Submission + - Combine all wifi signals into one "fat" si (muniwireless.com)
An anonymous reader writes: This is something i've always thought about doing for those big downloads. Think its fake? It sure looks ridiculous
Submission + - New release 0.5 of free VM suite Qemulator is out
Rainer Haage writes: "Qemulator is a free, full featured graphical VM emulation environment for emulating several platforms on a Linux machine, based on the Qemu VM-emulator.
New release 0.5 brings a lot of new features and functions:
- A more clear and simple volume and boot logic
- Automated image-type detection
- Comfortable wizzard to install a new system
- Enhanced dialog to set up a new virtual machine
Qemulator is now compatible with Qemu 0.8 — 0.9 and full translated to Catalan, Slovenian and German language.
More informations and download available at http://qemulator.createweb.de/"
New release 0.5 brings a lot of new features and functions:
- A more clear and simple volume and boot logic
- Automated image-type detection
- Comfortable wizzard to install a new system
- Enhanced dialog to set up a new virtual machine
Qemulator is now compatible with Qemu 0.8 — 0.9 and full translated to Catalan, Slovenian and German language.
More informations and download available at http://qemulator.createweb.de/"
Submission + - DDoS attack against finnish broadcasting company
Iloinen Lohikrme writes: The Finnish broadcasting company Yle has been targeted by an DDoS attack. The matter was reported in an net article by Helsingin Sanomat. Because of the attack, Yle's net pages aren't reachable. Currently it's not known from where the attack comes and who is responsible for it. It has been speculated that this attack may be related to recent attacks against Estonian governments web services and government sites [More about attacks in Estonia]. The attacks came as a surprise to Estonia and current attack against Yle comes as more, as there hasn't been any apparent reason for any individual or group to hold grudge against Yle. It could also be that some government, be it any great power, is running the attack against Yle as an live exercise to measure it's information war power and the readiness of other governments and government agencies to respond to this kind of attack.
Submission + - Xscale confirmed in iPhone, by Intel!
An anonymous reader writes: I hope you can read italian, or at least machine-translate it. You were right, there's an ARM in the iPhone and it's a Marvell Xscale.
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/SoleOnLine4/Finanza %20e%20Mercati/2007/01/grusconi_180107_bucci_intel .shtml?uuid=b94d3c02-a6c8-11db-a363-00000e25108c&D ocRulesView=Libero
Dario Bucci, CEO of intel italy, interviewed by the financial newspaper "ilSole 24 Ore" confirmed that their former technology operates at the heart of the iPhone.
this is the passage:
I micropchip del nuovo Apple iPhone sono Intel?
No, non sono nostre ma di Marvell, la società cui abbiamo ceduto le attività che comprendevano l'architettura XScale. Apple è comunque uno dei principali clienti Intel per quanto riguardo le flash memory e nel nuovo terminale ci sono le nostre Nand.
more or less:
The chips in the new Apple iPhone are made by Intel?
No, they're Marvell's. We sold our Xscale architecture to this company. However Apple is one of our best customers for flash memories and our NANDs are featured in the new handheld.
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/SoleOnLine4/Finanz
Dario Bucci, CEO of intel italy, interviewed by the financial newspaper "ilSole 24 Ore" confirmed that their former technology operates at the heart of the iPhone.
this is the passage:
I micropchip del nuovo Apple iPhone sono Intel?
No, non sono nostre ma di Marvell, la società cui abbiamo ceduto le attività che comprendevano l'architettura XScale. Apple è comunque uno dei principali clienti Intel per quanto riguardo le flash memory e nel nuovo terminale ci sono le nostre Nand.
more or less:
The chips in the new Apple iPhone are made by Intel?
No, they're Marvell's. We sold our Xscale architecture to this company. However Apple is one of our best customers for flash memories and our NANDs are featured in the new handheld.
Submission + - OpenMoko Schedule Announced
levell writes: "The schedule for the OpenMoko Open source, Linux based Neo1973 smart phone was posted to the community mailing list by Sean Moss-Pultz this morning. On Feb 11, free phones will be sent to key community developers and the community websites/wiki/bug tracker will be available. Then on March 11 ("official developer launch") we'll be able to buy an OpenMoko for $350 (+p&p) (worldwide from openmoko.com). After allowing some time for innovative, slick software to be created there will be a "Mass market launch" at which point Sean hopes that "your mom and dad will want one too"."
