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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* A Different Perspective On Snow Leopard's Exchange Support
* Where's Waldo (the Submarine)?
* Google Japan To Help Victims of Street View Abuse
* Con Kolivas Returns, With a Desktop-Oriented Linux Scheduler
* US Supercomputer Uses Flash Storage Drives
* Cell Phone Cost Calculator Killed In Canada
* How Snow Leopard Cut ObjC Launch Time In Half
* Running Old Desktops Headless?
* Has Texting Replaced Talking For Teens?
* Measuring Input Latency In Console Games
* Has the WebOS Finally Arrived?
* Can the Ares Program Be Salvaged?
* Additional Lab To Be Added To the ISS
* Accused Killer Asks For Online Media Users' IDs
* Thieves Clear Out NJ Apple Store In 31 Seconds
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| A Different Perspective On Snow Leopard's Exchange Support |
| from the your-jeans-are-100pct-patches dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 05, @20:01 (Communications) |
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2344201/A-Different-Perspective-On-Snow-Leopards-|
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imamac writes "Apple Insider has an [0]interesting perspective on the MS
Exchange support built into Mac OS X 10.6 and how it essentially frees
Apple from all things Microsoft: 'Windows Enthusiasts like to spin
Apple's support for Exchange on the iPhone and in Snow Leopard as
endorsement of Microsoft in the server space. From another angle, Apple
is reducing its dependence upon Microsoft's client software, weakening
Microsoft's ability to hold back and dumb down its Mac offerings at
Apple's expense. More importantly, Apple is providing its users with
additional options that benefit both Mac users and the open source
community.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/05/2344201
Links:
0. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/05/inside_mac_os_x_snow_leopard_exchange_support.html
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| Where's Waldo (the Submarine)? |
| from the keep-an-eye-out dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 05, @23:03 (Robotics) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2348206/Wheres-Waldo-the-Submarine |
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[0]stoolpigeon writes "Scientists on Florida's Gulf Coast are [1]trying
to find an underwater robot that has mysteriously vanished. The robot
from the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota has been missing since
Monday. The robot, which cost about $100,000, was equipped with a
detector to find red tide, a toxic algae bloom. The detector was valued
at another $30,000. Scientists aren't sure what happened to the robot,
which is nicknamed Waldo."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/05/2348206
Links:
0. mailto:bittercode@gmail
1. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32702588/ns/us_news-weird_news/
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| Google Japan To Help Victims of Street View Abuse |
| from the eviscerate-and-boil-them dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 06, @02:18 (Google) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/0152201/Google-Japan-To-Help-Victims-of-Street-View|
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[0]Joshua writes "After repeated concerns from Japanese citizens over
privacy rights violations involving Street View and a probe by Japan's
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, [1]Google Japan has
announced that [2]it will help victims of Street View photo abuse take
action against offending sites. Google Japan said it would send requests
to the sites for removal of maliciously used Street View images. It will
also potentially block the site from Google's search engine and consider
legal action for those sites which ignore or refuse the request. Action
to this extent against secondary-use abusers is reportedly a first in
relationship to [3]Google's Street View worldwide."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/06/0152201
Links:
0. mailto:JoshuaInNippon@gmail.com
1. http://www.google.co.jp/
2. http://www.examiner.com/x-16352-Japan-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m9d4-Google-Japan-fights-concerns-about-Street-View
3. http://www.google.co.jp/help/maps/streetview/
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| Con Kolivas Returns, With a Desktop-Oriented Linux Scheduler |
| from the dare-not-speak-its-name dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 06, @05:29 (Programming) |
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/0433209/Con-Kolivas-Returns-With-a-Desktop-Orient|
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[0]myvirtualid writes "[1]Con Kolivas has done what he swore never to do:
returned to the Linux kernel and written a new ��� and, according to him ���
waaay better scheduler for the desktop environment. In fact, BFS appears
to outperform existing schedulers right up until one hits a 16-CPU
machine, at which point he guesses performance would degrade somewhat.
