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Submission + - First Tamarin vs. SpiderMonkey benchmarks (clipperz.com)

Submitted by

mbarulli

on Friday June 29, 2007 @02:41AM

mbarulli writes: "Dan Smith, the Tamarin module owner, was kind enough to share with Clipperz the first official benchmarks of Tamarin vs. SpiderMonkey! These numbers are a very good indicator of the benefits that Tamarin could bring to Mozilla-based products. Dan says: "Performance will be greatly improved over current JavaScript implementations, especially for typed code. Tamarin does much better than SpiderMonkey in nearly all tests except some of the numeric tests where it is doing extra type conversions. But future optimizations will certainly address these situations too.""

Submission + - Preparing 4 Digg / Slashdot Effect: Beyond Caching (njection.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday June 29, 2007 @02:41AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "When preparing for an onslaught of traffic to your web site, the smallest mistake can turn your servers one time chance for fame and fortune into an overly-expensive brick sitting in a collocation cabinet. A great example is MeetMoi.com that, when it was profiled on Fox News as an mobile dating service, was almost unreachable."

Submission + - Google Maps New Feature

Submitted by peaxie on Thursday June 28, 2007 @11:31PM

peaxie writes: Finally, Google Maps has a added a new feature that many of us have sure thought about. Now after mapping out the directions you can click anywhere on the map and drag the course and Google will automatically calculate the new distance and still show you how to get to the initial destination. It's a good feature and it will sure put the Google Maps above Expedia and Mapquest, isn't it already? Go check out the new feature at: http://maps.google.com/

Submission + - Apple giving away iPhones!!!

Submitted by phantomfive on Thursday June 28, 2007 @10:33PM

phantomfive writes: According to Engaget, Apple is giving away a free iPhone to each employee. That is $12million in iPhones (retail). Way to reward your employees! Hope my employer reads this and gets the idea....

Submission + - Cash Machine turns 40 years old (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

01100111

on Monday June 25, 2007 @03:40AM

01100111 writes: "The world's first ATM was installed in a branch of Barclays in Enfield, north London, 40 years ago this week.

Inspiration had struck Mr Shepherd-Barron, now 82, while he was in the bath. The machine paid out a maximum of £10 a time." It struck me there must be a way I could get my own money, anywhere in the world or the UK. I hit upon the idea of a chocolate bar dispenser, but replacing chocolate with cash."

Plastic cards had not been invented, so Mr Shepherd-Barron's machine used cheques that were impregnated with carbon 14, a mildly radioactive substance. However, Mr Shepherd-Barron denies there were any health concerns: "I later worked out you would have to eat 136,000 such cheques for it to have any effect on you.""

Submission + - iphone not to be available for Alaskans

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Sunday June 24, 2007 @10:02PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Apparently, Alaskans wishing to use the "latest and greatest" release from Apple will be out of luck for perhaps as long as half a decade as AT&T cell phone service, which the iPhone uses, is not available in Alaska. As this article points out, there is a workaround for the Alaskan who absolutely has to have this technology, (which is not recommended by AT&T), but it could result in service cancellation."

Submission + - PS3 vs. iPhone, since they are both $600 (yourhtn.com)

Submitted by revilo78 on Friday June 22, 2007 @01:06AM

revilo78 writes: If you had $600 to spend, would you buy an iPhone or a PS3? When Sony announced the PS3 launch price at $600, the internet community thought Sony was insane. Yet, Apple's $600 price tag for its iPhone didn't cause the same negative reaction. Is Apple's marketing just that good?

Submission + - Which all-in-one inkjet printer is cheapest to use

Submitted by

Ray

on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @10:46PM

Ray writes: "A year or so ago I got my dad a new computer system that included a Canon PX-160 printer/scanner/copier to replace his aging Lexmark with similar capabilities. On my next visit I asked him how the new printer was working and he said the ink was killing him. The cartridges are expensive, they don't have much ink in them and there are no third party or refilled carts for it or apparently any other Canon. It looks like HP and Lexmark are the most likely to have (relatively) inexpensive supplies but what has your experience been with inkjet all-in-ones as far as TCO goes?"

Submission + - BlueSecurity - Round Two!

