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Submission + - 1.8M websites to disappear. (geocities.com) 1

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FAT-BOY88
FAT-BOY88 writes: "The following has appeared on geocities.com home page.
"After careful consideration, Yahoo! has decided to close GeoCities later this year. You can continue enjoying your GeoCities service until then — we just wanted you to let you know about the closure as soon as possible. We'll share more details this summer. For now, please visit the help center for more information."
No new accounts are accepted. Geocities has about 1.8 million users. It usually ranks between 100-110 on traffic. There are over 20,000,000 links to it according to several search engines."
Operating Systems

Submission + - Ubuntu 9.04: Nothing Short of Amazing (itnewstoday.com)

Submitted by
Jeremy LaCroix
Jeremy LaCroix writes: "Ubuntu 9.04 (codenamed the "Jaunty Jackalope") was released this week after an extensive six months (or so) in development. It brings with it some of the most controversial features in the distribution's history, and the development versions of Jaunty have been fairly well received by just about all the blogs I have read. Is Ubuntu 9.04 worth the download? The answer is clear: DEFINITELY.
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Spam

Submission + - One Bot-Infected PC = 600,000 Spam Emails A Day (computerworld.com)

Submitted by
CWmike
CWmike writes: "Some bot-infected PCs can crank out as many as 25,000 spam messages per hour, or 600,000 a day, says new research released Wednesday. Marshal8e6 deliberately infected machines in the lab of its research arm, TRACElabs, with the malware responsible for the world's nine biggest spam botnets, then observed the PCs' behavior, including each bot's top-end spam capacity. They concluded that Rustock and Xarvester, the latter perhaps linked to the down-and-out Srizbi botnet, are the most efficient spam spewers of the nine bots. The next most effective spam bot was found to be Mega-D, one of the bots that took advantage of the November 2008 takedown of McColo, a hosting company that harbored the command-and-control servers for several big botnets, including Srizbi and Rustock."
The Internet

Submission + - Time Warner wants to kill city-owned ISPs in NC (dailytech.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Time Warner and Embarq wants to kill city-owned ISPs in North Carolina :

Time Warner has teamed up with Embarq to persuade the North Carolina state government into banning community-owned broadband services. Why? Well, turns out the 47,000 residents of Wilson, NC got tired of paying for slow broadband, so the city government launched its own fiber ISP called Greenlight that offers some pretty solid packages ranging from $99 for 81 cable channels, unlimited phone service, and 10Mbs (down and up) internet to to $170 for every single channel including premiums and 20Mbps up/down internet.

Of course, these prices blow TWC and Embarq out of the water — the comparable basic Time Warner plan has fewer channels and less bandwidth for an "introductory rate" of $137 — and rather than compete, the two giants decided to lobby the North Carolina legislature into proposing bills that outlaw community services like Greenlight.

DailyTech : http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14934

Save NC Broadband blog : http://savencbb.wordpress.com/about/
Supercomputing

Submission + - DoE's supercomputing gurus talk next-gen cooling (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz
schliz writes: The Department of Energy's Argonne Leadership Computing Facility is working with IBM to increase the chilled water requirements — thus lengthening the free cooling period — of next-generation supercomputers. By analyzing the historical power consumption profile of its one-year-old IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer, the ALCF has already managed to lengthen its free cooling period by two months in a year, resulting in more than US$50,000 in savings.

Supercomputers are 'a sort of time machine', according to Pete Beckman, ALCF director. In an interview with iTnews, Beckman and colleague Jeff Sims describe the ALCF's cooling techniques, research into future machines with IBM and the University of Chicago, and how current supercomputing power management techniques are spreading into enterprise data centres.

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