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Submission + - OSX Lion ships with faulty NVidia Drivers (apple.com)

Submitted by TeaCurran on Thursday August 04, 2011 @02:59PM

TeaCurran writes: Apple OSX Lion shipped with new NVidia video drivers that are causing anyone with a mid 2010 Macbook Pro to get a kernel panic every 5-10 minutes. Apple knew about the issue before shipping lion, hasn't responded to the issue, and is censoring posts in their support forum that mention words like 'boycot' and 'petition'. NVidia has responded that the drivers are the responsibility of Apple so they won't deal with the issue. How a major hardware manufacturer can ship such a faulty product without getting much press about it is completely beyond me.

Comment Re:G1 is already in OpenJDK (Score 1) 587

by TeaCurran on Friday May 29, 2009 @03:42PM (#28142697) Attached to: Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support

OpenJDK and G1 are both GPL

Comment G1 is already in OpenJDK (Score 5, Informative) 587

by TeaCurran on Friday May 29, 2009 @03:28PM (#28142509) Attached to: Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support

G1 is in the latest OpenJDK builds. Since it is GPL you are free to use it without any license restrictions.

The note in the release notes is only saying that Sun won't officially support it in their releases without a support contract.

If you are concerned, use OpenJDK.

Feed ESA wants to send you to Mars* (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Monday April 02, 2007 @10:32AM

*A simulation of Mars, anyway

The European Space Agency (ESA) is recruiting volunteers for a simulated trip to Mars. Wannabe astronauts will have to be made of sturdy stuff: the mission will involve being locked, with five other people, in a metal tank somewhere in Moscow for 500 days.

Submission + - No Foolin': Morfik Patents AJAX Compiler

Submitted by MikeyTheK on Monday April 02, 2007 @01:52AM

MikeyTheK writes: Sorry for the title, the subject can only take so many characters. No April Fools joke here. It appears that under the radar, the USPTO granted Morfik a patent for the "System and method for synthesizing object-oriented high-level code into browser-side javascript". Reading further, it appears that they have patented the compiling of high-level languages into AJAX apps. The high-level languages include "Ada, C, C++, C#, COBOL, ColdFusion, Common Lisp, Delphi, Fortran, Java, Object Pascal, SmallTalk, Visual Basic, and Visual Basic.NET".

It would appear that the application date is September, 2005.

Submission + - OSX Lion ships with faulty NVidia Drivers (apple.com)

Comment Re:G1 is already in OpenJDK (Score 1) 587

Comment G1 is already in OpenJDK (Score 5, Informative) 587

Feed ESA wants to send you to Mars* (theregister.com)

Submission + - No Foolin': Morfik Patents AJAX Compiler

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