Submission + - SPAM: Adword/Adsense alternatives list
klajdi2 writes: "Primarily CPM Based Ad Networks
* 121Media
* 24/7 RealMedia
* Accelerator-Media
* Ad Solutions Network
* Ad World Network
* AdAgency1
* AdBonus
* AdDynamix / Pennyweb Networks
* AdOrigin
* AdPepper
* AdSmart
* Adtegrity
* AdZuba
* Ampira Media
* Bannerconnect
* BannerSpace
* BlueLithium
* BURST! Media
* Casale Media
* Claxon Media
* Click Agents
* ClickBooth
* CPX Interactive (Formerly Buds Media)
* EuroClick
* Experclick
* FastClick/ValueClick
* Federated Media
* Gold Group
* Gorilla Nation Media
* Hurricane Digital Media
* Impression|Up
* InterClick
* Interevco (Interactive Revenue Company Ltd.)
* Joetec
* Mamma Media / FocusIn
* MaxOnline
* Oridian
* Premium Network
* Quake Marketing
* Quin Street
* RealCastMedia
* RealTechNetwork
* Revenue.net
* Right Media
* Rydium
* The Robert Sherman Company
* TMP
* Tribal Fusion
* Valuead.com
* Yes Advertising
For the hull list go to: [spam URL stripped]"
Submission + - Create yourown online music channel
Anonymous Coward writes: "There is a lot of great music in the world. Much more than you hear on popular radio and television. Because of formats, timeslots, playlists and other old media concepts you are not getting what you should.
There are bands out there that are going to change the future of music. And bands that already did. Very few of them are getting airplay these days.
One thing that they are doing is touring the world and playing live.
Fabchannel.com brings you a wide variety of live music in sound and vision. From upcoming acts to big stars playing rock, hiphop, folk, avant-garde and everything in between.
With a team of dedicated, music loving directors, editors, programmers and promoters Fabchannel has built one of the biggest online concert archives in the world. 700 full-length concerts, festivals, performances, debates and lectures can be freely experienced in the Fabchannel video on demand archive. Live from the famous Paradiso and Melkweg Amsterdam.
Originated from Paradiso and with the continuous help of the Paradiso and Melkweg staff, Fabchannel provides you with the music and the tools to watch it.
We record, you choose.
All high quality and virtualy endless playlists."
Submission + - Ultra-Dense Optical Storage on One Photon
Andreaskem writes: "Physorg.com is running a story about a new method of data storage using photons. The researchers were able to encode an image into a single photon and to later retrieve it intact. From the article: 'It's analogous to the difference between snapping a picture with a single pixel and doing it with a camera — this is like a 6-megapixel camera... You can have a tremendous amount of information in a pulse of light, but normally if you try to buffer it, you can lose much of that information... We're showing it's possible to pull out an enormous amount of information with an extremely high signal-to-noise ratio even with very low light levels.'"
Submission + - Electric Solar Sail to Propel Spacecraft Cheaper
mairas writes: "The electric solar wind sail, or a large set of long, thin conducting wires set up radially like the spokes of the wheel, may yet provide a relatively simple way to set up extremely large solar wind sails: a solar-powered electron gun is used to create a high positive voltage in the wires. Positively charged solar wind particles see the electric fields of the charged wires as opaque obstructions, thus accelerating the spacecraft. The article states that small payloads could be sent to Pluto in less than five years using electric solar wind sails."
Submission + - Your web browser, now a graphing calculator
An anonymous reader writes: Taking advantage of the vector graphics features offered by the latest browsers, a recently created website called FooPlot turns your web browser into a function plotter (in 2-D and 3-D), offering a few basic graphing calculator features with a promise for further developments and integration with popular online spreadsheet applications. Gaining popularity in an educational context both in high schools and universities, this is another great example of the potential of the Internet to become the application platform of the future.
As an added extra, FooPlot also permits functions to be tacked onto the URL: http://fooplot.com/x^2+2x+1.
As an added extra, FooPlot also permits functions to be tacked onto the URL: http://fooplot.com/x^2+2x+1.
Submission + - Advice to Upcoming College Students
sandrorafael writes: "I was invited as one of the resource speakers for convocation on career guidance program in order for senior graduating students to be guided and assisted in choosing the courses or profession they prefer upon entering a chosen college or university after high school graduation.
