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Submission + - Homebrew Cray-1 (chrisfenton.com)

Submitted by egil on Tuesday August 31, 2010 @01:58AM

egil writes: Chris Fenton built his own fully functional 1/10 scale Cray-1 supercomputer. True to the original, it includes the couch-seat, but is also binary compatible with the original. Instead of the power-hungry ECL technology, however, the scale model is built around a Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600 development board. All software is available if you want to build one for your own living room. The largest obstacle in the project is to find original software.

Comment Re:For better coverage... (Score 1) 2

by egil on Monday August 23, 2010 @04:11AM (#33338180) Attached to: Non-profit manned space rocket launching in a week

This picture really summarises how incredible this project is. Note the size of the sub that they use as a tow vehicle.

Submission + - Danish suborbital rocket launch planned for Aug 30 (universetoday.com)

Submitted by egil on Sunday August 22, 2010 @10:38PM

egil writes: The most amazing hobby project ever: Build a suborbital manned rocket — and while you're at it, a sea lauch platform and a submarine. It seems unbelieveable, but the posts documents this amazing project, started by Peter Madsen and Kristian von Bengtson. The project home page has more information. Although covered in the Danish press, the guys have obviously been more busy with rocket science than PR.

Submission + - Oracle Sues Google for Infringing Java Patents (perens.com)

Submitted by

Bruce Perens

on Thursday August 12, 2010 @08:48PM

Bruce Perens writes: "Oracle has brought a lawsuit against Google claiming that Google has infringed patents on the Java Language, presumably in Android. We don't have the text of the lawsuit yet. But there's a patent grant that should allow Google to use Java royalty-free. Has Google failed to meet the terms of the grant?"

Submission + - Mobile Operator Admits, GSM Cannot be Trusted (www.digi.no)

Submitted by egil on Thursday May 06, 2010 @10:39AM

egil writes: Mobile operator Telenor admits that standard GSM cipher can no longer be trusted. Norwegian developer Frank A. Stevenson has built software that, running on two Radeon 5850s, provides the core of a practical solution for realtime breaking of the GSM standard A5/1 cipher. This essentially leaves all GSM-based radio communication open for anyone to intercept.. Norwegian operator Telenor initially made the statement that GSM is safe, but when Stevenson invited them home for coffee, and to look at his solution, they changed their mind, and now say that they will switch to A5/3 aka Kasumi, an improved algortihm that is also used for UMTS. Trouble is, most handsets only support A5/1. Original link is in Norwegian, but Google translate is your friend."

Submission + - All your data are belong to Huawei (mydigitalfc.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 06, 2010 @08:17AM

An anonymous reader writes: Financial Chronicle reports that Huawei could lose $1.5B in India business, as Indian government has banned Huawei on security and quality grounds. Intelligence agencies have zeroed-in on backdoors embedded in Huawei telecom equipment.

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