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Patent-Free Approach to Real-Time Free Systems
Karin Kosina writes: "Real-time Free Software solutions are moving forward with the
first release of ADEOS, a hardware abstraction layer allowing a
real-time kernel and a general purpose kernel to co-exist. RTAI
will eventually use ADEOS services, thus offering a real-time kernel
based on a principle clearly different from the 5,995,745 US Patent. Read the official press release by Philippe Gerum, Karim Yaghmour, Paolo Mantegazza et al. for details."
Ok... Say it with me...
G to da mutha phukken oatse
C to da mutha phukken izzzzzzex
HellZ yeah, you know how it is bizznitch
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-- You are such a fucking fag
Plus its just damn cool to have nanokernels to show up those microkernel snobs. If the kernels get any smaller, they will be subject to noticeable quantum effects. It will be a little unnerving if my operating system dissolves into a cloud of possible states every time I turn my back.
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 03, @10:54AM
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from the step-in-the-right-direction dept.
MoD writes "From CNet: District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper on Friday overturned a late April ruling that required the maker of ReplayTV set-top box technology to write and install software to monitor what its customers were watching."
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Interviews: Ask Moshe Bar about [your choice here]
Posted by Roblimo on Monday June 03, @10:00AM
from the rennaisance-men-of-the-computer-age dept.
Moshe Bar is (pick one) 1. A Linux kernel developer; 2. A motorcycle enthusiast; 3. The primary openMosix maintainer; 4. A respected Linux device driver writer; 5. Author of several books and many articles about Linux; 6. Newly married. 7. A Talmudic scholar; 8. All of the above. The correct answer is 8, and since in addition to (or perhaps because of) all this Moshe is a popular guy, this interview is here by reader request. (Yes, we take interview requests; send them to robin@roblimo.com.) Ask Moshe whatever you wish, one question per post. We'll send him 10 of the highest moderated questions and post his answers as soon as he gets them back to us.
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Germany, IBM Sign Major Linux Deal
Posted by timothy on Monday June 03, @08:57AM
from the und-jetz dept.
Skip Franklin writes: "IBM and the German government are getting together to implement Linux as the government's computing platform of choice. The deal is being touted as a big blow to Microsoft, although personally I prefer the glass-half-full perspective of a big win for Open Source. The BBC has the story."
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Napster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 03, @08:02AM
from the no-surprise-there dept.
Joey Patterson writes "CNN Money reports that Napster has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy." Thank god the industry shut them down... now that piracy has been stopped they can all sleep much better.
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Your Online Marketplace for Classified Jet Parts
Posted by timothy on Monday June 03, @07:16AM
from the flux-capacitor-shipped-separately dept.
jonerik writes: "Reuters is reporting that the U.S. Air Force is less than pleased about the recent posting of a number of sensitive jet communications components on eBay, including parts for the SR-71 spy plane, the F-16 fighter, the KC-10 tanker, and the giant C-5 transport. According to the article, the parts had sat in a warehouse for 12 years after being lost in shipping when the dealer, Norb Novocin, bought the lot for $244 in an unclaimed property sale. Novocin ended up selling four of the items to bidders in a recent auction, including an X-Band Weather Radar Modulator for $500 and a high-frequency radio circuit card for $32. The Air Force is looking into the incident and Novocin is cooperating."
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Opera 6.03 - The Wild Child of Browsers?
Posted by timothy on Monday June 03, @06:38AM
from the home-of-the-singing-fat-lady dept.
IEEE1394 writes: "Ever wondered what other Internet browsers are available outside of Internet Explorer? Opera 6.03 from Opera Software boasts itself on being 'the fastest browser on earth.' Does it really live up to its claim of being unique and being fast? Is it the wild child of the browser family and can it ever surpass Internet Explorer as the browser of choice? Let's find out." Funny, IE isn't my browser of choice
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Data Quality Act
Posted by michael on Monday June 03, @05:45AM
from the not-quantity dept.
The New York Times has a heads-up about a little-noticed add-on to a massive appropriations bill, signed into law by Clinton but taking effect in October. The amendment allows anyone to challenge data published by the Federal government and have it changed or deleted. The main proponents of the law are pro-business groups seeking to tie up environmental and similar regulations by challenging the government's data.
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Apple: 17" and 19" inch iMacs Coming in 3Q
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 03, @02:39AM
from the now-thats-what-I'm-talking-about dept.
ikioi writes "It looks like Apple will have 17" and 19" flat panel iMacs later this year." It's funny- the publicity photos of the 15 inch macs really make it look a lot nicer then it is. I finally saw one up close a few weeks ago- the arm and screen is super smooth, but the base looks like a cheap toy. That said, larger screens for the iMac definitely push it into a new territory... not sure if it would convince me to buy one, but it sure would add magic shell to the ice cream.
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SEC Settles Microsoft Accounting Investigation
Posted by michael on Sunday June 02, @11:28PM
from the cooking-the-books dept.
guttentag writes "The Securities and Exchange Commission has wrapped up its two-year investigation into Microsoft's accounting practices. The investigation focused on "cookie jar" accounting practices in which a company reports that it earned less money than it actually did, secretly storing the unreported money to artificially boost earnings in the future. The SEC called off its investigation in exchange for Microsoft's promise that it will not break the rules in the future, though the company is not admitting that it broke rules in the past. Microsoft publicly states that it has $40 Billion on hand." Gates realized a long time ago that regardless of actual performance, if you "beat estimates" people will buy your stock. So, he's arranging it so that no matter what the actual performance is, Microsoft always "beats estimates". If your analyst estimate is low 61 out of 63 times, either A) you need a new analyst or B) someone is feeding the analyst bad numbers. In this case, probably both.
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Sun Discovers Dumb Terminals
Posted by michael on Sunday June 02, @08:46PM
from the o-in-old-economy dept.
Yahoo has a story about how Sun is practicing a sort of floating workforce - many employees have no permanent desks, they just come in and log on to a dumb terminal, err, thin client. Besides being a sneaky way to encourage employees to arrive ever earlier at work, it probably is cheaper to run the business off a few large Sun servers - at least for Sun.
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-- You are such a fucking fag
The CLIT now 0wns this entire discussion!
-- You are such a fucking fag
n/m
(n/m)
About this "clit" you speak so highly of.
I always assumed it was pronounced "goat sex", but then why about "goatse" (G to da mutha phukken oatse)??
cpeterso
I can't wait for Linus to flame this realtime nanokernel. I mean, considering how much he trolls about microkernels, he'll be off da hizzook trolling about these damn nanokernelz.