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Submission + - Intel X38 High End Chipset Launch and Benchmarks (hothardware.com)

Submitted by

MojoKid

on Saturday October 13, 2007 @10:02AM

MojoKid writes: "Though many leaks of the product have been circulating for some time, Intel officially took the wraps off and launched their new X38 Express chipset for the high-end desktop motherboard market. With this launch, the Intel desktop chipset line-up gets a new flagship. Intel's new X38 chipset encompasses all of the technology advances that have made the P35 a success and adds a slew of new features designed to increase memory and graphics subsystem performance, like PCI Express 2.0 SerDes and Intel Extreme Memory technology in the new X38 MCH. The Asus motherboard tested in this article at HotHardware even features an embedded Linux-based OS that boots in a matter a seconds."

Submission + - Florida Scraps Touch Screen Voting, Literally (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by

Kaseijin

on Saturday October 13, 2007 @09:18AM

Kaseijin writes: "Florida Governor Charlie Crist is getting his wish. The New York Times reports the state will replace touch-screen voting machines with optical scan models by July 1, 2008. The touch-screen machines most likely will be sold to other jurisdictions or stripped for parts."

Submission + - Fans or No Fans for Silent PCs

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 11, 2007 @08:38AM

An anonymous reader writes: Can a PC with a fan ever be made quiet enough? Is it enough to use a big fan and run it very slowly? Is the best solution a huge heat sink made of aluminum or copper that runs on convection? This article examines the question of how to make a computer quiet enough to sit proudly in the living room without drowning out the movie playing on the TV next to it?

Feed Engadget: Sony's PlayStation 3 to double as IPTV set-top-box (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Thursday October 11, 2007 @08:32AM

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

Sony hasn't exactly been shy about expanding the capabilities of its PS3, and according to new reports from The Korea Times, even more non-game-related goodness will be headed its way. Apparently, KT (Korea's primary telecom operator) and Sony will "launch an internet-based TV service in November that runs on the PlayStation 3 game console," and as expected, the machine would act as a set-top-box for KT's IPTV service (Mega TV). Reportedly, neither company was willing to disclose pricing information (or any additional details, for that matter) just yet, so it looks like we'll be forced to play the wait-and-see game for now.

[Thanks, Stafford l.]

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Feed Tom's Hardware: WD Caviar GP: The "Green" 1 TB Drive (pheedo.com)

From feed by thfeed on Thursday October 11, 2007 @08:32AM

Terabyte drives from Samsung and Seagate have been delayed, but WD just released a new 1,000 GB hard drive called the Caviar GP. It's no performance champion, but it's probably the most efficient desktop hard drive ever.

Submission + - Full sized Transformers robot made from a car

Submitted by

Gary

on Thursday October 11, 2007 @08:01AM

Gary writes: "Two guys from Nanjing China have built a 15 feet tall Transformer robot using parts from a Citroen C2 car. Weighing in at 600 kgs it cost $8000 and took them 3 months to complete. Unfortunately it cant move or transform but nonetheless it is super cool and the closest thing to Bumblebee. It uses original Citreon C2 lights and tires; the rest is hand-sculpted synthetic resin, glass, and metal."

Submission + - Hewlett-Packard is looking for user feedback

Submitted by Maximilianop on Thursday October 11, 2007 @03:35AM

Maximilianop writes: Hewlett-Packard is staring a new marketing campaign valued in $300 millions called "What do you have to say?" which is related to HP's newer move on web based printing services which they coined the Print 2.0 name to.
This strategy pretends to speed up the company's capacity to capture a significant portion of the 53 trillions prints expected for 2010.

News source: DiarioTI(spanish)

Submission + - Guh-Guh-Guh-Google and the Jets

Submitted by

theodp

on Thursday October 11, 2007 @03:18AM

theodp writes: "Continuing their tag-team reporting on the Google execs' penchant for expensive jets, the NY Times has confirmed an earlier Valleywag report that Larry, Sergey, and Eric have added a Boeing 757 to their fleet, which already includes a widebody Boeing 767 and two Gulfstream Vs. While the Google founders and CEO are still tight-lipped on the subject, NASA responded to the Times' Freedom of Information Act request by releasing the text of a July agreement between NASA and H211 LLC (pdf-17.2MB), a company controlled by Google's top brass. The agreement requires that the Lease be kept confidential and alludes to an earlier deal NASA made with publicly-held Google ('Tenant is beneficially owned by the principal executives of an entity with whom Landlord has a programmatic, collaborative relationship and which plans to establish a physical presences at the Property'). A Google spokesman said the company does not have a relationship with H211, but did not opine as to whether his bosses did a good job of Avoiding Conflicts of Interest."

