http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/30/crunchpad-end/

Any rumours/news since Fusion Garage is not too far away? And yes, this is
really a shame and a pity.

Hey everybody,

The Singapore Perl Mongers meetup is this weekend. We've got no talks
planned, so it's likely to be a purely social meetup. It's at
Hackerspace.sg, Kampong Glam [1], this Saturday, running from 3pm
until 7pm or so (and, likely, beyond). It'll be a great chance to meet
up with the Perl community in Singapore, ask questions about our
programming language of choice, or just to check out Hackerspace.sg
and spend an afternoon in the company of geeks. You can RSVP on
Facebook [2], on the Singapore-pm mailing list [3], or just drop by.

cheers,
Gaurav

[1] http://www.hackerspace.sg/ should have all the details. The
address is 70A Bussorah Street, Singapore - 199483. Let me know if you
have any difficulties finding the place.
[2] http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199599228680&index=1
[3] http://singapore.pm.org/mailing-list/

Great work on Hackerspace guys! I would love to attend the
housewarming if I could... Oh I had a couple of Linux penguins and
SUSE gecko soft toys that I wanted to donate for Hackerspace
decoration, will drop them by next time I'm in SG.

Cheers,
James

2009/11/18 Luther Goh Lu Feng <elfgoh@...>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to give a quick shoutout for an initiative that I am
> involved in. For a long time, there has been many people in Singapore
> wanting to form a group where tech meets art. This initiative is known
> as Hackerspace.SG. And what was a dream is now reality.
>
> Hackerspace.SG[1] [2]hasrecently setup at 70A Bussorah Street!
>
> We're a little community for creative thinkers. Artists. Engineers. Designers.
Musicians. Techies. Photographers. Writers.Hackers.
>
> We're having our really awesome housewarming party at 70A Bussorah
Street[3]and we'd like to invite you, and your bunch of geek-loving friends down
for a little party!
>
> The event's taking place on the 21st November at 6pm, held in conjunction with
the Barcamp2009[4]Afterparty and we want you to come!Chat [5] with us online
too.
>
> The space could be the gathering of Singapore's best hackers.
>
>
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
> Luther
>
>
> Links:
> [1] Hackerspace.SG website http://hackerspace.sg/
> [2] Hackerspace.SG in The Straits Times, 14 Nov 2009
http://bit.ly/STHackerspaceSG
> [3] Hackerspace.SG housewarming on e27 website
http://www.e27.sg/2009/11/13/save-the-date-hackerspace-sg-housewarming-on-nov-21\
/
> [4] Barcamp website http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampSingapore4
> [5] Chat http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=hackerspacesg
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Find us in IRC on #linuxnus @ irc.freenode.net: http://linuxnus.org/chat
>
> Our website and wiki: http://linuxnus.org/ | http://opensource.nus.edu.sg
>
> Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/linuxnusYahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

Hi everyone,

I would like to give a quick shoutout for an initiative that I am
involved in. For a long time, there has been many people in Singapore
wanting to form a group where tech meets art. This initiative is known
as Hackerspace.SG. And what was a dream is now reality.

Hackerspace.SG[1] [2]hasrecently setup at 70A Bussorah Street!

We're a little community for creative thinkers. Artists. Engineers. Designers.
Musicians. Techies. Photographers. Writers.Hackers.

We're having our really awesome housewarming party at 70A Bussorah Street[3]and
we'd like to invite you, and your bunch of geek-loving friends down for a little
party!

The event's taking place on the 21st November at 6pm, held in conjunction with
the Barcamp2009[4]Afterparty and we want you to come!Chat [5] with us online
too.

The space could be the gathering of Singapore's best hackers.



Hope to see you there!

