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Submission + - Primary and backup power fails, websites offline.

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @01:38PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Los Angeles Times has an article describing how the power outage in San Francisco yesterday knocked several popular web sites (including craigslist and technorati) off line. These sites were hosted at 365 Main. The article points out the irony in a 365 Main press release that day announcing one customer had shut down its "redundant" data center in the Midwest and was thrilled with 365 Main after "two years of continuous uptime." 365 Main has posted a summary of the incident.

Submission + - Samsung's 30in DisplayPort TV (reghardware.co.uk)

Submitted by

denisbergeron

on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @12:56PM

denisbergeron writes: "Forget about 1080p Tv Set with 2560 x 1600 is at the corner. Samsung unveil a new tv with 2560 x 1600 and the next-generation DisplayPort video interface . From the article :

To provide such high resolution, the screen's DisplayPort interface, transmits graphics data at 10.8Gbps — more than double that of current transmission speeds. The screen incorporates a single DisplayPort interface, instead of two DVI ports, and has been referred to as a potential replacement for DVI and LVDS, which have data transmission speeds of 1.65Gbps/lane and 0.945Gbps/lane respectivly, and VGA.

Everyone need this to play WOW now !"

Submission + - Apple TV hacked to run Linux (mythic-beasts.com)

Submitted by on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @12:30PM

An anonymous reader writes: Though perhaps not as exciting as the recent iPhone hardware hacking, some guys at Linux web hosting company Mythic Beasts have even managed to get Linux to run on an Apple TV. A nice modification for an otherwise boring piece of hardware.

Submission + - Factory soot leads to increased pacific storms.

Submitted by Cryolithic on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @01:58PM

Cryolithic writes: From the Vancouver Sun

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html ?id=e28e0f63-8add-4f03-aa2e-f64a8499bad5&k=5988

Soot from the factories of Asia is changing weather across the Pacific Ocean and causing storms like the December howler that clobbered Vancouver's Stanley Park, a new study says.

"The intensified Pacific storm track is climatically significant," and is the first time climate scientists have been able to measure the effect of "aerosols" — minute airborne particles — on climate, the team writes.

Submission + - France Bans Amateur Videos of Violent Acts

Submitted by

narramissic

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @10:59AM

narramissic writes: "On the 16th anniversary of the Rodney King beating, which was filmed by amateur videographer George Holliday, the French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The government has also proposed a certification system for Web sites, blog hosters, mobile-phone operators and Internet service providers, identifying them as government-approved sources of information if they adhere to certain rules."

Submission + - Genetic origin found for autism

Submitted by

etherlad

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @12:21PM

etherlad writes: "Researchers at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children and the Offord Centre for Child Studies in Hamilton teamed with scientists and clinicians from centres elsewhere in Canada and eight other countries to scan the entire human genome for autism-related genes. The consortium of scientists — 137 from 50 centres worldwide that make up the Autism Genome Project — analyzed DNA from about 1,600 families with autistic children to try to zero in on a specific group of brain cells and the genes that affect their development and function. Their analysis led them in part to a region on chromosome 11, as well as to a gene known as neurexin 1, part of a family of genes believed to be important in communication between neurons, particularly during the brain's development."

Submission + - vast water reservoir revealed

Submitted by

Agent Provocateur

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @07:28AM

Agent Provocateur writes: "WUSTL has a news bulletin about research which has shown a hidden ocean the size of the Artic. A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping — diminishing — deep in the Earth's mantle and has revealed the existence of an underground water reservoir at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean. It is the first evidence for water existing in the Earth's deep mantle. Full report here."

Submission + - Can the NFL control Super Bowl broadcast?

Submitted by

youvegottobekidding

on Thursday February 01, 2007 @12:40PM

youvegottobekidding writes: "The Indy Star has an article ( http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID= 2007702010431 )about Super Bowl Party Rules. It appears the NFL is ready to bust churches for holding Super Bowl parties because they: use "Super Bowl" in the promotion, show the game on a TV larger than 55", and are not a sports bar. Can they really control how the broadcast is shown when it is sent over the airwaves? It's not like this is pay tv. Call out the ACLU!!!"

Submission + - My TV has an OS, it's L I N U X!

Submitted by Zolan on Wednesday January 31, 2007 @10:41PM

Zolan writes: Very recently I purchased what I deem as a nice Television (Hitachi LCD Rear Projection Television [55VS69A]). After setting it up and doing the whole "Oooohhh Aahhhh" thing, I decided to flip through the manual. Mainly I was quickly looking through it to figure out how to configure the remote. That is when I made my even more glorious discovery. I flipped to a page and saw three glorious letters on it... GNU... After a moment of complete shock I read more.

