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Submission + - T-Mobile Sidekick users lose all personal data (go.com) 1

Submitted by SeaDuck79
SeaDuck79 writes: Owners of Sidekick phones may have lost all the personal information they put on the device, including contact numbers, because of a failure of servers that remotely stored the data.

The incident is a huge blow to the reputation of the Sidekick and is a reminder of the dangers of trusting a single provider to safeguard information.

The phones are made by a Microsoft Corp. subsidiary and sold by T-Mobile USA, which say many Sidekick owners' information is "almost certainly" gone. T-Mobile is offering customers $20 to refund the cost of one month of data usage on the phone.

Submission + - UT's Krakken: First Academic To Break Petascale (utk.edu)

Submitted by tetrahedrassface
tetrahedrassface writes: The University of Tennessee has officially become the first academic institution to break the petascale with their supercomputer named 'Krakken'. The machine, which can manage 1 thousand trillion operations per second is only the fourth supercomputer to achieve this goal, and is the first machine in the academic world to do so. As per I call I made the machine runs a heavily modified linux, and has created 25 full time jobs and helped place UT in the center of 'big science'. Krakken was made possible by a $65 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation.
Intel

Submission + - Intel caught cheating in 3DMark benchmark (techreport.com) 3

Submitted by EconolineCrush
EconolineCrush writes: 3DMark Vantage developer Futuremark has clear guidelines for what sort of driver optimizations are permitted with its graphics benchmark. Intel's current Windows 7 drivers appear to be in direct violation, offloading the graphics workload onto the CPU to artificially inflate scores for the company's integrated graphics chipsets. The Tech Report lays out the evidence, along with Intel's response, and illustrates that 3DMark scores don't necessarily track with game performance, anyway.
Microsoft

Submission + - Apple vs. Microsoft: Top 20 Stolen OS Ideas (infoworld.com) 2

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snydeq
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's John Rizzo chronicles the 20 most significant ideas and features Microsoft and Apple have stolen from each other in the lead up to Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. 'Some features were stolen so long ago that they've become part of the computing landscape, and it's difficult to remember who invented what.' Windows 7's Task Bar and Aero Peek come to mind as clear appropriations of Mac OS X's Dock and Exposé. Apple's cloning of the Windows address bar in 2007's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard as the path bar is another obvious 'inspiration.' But the borrowing goes deeper, Rizzo writes, providing a screenshot tour of Microsoft's biggest grabs from Mac OS X and Apple's most significant appropriations of Windows OS ideas and functionality."
Desktops (Apple)

Submission + - Running a small Mac Home Network

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NotesSensei
NotesSensei writes: "My family is a happy Mac user. Only lately constant bickering is breaking out about time slots for usage. So I decided to add two more Macs to the home network. Ideally I want to set them up, so regardless of which machine a family member is using they get their environment. Also I'd like to have passwords synchronized across the machines. I have a NAS for storage, but would like to know how to keep desktops and passwords (including the keychains) in sync."
Red Hat Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Released 110

Posted by timothy from the progress-continues dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The fourth update in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 family is released. From the press release — this version includes kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) virtualization, alongside of Xen virtualization technology. The scalability of the Red Hat virtualization solution has been incremented to support 192 CPUs and 1GB hugepages. Other updates including GCC 4.4 and a new malloc(), clustered, high-availability filesystem to support Microsoft Windows storage needs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This article covers the upgrade procedure for RHEL 5.4 from the previous version."
Music

Submission + - Michael Jackson Dies at age 50 (cnn.com)

Submitted by
CZARDOMN
CZARDOMN writes: "Stories are coming into play as the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, has passed at 50 yrs of age. We remember him as someone who has semi-awesome dance moves, The Thriller Master. But he did live a hard life of criticism. He is survived by his three kids.If you would like the details of this, Click the URL: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/25/michael.jackson/index.html."
Image

Broke Counties Turn Failing Roads To Gravel 717

Posted by samzenpus from the let-civilization-collapse-initiative dept.
To save money, more than 20 Michigan counties have decided to turn deteriorating paved roads back to gravel. Montcalm County estimates that repaving a road costs more than $100,000 a mile. Grinding the same mile of road up and turning it into gravel costs $10,000. At least 50 miles of road have been reverted to gravel in Michigan the past three years. I can't wait until we revert back to whale oil lighting and can finally be rid of this electricity fad.
Google

Submission + - Youtube finally fixes HD problem

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "In the last few days, YouTube have fixed the issue whereby HD videos stream in lower quality than standard definition unless the HD button is clicked. Now, without clicking the HD button, HD streams in high quality and in the standard screen size. The feature does not appear to work with existing HD content, only for newly uploaded files. Example video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOcEIUrAkOE No announcement regarding this major improvement appears to have been made by YouTube"
Graphics

Submission + - Midrange 3D Graphics Shootout, NVIDIA vs AMD (hothardware.com)

Submitted by
MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "As most folks would agree, the graphics card market is currently over-saturated with too many options due in part to the intense competition between NVIDIA and AMD. In addition, paying top-dollar for one of the highest-end models on the market usually ends up netting you dimishing returns from an overall value perspective. This review and performance evaluation of 7 midrange GeForce GTX and Radeon HD offerings at HotHardware presents some of the best values in 3D graphics today, where you don't have to break the bank for solid game play in some of the latest titles. Benchmark testing includes, Left 4 Dead, H.A.W.X., Far Cry 2, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and yes, Crysis. Power consumption and thermals are looked at as well."
OS X

Submission + - OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Announced (appleinsider.com)

Submitted by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF
99BottlesOfBeerInMyF writes: Appleinsider's coverage of the WWDC notes, "Apple on Monday offered attendees at its annual developer conference an overview of its nearly finalized Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system, which the company said will be available in September as a $29 upgrade for users of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard." In addition to the approximate release date and price, the article details some of the features and improvements in the Snow Leopard update to OS X. These include: performance enhancements, 64 applications, smaller footprint, Exchange support, updated "Cocoa" Finder, some minor UI improvements, Safari 4, and a new version of Quicktime.
Idle

Submission + - Company Produces THC Tomatoes (thecrit.com) 2

Submitted by Corpuscavernosa
Corpuscavernosa writes: Scientists at Montsaint Genie Tech Inc. announced today that they have successfully transferred the gene segment that produces the psychotropic chemical THC in cannabis plants to many other common garden plants, including tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, carrots, and more.

But is it legal? "Actually, yes," says Vale. "Our research qualifies as GMO 'intellectual property', as does the process itself. Since tomatoes and other plants are not illegal, a person would be well within the law to grow them and use them as they please."

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