Luther


Links:
[1] Hackerspace.SG website http://hackerspace.sg/
[2] Hackerspace.SG in The Straits Times, 14 Nov 2009
http://bit.ly/STHackerspaceSG
[3] Hackerspace.SG housewarming on e27 website
http://www.e27.sg/2009/11/13/save-the-date-hackerspace-sg-housewarming-on-nov-21\
/
[4] Barcamp website http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampSingapore4
[5] Chat http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=hackerspacesg

Always good to see a Singapore email on an FOSS mailing list, especially if it
is contributing a patch from one of the universities :)



----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: CHENG Renquan <rqcheng@...>
> To: lxde-list@...; Fred Chien <cfsghost@...>
> Cc: crquan@...
> Sent: Mon, November 16, 2009 10:09:32 PM
> Subject: [Lxde-list] [PATCH] lxterminal: to keep current dir on new tab
>
> Here add a pid_t to record the result of vte_terminal_fork_command,
> when new tab creation, read the current shell's cwd first, then
> keep the new tab on consistent curdir with current tab.
>
> Signed-off-by: CHENG Renquan
>
> Index: src/lxterminal.c
> ===================================================================
> --- src/lxterminal.c    (revision 2145)
> +++ src/lxterminal.c    (working copy)
> @@ -357,7 +357,19 @@ static void terminal_newtab(GtkWidget *w
> {
>     LXTerminal *terminal = (LXTerminal *)data;
>
> -    Term *term = terminal_new(terminal, _("LXTerminal"), g_get_current_dir(),
> NULL, NULL);
> +    const gchar *pwd;
> +    char cwd_file[64], buf[PATH_MAX+1];
> +    int len;
> +
> +    Term *curr_term = g_ptr_array_index(terminal->terms,
> gtk_notebook_get_current_page(GTK_NOTEBOOK(terminal->notebook)));
> +    g_snprintf(cwd_file, sizeof cwd_file, "/proc/%d/cwd", curr_term->pid);
> +    len = readlink(cwd_file, buf, (sizeof buf) - 1);
> +    if (len > 0 && buf[0] == '/')
> +        pwd = g_strndup(buf, len);
> +    else
> +        pwd = g_get_current_dir();
> +
> +    Term *term = terminal_new(terminal, _("LXTerminal"), pwd, NULL, NULL);
>
>     /* add page to notebook */
>     gtk_notebook_append_page(GTK_NOTEBOOK(terminal->notebook), term->box,
> term->label->main);
> @@ -675,10 +687,10 @@ static Term *terminal_new(LXTerminal *te
>     if (exec) {
>         gchar **command;
>         g_shell_parse_argv(exec, NULL, &command, NULL);
> -        vte_terminal_fork_command(VTE_TERMINAL(term->vte), (const char
> *)*(command), command, env, pwd, FALSE, TRUE, TRUE);
> +        term->pid = vte_terminal_fork_command(VTE_TERMINAL(term->vte), (const
> char *)*(command), command, env, pwd, FALSE, TRUE, TRUE);
>         g_strfreev(command);
>     } else {
> -        vte_terminal_fork_command(VTE_TERMINAL(term->vte), NULL, NULL, env,
> pwd, FALSE, TRUE, TRUE);
> +        term->pid = vte_terminal_fork_command(VTE_TERMINAL(term->vte), NULL,
> NULL, env, pwd, FALSE, TRUE, TRUE);
>     }
>
>     /* signal handler */
> Index: src/lxterminal.h
> ===================================================================
> --- src/lxterminal.h    (revision 2145)
> +++ src/lxterminal.h    (working copy)
> @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ typedef struct _term {
>     GtkWidget *vte;
>     GtkWidget *scrollbar;
>     GtkWidget *box;
> +    pid_t    pid;
> } Term;
>
> LXTerminal *lxterminal_init(LXTermWindow *lxtermwin, gint argc, gchar **argv,
> Setting *setting);
>
> ---
> CHENG Renquan (程任全), from SMU (Singapore Management University)

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Lordy, lordy, lordy. They have no shame. It appears that Microsoft has
just patented sudo, a personalized version of it.

Here it is, patent number7617530. Thanks, USPTO, for giving Microsoft,
which is already a monopoly, a monopoly on something that's been in
use since 1980 and wasn't invented by Microsoft. Here's Wikipedia's
description of sudo, which you can meaningfully compare to Microsoft's
description of its "invention".

