living through open source
and we want to pay it forward.; TAI supports women in open source and open
culture."
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