September 3, 2010
22:53
As solid-state drives are becoming very popular with enthusiasts and a common choice for those interested in high-performance data storage, at Phoronix we have reviewed many SSDs from OCZ Technology including the Agility, Agility EX, Vertex, and Solid 2. Today we are reviewing the next-generation Vertex SSD, which is the Vertex 2, and it promises to offer much faster reads and writes, is rated to last an extra 500,000 hours beyond the 1.5 million hour MTBF of the original Vertex, and is available in capacities up to 480GB.
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@theremora Virgin mobile doesn't matter but the manufactuer of the hardware does. What HSDPA chip? Broadcom, Huawei?...
14:24
@ratfink You cannot install the OS to /boot. The kernel files go in /boot. Can't change where system files go - only physical location!
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04:53
Globalfoundries says it has reached a & significant milestone& in its production of 28-nanometer ARM Cortex-A9 processors, with silicon expected in late 2010. While initial clock speeds could reach an Intel Atom-beating 2.5GHz, the company said further performance boosts for 28nm are in the works, and also provided its first timeline for the introduction of 22nm and 20nm manufacturing....
00:23
Two years ago we compiled a list of the top contributors to the X Server over the years and that was followed by compiling a similar list of the developers behind Mesa. Tiago Vignatti has now compiled some statistics surrounding the top contributors to X.Org Server 1.9 and related X components just looking at this most recent development cycle. There's also numbers for the input, video, and Mesa components too...
Comment by DDevine
12 hours ago
No sign of Canonical, of course. Though to be fair they would probably contract this work out to their buddies in ATi.
September 2, 2010
20:34
@chrisjrn if you haven't one already you should have an email regarding your miniconf by the end of this weekend by the latest.
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Looks like !identi.ca upgraded twitter/facebook integration. Would be great if they upgraded spam detection.
15:00
@csgeek That's pretty funny. Can you right click in your file browser and go Open With and then click remember?
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@reality #Amarok doesn't crash for me. Guessing you're on #Kubuntu then. #Clementine you are looking for? http://www.clementine-player.org/
13:22
@reality Ah yes there is, it is the Rekonq style equivilent replacement for Amarok. I'll try to find it.
06:10
Pawel Jakub Dawidek has announced he has prepared a port of the ZFS v28 file-system for FreeBSD, which is a newer revision of this advanced Sun/Oracle file-system than what is currently available in FreeBSD 8.1. This updated ZFS file-system brings a number of new features to FreeBSD-ZFS users including data de-duplication support, triple parity RAIDZ (RAIDZ3), ZFS DIFF, Zpool Split, snapshot holds, forced Zpool imports, and the ability to import a pool in a read-only mode...
03:50
Back in July we reported that Unigine Corp, the company behind the advanced Unigine gaming/3D engine, was working on its own strategy game. This game was supposed to be announced by the end of July, then in private we were told it got pushed back to the middle of August, but to start off September we finally have the announcement for this new game. Unigine OilRush is the game title and it will be available for Linux. Will this be the best Linux native game we see in 2010?
September 1, 2010
18:00
17:55
@schestowitz I would want to verify the Anti-OpenOffice story if I were you. The basis of your story is just a comment under the article!
17:45
@chrisjrn Maybe I can get an answer for you after tomorrow nights meeting. It isn't really my area so I am not totally clear ATM.
17:18
@chrisjrn They have been unofficially decided on. I think the official announcement is not too far off.
14:34
@solutious I'm not really experienced enough with #FreeBSD or #Arch to really say. I would say that updating arch is not always smooth.
14:00
08:32
@cassidyjames how about "Vat 32" - yet another crappy #Ubuntu remix distro, and hardly a unique drop.
03:06
Collabora, the open-source consulting company that's notably backing the development of GStreamer, PiTiVi, and Telepathy, among others, is now supporting a new per-window VNC system too. Thomas Thurman of Collabora has just announced the first public release of xzibit which offers a few features now, but Thurman has much greater plans ahead for this free software project...
00:21
The KDE team has announced the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.5.1 less than a month after the release of KDE SC 4.5.0...
August 31, 2010
17:54
if an !arduino is put into SLEEP_MODE_PWR_DOWN can it keep variables in memory? If not - which sleep mode would tis work in?
15:36
I2C on the #Arduino looks simple... This is going to take some reading!
13:47
Over night we ran into a hiccup with SSH authentications. For this we apologize.
When anyone uploaded a new SSH key after the roll out of our new setup, the new key would overwrite the existing SSH key store. If you attempted to authenticate to your repositories using SSH during this time, your authentication would have failed. A stray process in charge of handling the store kept us in check and it took us a while to track it down.
A couple of hours ago we rolled out a fix for the problem and all of your SSH authentications should be working as expected.
Onto better news…
After switching the main application servers over during our 1 hour maintenance period, we began everyone’s repositories were migrated from our EC2 storage system to the Contegix data center asynchronously. When the last repository was switched over, we turned off the EC2 load balancer and began redirecting all traffic directly to Contegix.
The performance numbers are in and hopefully you all are seeing the same level of increase that we are!
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Many thanks to everyone for their patience during this migration period.
We’ll be posting a follow-up post with more technical juicy details on the migration and how we did it.
12:21
@solutious #Arch Linux is generally good but comes down to what you are looking for in a distro. Recommended if you aren't scared of CLI.
12:19
The developers behind XBMC (formerly known as the X-Box Media Center) have announced their first beta release of XBMC 10.0, which is codenamed Dharma. After being in development for a number of months, this open-source multi-media project hopes they soon will be announcing the final release of XBMC 10.0...
10:53
@azzorcist while it is *theoretically* possible to recover *some* data after being completely wiped it is practically impossible.
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09:36
I just impulse purchased a #DWex #Arduino board. Watch formfactor. Open Source watch! Sync alarms via #XBee? http://ur1.ca/1e8bz
02:51
Mozilla has released the first alpha version of its Firefox Mobile (& Fennec& ) browser for Android and the Nokia N900 smartphone. The Fennec alpha provides Firefox sync with Mozilla's desktop browser, and adds a new Electrolysis feature, allowing the browser interface to run in a separate process from the one rendering Web content, says Mozilla....
August 30, 2010
16:03
@tamasrepus That's a good way of doing it. Might also encourage group spamming idiots to not !group !tag !every !thing !they !say.
16:00
@lstench Restrictive in support conditions, restrictive in environment, application and license choices. Look at #SLED to see what I mean.
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@stimpyjcat #OpenSource comes from "anti and pro stuff". Take that away and you are cutting off the source of innovation.
15:08
@richslxh #Ubuntu does not have #Debian - they have their own broken knock-off. Though I definitely agree that they are often over-sold.
15:06
@lstench because they are too restrictive to the user and they also offer practically nothing in return for the money spent (if you pay).
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@richslxh I still use Debian sometimes and I have an Arch VM that I play with. I used to hate Fedora but since F10 it has become best IMO.
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