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Submission + - Hewlett-Packard is looking for user feedback

Submitted by Maximilianop
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)
Google

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

Submitted by
theodp
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."
United States

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

Submitted by
National Socialism
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"
Operating Systems

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

Submitted by
hubertf
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."
The Internet

Journal Journal: Mouseovers - as bad as popups? 8

Journal by fyngyrz

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?

Announcements

Submission + - "Burning" Saltwater

Submitted by sunspot42
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.
User Journal

Journal SPAM: Bible harmonises

Journal by mercedo

Bible harmonises because not harmonised parts were excluded from Bible.

Bible harmonises, which is tautology.
User Journal

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

Journal by cybermage

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.

Feed The Register: IBM revamps mainframe OS (theregister.com)

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A machine for all workloads

IBM has taken the wraps off a new version of its mainframe operating system, which has been designed to make it easier to port Unix applications onto Big Iron servers. The upgrade also includes scalability and security improvements.
AMD

Submission + - AMD Quad-Core Desktop Processor Report (Phenom)

Submitted by MoxFulder
MoxFulder writes: As a follow-up to Sunday's report on the upcoming quad-core Barcelona server processors, TechARP has published a new report on Phenom, AMD's upcoming quad-core desktop processor. An interesting read, though unfortunately lacking in actual performance numbers... since AMD hasn't supplied much in the way of benchmark data or sample processors yet. AMD is touting its monolithic implementation as a major advantage over the split-die design of the Core 2 Quad, but it's not certain that this will translate to real-world performance. With Intel's agressive 50% price cut on its Q6600 quad-core processor, is AMD too late to compete at the quad-core game?
User Journal

Journal SPAM: Crime and No Punishment 2

Journal by mercedo
Aren't people who just followed the order of state power and committed some serious crimes guilty after the state lost its political power?
Programming

Journal Journal: How to bring mainframers into the 21st century? 8

Journal by TopShelf

I've recently been tasked with leading the integration effort for a large systems implementation here at work, and am facing a challenge more daunting than any mere technical obstacle; how does one best get hardcore old-school programmers to embrace a new way of integrating our applications?

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