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Drizzle's Future Moving to Rackspace?

Slashdot.org - 38 min 16 sec ago
abartels writes "It seems like there's been nothing but bad news and resignations coming from Oracle since it finally managed to close the deal on Sun. Finally, there's good news in that Drizzle seems to have a bright future ahead. It just isn't with Oracle but with the Rackspace Cloud."

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OpenGL 4.0 Spec Released

Slashdot.org - 1 hour 13 min ago
tbcpp writes "The Khronos Group has announced the release of the OpenGL® 4.0 specification. Among the new features: two new shader stages that enable the GPU to offload geometry tessellation from the CPU; per-sample fragment shaders and programmable fragment shader input positions; drawing of data generated by OpenGL, or external APIs such as OpenCL, without CPU intervention; shader subroutines for significantly increased programming flexibility; 64-bit double precision floating point shader operations and inputs/outputs for increased rendering accuracy and quality. Khronos has also released an OpenGL 3.3 specification, together with a set of ARB extensions, to enable as much OpenGL 4.0 functionality as possible on previous generation GPU hardware."

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How do I find an old Wall posting on Facebook?

AskDaveTaylor - 1 hour 54 min ago

This is going to sound dumb, but a few days ago I posted a joke and got a ton of great responses (comments) from my friends. Now I want to show my girlfriend and can't find it because all I see is my most recent status update on my Wall. So, what the heck? How do I find my older stuff?


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Sony's PS3 Motion Controller Gets Demoed and Named

Slashdot.org - 1 hour 57 min ago
itwbennett writes "In a 45-minute press conference at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sony announced its motion controller, officially named the Playstation Move. The Move, consists of the Eye Toy (a camera pointed at the player) and a wand-like controller with a lighted ball at the end and a range of buttons on the shaft, writes blogger Peter Smith. 'Alternatively games can use two of the wands, or one wand and one "sub-controller" that has an analog stick (the camera is always required),' says Smith. 'If this is sounding very much like the Wii's Remote and Nunchuk well, you aren't far off (though at least there's no cable between the two parts to smack you in the face when things get heated).' Here are Smith's thoughts on the demo: 'All in all, the demos seemed OK, but I, at least, wasn't really blown away by any of them. That said, it's always hard to tell how well these systems work without actually trying them for yourself. You need to feel the connection (or lack thereof) between what your hands are doing and what's going on on-screen in order to be sure. For example, in the boxing demo the player did a quick spin move that led to a roundhouse punch. It's hard to say if his motion triggered a pre-set action (a 'combo') or if the system was able to track the controller that accurately, and was able to 'connect the dots' from when his body briefly occluded the wand to when it reappeared.'"

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Parallels Desktop 5 reigns in benchmark comparison tests - NetworkWorld.com

Linux News - 1 hour 58 min ago

Parallels Desktop 5 reigns in benchmark comparison tests
NetworkWorld.com
Introduced in November 2009, Parallels Desktop 5 software allows users, currently around 2 million of them, to run Windows, Linux and other operating ...

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Virtual Linux - Datamation

Linux News - 2 hours 22 min ago

Virtual Linux
Datamation
The definition of virtual Linux is as fluid as the Linux platform itself. For the desktop user, virtual Linux translates into being able to use Linux ...

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Geeks Rejoice! Linux Launches Online Merchandise Outlet - EcommerceJunkie.com (blog)

Linux News - 2 hours 22 min ago

Geeks Rejoice! Linux Launches Online Merchandise Outlet
EcommerceJunkie.com (blog)
The Linux Foundation, the non-profit arm dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, has opened a new online store featuring merchandise representative ...

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Accidental Wii Suicide

Slashdot.org - 2 hours 35 min ago
Paul Taylor noted a story that I would have thought to be an april fools day joke a few weeks from now, which makes it only seem more tragic. A 3 year shot himself with a gun after mistaking it for a Wii controller.

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Linux: Big With the Bulge Brackets - Securities Industry News (subscription)

Linux News - 2 hours 49 min ago

Linux: Big With the Bulge Brackets
Securities Industry News (subscription)
The open-source software Linux has become by far the most-widely used operating system among the largest firms on Wall Street, according to a presentation ...

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Gunter Ollmann: Time to Squish SQL Injection

SecurityFocus - 3 hours 8 sec ago
Time to Squish SQL Injection

Mark Rasch: Lazy Workers May Be Deemed Hackers

SecurityFocus - 3 hours 8 sec ago
Lazy Workers May Be Deemed Hackers

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Adam O'Donnell: The Scale of Security

SecurityFocus - 3 hours 8 sec ago
The Scale of Security

Mark Rasch: Hacker-Tool Law Still Does Little

SecurityFocus - 3 hours 8 sec ago
Hacker-Tool Law Still Does Little

Infocus: Enterprise Intrusion Analysis, Part One

SecurityFocus - 3 hours 8 sec ago
Enterprise Intrusion Analysis, Part One

Infocus: Responding to a Brute Force SSH Attack

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Responding to a Brute Force SSH Attack

Infocus: Data Recovery on Linux and <i>ext3</i>

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Data Recovery on Linux and <i>ext3</i>

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Infocus: WiMax: Just Another Security Challenge?

SecurityFocus - 3 hours 8 sec ago
WiMax: Just Another Security Challenge?

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Bill Gates No Longer World's Richest Man

Slashdot.org - 3 hours 15 min ago
alphadogg writes "Riding surging prices of his various telecom holdings, including giant mobile outfit America Movil, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth and nab the top spot on the 2010 Forbes list of the World's Billionaires." I'd still let the guy buy me dinner if he's ever in my town. He's probably still good for it even tho he's fallen on hard times.

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The Iterator, Countable and ArrayAccess SPL Interfaces

Devshed.com - 3 hours 35 min ago
In this first part of a short series, I'm going to introduce you to using the Iterator, Countable and ArrayAccess interfaces that come with the Standard PHP Library. You'll see how to implement some of the methods declared by the Iterator interface within a class that manipulates MySQL result sets via an intuitive API.
- For many PHP developers eager to apply the object-oriented paradigm in a more thorough and consistent manner, the release of PHP 5 brought a number of handy features that allowed them to achieve this goal in a truly painless fashion. This isnt breaking news, of course, but the inclusion of member ...

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