I'm asking fellow slashdotter to help me in giving advice to the graduating students.
Thank you."
Submission + - Why isn't ReactOS gaining momentum?
CSMatt writes: "I find it puzzling and interesting that, given all of Microsoft's negligence on Windows, the community still doesn't seem to support ReactOS development near as much as the Linux distributions or even the BSDs. ReactOS could easily do to Windows what the GNU project did to UNIX, but it seems like it is constantly falling short of a suitable Windows alternative due to either a lack of developers or a lack of money. Yes, I know that it takes about a decade for the community to write a complete operating system, and it will probably take at least 15 years to write one as complex as Windows, but there still seems to be something that is slowing the project down. Is it disbelief that the final version will be able to provide compatibility with Vista or Vienna programs because ReactOS will inevitably have to play catch-up with Windows? Is it the idea that it would still be used only by hobbyists and free software advocates, even though it is possible that the low price of zero might woo OEMs into preinstalling it?"
Submission + - The electric solar wind sail
niekko writes: 'The electric sail is a new space propulsion concept which uses the solar wind momentum for producing thrust. The electric sail is somewhat similar to the more well-known solar radiation pressure sail which is often called simply the solar sail. A full-scale electric sail consists of a number (50-100) of long (e.g., 20 km), thin (e.g., 20 microns) conducting tethers (wires). The spacecraft contains a solar-powered electron gun (typical power a few hundred watts) which is used to keep the spacecraft and the wires in a high (up to 20 kV) positive potential. The electric field of the wires extends a few tens of metres into the surrounding solar wind plasma. Therefore the solar wind ions "see" the wires as rather thick, about 50 m wide obstacles. A technical concept exists for deploying (opening) the wires in a relatively simple way and guiding or "flying" the resulting spacecraft electrically. The implementation details are presently under study.'
GPS Devices Lead Authorities to Thieves' Home 124
Radon360 writes "A trio of not-so-bright thieves in Lindenhurst, NY stole 14 GPS position reporting devices used on public works equipment from a nearby township garage. Authorities didn't have to look too far to locate him or the devices, as one of them was still active and indicated the location of his home when it was queried. From the article: 'Town officials said the thieves didn't even know what they had: they thought the GPS devices were cell phones, which they planned to sell.'"
Submission + - High tech boat Proteus unveiled
systems_joe writes: "From the Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/busines s/technology/16496758.htm?source=rss&channel=mercu rynews_technology
You call that a boat?
Dr. No, your escape vehicle is ready.
The 100-foot, spider-shaped contraption skimming around San Francisco Bay looked more like a James Bondian vessel than it did a new class of watercraft.
But that's exactly what its inventor, Ugo Conti of El Cerrito, says he's achieved.
After months of secrecy and increasing speculation in nautical circles, the odd-looking boat — if that's the right word — was finally unveiled Thursday morning.
The catamaran-like vessel has inflatable hulls, sits only about a foot deep in the water, is powered by two 355-horsepower diesel engines and has a range of up to 5,000 miles.
Plus, the cool quotient is off the charts, in a geeky, sci-fi sort of way. Which may be one of the reasons it attracted three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs as investors — Network Appliances co-founder Dave Hitz, Ezio Valdevit, a fellow at Brocade Communications and Pierluigi Zappacosta, co-founder of Logitech."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/busine
You call that a boat?
Dr. No, your escape vehicle is ready.
The 100-foot, spider-shaped contraption skimming around San Francisco Bay looked more like a James Bondian vessel than it did a new class of watercraft.
But that's exactly what its inventor, Ugo Conti of El Cerrito, says he's achieved.
After months of secrecy and increasing speculation in nautical circles, the odd-looking boat — if that's the right word — was finally unveiled Thursday morning.
The catamaran-like vessel has inflatable hulls, sits only about a foot deep in the water, is powered by two 355-horsepower diesel engines and has a range of up to 5,000 miles.
Plus, the cool quotient is off the charts, in a geeky, sci-fi sort of way. Which may be one of the reasons it attracted three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs as investors — Network Appliances co-founder Dave Hitz, Ezio Valdevit, a fellow at Brocade Communications and Pierluigi Zappacosta, co-founder of Logitech."