[2]According to Kolivas, BFS 'was designed to be forward looking only,
make the most of lower spec machines, and not scale to massive hardware.
i.e. [sic] it is a desktop orientated scheduler, with extremely low
latencies for excellent interactivity by design rather than 'calculated,'
with rigid fairness, nice priority distribution and extreme scalability
within normal load levels.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/06/0433209
Links:
0. http://pwwnowatgmaildotcom/
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas
2. http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/bfs-faq.txt
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| US Supercomputer Uses Flash Storage Drives |
| from the every-subsystem-counts dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 06, @08:21 (Data Storage) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/052226/US-Supercomputer-Uses-Flash-Storage-Dri|
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[0]angry tapir writes "The San Diego Supercomputer Center has built a
[1]high-performance computer with solid-state drives, which the center
says could help solve science problems faster than systems with
traditional hard drives. The flash drives will provide faster data
throughput, which should help the supercomputer analyze data an 'order of
magnitude faster' than hard drive-based supercomputers, according to
Allan Snavely, associate director at SDSC. SDSC intends to use the HPC
system ��� called Dash ��� to develop new cures for diseases and to
understand the development of Earth."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/06/052226
Links:
0. http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/
1. http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/317190/supercomputer_uses_flash_storage_drives
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| Cell Phone Cost Calculator Killed In Canada |
| from the careful-with-that-light-of-day dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday September 06, @09:26 (Communications) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1155227/Cell-Phone-Cost-Calculator-Killed-In-Canad|
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inject_hotmail.com writes "Internet and law genius Michael Geist writes
about some [0]shenanigans by the cell phone carriers and the Canadian
government in his column in The Star. Canadian taxpayers funded a 'Cell
Phone Cost Calculator' so that the average person could theoretically
wade through the disjointed and incongruent package offerings. The
calculator wound up being yanked a couple weeks before launch. Geist
suggests that the major cell carriers lobbied the appropriate public
officials to have the program nixed because it would bite into their
profit if the general public could make sense out of pricing and fees.
Geist continues, 'Sensing that [Tony] Clement (Industry Minister) was
facing pressure to block the calculator, Canadian consumer groups wrote
to the minister, urging him to stick with it.' Moving forward, Michael
makes a novel suggestion, one that would show an immense level of
understanding by the government: 'With public dollars having funded the
mothballed project, the government should now consider releasing the
calculator's source code and enable other groups to pick up where the OCA
(Office of Consumer Affairs) left off.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/06/1155227
Links:
0. http://thestar.com/article/688547
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| How Snow Leopard Cut ObjC Launch Time In Half |
| from the paring-down dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday September 06, @10:33 (OS X) |
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1343209/How-Snow-Leopard-Cut-ObjC-Launch-Time-In-|
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[0]MBCook writes "Greg Parker has an excellent technical article on his
blog about the changes to the dynamic linker (dyld) for Objective-C that
[1]Snow Leopard uses to cut launch time in half and cut about 1/2 MB of
memory per application. 'In theory, a shared library could be different
every time your program is run. In practice, you get the same version of
the shared libraries almost every time you run, and so does every other
process on the system. The system takes advantage of this by building the
dyld shared cache. The shared cache contains a copy of many system
libraries, with most of dyld's linking and loading work done in advance.