Submission + - Third-world economies sustain global warming (nazi.org)

Submitted by

National Socialism

on Thursday October 11, 2007 @01:32AM

National Socialism writes: "A climate-change expert says that spiraling economic growth has accelerated greenhouse gas emissions to a threshold not expected for at least another decade, and that its potential effects are devastating.

[ All those people who couldn't invent technology, but had it taken to them from a mixture of pity and desire for new markets, are now wanting to live like American suburbanites. They outnumber us 8 to 1. That's how much bigger global warming is going to get. Stop foreign aid and multiculturalism now! ]

http://www.nazi.org/nazi/news/archives/00000713.html"

Submission + - NetBSD boosts MySQL performance (feyrer.de)

Submitted by

hubertf

on Sunday September 30, 2007 @09:10PM

hubertf writes: "Andrew Doran, who was recently hired by the NetBSD project to work on NetBSD's SMP implementation, has done a lot of good work, and he has merged some of his work from the vmlocking-branch into NetBSD-current. Effects of this are that time for build.sh on a quad-Opteron went down by ~10%.

Andrew also updated his previous benchmarks, and posted about his recent results: ``Most of the sysbench runs that I've seen to date have sysbench running on the same machine as the database. That's a good test but with the exception of small installations and out-of-band activity, production setups rarely look like that. So I ran sysbench itself on a seperate dual core system.''

There are images that compare NetBSD 3 with NetBSD-current (where most of Andrew's changes are now), and NetBSD-current compared to Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.

The original benchmarks didn't include Solaris/x86, so Jaime Fournier sat down and repeated the test (on a single system). The results show that NetBSD beats Solaris by ~25% in the ReadOnly test, and that they're about on par in the ReadWrite test, with NetBSD kicking in earlier WRT the number of client threads, but Solaris keeping up longer before they both degrade. The courves are quite similar, and my guess is that there is some room for finetuning there."

Journal Journal: Mouseovers - as bad as popups? 8

Journal by fyngyrz on Sunday September 30, 2007 @08:26PM

Is anyone else as annoyed as I am by words and phrases in web articles that pop up boxes because my mouse pointer happened to cross them, temporarily hiding the content I was reading in the first place? I didn't click on anything, and consequently, I don't want a context change. I find these annoying to the point of noting what the site is and not going back. Anyone else feel the same? Anyone have a defense of the practice?

Submission + - "Burning" Saltwater

Submitted by sunspot42 on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @08:25PM

sunspot42 writes: From the too-good-to-believe file comes this AP story. Pennsylvania cancer researcher John Kanzius claims that hydrogen can be cracked from saltwater using nothing more than radio waves. A demonstration for the US Departments of Energy and Defense is scheduled for later in the week. Assuming this process puts out more energy than it costs — a big assumption — it could turn the most plentiful resource on the surface of the earth into an almost limitless, reusable source of energy.

Journal SPAM: Bible harmonises

Journal by mercedo on Friday August 31, 2007 @03:01PM

Bible harmonises because not harmonised parts were excluded from Bible.

Bible harmonises, which is tautology.

Feed Wired: Germany Wants to Send Trojan-Horse E-Mails, Spy on Suspects (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday August 31, 2007 @02:52PM

A German proposal to deploy "trojan horse" software to secretly monitor potential terror suspects' hard drives sparks fierce debate over whether the measures violate civil liberties.

Journal Journal: Couple Wins $80,000 Over Anti-Bush Shirts

Journal by cybermage on Friday August 17, 2007 @08:57AM

A Texas couple who were removed from a July 4th rally for wearing anti-bush t-shirts settled their lawsuit with the federal government for $80,000.

The Associated Press has the story. The couple attended a rally where president Bush was to give a speech wearing their home-made protest shirts and were arrested for trespassing.

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