This is why what the US Supreme Court does about software patents
means so much. Hopefully they will address the topic in their decision
on Bilski. Sudo is an integral part of the functioning of GNU/Linux
systems, and you use it in Mac OSX also. Maybe the Supreme Court
doesn't know that, and maybe the USPTO didn't realize it. But do you
believe Microsoft knows it?

Perhaps Microsoft would like everyone in the world to pay them a toll
at least, even if they don't want to use Microsoft's software? Like
SCO, but with more muscle behind the request? Or maybe it might be
used as a barrier to competition? What do you personally believe
Microsoft wants patents on things like sudo for? To make sure
innovative new companies can compete on an even playing field with
Microsoft?

And how do you like the final wording of the patent?:

     Although the invention has been described in language specific to
structural features and/or methodological steps, it is to be
understood that the invention defined in the appended claims is not
necessarily limited to the specific features or steps described.
Rather, the specific features and steps are disclosed as preferred
forms of implementing the claimed invention.

Please don't ever again write to me that software patents are good for
us because they include full disclosure, so others can build on the
"invention".

And to the USPTO, whose representative just argued in oral argument in
Bilski that software should be patentable and that software can make a
regular computer a special use computer, and all that drivel, please
put those thoughts together with this patent, and consider the market
implications of giving anyone that kind of monopoly, and especially
the implications of giving it to a monopoly named Microsoft. It's like
giving a serial killer his very own machine gun, stronger than any gun
his intended victims are allowed to purchase. You have to ask, what
were you thinking?

Obviously, if they could figure that out, they'd never have issued
this patent in the first place. The fact that they did, without
realizing the implications, or the obviousness, or the prior art,
tells us that the USPTO simply lacks the foundational technical
information, or the awareness of technical history, to make wise
patent decisions about software and patents.

The earliest sudo reference in the patent database Microsoft told the
USPTO about is 1997, for patent 5655077, and in other references 1991,
so for all the patent-loving dolts in the world, here is A Brief
History of Sudo:

     Sudo was first conceived and implemented by Bob Coggeshall and
Cliff Spencer around 1980 at the Department of Computer Science at
SUNY/Buffalo. It ran on a VAX-11/750 running 4.1BSD. An updated
version, credited to Phil Betchel, Cliff Spencer, Gretchen Phillips,
John LoVerso and Don Gworek, was posted to the net.sources Usenet
newsgroup in December of 1985.

     In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released an enhanced version
of sudo. For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by a handful
of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and
Trent Hein.

     In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo
with an enhanced sudoers format under contract to a consulting firm
called "The Root Group". This version was later released under the GNU
public license.

     In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally within CU-Boulder for
some time, Todd Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version
1.3) with bug fixes and support for more operating systems. The "CU"
was added to differentiate it from the "official" version from "The
Root Group".

     In 1995, a new parser for the sudoers file was contributed by
Chris Jepeway. The new parser was a proper grammar (unlike the old
one) and could work with both sudo and visudo (previously they had
slightly different parsers).

     In 1996, Todd, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in
his spare time, moved distribution of sudo from a CU-Boulder ftp site
to his domain, courtesan.com.

     In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there has
been no formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991 (the
original authors now work elsewhere). As of version 1.6, Sudo no
longer contains any of the original "Root Group" code and is available
under an ISC-style license.

     In 2001, the sudo web site, ftp site and mailing lists were moved
from courtesan.com to the sudo.ws domain (sudo.org was already taken).

     In 2005, Todd rewrote the sudoers parser to better support the
features that had been added in the past ten years. This new parser
removes some limitations of the previous one, removes ordering
constraints and adds support for including multiple sudoers files.

     sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
     Todd Miller

     Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs.

I guess Microsoft forgot to mention that. They certainly must know.

