Unicode and locale problems rise up and bite at the strangest times; Juliet Kemp shows how to make Unicode, PuTTY, and Mutt work in harmony.
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Special Offer for MeeGo Developers: Qt Developer Days
Qt 4.7 and its exciting QML and Qt Declarative goodness has just launched, and the best place in the world to become an expert on it is at Qt Developer Days in Munich or San Francisco.
Through a special offer we negotiated with Qt Development Frameworks, MeeGo developers wishing to attend Qt Developer Days can attend Munich (11-13 October) or San Francisco (1-3 November) at an exclusive, reduced rate.
Get more information at MeeGo.com
Paying attention: when a FOSS advocate meets sociologists
The conference about “Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures and Generational Responsibility” mainly addressed at sociologists, confirmed to me the urgent need for hackers to talk much more with academics working in social/human studies.
For example, I learned that recent neurological research indicates that new digital tools and media can actually rewire the neurological pathways of the brain. From the point of view of a “Free-as-in-freedom” software advocate, you could hardly find better justifications that software interfaces must be as diverse and flexible (as in “modifiable by everybody”) as possible. If there were only one operating system and user interface around, all brains would be stimulated by them in one and only one way, which can’t possibly be a good thing, could it now?
Full report of the conference at http://stop.zona-m.net/node/186
Qt 4.7.0 Released
The Qt 4.7.0 release is out. “Although it’s a little more than nine months since Qt’s last feature release (4.6.0 on December 1st, 2009), the seeds of some of the new stuff in 4.7 were sown much earlier. Indeed, many of the ideas behind the biggest new feature in Qt 4.7.0, QtQuick, were born more than two years ago, not long after Qt 4.4 was released. We hope you’ll benefit from the effort and care that went into bringing the implementation of those ideas to maturity.” See the “What’s new in Qt 4.7” page for more information on this release.
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T-Platforms Rolls Out World’s Highest-Density GPU Blade System
Today Russian HPC vendor T-Platforms unveiled what it calls the world’s highest-density blade system. As the first blade rack to include the new NVIDIA X2070 GPU, the T-Platforms TB2-TL uses innovative packaging to deliver 105 Teraflops of double-precision peak performance in a single rack. The system is set to start shipping next quarter, and while the possibility of delivering a Petaflop in just 10 racks may sound impressive enough, the TB2-TL also achieves a record-breaking 1450 MFLOPS/Watt.
“We designed this solution for the high end segment of the supercomputer market,” said Vsevolod Opanasenko, CEO of T-Platforms. “Working with NVIDIA, we have architected the world’s most dense blade system while achieving a performance to power consumption ratio twice that of the top system now listed in the Green500. The TB2-TL will support petascale operations today while giving our customers the infrastructure necessary for the eventual transition to exascale.”
Read more at insideHPC
Kernel Prepatch 2.6.36-rc5
Linus has released the 2.6.36-rc5 prepatch, one day later than he had intended. “Nothing really stands out. Except perhaps that Al has obviously been looking at architecture sigreturn paths, and been finding problems, and Dan Rosenberg has been finding places where we copy structures to user space without having fully initialized them yet, leaking kernel stack contents. And we had that annoying x86-64 32-bit compat syscall bug that needed fixing for the _second_ time.” See the announcement for the short changelog, or the full changelog for all the details.
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Ubuntu Announces Application Review Process
The community manager for Ubuntu has announced that there is a new process in trial for application developers submitting their applications for inclusion in the Ubuntu’s Software Center
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Hole Closed in Bzip2 Compression Tool
A vulnerability in the widely used libbzip2 library could allow attackers to inject and execute code. An update is available to fix the hole
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Direct3D 10/11 Is Now Natively Implemented On Linux!
It’s a pity Luca Barbieri or any Mesa / Gallium3D developers are not at Oktoberfest as they are deserving of more than a few Maß of Augustiner. In fact, today a new Gallium3D state tracker was pushed into Mesa and it’s perhaps the most interesting state tracker for this open-source graphics driver architecture yet. It’s a state tracker that exposes Microsoft’s DirectX 10/11 API on Linux! And it’s already working and can be hooked into Wine!
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Amarok 2.3.2 with Enhanced Search & Podcast Management
Amarok 2.3.2 eliminates a number of bugs and adds improved podcast management, better search functions and a new Quick Start manual
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