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The Exact Cause of the Zune Meltdown 465

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 04, 2009 @07:05PM from the off-by-one-every-four dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Zune 30 failure became national news when it happened just three days ago. The source code for the bad driver leaked soon after, and now, someone has come up with a very detailed explanation for where the code was bad as well as a number of solutions to deal with it. From a coding/QA standpoint, one has to wonder how this bug was missed if the quality assurance team wasn't slacking off. Worse yet: this bug affects every Windows CE device carrying this driver."

Feed Engadget: AMD intros Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Black Edition (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Monday August 20, 2007 @11:52AM

Filed under: Desktops

While AMD still has bigger and better things in store, those looking for some more instant gratification may want to consider the company's new Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Black Edition, which now occupies the top spot of its X2 line. At 3.2GHz, this one clocks in at 200MHz faster than the previous top-end 6000+ but, according to HotHardware, little else has changed. That means it's based on AMD's current 90nm DSl SOI technology, and boasts support for a single HyperTransport link at 2.0GHz, along with 2MB of L2 cache and a 125W TDP. If that's enough of a bump for you, you should soon be able to pick one of these up for $239 (in 1000-unit PIB quantities).

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Submission + - GPLv2 vs. GPLv3 (fsf.org)

Submitted by

chessweb

on Sunday June 03, 2007 @05:08AM

chessweb writes: "Here is a rather enlightening article by Richard Stallman on the GPLv3 that puts the previous Tivo post into the right context and explains the implications and limitations of upgrading from GPLv2 to GPLv3."

Comment The light's long gone! (Score 1) 188

by Beekster on Friday May 11, 2007 @02:13AM (#19079529) Attached to: NASA Unveils Hubble's Successor

FTA: - "Clearly we need a much bigger telescope to go back much further in time to see the very birth of the universe," said Edward Weiler, director of Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre.

Now at the birth of the universe, the light started leaving at the speed of light, the matter somewhat slower. Without time-travel, or faster than light travel, no telescope can witness the big bang, or even events "relatively" soon afterwards.

If there was a big bang about 15 billion years ago, that light is now 15 billion light years in every direction from wherever the big bang happened, with all the matter (well) inside a sphere of that diameter. Good luck catching the light.

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