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PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles 361

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 17, 2009 @03:18PM from the load-photon-torpedoes dept.

darthvader100 writes "Gizmodo has run an article with some predictions on what future space battles will be like. The author brings up several theories on propulsion (and orbits), weapons (explosives, kinetic and laser), and design. Sounds like the ideal shape for spaceships will be spherical, like the one in the Hitchhiker's Guide movie."

Aussie Data Centres Brace For Dust Storm Barrage 148

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 24, 2009 @12:48AM from the sand-gets-in-your-tubes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Data centers and telcos in the Australian cities of Sydney and Brisbane have shut off external ventilation systems, restricted loading dock access and attended false alarms after a major dust storm choked the cities today. The storm is said to be the worst of its type ever recorded in Australia. Macquarie Telecom disengaged automatic deployment of fire-prevention gas from the fire alarm to prevent gas being released on a false alarm. Other major data center operators reported clogged air filters and heat exchangers and said they would be performing cleaning and maintenance operations this week."

Submission + - J. River fires iArrow at Apple (jrmediacenter.com)

Submitted by

gateley

on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @05:11PM

gateley writes: "J. River, using the excellent detective work of linux hackers, has implemented support for the new iPods (which Apple tried to lock to iTunes) in their player "J. River Media Center". There is a press release. Disclaimer: I work for J. River."

Submission + - IDF Coverage, Nehalem, Penryn, Larabee and X38 (hothardware.com)

Submitted by

MojoKid

on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @04:39PM

MojoKid writes: "As usual, this year's fall IDF is brimming with early looks at next-generation Intel architectures. Specifically, Intel President Paul Otellini offered insight into Intel's next-gen multi-core processor, code named Nehalem. From the article: "...Nehalem will feature 8-cores on a single die and each core can process two threads, for a total of 16 threads per 8-core CPU. Nehalem processors will be comprised of roughly 731M transistors and feature a number of new technologies." The coverage goes on to speak of Intel's Larabee HPC and SuperComputing platform as well a demo of an X38 chipset-based machine decked out with vapor-phase cooling, running at 5.56GHz and breaking benchmark records."

Submission + - New iPods freed from iTunes on Windows (jrmediacenter.com)

Submitted by osho_gg on Monday September 17, 2007 @11:29PM

osho_gg writes: Thanks to the efforts of Linux iPod developers, the new iPod Classic is now usable on Linux. The same hack is also now being used by third party developers on Windows to free the new iPods from the iTunes. J River Media Center, my software of choice for media management on windows, now supports syncing with the new iPod Classics. Many other popular iPod database management applications (e.g. Sharepod) can also be expected to incorporate this hack and enable support for the new iPods.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with J River in any ways other than a happy customer.

Submission + - Lenovo intros ThinkPads with preloaded Linux (electronista.com)

Submitted by

JonathanF

on Monday August 06, 2007 @09:21AM

JonathanF writes: "Sounds like an ideal mix for Linux geeks: Lenovo said today that they'll ship their rock-steady ThinkPads near the end of the year with Novell's SUSE Linux distro preloaded — and supported by Lenovo itself. No word on specs, but having a solid PC with an open-source OS sounds very appealing. Like the author of the article, though, I wonder whether Lenovo is offering Novell's distro because it's worried about that Microsoft Sword of Damocles hanging over its head if it chose an alternative like Red Hat or Ubuntu."

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