I quote from the "Operating Guide for 50VS69A 55VS69A and 62VS69A", "Your Hitachi brand digital television (the 'DTV') uses certain open source operating system software (the 'OS Software') distributed pursuant to GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2 and GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2.1, each as defined and published by the Free Software Foundation, Inc."

Among the list of software used are: Linux Kernal, busybox, dhcpdcd, ifupdow, net-tool, iptables, libstdc++5, glibc, libposixtime. Following this list it goes on to mention that if you would like to request a copy of the Source Code Modifications from HITACHI, please send an email to the following address: tvsoftwaresupport@hhea.hitachi.com. Following that, there is, in full, a copy of the GPLv2 and the GLGPLv2.1. That almost brought a tear of joy to my eye.

This TV has a serial port though I've yet to attempt to see if there is a console on it yet.

Anyway, I am posting this because I was amazed that after doing some Google searches it seems there is no mention of this on the web, nor is there a mention of it on Hitachi's site. I figured /. would want to know.

If I find anything exceptionally cool once I finally try the serial port I shall return to post my findings. If anyone else discovers or does something cool with this TV I would love to know about it.

Submission + - Hosting Provider Builds Own Power Substation

Submitted by

1sockchuck

on Monday January 29, 2007 @06:26PM

1sockchuck writes: "With data centers using more and more power, Sacramento managed hosting provider RagingWire wanted to ensure that its customers wouldn't run out of juice. So the company built its own 69kV power substation on its property, which will supply its data center with up to 46 megawatts — enough to power about 25,000 single-family homes. Concerns about the availability of electricity for data center prompted a Silicon Valley "power summit" last month. Is this a sign of things to come?"

Submission + - Open Linux Router Project Announced

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @09:34AM

An anonymous reader writes: Phoronix has delivered word on the project announcement of the Open Linux Router. The Open Linux Router project hopes to start off where The Linux Router Project had left off. The Open Linux Router is looking to combine the functionality of several network services all into a single box (similar to m0n0wall or Smoothwall), but will feature expanded possibilities with its "true modular" design so that the end-user can quickly and easily customize the software. The first release of this Linux distribution will not be out until May or June, but some of the code is presently available via SVN. More information is also available through their new project website.

Submission + - Better than a TI?

Submitted by

aaronbeekay

on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @08:42PM

aaronbeekay writes: "Hey guys, I'm a sophomore in high school taking an honors chem course. I'm being forced to buy something handheld for a calculator (I've been using Qalculate! and GraphMonkey on my Thinkpad until now). I see people all around me with TIs and think "there could be something so much better." The low-res, monochrome display just isn't appealing to me for $100-150. Is there something I can use close to the same price range with better screen, more usable, and more powerful? Which calcs do you guys use? I'm hoping for this to last through college."

Submission + - Usenet is dying - what next?

Submitted by fotoguzzi on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @03:05PM

fotoguzzi writes: I'm not a power user, but Usenet made me feel like one. By traversing topic trees or keyword searching Google Groups, I was often delighted to learn that my wide-ranging quests had already been answered, or at least I could find an audience receptive to those questions. This seems no longer true for Usenet, and Google searches of the entire Internet do not seem to uncover similar sects. Has anyone adequately explained the fall of Usenet? Is there a new, improved way to find and communicate with scattered peoples who share a common interest?

Submission + - Intel discrete graphics chips confirmed

Submitted by Arun Demeure on Monday January 22, 2007 @12:32PM

Arun Demeure writes: There have been rumors of Intel's re-entry into discrete graphics for months. Now Beyond3D has found that Intel has copped to the project on their own site. They describe it as a 'many-core' architecture aimed at 'high-end client platforms', but also extending to other market segments in the future, with 'plans for accelerated CPU integration'. This might also encourage others to follow Intel's strategy of opensourcing their Linux drivers. So, better watch out NVIDIA and AMD/ATI — there's a new player on the horizon.

XFCE Adds Icons, Switches to Thunar in v4.4 83

Posted by timothy on Monday January 22, 2007 @10:17AM from the longtime-companion dept.

b100dian points out yesterday's release of XFCE 4.4, writing "If you have already followed the release candidates, you know that XFCE is really evolving. Besides adding desktop icons, introducing Thunar (in lieu of xffm) and MousePad, applications that are as simple as they are effective, and Terminal, which has built-in support for desktop composition (supported by the window manager out-of-the-box), it also introduced (finally!) a shortcut for the pop-up menu (you can see in the tour that Ctrl-Esc is bound to this menu). Congratulations for the lightest and slickest window manager ever:)" I've been using Thunar a lot lately (mostly under Gnome) because the renaming feature is powerful but reasonably intuitive -- very handy for cleaning up digicam photo names.

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