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"This is the third upgrade version since Curiosity's landing on Mars 16 months ago. Completing the switch from version 10 took about a week, Nasa said. An earlier switch to version 11 prompted an unintended reboot on November 7 and a return to version 10, but the latest transition went smoothly."

Mars rover Curiosity’s software upgraded

Theo de Raadt a FreeBSD security-ről

"FreeBSD has caught up to what OpenBSD has been doing for over 10 years," De Raadt (pictured above) told iTWire. "I see nothing new in their changes.

"You are not the only person who asked if we will now do something in the same direction as FreeBSD. We can't follow them - we were already leading in 2003."

"Basically, it is 10 years of FreeBSD stupidity. They don't know a thing about security. They even ignore relevant research in all fields, not just from us, but from everyone."

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Microsoft Update team - SVCHOST and Windows Update

Original Issue

In September we witnessed a large number of reports of SVCHOST taking high CPU for extended periods of time. This was primarily on Windows XP machines running IE6 or IE7. There were a few reports of this happening on Windows XP with IE8, but only a few.

A microsoftos Doug Neal levele: SVCHOST and Windows Update

Az Ars Technica cikke a témában:

Exponential algorithm making Windows XP miserable could be fixed

Amúgy meg lazán kapcsolódik:

Microsoft: jövőre veszélyes lesz az XP

Google acquires Boston Dynamics

Google confirmed on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The company, based in Waltham, Mass., has gained an international reputation for machines that walk with an uncanny sense of balance and even — cheetahlike — run faster than the fastest humans.

teljes hír: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/technology/google-adds-to-its-menagerie-of-robots.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Poor Man’s Spotify

Gondolom vannak egy páran akik valamely zenei streaming szolgáltatást vesznek igénybe. Spotify és társaira gondolok. Akik ezen szolgáltatások fizetős részét nem engedhetik meg maguknak, de szeretnének korlátok nélkül élvezni a kedvenc dalokat. Itt a megoldás. Poor Man’s Spotify azaz pms. https://github.com/np1/pms A pms OS független, szóval Windows, Mac és Linux felhasználók is használhatják problémák nélkül.