Every process can then share that shared cache, saving memory and launch
time.' He also has a post on [2]the new thread-local garbage collection
that Snow Leopard uses for Objective-C."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/06/1343209
Links:
0. http://www.foobarsoft.com/
1. http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog/archive/2009/09/01/objc_explain_Selector_uniquing_in_the_dyld_shared_cache.html
2. http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog/archive/2009/08/28/objc_explain_Thread-local_garbage_collection.html
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| Running Old Desktops Headless? |
| from the must-be-the-new-chicken-os dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday September 06, @11:36 (Operating Systems) |
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1425233/Running-Old-Desktops-Headless |
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CajunArson writes "I recently dug up an old P4 that is in fine working
order and did what any self-respecting Slashdotter would do: I slapped
Linux on it to experiment with making an NFSv4 server. One other thing I
did was to remove the old AGP video card to save on power, since this is
a headless machine. Now, I removed the video card after the installation,
and I'm doing just fine as long as the machine will boot to a state where
networking works and I can SSH to it. My question: Is there a good
solution to allow me to log into this box if it cannot get on the
network? I'm looking for solutions other than slapping a video card back
in. In my case, I will have physical access to the machine. A few caveats
to make it interesting: This question is for plain old desktop/laptop
systems, not network servers designed to run headless. Also, I am aware
of the serial console, but even 'old' machines may only have USB, and I
have not seen any good documentation on how and whether USB works as a
substitute. Finally, if there is any way to access the BIOS settings
without needing a video card, that would be an extra bonus, but I'm
satisfied with just local OS access starting from the GRUB prompt."
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/06/1425233
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| Has Texting Replaced Talking For Teens? |
| from the children-should-be-seen-and-not-heard dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday September 06, @12:38 (Cellphones) |
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/166202/Has-Texting-Replaced-Talking-For-Teens |
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Sue Shellenbarger has an interesting essay in the
WSJ where she talks about [1]the 2,000 incoming text messages her son
racks up every month ��� more than 60 two-way communications via text
message every day ��� and her surprise that 2,000 monthly text messages is
[2]about average for today's teenagers. 'I have seen my son suffer no
apparent ill effects (except a sore thumb now and then), and he reaps a
big benefit, of easy, continuing contact with many friends,' writes
Shellenbarger. 'Also, the time he spends texting replaces the hours teens
used to spend on the phone; both my kids dislike talking on the phone,
and say they really don't need to do so to stay in touch with friends and
family.' But does texting make today's kids stupid, as Mark Bauerlein
writes in his book ' [3]The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age
Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future? 'I don't think so.
It may make them annoying, when they try to text and talk to you at the
same time,' writes Shellenbarger, adding, 'I have found him more engaged
and easier to communicate with from afar, because he is constantly
available via text message and responds with a faithfulness and speed
that any mother would find reassuring.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/06/166202
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2009/09/03/for-teens-has-texting-replaced-talking/
2. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574348493483201758.html
3. http://www.newsweek.com/id/138536
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| Measuring Input Latency In Console Games |
| from the button-mashing-efficacy dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday September 06, @13:43 (GUI) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1640218/Measuring-Input-Latency-In-Console-Gam|
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The Digital Foundry blog has an article about measuring an important but
often nebulous aspect of console gameplay: input lag. Using a video
camera and a custom input monitor made by console modder Ben Heck, and
after calibrating for display lag, they [0]tested a variety of games to
an accuracy of one video frame in order to determine the latency between
pressing a button and seeing its effect on the screen. Quoting: "If a
proven methodology can be put into place, games reviewers can better
inform their readers, but more importantly developers can benefit in
helping to eliminate unwanted lag from their code. ... It's fair to say
that players today have become conditioned to what the truly hardcore PC
gamers would consider to be almost unacceptably high levels of latency to
the point where cloud gaming services such as OnLive and Gaikai rely
heavily upon it. The average videogame runs at 30fps, and appears to have
an average lag in the region of 133ms. On top of that is additional delay
from the display itself, bringing the overall latency to around 166ms.
