Norsefire - Slashdot User

Submission + - NVIDIA is joining the Linux Foundation (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Norsefire on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @04:26PM

Norsefire writes: NVIDIA is getting in bed with the Linux Foundation, along with three other to-be-announced companies, as the latest effort to expand this Linux organization. However, it's looking to be more of a mobile play for the company rather than to get in on the open-source GPU driver space by either supporting the open-source Nouveau driver project, to put out other code and documentation, or some other organized effort.

Submission + - HP announces a watch that unifies webOS devices (engadget.com)

Submitted by Norsefire on Friday March 04, 2011 @09:13AM

Norsefire writes: After teasing it last year, HP's Phil McKinney has announced the 'Metal Watch', the device that will act as the aggregation point of your HP/WebOS devices. McKinney claims that it will unify your Pre, Touchpad, Notebook, Desktop and, bizarrely, your printer.

Submission + - OpenSolaris or FreeBSD?

Submitted by Norsefire on Friday November 27, 2009 @10:25AM

Norsefire writes: I am in quite a predicament. I decided a while back to branch out and use a new operating system (currently running Debian), after a bit of searching (trying Gentoo, Gobo and Arch along the way) I decided to use something that isn't Linux. Long story, short: I narrowed the choice down to OpenSolaris and FreeBSD but now I'm stuck. OpenSolaris is commercially backed by Sun, has nice enterprisey tools in the default install and best of all, a mature implementation of ZFS. FreeBSD is backed by a foundation, has a minimal default install and a rather new (but recently improved in the 8.0 release) implementation of ZFS, however it offers the Ports Collection (I quite like the performance boost from compiling from source, no matter how small it might be) and a bigger community than OpenSolaris. That is just a very minimal mention of the differences, I would be interested to see what the Slashdot community thinks of these two operating systems.

Submission + - Google under fire for calling their language "Go" 1

Submitted by Norsefire on Thursday November 12, 2009 @04:28AM

Norsefire writes: Since releasing their "Go" programming language yesterday, Google are under fire for using the same name as another programming language that was first publicly documented in 2003. "Go!" was created by Francis McCabe and Keith Clark — the first of which published a book about the language in 2007, and he is not happy.

Submission + - Early adopters "bloodied" by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala 3

Submitted by Norsefire on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @08:48AM

Norsefire writes: The Register reports that early adopters are having a tough time with Karmic Koala, Ubuntu's latest release. 'Ubuntu 9.10 is causing outrage and frustration, with early adopters wishing they'd stuck with previous versions of the Linux distro. Blank and flickering screens, failure to recognize hard drives, defaulting to the old 2.6.28 Linux kernel, and failure to get encryption running are taking their toll, as early adopters turn to the web for answers and log fresh bug reports in Ubuntu forums.'

Submission + - Parrot beats humans in investment contest

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Norsefire

on Saturday August 08, 2009 @01:45AM

Norsefire writes: "A Parrot named Strawberry performed better than many humans in an investment competition. The human competitors were able to select any stock they wanted while the Parrot randomly selected the stocks with its beak. Strawberry had a 13.7% return, the human average was a 4.6% loss. Only two humans outperformed Strawberry."

Submission + - Univeristy gives away iPhones to track truants 1

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Norsefire

on Sunday May 31, 2009 @11:00PM

Norsefire writes: "A Japanese University is giving away iPhones to its students to use its GPS functionality to catch students that skip classes. The University claims students currently fake attendance by having other students answer for them during rollcall, they also said that while this can be abused by giving other students the phone, they are much less likely to do this due to the personal information, such as email, a phone generally contains."

Submission + - FBI hit by virus

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Norsefire

on Saturday May 23, 2009 @04:13AM

Norsefire writes: "The FBI and US Marshals were forced to shutdown part of their computer network after being hit by a "mystery virus". FBI spokesman, Mike Kortan, said "We are evaluating a network issue on our external, unclassified network that's affecting several government agencies". Nikki Credic, spokeswoman for the US Marshals, said that no data has been compromised but the type of virus and its origin is unknown."

Submission + - Copyright and patent laws hurt the economy

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Norsefire

on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @06:59PM

Norsefire writes: "Two economists at Washington University are claiming that copyright and patent laws are "Killing Innovation" and "Hurting [the] Economy". Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine state they would like to see copyright law abolished completely as there is other protection available to the creators of intellectual property. They are calling on congress to only grant patents where an invention has social value, where the patent would not stifle innovation and only where the the absence of a patent would damage cost-effectiveness."

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