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Submission + - Where Google is Bigger than Sex

Submitted by

ecacofonix

on Saturday May 26, 2007 @11:24AM

ecacofonix writes: "If you thought however great Google is, it cannot be as popular as sex, think again. If you ever thought God could not be as popular as Paris Hilton, think again. Sure, God is not as popular as Google, but He is holding his own against the likes of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. What on earth are we talking about? About how popular words are, using Google Trends analysis. Read more from here "

Submission + - Ethical Hacker Career Central

Submitted by ddonzal on Friday February 09, 2007 @03:42PM

ddonzal writes: The Ethical Hacker Network, a free online magazine for pen testers and security professionals, just launched Career Central. Not only can you ask for career advice in this growing field, but you can also post to the "Looking for Work" section or browse the "Looking to Hire" board. It's new, so there's not much yet. But I love the magazine, and the community has always been incredibly helpful to newbies and seasoned pros alike. http://www.ethicalhacker.net/component/option,com_ smf/Itemid,54/board,49.0/

Submission + - Top 10 list of Network-iest Movies

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday February 09, 2007 @03:27PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Network world listed their top 10 most network-iest movies, you can see the list here, and surprisingly WarGames was not the first on the list. Of course, there are a few good picks in here, including Network,Hackers, and a few others. They are also calling out for your top-10 list to compile a "Readers Choice" list later this month."

Submission + - Computing Pioneer Ken Kennedy Passes Away

Submitted by

biggerboy

on Friday February 09, 2007 @03:07PM

biggerboy writes: "From Rice University Press Release: "Ken Kennedy, the founder of Rice University's nationally ranked computer science program and one of the world's foremost experts on high-performance computing, died Feb. 7 at a Houston hospital after a long battle with cancer. He was 61.""

Submission + - kqemu released under the GPLv2

Submitted by

Michael Opdenacker

on Friday February 09, 2007 @01:57PM

Michael Opdenacker writes: "Fabrice Bellard, the author of ffmeg/libavcodec and the qemu emulator, has released the 1.3.0pre10 version of the kqemu accelerator kernel module. This kernel module makes it possible to run the i386 and x86_64 system emulator at close-to-native speeds when running qemu on the same processor architecture. According to the NEWS page, it is now licensed by the GPLv2!

kqemu was first released under a proprietary license, but Fabrice promised it would make it free when a company funds his work. Though no company name was disclosed, Fabrice kept his promise. That's an event many people have been waiting for for a long time. Now, it is easy to run another operating system from Linux, with very good performance and only using Free Software! Time to sell WMware shares?"

Submission + - Reinventing the Source Code Search Engine

Submitted by

calum

on Saturday February 03, 2007 @07:23PM

calum writes: "Too much time is wasted re-implementing code that someone else has already done, for the sole reason it is too difficult to find specific useful code. Previous source code search engine, such as google codesearch and koders, only considered individual files on there own, leading to poor quality results; making them only useful when the amount of time to re-implement was extremely high. Both newsforge and jaxmagazine are covering the launch of a new source code search engine, All The Code that is aiming to change all of this. By looking at code, not just on its own, but also how it is used, it is able to return more relevant results. For example, if there were two similar libraries both for binary trees, if one libraries was used more frequently it would have a higher ranking than the less used library. This seems like just what we need to unify the open-source community, leading to an actual common repository enabling projects to easily discover useful modules in each other, and ending the cycle of unnecessary reimplementing allowing us to focus on new, interesting problems."

Submission + - 'Dumb Terminals' Can Be a Smart Move for Companies

Submitted by

Carl Bialik from WSJ

on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @12:32AM

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes: "More companies are forgoing desktop and laptop computers for dumb terminals — reversing a trend toward powerful individual machines that has been in motion for two decades, the Wall Street Journal reports. 'Because the terminals have no moving parts such as fans or hard drives that can break, the machines typically require less maintenance and last longer than PCs. Mark Margevicius, an analyst at research firm Gartner Inc., estimates companies can save 10% to 40% in computer-management costs when switching to terminals from desktops. In addition, the basic terminals appear to offer improved security. Because the systems are designed to keep data on a server, sensitive information isn't lost if a terminal gets lost, stolen or damaged. And if security programs or other applications need to be updated, the new software is installed on only the central servers, rather than on all the individual PCs scattered throughout a network.'"

