10

unwiredview.com - 7/2/2009

iPhone 4.0 OS: event based modes, intellingent and scheduled communications

unwiredview.com (more) iPhone 4.0 OS: event based modes, intellingent and ...

Phones

iPhone

Comments vote downundo vote up Gizmodo found this 7/2/2009found this

Leave a Comment

New Linux FAT implementation patch to circumvent Microsoft’s FAT patents
D' Technology Weblog — ... for a file. [The] patch only creates/stores either a short filename or a long filename for a file, but never both," he explained in a message to the Linux kernel mailing list. "The 11 bytes created by vfatbuilddummy83buffer() to pad the field for short filenames cannot be used to access the file, and contain bytes which are invalid in FAT and VFAT filenames, and therefore are not filenames as that term is and has been used in the technical community." Source:→ ARS ...

Linux developer’s new kernel patch and FAT patent
PR News: — ... infringe Microsoft patents, we will keep you updated as we find out more. The person who created the patch is called Andrew Tridgell, he is currently one of the developers behind the Samba project, this is the second patch he has created to try and workaround Microsoft’s patents. The first patch did work however it provided too many limitations for users, such as not allowing long file names. For a detailed look into how this patch works be sure to check out ArsTechnica. SHARE | Leave a comment | Share a problem | Get Our ...