Submitted by

user24

on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @08:27PM

user24 writes: "We all remember the Blue Security DDOS attack, and now it looks like the same group of spammers who took them down are attacking several high-profile anti spam forums in a similar co-ordinated botnet DDOS.

zdnet has the scoop:

"The spammers behind last year's destruction of Blue Security are back with a vengeance, using a variant of the 'Storm Worm' malware to launch a sustained distributed denial-of-service attack against three anti-spam services.

SpamhausThe ongoing attacks, which use botnets of hijacked Windows computers, successfully shut down the Web servers that power the Spamhaus Project, URIBL (Realtime URI Blacklists) and SURBL (Spam URI Realtime Blocklists (SURBL)."

Check out the castlecops forum, where members of these antispam groups are picking over the details of the attack."

Submission + - Personal Phishing Responsibility? (kelvinism.com)

Submitted by

kelvinn

on Monday June 04, 2007 @03:22AM

kelvinn writes: "Like many of you, I'm in IT. Over the years I have seen every type of phishing attempt there is, yet I'm still grappling with my personal responsibility when I detect an attempt. Two days ago I received a phishing attempt from "Amazon", and reported it via Firefox's anti-phishing feature. Additionally, I went the extra step and sent an email to the compromised site's owner, the ISP of the compromised site, and the University where the phishing site actually resided. To my dismay, and surprise, the only action was by the Firefox Team. So I present this question to the Slashdot community: what do you do when you get phished?"

Submission + - Emacs 22.1 released (gmane.org)

Submitted by

Michael Duggan

on Monday June 04, 2007 @03:14AM

Michael Duggan writes: "Two years since Emacs 21.4 was released, Emacs 22.1 has finally been released. Major changes include Mac OS X and Cygwin support, GTK support, more sane defaults for new users, and many, many new modes and packages."

Submission + - Google Maps Street View NOT invasion of privacy (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

airshowfan

on Monday June 04, 2007 @03:02AM

airshowfan writes: "Applicable laws say that Google Maps Street View is NOT a violation of privacy. The most relevant law here is probably the one used by Jennifer Aniston to sue a paparazzo! It says that an invasion of privacy only occurs when someone looks into your window while using "enhancing devices" (telephoto lenses, binoculars, etc) and sees/takes a picture that is more detailed than what a passerby could see from the street with the naked eye. So as long as Google's images are not as sharp as what you could see as you walk past, Google should be ok. This article explains these issues of how private your home really is, and goes into issues of surveillance and sousveillance, of how much privacy one can expect while in a public place, and of how the information age is all about organizing the crumbs of information you leave behind. It is no longer reasonable to expect that your information trail cannot be easily organized, interpreted, and broadcast to the world."

Submission + - MGs Now Made in China (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by kernspaltung on Monday June 04, 2007 @02:32AM

kernspaltung writes: According to BCC News: "Nanjing Automobile has unveiled the first MG cars to be built in China. It bought the bankrupt UK firm MG Rover for £53m ($104m) in 2005." Also of interest is the hint that MGs will be available in the US again: "Nanjing Auto acquired MG Rover's assembly lines and engine technology. It plans to set up an assembly line in Oklahoma next year to supply the US market." Will the classic British sports car marque, now owned by a Chinese company and being manufactured in Oklahoma, mean anything to new car buyers?

Submission + - RMS Talks about Binary Drivers & Free Software

Submitted by Mitchell Bogues on Monday June 04, 2007 @12:43AM

Mitchell Bogues writes: Richard Stallman recently gave talk titled "The Free Software Movement and GNU/Linux Operating System". RMS fielded a number of interesting questions relevant to the future of the free software movement including, "Do you support the Creative Commons license?" and "Can I use ATI and NVIDIA drivers because Mesa isn't nearly as complete?". Can we expect Linux ever to see main stream adoption with these persistent driver and licensing issues still hanging around?

Submission + - Linux finally getting XBMC

Submitted by B47h0ry'5 CuR53 on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @03:33AM

B47h0ry'5 CuR53 writes: XBMC is getting ported to Linux. A few developers of Team-XBMC have begun the porting of XBMC to Linux using OpenGL and the SDL toolkit. In this effort, they are recruiting developers. XBMC is, by far, one of the finest projects to come out of the open source community; and to think it is homebrew. XBMC is a massive project, with the current SVN branch weighing about 350M before compilation. Porting it will be a big effort and any hackers willing to contribute should check out the Linux port project.

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