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Linux: Novell Delivers Device Driver Breakthrough
Posted by
ScuttleMonkey
on Wednesday May 17, @04:20PM
from the hopefully-the-companies-will-actually-start-writing-them dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Novell today announced a new Linux device driver process to make it easier for third party device driver writers to integrate their drivers with SUSE Linux." From the article: "The
new driver process allows customers to obtain drivers independently of
Novell® kernel updates and supplies a straightforward approach third
parties can use when developing device drivers for Novell's SUSE® Linux
Enterprise products. The new Linux driver process developed by Novell
allows hardware and software vendors to provide Linux drivers and
driver updates for their products to customers directly and
transparently, in a way that is completely integrated with SUSE Linux
Enterprise delivery and support."
- 29 of 44 comments
- linux.slashdot.org
Games: U.S. Video Game Sales Up 15.5% in April 24 of 29 comments
Google: The Missing Manual, Second Edition
Posted by
samzenpus
on Wednesday May 17, @03:13PM
from the google-your-google dept.
Graeme Williams writes "In
thinking about Google:
The Missing Manual, Second Edition it occurred to me that the Google
search
box is like the Tardis -- there's a lot more inside that little box
than you expect. Writing a manual for Google must have felt a little
bit like
writing a Manual of Everything, and I'm not sure I'm qualified to
review Everything. However, I did read the book, and found a lot I
didn't know about Google and using it. You will too." Read the rest of Graeme's review.
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Games: More Details on The Warcraft Movie 40 of 51 comments
Your Rights Online: The Ultimate Net Monitoring Tool?
Posted by
ScuttleMonkey
on Wednesday May 17, @02:22PM
from the corporations-striving-to-be-big-brother dept.
Wired News is reporting that the equipment found in the "secret" NSA
room at AT&T wasn't some elaborate device designed by Big Brother.
Rather, it is a commercially available network-analysis product that any company could acquire. From the article: "'Anything
that comes through (an IP network), we can record,' says Steve
Bannerman, marketing vice president of Narus, a Mountain View,
California, company. 'We can reconstruct all of their e-mails along
with attachments, see what web pages they clicked on, we can
reconstruct their VOIP calls.'"
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- yro.slashdot.org
from the define-mostly dept.
jchenx writes "One
of the biggest questions remaining after the Sony press conference and
E3 last week was whether or not the core PS3 package could be upgraded to the premium one.
It looks like that question has been answered. GI.biz reports that the
core version can upgraded with WiFi and memory card adapters, as well
as a higher capacity hard drive. However, HDMI output will be
non-upgradeable."
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- 103 of 139 comments
- games.slashdot.org
Linux: Sun Puts its Weight Behind Ubuntu Linux
Posted by
ScuttleMonkey
on Wednesday May 17, @01:34PM
from the stepping-stones-to-success dept.
fak3r writes "Sun today announced that they are putting their weight behind Ubuntu Linux.
While Ubuntu has been many people's desktop Linux choice for a few
years now, with its Debian heritage, you can see what kind of server it
could be. Slap that on the new Sun 1Us with the new Niagra T1's CPU,
the one that'll have four, six or eight cores each, and go to town."
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Developers: Game Innovation Database 32 of 38 comments
TiVo from AdZapper to Advertiser's New Best Friend
Posted by
ScuttleMonkey
on Wednesday May 17, @12:27PM
from the listening-to-customers-will-never-work dept.
Thomas Hawk writes "A lot of noise has been made lately regarding TiVo's transformation
from an ad zapper to Madison Avenue's new darling. In their first
podcast ever, TiVo explains how they hope to redefine advertising in
the age of the DVR through a customer centered approach. I'm not sure
you are going to see TiVo changing their slogan to "we'll leave a light
on for you," anytime soon, but with DVR penetration hitting mainstream
how will their new initiatives change your TV viewing experience?"
from the nice-while-it-lasted dept.
littleghoti writes "Macworld is reporting that "Thanks to pirates, or rather the fear of them, the Intel edition of Apple's OS X is now a proprietary operating system."
Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild, and replace the OS X kernel from source code."
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- apple.slashdot.org
from the eggs-bacon-sausage-and-splat dept.
bblboy54 writes "According to The Washington Post, Blue Security has closed its doors,
which can be confirmed by the Blue Security application failing to work
today and their domain no longer resolving. Blue Security's CEO is
quoted in the article: "It's clear to us that [quitting] would be the
only thing to prevent a full-scale cyber-war that we just don't have
the authority to start," Reshef said. "Our users never signed up for
this kind of thing." You have to wonder where it goes from here. It
seems an effective method has been found but more than a small private
company could handle. Will someone else adapt this concept, or does the
internet world give up?"
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- 442 of 540 comments
- it.slashdot.org
Stream MythTV to Your Cell Phone
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Wednesday May 17, @09:23AM
from the because-you-can dept.
lerhaupt writes "I've setup a howto for streaming your MythTV recordings to your 3G cell phone. In involves getting your myth box to convert recordings to 3gp format and then setting up Apple's Darwin Streaming Server to handle streaming the videos from a webpage it sets up. "
Developers: Google Releases AJAX Framework
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Wednesday May 17, @08:36AM
from the well-isn't-that-special dept.
maquina writes "Google released a new AJAX framework
based on Java. From Google's mouth: "Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java
software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications
like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser
quirks as a second language." This impressive framework promises to
make AJAX available to the masses and is one more step towards Google
becoming the de facto Internet platform provider."
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- 223 of 282 comments
- developers.slashdot.org
IBM to Adopt ODF for Lotus Notes
Posted by
ScuttleMonkey
on Wednesday May 17, @07:42AM
from the firehose-approach-to-popularity dept.
Mike Barton
writes to tell us InfoWorld is reporting IBM has announced that the
upcoming version of Lotus Notes, due out this fall, will feature an "ODF-compatible version of OpenOffice embedded in the Notes e-mail application." IBM hopes that this large scale distribution of the ODF standard will help bolster their foothold in the marketplace since "standards live or die on how many people use them"
The Amazon Technology Platform
Posted by
ScuttleMonkey
on Wednesday May 17, @05:24AM
from the under-the-covers dept.
Don420 writes "Jim Gray has an interview with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels for ACM Queue. It is filled with a lot of details about the Amazon architecture
that we have not seen before: 'If you hit the Amazon.com gateway page,
the application calls more than 100 services to collect data and
construct the page for you.' But also quite a strong statements about
developing software at Amazon: 'Developers of our services can use any
tools they see fit to build their services. [...] Whatever tools are
necessary, we provide them, and then get the hell out of the way of the
developers so that they can do their jobs. [...] Developers are like
artists; they produce their best work if they have the freedom to do
so, but they need good tools.'"