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| Battery "Bug" Caused by Batteries, Not by Windows 7 |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2010-02-08 23:55:22 |
| The past few weeks or so, there's been a lot of interest in a supposed battery status report bug in Windows 7. After installing Windows 7, some users reported seeing "consider replacing your battery"-warnings in systems that appeared to be operating just fine on Windows XP or Vista. After extensive research, Steven Sinofsky has now explained on the Engineering 7 blog that the fault is not with Windows 7 - it really, really is your battery. |
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| AMD Reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, To Challege Intel in Laptops |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2010-02-08 23:34:27 |
| "The 'Llano' processor that AMD described today in an ISSCC session is not a CPU, and it's not a GPU - instead, it's a hybrid design that the chipmaker is calling an 'application processor unit', or APU. Whatever you call it, it could well give Intel a run for its money in the laptop market, by combining a full DX11-compatible GPU with four out-of-order CPU cores on a single, 32nm processor die." |
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| Concept: Stream Adaptive Computer System, Locus OS |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2010-02-08 21:38:25 |
| Developed by industrial designer Barton Smith, the Stream Adaptive Computer System is an interesting take on making computing easier and more adaptable to suit the user's current needs. Today, he also unveiled the operating system and user interface that would run on Stream. It's... Amazing. |
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| Power7: Big Blue Eye on UNIX |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2010-02-08 19:38:44 |
| "The scuttlebutt is that IBM seemed perfectly content to wait until May to launch the Power7-based Power Systems servers, but something changed and compelled the company to move up the announcement of its first machines using the eight-core processor to today. Big Blue is not in a habit of explaining its motives or its timing for product launches, but it seems clear that IBM wanted to get out in front of a whole lot of processor and systems launches that are expected between now and the summer." |
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| Dropping Mac OS X 10.4 Support in Gecko 1.9.3 |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2010-02-08 19:33:59 |
| Mozilla has announced that they are going to drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger definitively. "Mac OS X 10.4 was released in April of 2005 and a lot has changed since then," Josh Aas writes, "We would like to take advantage of more modern technologies on Mac OS X and 10.4 support has been a hindrance. Where we can work around supporting 10.4, doing so consumes valuable time and effort. Neither Chrome nor Safari has to deal with this." |
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| Some Changes to OSNews Features and Information Display |
| By David Adams on 2010-02-08 19:29:34 |
| We've been working on an "OSNews version 5" upgrade for several months, and with several months to go, we decided to make some incremental changes to OSNews on the existing codebase. The major change, as you probably already noticed, is that we've removed the "Page1/Page2" tabs and instead have OSNews stories with original content and commentary in one column, and news, items on OS-related topics gleaned from other sources in the other. Read on for more details on the changes we've implemented. |
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| Introducing Pinta, a Gtk+ Clone of Paint.NET |
| By Thom Holwerda, submitted by kragil on 2010-02-08 13:23:34 |
| You may remember that back in November last year, I wrote about the lack of a decent Paint.NET-like application for Linux (or, more specifically, for Gtk+ distributions, since Qt has Krita). As it turns out, this compelled Novell employee Jonathan Pobst to code a Paint.NET clone in Gtk+ using Cairo. Version 0.1 is here, and it's remarkably advanced for something so young. |
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| Windows Phone 7: No Multitasking, Stricter Microsoft QA |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2010-02-07 19:11:44 |
| Later this month, Microsoft will most likely unveil |
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| Microsoft To Patch 17-Year-Old Computer Bug |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2010-02-05 23:46:29 |
| "The ancient bug was discovered by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy in January 2010 and involves a utility that allows newer versions of Windows to run very old programs. Mr Ormandy has found a way to exploit this utility in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 as well as Windows Vista and Windows 7. The patch for this vulnerability will appear in the February security update. Five of the vulnerabilities being patched at the same time allow attackers to effectively hijack a Windows PC and run their own programs on it." |
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| OGG in Silverlight, MS Join SVG, Flash Improvements, WebGL |
| By Kroc Camen on 2010-02-05 23:28:02 |
| A quick round up of various web-related news items. First up, a new open source product entitled the "Highgate media suite" will bring OGG video decoding to Silverlight. Microsoft have just joined the SVG working group (arguably 10 years late, but it's better than nothing). Adobe promise significant improvements in Flash 10.1, including Core Animation rendering on OS X and lowered CPU usage. Finally, CoperLicht--a WebGL JavaScript 3D engine (Quake in JS will be here one day) |
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