Samsung Claims Innocence in Face of Benchmark-Rigging Allegations

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July 31, 2013

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Samsung has responded to allegations made by AnandTech, claiming that it is innocent of any wrongdoing. Yesterday, the sitereported that Samsung engineered the Galaxy S4’s benchmarking performance by allowing the GPU to run a higher clock speed than normal (533MHz vs. 480MHz), giving an 11 percent boost that users would not be able to attain under normal conditions. Samsung’s response? “[We] did not use a specific tool on purpose to achieve higher benchmark scores.”

Samsung adds that, “under normal conditions, the Galaxy S4 operates up to 533MHz at its best performance.” The Korean manufacturer says certain “full screen apps” (any app in which the status bar isn’t present) such as the camera, browser, video player, and benchmarking…

A Year of Linux Desktop at Westcliff High School

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July 31, 2013

Around a year ago, a school in the southeast of England, Westcliff High School for Girls Academy (WHSG), began switching its student-facing computers to Linux, with KDE providing the desktop software. The school’s Network Manager, Malcolm Moore, contacted us at the time. Now, a year on, he got in touch again to let us know how he and the students find life in a world without Windows.

Tool Time: Implementing Configuration Management, Properly

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July 31, 2013

Don’t be a CM fashion victim

Configuration Management (CM) isn’t just about IT, but in the space I have, I want to look at some issues around implementing an IT CM solution.…

Distribution Release: Superb Mini Server 2.0.5

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July 31, 2013

Superb Mini Server (SMS) 2.0.5 has been released. SMS is a Slackware-based distribution designed for servers and featuring Webmin, a web-based system administration utility. From the release announcement: “Superb Mini Server version 2.0.5 released (Linux kernel 3.4.55). SMS-2.0.5 features the latest LTS Linux kernel 3.4.55 and brings several….

Linux Is Still A Lemon On The 2013 MacBook Air

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July 31, 2013

While the 2013 Haswell-based Apple MacBook Air has been on the market for the better part of two months, the Linux kernel still isn’t playing nicely with this very light laptop that under OS X boasts a long battery life…

Gartner Tags Convergence of Tech Trends as Linchpin to IT Success

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July 30, 2013

Mix of cloud, mobile, big data, social collaboration will be hallmark of future IT success, says Gartner analyst at Catalyst Conference.

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MediaTek Mints Big.Little Quad-Core SoC, Octa-Core Due Soon

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July 30, 2013

MediaTek announced a quad-core system-on-chip with dual ARM Cortex-A15 and dual Cortex-A7 cores that is said to be the first Big.Little SoC to operate all four cores simultaneously. The tablet-focused MT8135 is further equipped with a new PowerVR Series6 G6200 GPU from Imagination Technologies, and will be followed by an eight-core “True Octa-Core” Big.Little SoC […]

Freedreno DRM/Gallium3D Shines Well For ARM

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July 30, 2013

The reverse-engineered Freedreno driver for open-source Qualcomm Adreno graphics support is quickly taking shape as the leading ARM Linux graphics driver for the (non-Android) Linux desktop…

Reiser4 File-System Updated For Linux 3.10 Kernel

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July 30, 2013

The out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system has been updated so it can be used with the stable Linux 3.10 kernel series…

Ubuntu’s Forums Return

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July 30, 2013

Canonical has announced the return of the Ubuntu forums to normal service; there is also a detailed description of how the system was compromised. “In summary, the root cause was a combination of a compromised individual account and the configuration settings in vBulletin, the Forums application software. There was no compromise of Ubuntu itself, or any other Canonical or Ubuntu services. We have repaired and hardened the Ubuntu Forums, and as the problematic settings are the default behaviour in vBulletin, we are working with vBulletin staff to change and/or better document these settings.” It all started with a cross-site scripting attack.