Assuming that the most ultra-PC gaming set-up has a latency less than one
third of that, this is good news for cloud gaming in that there's a good
80ms or so window for game video to be transmitted from client to
server."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/06/1640218
Links:
0. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-lag-factor-article
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| Has the WebOS Finally Arrived? |
| from the alien-craft-constructed-entirely-of-buzzwords dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 06, @14:54 (The Internet) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1816203/Has-the-WebOS-Finally-Arrived |
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SphereOfInfluence writes "Dion Hinchcliffe over on ZDNet declared in [0]a
new post that the Web OS has finally arrived and that businesses and IT
departments must adjust to the fact that everything's starting to move to
the cloud. He cites John Hagel's so-called [1]big business shifts of the
21st century and claims cloud computing, crowdsourcing, open APIs,
Software-as-a-Service are the future of the workplace. He goes on to
present a compelling visual model of the [2]Web OS circa 2009 and
examples to back up some of the statements."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/06/1816203
Links:
0. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=771
1. http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2009/08/defining-the-big-shift.html
2. http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/web_os_2009_large.png
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| Can the Ares Program Be Salvaged? |
| from the classic-special-interest dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 06, @16:00 (NASA) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1949247/Can-the-Ares-Program-Be-Salvaged |
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[0]MarkWhittington writes "The [1]Augustine Commission has not officially
presented its findings to the White House, but already a push back is
starting to occur over the possibility that the Ares 1 rocket will be
canceled after three billion dollars and over four years of development.
According to a story in the Orlando Sentinel contractors involved in the
development of the Ares 1 have started a quiet but persistent [2]public
relations campaign to save the Ares 1, criticized in some quarters
because of cost and technical problems."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/06/1949247
Links:
0. mailto:mwhittingt@sprynet.com
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Review_of_United_States_Human_Space_Flight_Plans_Committee
2. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/orl-ares-rocket-not-dead-090609,0,1246493.story
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| Additional Lab To Be Added To the ISS |
| from the heck-what's-one-more dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 06, @17:10 (Space) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/216215/Additional-Lab-To-Be-Added-To-the-ISS |
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[0]Matt_dk writes "Apparently the International Space Station is going to
get bigger. NASA and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) are preparing to sign
an agreement [1]to add another laboratory to the ISS by using a modified
multipurpose logistics module (Raffaello) during the final Space Shuttle
mission. It will be attached in September 2010 during Endeavour's STS-133
mission. The idea had originally been rejected, but earlier this year ISS
program manager Michael Suffredini said using an MPLM for an additional
module was being reconsidered."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/06/216215
Links:
0. http://spacefellowship.com/
1. http://spacefellowship.com/2009/09/06/additional-lab-to-be-added-to-the-iss/
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| Accused Killer Asks For Online Media Users' IDs |
| from the who's-poisoned-which-well dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 06, @18:16 (Media) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/224223/Accused-Killer-Asks-For-Online-Media-Users-I|
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SpaceGhost writes "According to the Houston Chronicle, the attorney for a
Texas man charged in the death of a four-year-old 'has [0]asked several
local media outlets to provide the names of readers and listeners who
commented about his client online,' stating that his client 'was struck
by the conclusions people drew about his client and the specificity of
some comments that made it appear they came from people with personal
knowledge of the case.' Media outlets who have been subpoenaed include
The Houston Chronicle, the Conroe Courier, KHOU (Houston area Channel 11,
CBS affiliate) and KTRK (Houston area Channel 13, ABC affiliate)."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/06/224223
Links:
0. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6603599.html
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| Thieves Clear Out NJ Apple Store In 31 Seconds |
| from the you're-soooo-specific dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 06, @19:20 (Portables (Apple)) |
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/2319258/Thieves-Clear-Out-NJ-Apple-Store-In-31-Se|
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[0]theodp writes "An amazing surveillance tape of a burglary in progress
at a New Jersey Apple Store shows [1]five perps in masks smashing the
plate-glass doors at 2:05 a.m., signaling to the security guard that they
had a gun, and clearing off the display tables with the efficiency of a
Indy 500 pit crew. The take: [2]23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones and 9 iPod
touches in 31 seconds flat. Estimated value, based on average selling
price: $46,345. No word yet on whether [3]Microsoft's Laptop Hunters have
alibis."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/06/2319258
Links:
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qER69SvyYV8
2. http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/09/03/smash-n-grab-31-seconds-23-macbooks/
3. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C6F0DDC317078684
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