After penning this article I realised that it was nearly 10 years ago that I first discussed with fellow students the posibility and the rumors that Sun were investigating placing multiple chips into a single die, and that we now have this technology. It seems like there is some significant lag between things that are thought up or spoken of and they are implemented. What is the relevance of this you may ask yourself? – Simple – some of the more amazing, radical or off the wall ideas that people are coming up with have the potential to be implemented in real life down the track, providing of course there are people who believe it can be done and work towards it. Mad props to Sun’s engineers for this one!
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Denmark next in line to challenge Apple, DRM
As much as I may appear an Apple fanboy, and pro competetion I am in favour of this type of legislation being passed. I am still angry that nothing seems to have happened in Australia regarding region encoding on DVD’s which was deemed by the toothless tiger ACCC watchdog as anti competative and against our paralell import legislation.
Forcing companies to play nicely with DRM so that they cannot dictate the platforms on which the media is available can only be a good thing for consumers, although the best thing would be for DRM to be removed. The iTunes music store still needs a way for songs that become corrupted on during download to be redownloaded for free.
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Apple’s problems in Europe look to be getting worse, not better. Following on the heels of France’s legislative push for DRM interoperability comes word that Denmark is thinking along the same lines. Reportedly, Maersk and the country’s largest telecommunications company, TDC, are speaking out in favor of such interoperability.
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How to build your own powerbook in 2 minutes
I made a video demonstrating the upgrade and reassembly of an Apple 12″ Powerbook G4. Upgrades include a 16X Dual Layer DVD burner, a 100GB hard drive, new speakers with a louder bass response, and a new Apple rainbow logo on the lid. All of this in about a minute and a half! Check it out and let me know what you think.
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Damn Interesting ? Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom
Damn Interesting ? Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom
Perhaps one of the most interesting things I have ever had the pleasure of reading on the internet.
Kinda freaky too!
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AnandTech: Sun?s T2000 ?Coolthreads? Server: First Impressions and Experiences
AnandTech: Sun?s T2000 ?Coolthreads? Server: First Impressions and Experiences
An interesting article regarding the T2000 from Sun running Solaris 10. (This CPU is an 8 core 32 thread processor that consumes ~ 72W). This machine even with a 1GHz CPU is still capable of keeping up (or near) to a quad core opteron server. Some other issues that people in data centres might not care about that were not mentioned (but i do) are the noise levels generated by this machine. Seeing as the base model is only $5000 AUD, it is rather tempting to get one of these to act as file, web etal (JOAT server [jack of all trades]) especially considering the capabilities of zoning in Solaris.
It is nice to see that Sun are not oblivious to the flaws in this CPU however (light FPU usage 1.5-3.0%) in its current incarnation can somewhat cripple its performance, to remedy this rather than one FPU per CPU, Sun look to be incorporating one FPU unit per core.
I would like to have a play with one of these for a month or so – I am most interested to see how this machine would perform as *AMP server (*=OS, Apache, MySQL and PHP) combined with file server and firewall (allow, limit and monitor the flatmate’s internet connetion) seems to be a sweet solution. If anyone from Sun is here please let me know if I can have one for a month ;).
From a work perspective, I would love to see how one of these would handle enterprise java applications especially when loaded with ram and many simultaneous connections, this would truly be enlightning.
If you are from Sun and happen to stumble upon this, please let me know, if you have one of these and are prepared to set up a Zone that is locked down to allow me to experiment, I would be most grateful!
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AutoSpies.com – Photos: Audi wins with diesel
AutoSpies.com – Photos: Audi wins with diesel
PUFF PUFF Soot power – Race proven diesel does it better :P, well Audi wins a race and they had a diesel engine, make of it what you will 😉
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www.centos.org – News – CentOS in the News – It’s L-i-n-u-x, that is an Operating System – Stupidity Reigns Supreme
www.centos.org – News – CentOS in the News – It’s L-i-n-u-x, that is an Operating System
I cannot believe that people this stupid ever got to managment level positions. I can understand why someone might conceieve that the default CentOS apache page were perhaps some form of hacking or spyware attempt, espeically someone who was not intimatly familiar with operating systems and webservers, but I would at least expect that this person would have spoken to their support people, or at least READ and COMPREHENDED the responses, which were exceedingly polite (far more than I would have been) and contained the necessary actions from the first email that would have had this issue completely resolved.
Stupid people like Jerry A Taylor suck.
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Boycott Starforce
My recommendation is to support the companies who support you! Don’t buy games that have the protection and seriously consider those companies who via official patches unstarforced their games.
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R-FORCE.ORG – Starforce Admin; Not happy with posting warez, now they resort to libel.
R-FORCE.ORG – Starforce Admin; Not happy with posting warez, now they resort to libel.
What truly scares me is not the way in which they are handling this matter, but the way that it runs around dumping itself all over the network. Very scary indeed
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Klantenservice: Serienummers (Apple Serial Numbers – Decoded to display product information)
The above website will allow you to decode hidden meanings behind your apple product – model, name and even date of manuf. can be determined by entering the serial number at the site.