And of course Microsoft and patent lovers will argue that this is a
new and improved sudo, which has quirky new bells and whistles that no
one else ever thought of before. From the patent:

     The invention claimed is:

     1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-readable
instructions therein that, when executed by a computing device, cause
the computing device to present a user interface in response to a task
being prohibited based on a user's current account not having a right
to permit the task, the user interface comprising: information
indicating the task and an entity that attempted the task; a
selectable help graphic wherein responsive to receiving selection of
the selectable help graphic, the computer-readable instructions
further cause the computing device to present the information;
identifiers, each of the identifiers identifying other accounts having
a right to permit the task, wherein the identifiers presented are
based on criteria comprising: frequency of use; association with the
user; and indication of sufficient but not unlimited rights; one of
the identifiers identifies a higher-rights account having a right to
permit the task, wherein the one of the identifiers comprises: a
graphic identifying the higher-rights accounts associated with the
user; and a name of the higher-rights account; an authenticator region
capable of receiving, from the user, an authenticator usable to
authenticate the higher-rights account having the right to permit the
task, wherein: the authenticator comprises a password, and the
authenticator region comprises a data-entry field configured to
receive the password.

     2. One or more computer-readable media having computer-readable
instructions therein that, when executed by a computing device, cause
the computing device to perform acts comprising: determining multiple
accounts capable of permitting a task not permitted by an account of a
current user wherein the determining is based on criteria comprising:
frequency of use; association with the current user; and indication of
sufficient but not unlimited rights; receiving indicators for the
multiple accounts capable of permitting the task; presenting a
graphical user interface, the graphical user interface having:
multiple account regions, each account region identifying one of the
multiple accounts capable of permitting the task; an authenticator
region capable of receiving an authenticator for one of the multiple
accounts capable of permitting the task; receiving, through the
graphical user interface, the authenticator for one of the multiple
accounts capable of permitting the task; and responsive to receiving
the authenticator for one of the accounts capable of permitting the
task, packaging, into a computer-readable package, the received
authenticator and the account capable of permitting the task
associated with the authenticator, the package effective to enable
authentication of the account capable of permitting the task.

Etc. blah, blah. Dude. It's sudo. With a gui. Sudo for Dummies. That's
what it is.

Software and patents need to get a divorce, before all the geeks in
the world either stop coding in disgust or die laughing.

Also, because so many of the In Re Bilski amicus briefs in Bilski
warned of financial devastation and decreased innovation if the US
Supreme Court limits what is patentable, I wanted to highlight a
research study that seems to demonstrate the opposite. Here's the
summary of the paper, Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts, by Dr.
Andrew W. Torrance & Dr. Bill Tomlinson, [10 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L.
Rev. 130 (2009) (Published May 15, 2009)]:

     Patent systems are often justified by an assumption that
innovation will be spurred by the prospect of patent protection,
leading to the accrual of greater societal benefits than would be
possible under non-patent systems. However, little empirical evidence
exists to support this assumption. One way to test the hypothesis that
a patent system promotes innovation is to simulate the behavior of
inventors and competitors experimentally under conditions
approximating patent and non-patent systems. Employing a multi-user
interactive simulation of patent and non-patent (commons and open
source) systems (―PatentSim‖), this study compares rates of
innovation, productivity, and societal utility. PatentSim uses an
abstracted and cumulative model of the invention process, a database
of potential innovations, an interactive interface that allows users
to invent, patent, or open source these innovations, and a network
over which users may interact with one another to license, assign,
buy, infringe, and enforce patents. Data generated thus far using
PatentSim suggest that a system combining patent and open source
protection for inventions (that is, similar to modern patent systems)
generates significantly lower rates of innovation ...

Sometimes what "everyone" knows to be so, actually is not so. I
thought, since the US Supreme Court seemed to me to accept as "fact"
that patents are beneficial, it would be useful to point out that
there is a significant basis for doubt that patents increase
innovation.

Finally, here's a video Patently O put on its site, which addresses
that very question. As Patently O's Dennis Crouch describes it, in
part:

     The video prominently features BU law professor and economist
Michael Meurer whose book Patent Failure (with Jim Bessen) uses
economic analysis to make the case that patents (particularly software
patents) are a net drag on innovation.

You can read three chapters (here's the chapter on Abstract Patents
and Software) of Patent Failure - How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers
Put Innovators at Risk here, and then order it and read it.

Please.

Update: Steve Martin notes that sudo goes back even further, to the
1970s and mainframes:

     Oh, good grief! This concept goes back way past BSD, back to the
mainframe days. (See, for example, the XDS Sigma 7 UTS Reference
manual (1971), Appendix B, the listing for monitor error code 09,
subcode 00: "The user privilege level was not high enough to allow
issuing a direct device OPEN".)

