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  1. Re:Really? by omnichad · · Score: 1 · on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work

    Hope you've run WDIDLE on all those Green drives. As the other commenter said.

    http://www.ngohq.com/news/19805-critical-design-flaw-found-in-wd-caviar-green-hdds.html

    WD Greens are intentionally sabotaged against running in a RAID, but I still use them. And they work OK for slow storage.

  2. Re:Yea, this is going to stand the test in court . by rvw · · Score: 1 · on EA's New User Agreement Bans Lawsuits

    RTFA! It does not apply in the EU and several other countries, because there you have proper laws protecting customers from BS like this.

    This provision applies to all consumers to the fullest extent allowable by law, but expressly excludes residents of Quebec, Russia, Switzerland and the Member States of the European Union.

    Read more: http://www.ngohq.com/news/20584-eas-new-user-agreement-bans-lawsuits.html#ixzz1YsQpy5t2

  3. Re:That's not was the Mesa devs say by malloc · · Score: 4, Informative · on OpenGL 4.0 Spec Released

    Yeah, but anyone using OpenGL with X is going to be using either the Nvidia proprietary drivers or ATI proprietary drivers.

    The OSS offerings do not provide nearly the same level of performance, unfortunately.

    So again, from a real world practical standpoint, Mesa isn't in use anyway.

    Unless you meant to say "OpenGL 3.0" This is absolutely not accurate. Has your "real world" been isolated to workstation CAD and/or heavy gaming users? Those are the only groups where binary non-mesa drivers are used almost universally, but they are a minority. Intel, which has over half the graphics market only uses mesa. Your default Fedora and upcoming Ubuntu 10.4 installs use mesa for both amd and nvidia chips. AMD actively supports the open driver and is working to make that the main driver.

    The continued development on gallium points to mesa gaining more traction. I think the trend is for binary drivers to become less and less common in the future.

    -Malloc

  4. Slashdot got Trolled by Zephiris · · Score: 1 · on NVidia Cripples PhysX "Open" API

    The "original source" of the perplexing xbitlabs article. An internet forum, not confirmed nor corroborated by anyone. Here's hoping that xbitlabs publishes a retraction for their non-existant fact checking and/or technical editor oversight: http://www.ngohq.com/graphic-cards/16223-nvidia-disables-physx-when-ati-card-is-present.html

    (For what it's worth, NGOHQ was also the source of the rumor about ATI adding PhysX support themselves, along with 'Russian Hackers' publishing info on how to enable PhysX on ATI 'next week' last year.)