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Submission + - In the black: Why Linux makes financial sense (itwire.com)

Submitted by

davidmwilliams

on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @09:38PM

davidmwilliams writes: "Sure, we techies know Linux is the right choice. But chances are the suits in a company fear what they consider "risky propositions." Here's how to talk to your CFO in terms he'll grasp, stabbing to death the notion that Windows has a lower "TCO" (Total cost of ownership) and why Linux makes good financial sense after all."

Submission + - World's Greenest Supercomputers (green500.org)

Submitted by drewmoney on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @09:35PM

drewmoney writes: Researchers at Virginia Tech have compiled a list of the world's greenest supercomputers. The Green500, ranks systems by their use of "FLOPS per watt". A Blue Gene from IBM tops the list with 357.23 megaflops per watt. Big Blue also snagged 9 of the top 10 spots. Maybe we should start calling them Big Green. Another noteworthy observation: the three fastest supercomputers in the world actually made the list.

Look at me, I'm green and speedy!

Submission + - EFF Releases Software to Spot Net NonNeutrality (eff.org)

Submitted by DanielBoz on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @09:32PM

DanielBoz writes: In the wake of the detection and reporting of Comcast Corporation's controversial interference with Internet traffic, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published a comprehensive account of Comcast's packet-forging activities and has released software and documentation instructing Internet users on how to test for packet forgery or other forms of interference by their own ISPs.

Submission + - Verizon's "Open Network" is Not Really tha (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by

saccade.com

on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @09:05PM

saccade.com writes: "TechCrunch is reporting that Verizon's "Open Network" is not really so open. Reporter Erick Schonfeld "...asked Verizon whether any of the new apps developed for the bring-your-own devices would also be available to its existing customers who bought their phones through Verizon. The answer for now is, 'No.' Although a spokesperson tells me that they are looking into it. Unless it figures that out, Verizon is not really building an open network. It is building a two-tiered network: One for its preferred customers who play by its rules (i.e., its current 64 million subscribers), and one for the rabble not satisfied with its choice of phones and apps.

...If there is no crossover capability on the apps, then the "open" part of Verizon's network will be barren. The appeal of developing an open app for Verizon would be to gain access to those 64 million subscribers. Nobody is going to go through the trouble of creating apps just for the handful of people who want a CDMA phone that Verizon does not already sell. Making the whole open network even less appealing will be the fact that these phones are not likely to be subsidized by Verizon, and thus far more expensive.""

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