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Comment Star Trek Inovation (Score 1) 100

by billy901 on Saturday December 20, 2008 @09:20PM (#26187741) Attached to: Scientists Hack Cellphone To Detect Diseases

This makes me think of all the good medical advances that came straight out of Star Trek. Like the air needle thing where you just shoot it at someone's arm and the stuff goes in their arm through air pressure. Something similar to that is being developed to help prevent the spread of HIV. And I'm sure you have all seen something similar to this cell phone blood tester in every single sci-fi film.

Comment Another cake? (Score 1) 270

by billy901 on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @05:21PM (#24681565) Attached to: A Mozilla Plugin to Help Overcome IE Rendering Flaw

I think Microsoft owes Mozilla another cake. This probably saved a lot of money and a few man hours for Microsoft. Or they can just let Mozilla bask in their humble glory.

Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released 346

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @11:25PM from the worth-the-wait dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "After 3 months, Linus has released Linux 2.6.23. This version includes the new and shiny CFS process scheduler, a simpler read-ahead mechanism, the lguest 'Linux-on-Linux' paravirtualization hypervisor, XEN guest support, KVM smp guest support, and variable process argument length. SLUB is now the default slab allocator, there's SELinux protection for exploiting null dereferences using mmap, XFS and ext4 improvements, PPP over L2TP support. Also the 'lumpy' reclaim algorithm, a userspace driver framework, the O_CLOEXEC file descriptor flag, splice improvements, a new fallocate() syscall, lock statistics, support for multiqueue network devices, various new drivers, and many other minor features and fixes. See the changelog for details."

Submission + - Best DVD to iPod Touch guide (macworld.se)

Submitted by

drcshine

on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @11:15PM

drcshine writes: "Best iPod guide, teach you how to free rip DVD and convert youtube video to iPod Touch/Nano/Video, with this guide, you also know how to watch iPod video on large screen TV, copy music from iPod back to computer and download free podcast on iPod."

Submission + - Internet2 completes year-long transition to Level3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @08:44PM

An anonymous reader writes: Internet2 announced today that they completed their year-long network upgrade. The IP network and new DCN network are provisioned atop Level3-managed Infinera optical equipment. The optical network has an initial capacity of 100Gbps and can scale up to 400Gbps with minimal hardware augmentation. The engineers at the Indiana University Global Research NOC have been keeping the community updated with a blog to document the upgrade process. The announcement of the upgrade was originally covered in 2006 here and here.

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