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Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 11, @12:00PM
from the everybody-needs-some-elbow-room dept.
The growth of processor power notwithstanding, for tasks which can be parallelized, relying on a single processor can be counterproductive. Instead, efforts to distribute computing resources are becoming ever more important. Jayakrishnan brings us this review of JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns and Practices, proof that the tools to accomplish that are steadily becoming accessible to non-PhDs.
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Posted by Hemos on Tuesday July 11, @11:06AM
from the the-man-is-listening dept.
CharlieG writes "It seems the the FBI has been electronic wiretapping various e-mail accounts for a while now. First with a system called Omnivore, and now with a "More Selective" system called Carnivore. You can read about it on MSNBC.COM"
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Features: Is Technology Killing Leisure Time?
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Posted by JonKatz on Tuesday July 11, @10:30AM
from the a-wired-up-world-where-work-never-ends dept.
New surveys suggest that ubiquitous technological tools are killing off leisure time, especially for younger workers and students -- that would be you -- who are working longer hours, taking fewer and shorter vacations (when they do go away, they take their cells, Palms and laptops along) and say they are more stressed than any other segment of the population. Opportunistic employers aren't helping, actually encouraging employees to do personal chores on the Net -- from their desks. Wasn't technology supposed to free us from workplace shackles?
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Cracked Series Complete |
Posted by Hemos on Tuesday July 11, @09:04AM
from the a-literal-to-me dept.
Quite a number of people have written in recently with the news that the Cracked Series has come to close with Feature #7. The series has been pretty interesting from a storytelling perspective - check it out on rootprompt.
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AMD Stops Overclockers Dream Motherboard |
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 11, @09:03AM
from the clocked-it-up-to-a-terehertz dept.
nerdusa writes: "The Overclocking Community got a decidedly unwelcome jolt with news today on THG that shipping versions of the TBird and Duron will be clock locked and that the Asus A7V is shipping without multiplier unlocking switches. United Overclockers, which had been eulogizing AMD for its recent poliicies, is "saddened" at having to eat its words. Overclockers are used to having their dreams dashed by reality, but this is a particularly cruel blow."
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Science: Why We're Still Stuck On Earth
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Posted by Hemos on Tuesday July 11, @08:15AM
from the wanna-go-to-mars dept.
Once&FutureRocketman writes: "The latest newsletter from the Space Access Society contains an insightful article (the first one after the introduction) on why it still costs so damn much to get into orbit. The reasons are, quite unsurprisingly, much more political and economic than technical."
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BSD: Tim O'Reilly Confirms BSD Publications
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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 11, @07:21AM
from the can-they-use-a-tasmanian-devil? dept.
InfoMonk writes: "I attended a library conference over the weekend. Tim O'Reilly spoke at a presentation on Open Source Software for libraries. After the conference I asked him about the long running interest in O'Reilly putting out BSD publications. He confirmed that two projects are currently in development, the expected BSD in a Nutshell and another book whose subject is not yet clear. This is very good news of course, to BSD hackers who are slightly tired of the press coverage that Linux has been given in the past year."
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The X-Box: An Emulator's Dream Platform? |
Posted by Cliff on Tuesday July 11, @03:51AM
from the copy-everyone dept.
Fros1y asks: "Okay, it seems like Microsoft may well make a big splash in the console market when they unroll the X-Box. With all the emulators out there, why wouldn't Microsoft expand their box's ability? If they took the new Playstation emulator and ported it for the system, they could tap a large market right off the bat. Roll in some cute NES and SNES emulators and they'd have an interesting system. Being Microsoft and all, they might even want to reverse engineer or license N64 and PSX systems. I guess there might be problems with ROM loading and such, but I'd bet that Microsoft could use their clout to license older games and put them onto a network pay system. Why wouldn't Microsoft want to pursue this kind of market strategy? Or have they already and I'm just out of the loop?" A nice thought, but Microsoft would have to play extremely nice with a lot of people to pull this one off. Thoughts?
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Red Hat Gets Into The Clustering Biz |
Posted by emmett on Tuesday July 11, @12:01AM
from the to-boldly-go-where-yellow-dog-has-gone-before dept.
Bryan Mattern writes: "An adapted version of Red Hat 6.2 centered around Linux Virtual Server/cold failover is now available. The price is $1995, but includes a year of support for a node." This is also known as Red Hat High Availability Server 1.0.
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IETF Working On New Printing Standards |
Posted by Hemos on Monday July 10, @10:53PM
from the killin'-the-trees dept.
A reader writes: "The IETF has announced that they are developing new printing standards for network printing." Printing -- exciting, eh? But one of those necessary evils in life.
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