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Submission + - SPAM: Even Ethernet is going "green" with new IE

Submitted by

alphadogg

on Friday February 02, 2007 @12:24PM

alphadogg writes: "The IEEE wants to make idle or underutilized Ethernet connections more energy efficient, which could mean huge electrical cost savings for large enterprises. The trick: finding a way to subtley throttle between 10Mbps and 10Gbps. The idea is to save power in PCs and laptops (most of which ship with GigE cards now) when LAN links are idle, or not utilizing full bandwidth. Researchers estimate that U.S. companies could collectively save $450 million a year in power costs by using such a technology. [spam URL stripped]- energy-efficient.html"

Submission + - NFL Calls Foul on Church Superbowl Parties

Submitted by Kahlil in Virginia on Friday February 02, 2007 @11:55AM

Kahlil in Virginia writes: This article (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID =/20070201/LOCAL/702010431/) from Indiana describes how the NFL is using its lawyers to intemidate and ban churches from hosting Superbowl parties. The NFL claims it is copyright infringement and that the churches are to refrain from hosing a party where the words Superbowl are used. The also cannot use a screen larger than 55". However, bars and other places are able to continue showing the program. This strikes me to be a fairly blatent abuse of a power the NFL does not have. Where is the law that says we, as a people, have a contract with the NFL to host parties and show the prgram? As long as the church is not receiving income from this and redistributing the program the NFL should have no leg to stand on. The NFL also blaims ratings and advertisement revenue as part of its decision.

Submission + - Oxygen HD sound cards take on X-Fi

Submitted by

TheRaindog

on Friday February 02, 2007 @11:54AM

TheRaindog writes: "Looking for an alternative to Creative's dominance of the sound card market? The Tech Report has an in-depth look at C-Media Oxygen HD-based soundcards from Auzentech and Sondigo. Support for real-time DTS and Dolby Digital Live encoding gives these cards a leg up on the X-Fi out of the gate, and one even features user-replaceable OPAMPs. The cards are compared with an X-Fi and integrated motherboard audio across a wide range of CPU utilization, 3D gaming, objective sound quality, and subjective listening tests that reveal where they shine, and more importantly, where they stumble."

Submission + - Help with Linux Backup and Archive Solutions

Submitted by

earlshaw03

on Friday February 02, 2007 @11:27AM

earlshaw03 writes: "I work for a small independent phone company and have a few questions regarding one of our Linux boxes that is our customer email server. We are running Debian and are having some issues backing up every users email. We had about 90GB worth of mail on the server, so we deceided to implement a new policy that all email that was not popped would be deleted after 90 days. We scoured sourceforge, freshmeat, and google to find a good archiving program that would allow us to accomplish this. The only one we could find was archivemail, which worked somewhat well, but we keep getting an error that stops the program about half way through, on the same user. It also stalls on other users as well. We have managed to work around these accounts and get the size down to 55GB worth of email. We are currently using Vembu Technologies StoreGrid product to backup this server. The backup usually took anywhere from 3-4 days for a full backup. So finally I am asking the Slashdot Community what do you use to Backup and archive/delete mail?"

Submission + - Payoffs to Global Warming Paris Attendees ?

Submitted by siasl on Friday February 02, 2007 @11:00AM

siasl writes: Maybe this needs to be in the "tinfoil hat" section but my wife was in the car this morning listening to WPLN Nashville when the story about the possible payoff of Global Warming attendees at the Paris conf came on. http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,20043 99,00.html Then, an hour later when the Global Warming coverage was to repeat. The sidebar about the payoffs was gone. Did WPLN (NPR) get a call to drop the story...... Who knows. /On Tinfoil hat

Submission + - New Tools Appearing Based off of Long Tail Concept

Submitted by

miklevin

on Friday February 02, 2007 @10:55AM

miklevin writes: "If you haven't heard of the term "the long tail" over the past year, you've had your head in the sand. The long tail concept is now spawning tools to help webmasters improve sites. http://www.hittail.com/ reveals in real-time the least utilized, most promising keywords hidden in the long tail of your natural search results, which are then presented to you as suggestions that when acted on can boost the natural search results of your site. Your only job is to create original content from those suggestions. It's that simple."

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