--- In linuxNUS@yahoogroups.com, Ruiwen Chua <rwchua@...> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Brice Rebsamen <brice.brice@...>wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Have you noticed that NUSOPEN is having trouble? I can get the
> > connection, but it's local only, no internet. A technician at ITCare
> > told me that this was a known problem, and configured my windows
> > network manager to connect to a hidden wireless network named NUS.
> > However I can't connect to it from Linux. Mostly because it uses a
> > PEAP authentication scheme I guess (MSCHAPv2). Has anyone of you
> > manage to connect to NUS from linux? Could you post a how-to guide?
> > Brice
> >
> >
>
> Hi Brice,
>
> Have you tried this HOWTO? ->
> http://opensource.nus.edu.sg/wiki/index.php/Connecting_to_PEAP_in_NUS
>
> Hope that helps =)
>
> Cheers
> Ruiwen
>

Yap, I also use that guide and it works well until now. :)
I'm using Fedora 11 in my Linux.

Have you noticed that NUSOPEN is having trouble? I can get the
connection, but it's local only, no internet. A technician at ITCare
told me that this was a known problem, and configured my windows
network manager to connect to a hidden wireless network named NUS.
However I can't connect to it from Linux. Mostly because it uses a
PEAP authentication scheme I guess (MSCHAPv2). Has anyone of you
manage to connect to NUS from linux? Could you post a how-to guide?
Brice

Hi all,
Apologies for my previous answer  to the grub question, I just
remembered that Ubuntu 9.10 is the first Ubuntu release to use Grub2.
The steps for accomplishing the same task in previous editions might
have changed with this version. Sadly i'm not too up to date with
happenings in the bootloader scene. Perhaps someone else is more
knowledgeable on the topic?
Regards,
Div


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Divyanshu Arora <daredevilfury@...>
Date: Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [linuxNUS] problem with grub
To: linuxNUS@yahoogroups.com
Cc: vamsi@...


Hey,
Your problem is that the Windows installation blindly writes its
bootloader to the MBR, thereby overwriting grub. You need to install
grub again, a task which can be done using the ubuntu live cd quite
easily:
[Steps Posted by wernst at
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-24113.html
Modified by me as suitable]

1. Boot from a Live CD, like Ubuntu Live, Knoppix, Mepis, or similar.

2. Open a Terminal. Go SuperUser (that is, type "sudo su"). Enter
passwords if asked, although i don't think you'll need to.[step edited
for ubuntu]

3. Type "grub" which makes a GRUB prompt appear.

4. Type "find /boot/grub/stage1". You'll get a response like "(hd0)"
or in my case "(hd0,3)". Use whatever your computer spits out for the
following lines.

5. Type "root (hd0,3)".

6. Type "setup (hd0)". <--Notice its just hd0.

7. Type "quit".

8. Restart the system. Remove the bootable CD.


***********
I'm assuming that your grub was installed on the MBR before you
upgraded to win7.
Cheers,
Div

PS-If your grub was installed to a partition and not the mbr, use
"setup (hd0,x)" for step 7 instead.

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:31 PM, vamsi krishna <vamsee_e@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hey guys!,
>                          I am a  graduate student from chemistry
department using ubuntu 9.10 in my second partition and
first partition containing vista. Problem started after upgrading vista to
windows 7. Now i am not able  to select ubuntu from grub which totally
disappeared. I tried out some tutorial on google but really nothing helped me ..
if any of u guys please help me sort out the problem.
> please reply to : vamsi@...
>
> Thanks in advance
> Best regards,
> vamsi
>
> Hey__,_Hey ._,___
> ________________________________
> Yahoo! India has a new look. Take a sneak peek.
>
>

Hey,
Your problem is that the Windows installation blindly writes its
bootloader to the MBR, thereby overwriting grub. You need to install
grub again, a task which can be done using the ubuntu live cd quite
easily:
[Steps Posted by wernst at
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-24113.html
Modified by me as suitable]

1. Boot from a Live CD, like Ubuntu Live, Knoppix, Mepis, or similar.

2. Open a Terminal. Go SuperUser (that is, type "sudo su"). Enter
passwords if asked, although i don't think you'll need to.[step edited
for ubuntu]

3. Type "grub" which makes a GRUB prompt appear.

4. Type "find /boot/grub/stage1". You'll get a response like "(hd0)"
or in my case "(hd0,3)". Use whatever your computer spits out for the
following lines.

