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Comment Beware of more of this stuff on XDA (Score 4, Insightful) 226

The problem is that xda is full of this kind of crap. Kernels which disable fsync (libEAT-MY-DATA, anyone?), exotic I/O schedulers and CPU governors, overclocking processors and other hacks... Very often, they do not have any measurable effect, or even cause new problems, such as freezes, hangs, sleep of death,...
Science

Submission + - Activists destroy scientific GMO experiment (deredactie.be)

Freggy writes: "In Belgium, a group of activists calling themselves the Field Liberation Movement has destroyed a field which was being used for a scientific experiment with genetically modified potatoes. In spite of the presence of 60 police officers protecting the field, activists succeeded pulling out the plants and sprayed insecticides over them, ruining the experiment. The goal of the experiment was to test potato plants which are genetically modified to be resistant to potato blight. It's a sad day for the freedom of scientific research."

Comment Not a stupid rumour, but reality (Score 1) 4

Here's a reference: http://www.informaticien.be/news_item-7978-L_administration_wallonne_interdit_Firefox.html Also confirmed by the Belgian IT newspaper DataNews, which quotes the manager of the IT department responsible of this decision: http://www.datanews.be/nl/90-9-26228/article.html?cid=rss#90;9;26228
Mandriva

Submission + - Mandriva 2009 Spring released (mandriva.com)

Frederik writes: "Mandriva just released the 2009 Spring version of its distribution. Highlights of this new version include vastly improved boot times thanks to Speedboot, KDE 4.2.2, GNOME 2.26.1, XFCE 4.6 and LXDE desktop environments, a completely rewritten Mandriva Security Centre and improved firewall and network configuration tools, OLPC Sugar environment, QT Creator development environment, Songbird audio player, ext4 support and many more. Check out the release tour and release notes for more information or immediately start downloading it."

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