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Emulation (Games)

Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video 189

Posted by Soulskill from the super-mario-takedown dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo is investigating potential copyright infringement by Nokia during some video demos of their N900 phone, which can be seen emulating Nintendo games. Nintendo spokesman Robert Saunders says: 'We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place.' In the video, Nokia says, 'Most publishers allow individual title usage, provided that the user is in possession of the original title.'"
Science

Programmable Quantum Computer Created 132

Posted by Soulskill from the four-out-of-five-ain't-bad dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A team at NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) used berylium ions, lasers and electrodes to develop a quantum system that performed 160 randomly chosen routines. Other quantum systems to date have only been able to perform single, prescribed tasks. Other researchers say the system could be scaled up. 'The researchers ran each program 900 times. On average, the quantum computer operated accurately 79 percent of the time, the team reported in their paper.'"
Image

Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140

Posted by samzenpus from the a-jetwing-and-a-prayer dept.
Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."
Operating Systems

Phoronix Releases Linux Benchmarking Distribution 31

Posted by timothy from the medium-infrastructure dept.
Bitnit writes "Phoronix has released a major update to their automated Linux benchmarking software, the Phoronix Test Suite, and more interestingly they have released their own distribution that's designed for hardware testing and benchmarking on Linux. With PTS Desktop Live they provide this Linux distribution that's to run only from a live environment off a DVD / USB key and then allows their benchmarking software to run — and only that — on this standardized software stack, which makes hardware comparisons a lot easier."

Comment Re:XenServer from Citrix -- eewww (Score 1) 361

by gbr (#28176941) Attached to: When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails

I have to agree, the 'from Citrix' makes me queasy for a couple of reasons.

1. I've had issues with Citrix products in the past
2. Xen is the work of many people, not just Citrix.

Issue 2 compensated for issue 1, and it was further assuaged by the performance of the VM's. Very nice. I was also nice that Citrix made XenServer free just as we were about to write a check.

Comment I'm Part Time (Score 1) 396

by gbr (#26191157) Attached to: Is Finding Part Time Work In IT Unrealistic?

This is really late in the thread, but I'll put in my 2 cents worth anyway. I'm part time. I manage the software development team at a local company. My situation is a bit different though. I've been in development for 20+ years and left a few years back to be a stay at home dad. I worked on a couple of contracts while I stayed at home. One of my contracts offered me a full time position, and with the economy the way it is, I seriously considered it. The end result is that I am an employee now, but when my kids aren't in school, I'm not at work. I get in by 9:30 AM, I leave at 3:00 PM. I get 2 weeks off at Christmas and Spring Break, and 2 months off in the summer, as well as all school inservice days and when my kids are sick.

Let me tell you, it's not easy. In my case, I'm juggling two jobs. Even if you're not, keeping on the pulse of on-going projects is extremely difficult. You need to be extremely organized and trust your staff.
Data Storage

Submission + - Laptop/Server data synchronization 1

Submitted by gbr
gbr writes: I've been trying to automatically synchronize data between a laptop and a server. When the laptop is connected to the network, I want all writes to automatically propagate across to the server. When the laptop is disconnected I want the laptop user to continue working with the local data. When the laptop is reconnected, I want the data to automatically re-sync.

The issue is, the data on the server may have changed as well, which needs to propagate back to the laptop. The data doesn't contain anything too special, no database tables etc. It does contain binary data such as executables and word processing documents. I've looked at ChironFS, Unison file sync, and drbd. ChironFS needs a manual rebuild if a connection fails, and the user needs to know which machine contains the correct data. Unison requires the user to initiate the synchronization process manually every time, and drbd is just not meant for the job at hand.

How do you automatically, and invisibly to the user (except in the case of conflicts), synchronize between a laptop and a server?
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Canadian patient with vulcan blood (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by rupert0
rupert0 writes: From article:

A team of Canadian surgeons got a shock when the patient they were operating on began shedding dark greenish-black blood, the Lancet reports. The man emulated Star Trek's Mr Spock — the Enterprise's science officer who supposedly had green Vulcan blood.

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