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Submission + - HP Announced ARM Based Server Line (infoworld.com)

Submitted by sammcj on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @07:52PM

sammcj writes: HP's server design packs 288 Calxeda chips into a 4U rack-mount server, or 2,800 in a full rack, with a shared power, cooling, and management infrastructure. By eliminating much of the cabling and switching devices used in traditional servers and using the low-power ARM processors, HP says it can reduce both power and space requirements dramatically.

The Redstone platform uses a 4U (7-inch) rack-mount server chassis. Inside, HP has put 72 small server boards, each with four Calxeda processors, 4GB of RAM and 4MB of L2 cache. Each processor, based on the ARM Cortex-A9 design, runs at 1.4GHz and has its own 80 gigabit cross-bar switch built into the chip

Submission + - HTML5 WebSocket to hasten Web app comms (techworld.com.au)

Submitted by

angry tapir

on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @07:49PM

angry tapir writes: "An HTML5-related standard called WebSocket could cut some of this networking overhead, speeding responsiveness in Web applications, argued a Web app expert. "If you were not constrained by the limitations of HTTP, what sort of truly interactive Web applications would you build?" John Fallows rhetorically asked at the HTML5 Live Conference held Tuesday in New York. Fallows is the chief technology officer and co-founder of messaging software provider Kaazing. The use of the W3C's WebSocket could enable a new generation of real-time, "zero-latency" Web applications whose communications requirements would be too demanding for today's HTTP protocols, Fallows argued."

Submission + - India to build Thorium reactor (guardian.co.uk) 1

Submitted by slowLearner on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @07:43PM

slowLearner writes: India will build a working Thorium reactor.
Officials are currently selecting a site for the reactor, which would be the first of its kind, using thorium for the bulk of its fuel instead of uranium – the fuel for conventional reactors. They plan to have the plant up and running by the end of the decade.

Submission + - Add-on turns iPhone into hand projector (techworld.com.au)

Submitted by

angry tapir

on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @06:46PM

angry tapir writes: "A tiny projector that plugs into an iPhone's docking slot and can throw a 25-inch image about a meter away has gone on sale in Japan and China. The projector weighs just 32 grams and is about the size of half an iPhone. Its tiny LED lamp runs off the phone's battery and generates 320-by-240 resolution at a brightness of 10 lumens."

Submission + - Anonymous Cancels Drug-Ring Attack (infoworld.com) 1

Submitted by

snydeq

on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @01:40PM

snydeq writes: "Anonymous supporters have backed off threats to expose Zeta drug gang collaborators, an operation launched in early October as a retaliation for an alleged kidnapping of an Anonymous follower by the Mexico-based drug gang. Members of Anonymous had posted a video claiming the group could identify journalists, police officers, and taxi drivers who collaborate with the Zeta crime syndicate. Zeta has not shied away from targeting its online critics. In September the crime group hung two people from an overpass warning bloggers and "online snitches" to beware. The decapitated body of another social-media reporter was found later with a similar warning. Worried about the impact on both misidentified people and Anonymous followers, other supporters of the Anonymous movement worked to dismantle the operation over the weekend. In effect, the group canceled the attack, according to online news site Milenio."

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011 (boingboing.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13, 2011 @06:41AM

An anonymous reader writes: Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died at his home this past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness. No further details are available at the time of this blog post. [...]
The news of Ritchie's death was first made public by way of Rob Pike's Google+.

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie, father of C and Unix reported dead (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by sl4shd0rk on Thursday October 13, 2011 @06:26AM

sl4shd0rk writes: Rob Pike, a Google engineer and former colleague of Ritchie, said on Google+ that the 70-year-old, who was a founding developer of Unix and known as dmr, died at home over the weekend after a long illness.

Submission + - Shady Reshipping Centers Exposed (krebsonsecurity.com)

Submitted by

Dynamoo

on Thursday October 13, 2011 @06:24AM

Dynamoo writes: "Ever wondered how criminals can spirit away the products they buy with stolen credit cards? The answer is that they use surprisingly sophisticated but very shady reshipping centers to launder the goods on their way to Eastern Europe. The bad guys make the money, but it's the mules doing the reshipping who will eventually get caught."

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie, creator of C programming language (google.com)

Submitted by WankerWeasel on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @11:15PM

WankerWeasel writes: The sad news of the dead of another tech great has come. Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, has passed away. For those of us running Mac OS X, iOS, Android and many other non-Windows OS' have him to thank. Many of those running Windows do too as many of the applications you're using were written in C.

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie has passed away (google.com)

Submitted by Halo5 on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @11:05PM

Halo5 writes: Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language, passed away at his home this weekend. He was 70 years old. RIP, Dennis.

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie passed (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @10:51PM

An anonymous reader writes: Dennis Ritchie who gave us the C programming language and helped make UNIX portable, and well the UNIX we all love passed this last weekend.

Submission + - RMS on Jobs: "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad (latimes.com)

Submitted by Garabito on Sunday October 09, 2011 @12:22PM

Garabito writes: Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, has posted on his personal site: "As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, 'I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone.' Nobody deserves to have to die — not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing." His statement has spurred reaction from the community; some even asking to the Free Software movement to find a new voice.

Submission + - Eric Raymond Defends Stallman Over Jobs Remarks (muktware.com) 1

Submitted by N!NJA on Sunday October 09, 2011 @06:14AM

N!NJA writes: Many have already read on the Internets what Richard Stallman said about Steve Jobs:

"Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die — not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing. Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective."

Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/10/steve-jobs-stallman-dissenting-view.html

Eric S Raymond, the author of Cathedral in Bazaar has come out to defend Richard M Stallman:

"But the Mac also set a negative pattern that Jobs was to repeat with greater amplification later in his life. In two respects; first, it was a slick repackaging of design ideas from an engineering tradition that long predated Jobs (in this case, going back to the pioneering Xerox PARC WIMP interfaces of the early 1970s). Which would be fine, except that Jobs created a myth that arrogated that innovation to himself and threw the actual pioneers down the memory hole."

"Second, even while Jobs was posing as a hip liberator from the empire of the beige box, he was in fact creating a hardware and software system so controlling and locked down that the case couldn’t even be opened without a special cracking tool. The myth was freedom, but the reality was Jobs’s way or the highway. Such was Jobs’s genius as a marketer that he was able to spin that contradiction as a kind of artistic integrity, and gain praise for it when he should have been slammed for hypocrisy."

"What’s really troubling is that Jobs made the walled garden seem cool. He created a huge following that is not merely resigned to having their choices limited, but willing to praise the prison bars because they have pretty window treatments."

Source: http://www.muktware.com/news/2623

Comment Correction: Monitor "Opposition political parties" (Score 0) 113

by joesteeve on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @01:56AM (#37030080) Attached to: India Wants To Monitor Twitter, Facebook

Coz thats where most of the Indian Intelligence Agencies spend their time on :-/

Submission + - IBM Bequeaths Symphony Code To Apache (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

CWmike

on Thursday July 14, 2011 @02:19PM

CWmike writes: "Hoping to further sharpen OpenOffice's competitive viability against Microsoft Office, IBM is donating the code of its Symphony open source office suite to the nonprofit Apache Software Foundation. Apache could fold this code into its own open source office suite OpenOffice, on which Symphony was based. In June, Oracle donated the OpenOffice suite to Apache. 'Prior to Apache's entry, there really hasn't been enough innovation in this area over the past 10 years," said Kevin Cavanaugh, an IBM vice president. 'It's been constrained because we haven't had a true open source community with a mature governance model.'"

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