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Sony

Submission + - PS3 crosses petaflop barrier (playstation.com)

Submitted by mistahkurtz
mistahkurtz writes: From the article:

the aggregated computation power of the PS3 consoles — by themselves — has crossed the Petaflop line!

what i find most interesting is the disproportion between the PS3s, with 41145 CPUs active, and the runner-up (windows) with 173,353 CPUs active.
Printer

Submission + - Dot Matrix printer on OS X 1

Submitted by mistahkurtz
mistahkurtz writes: I work in Corporate IT Sales. One of my smaller clients uses only Macs, and has upgrade everything to OS X. Until the upgrade, they were using an old Apple ImageWriter 2, but that's no longer supported. Though many printers are listed to be compatible with OS X, they are, in fact, not (which I determined after numerous consultations with pretty much every major manufacturer). While they are somewhat tech savvy with things like basic programming, etc, doing intricate work to get a printer to work is not a possibility. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of a problem?

Some possible solutions that have been suggested by my Mac-user co-workers are to buy an old G4 off of ebay, and set that up as a print terminal, or possibly something with Parallels and Windows Linux. The requirements for the printer are: Dot Matrix/Impact printer, must support continuous forms, and print to 5-part carbonless.

Does anyone in /. have any suggestions that might help my customer out?
Biotech

Submission + - scientists report: artificial life on the horizon (cnn.com)

Submitted by mistahkurtz
mistahkurtz writes: cnn.com and other sites around the web are reporting on an AP story about the future of life. the famous last words to make a mental note of here are:

"When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab," he said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen."

IBM

Submission + - $1.4m server falls off forklift (theregister.co.uk) 1

Submitted by mistahkurtz
mistahkurtz writes: it sucks to be this guy:

Federal contractor T.R. Systems says its workers were moving the server from a freight truck into its warehouse in Alexandria, Va., when the mishap occurred. "The rear wheels of their forklift hit the raised surface at the entry door of the warehouse, causing the forklift to rock, and subsequently causing the server to rock," T.R. Systems says in court papers filed last month.
having worked in a S&R dept, i know that things can arrive packed improperly. but usually, you'll be able to tell that before unloading the item from a truck, since said item is often already tipped over, busting open, or broken into pieces. can IBM really be held responsible? better question: should they?
Space

Submission + - faster than the speed of light (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by mistahkurtz
mistahkurtz writes:
A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light — an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time.


what sort of implications could this have? it's hard to tell if they really mean that the particle travelled in a (presumably) straight line like a normal object travelling thru space/time, or if it "teleported" from point a to point b 3ft away. either way, (assuming the story is true) the story is interesting, but should we file this with the stories of scientists "altering" or "slowing" the speed of light?
The Internet

Submission + - newzbin.com offering free premium credit

Submitted by mistahkurtz
mistahkurtz writes: Newzbin is offering free credit for premium members:



Currently, there's 85 people on #newzbin.
If this reaches 500 simultaneous over the weekend, I'll give every premium member 2 weeks credit.
If it reaches 1000 simultaneous, I'll give every premium member 4 weeks.
If it reaches 2000 simultaneous or beyond, it'll be 8 weeks.


there's currently almost 900 people there. click here for more details.

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