Submission + - ScrabbleBot - New Leap in AI

Submitted by

weasel

on Monday January 29, 2007 @07:44PM

weasel writes: "A new Scrabble AI engine has just been polished; it actively tries to steal your potential words instead of just scoring for itself. How long until shooters and other video games build up the same level of nefariousness? Or is it a bit too frustrating to be considered a good gaming concept?"

Water Cooling Computers With A Swimming Pool 241

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday January 06, 2007 @11:27AM from the take-your-pc-for-a-dip dept.

guzugi writes "This is a project I have been working for several months and been hypothesizing for much longer. The basic idea is to shortcut the need for an air conditioner when cooling multiple computers. Swimming pool water is pumped into the house and through several waterblocks to effectively cool these hot machines. This greatly reduces noise cooling requirements."

Submission + - Larry King Says He's Never Used The Internet

Submitted by corerunner on Friday January 05, 2007 @02:46PM

corerunner writes: From a story by NBC 10:

During a segment with guest Roseanne Barr this week, King and Barr got into a discussion about her blogs and her obsession with the Drudge Report, a widely popular Web news site.

When prodded by Barr, King said his wife loved the Internet, but he had no intention of trying to access it.

Submission + - A virtual approach for clothing design

Submitted by

Roland Piquepaille

on Friday January 05, 2007 @02:28PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "The latest issue of IEEE Computer Graphics is focused on sketch-based interaction. In a sketch-based interface for clothing virtual characters (PDF format, 10 pages, 1.61 MB), the publication reports that an international team led by French computer scientists and fashion designers has worked on an intuitive way to design virtual clothing. Their method 'determines a garment's shape and how the character wears it based on a user-drawn sketch. The system then uses distances between the 2D garment silhouette and the character model to infer remaining distance variations in 3D.' This method could soon be used not only for real garments, but also by the video-game industry. Read more for additional references and several pictures showing examples of garments created using this sketch-based approach."

Submission + - Sleep Disturbances associated with suicide

Submitted by brainvoid on Friday January 05, 2007 @01:57PM

brainvoid writes: In the first known report of its kind, a study published in the January 1st issue of the journal SLEEP finds that sleep disturbances are common among suicide attempters, and that nightmares are associated with suicidality.
The study, conducted by Nisse Sjöström, RN, and colleagues of Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Göteborg, Sweden, focused on 165 patients between the ages of 18-68, who were admitted to medical units or psychiatric wards at Sahlgrenska after a suicide attempt. It was discovered that 89 percent of subjects reported some kind of sleep disturbance. The most common complaint was difficulties initiating sleep (73 percent), followed by difficulties maintaining sleep (69 percent), nightmares (66 percent) and early morning awakening (58 percent). Nightmares were associated with a five-fold increase in risk for high suicidality.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?ne wsid=59937

A Sneak Preview of KDE 4 350

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday January 05, 2007 @05:59AM from the pretty-gooey dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In recent times, a lot of discussion has been generated about the state of KDE version 4.0 and as Linux users we are ever inquisitive about what the final user experience is going to be. This article throws light on some of the features that we can look forward to when KDE 4.0 is finally released some time this year. The article indicates that the most exciting fact about KDE 4.0 is going to be that it is developed using the Qt 4.0 library. This is significant because Qt 4.0 is released under a GPL license even for non-Unix platforms. So this clears the ideological path for KDE 4.0 to be ported to Windows and other non-Unix/X11 platforms."

Fuel Cell Powered Japanese Trains on Trial in July 295

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 12, 2006 @10:43PM from the clean-choo-choo dept.

ScorpFromHell writes "As per this yahoo! news item, "East Japan Railway Co. is to conduct a test run of the world's first fuel-cell-powered train in July. The fuel cells, which generate power from a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, will help reduce environmental pollution compared to the existing electric and diesel engines, the company said." But I wonder how much energy did it consume to produce those huge amounts of Hydrogen & Oxygen? Will it be lesser than the power generated by the reaction between them? In other words, can this technology be used by countries with not so deep pockets as Japan?"

MAKE Switches To BUY 43

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 01, 2006 @06:38PM from the be-a-good-consumer dept.

ptorrone writes "It's been a rough year for MAKE Magazine, you see, everyone wants to buy things and not make things, so we're switching our format and rebranding the magazine to BUY. The next volume will be filled with wonderful things you can buy and directives on things to do, like buy more. Our new designer, Nada, has some shots of the next volume here."

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