5. Type "root (hd0,3)".

6. Type "setup (hd0)". <--Notice its just hd0.

7. Type "quit".

8. Restart the system. Remove the bootable CD.


***********
I'm assuming that your grub was installed on the MBR before you
upgraded to win7.
Cheers,
Div

PS-If your grub was installed to a partition and not the mbr, use
"setup (hd0,x)" for step 7 instead.

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:31 PM, vamsi krishna <vamsee_e@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hey guys!,
>                          I am a  graduate student from chemistry
department using ubuntu 9.10 in my second partition and
first partition containing vista. Problem started after upgrading vista to
windows 7. Now i am not able  to select ubuntu from grub which totally
disappeared. I tried out some tutorial on google but really nothing helped me ..
if any of u guys please help me sort out the problem.
> please reply to : vamsi@...
>
> Thanks in advance
> Best regards,
> vamsi
>
> Hey__,_Hey ._,___
> ________________________________
> Yahoo! India has a new look. Take a sneak peek.
>
>

http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/11/07/openoffice-gets-a-branded-mouse-\
with-18-buttons/
http://openofficemouse.com/oom-oss.html

Ermmm.... it doesn't seem to be a joke.

=============================================================================

Popular open source office suite OpenOffice has partnered with a
company named WarMouse to release the first mouse built specifically
for the application.  The mouse features a whopping 18 programmable
buttons with double-click functionality.  Not only will this monster
help you whiz through creating new documents, but it also has 20
default profiles for programs like Photoshop, World of Warcraft and so
on.
=============================================================================

I would like to ask if anyone can enlighten me if the below mentioned bug is
affecting centos.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/linux_kernel_vulnerability/

"The null pointer dereference flaw was only fixed in the upcoming 2.6.32 release
candidate of the Linux kernel,
making virtually all production versions in use at the moment
vulnerable. While attacks can be prevented by implementing a common
feature known as mmap_min_addr, the RHEL distribution, short for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux, doesn't properly implement that protection, Brad
Spengler, who discovered the bug in mid October, told The Register."


"The latest bug is mitigated by default on most Linux distributions,
thanks to their correct implementation of the mmap_min_addr feature.
But to make RHEL compatible with a larger body of applications, that
distribution is vulnerable to attack even when the OS shows the feature
is enabled, Spengler said.

A Red Hat spokeswoman said patches for the versions 4 and 5 of RHEL and MRG are
available here. An update for RHEL 3 is in testing and should be released soon."

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Devs are so poor things... we need some love!

2009/10/30 Nicholas Ho <crypto@...>
>
>
>
> It's quite sad that Intel still refuses to support USB 3.0 until year 2011.
> <http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Intel-Chipset-USB-PC-SuperSpeed,8938.html>
>
> I seriously hope that they will up the maximum power output capacity of the
USB channels.  Even with USB 2.0, just plugging in 4-5 external usb hard disk
drives is sufficient to fry the circuitry of the mobo.  My friend experienced
that once, please don't go home to try. LOL.
>

Haha wow, didn't know you could fry mobos by just plugging stuff in =P

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2354883,00.asp

"Asus chose to use the NEC
UPD720200 USB 3.0 host controller for its board, which it said was the
first "true" implementation of USB 3.0. NEC claimed to have the first
USB 3.0 controller in the market when it launched the UPD720200 in May
of this year."

Unless I am mistaken, Linux supports USB 3.0, but not Windows or Mac.


Cheers,

Luther

If there are any Singaporeans going for this event, please indicate at
http://linuxnus.org/2009/10/28/gnome-asia-summit-2009/ Maybe someone wants to
share rooms or go R&R together :)


Cheers,

Luther