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Submission + - Intel open-sources multicore programming toolkit (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by Doctor Memory on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @06:30PM

Doctor Memory writes: Intel has recently open-sourced their previously closed-source TBB 2.0 (Thread Building Blocks) C++ library. The library provides parallel algorithm templates for "task-based parallelism", emphasizing logical tasks instead of physical threads. The web site (osstbb.intel.com) hosts an FAQ, a forum link, and a download page to get the latest version of the source. Licensed under GPLv2, Intel will continue to sell a commercial version of the library which will include engineering support. There's a more in-depth overview over at Ars Technica.

Submission + - Cisco issues public fix for iPhone flooding (networkworld.com)

Submitted by whitehartstag on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @03:42PM

whitehartstag writes: Cisco has issued a public fix and detailed workarounds to its wireless LAN network bug that caused Duke University's WLAN to flood after being triggered by a couple of iPhones.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/072407-cisco -security-fix-duke-wlan.html

Feed Sony's CineAlta 4K digital cinema solution coming May 1st (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @07:12AM

Filed under: Displays

May 1st is the date that Sony hopes will usher in the era of digital cinemas. That's the date their CineAlta 4K digital cinema solution goes on sale in Japan. With the SRX-R220 at its core, the 5-foot / 660-pound CineAlta 4K system projects a 4,096 x 2,160 pixel image off its 4.2kW bulb. The 300GB films are stored in an encrypted JPEG2000 format within Sony's 19-inch, LMT-100 "media block" RAID array. Sony is counting on about 1/3 of Japan's 3,000 cinemas taking on their ¥1.5 million ($12,651) per screen solution by 2010 with even higher hopes for the US market. They'll need lots of help since projection systems are just a tiny fraction of the total conversion costs required to move cinemas into the digital age.

[Via Impress]

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Submission + - Solid State put to the test - 16GB 2.5-inch IDE

Submitted by

Mr.Tweak

on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @06:59AM

Mr.Tweak writes: "Solid state flash drives are rapidly becoming large enough to use as primary drives in laptops. Less weight, less power, less fragile, but do they have the speed? This article reveals all."

Feed Optical link hacking unsheathed (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @06:52AM

Light fantastic

Optical links are not as secure as might be assumed. Techniques for extracting data flowing over fibre optic links are evolving to make the technique easier to apply.

Submission + - Radical Solution To Global Warming Proposed

Submitted by

john83

on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @06:48AM

john83 writes: "Global Warming is the subject of a lot of debate these days, and some scientists have tried to consider fixes more drastic (and unfathomably expensive) than banning light bulbs. "At the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) meeting last fall, Roger Angel, an astronomer and optics expert at the University of Arizona, produced a highly detailed — and highly futuristic — proposal for a sunshade huge enough to cut incoming sunlight by 1.8 percent. That, he says, should counteract the warming expected from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide." Story. NIAC has previously brought us such ideas as magnetised beam plasma propulsion which was discussed on Slashdot."

Comment Where's the Strafe ? (Score 1) 67

by call.me on Saturday May 13, 2006 @01:02AM (#15323558) Attached to: The World's First 3D Gaming Mouse

Not once did the player in the demo strafe left or right and when i think about how it works i can't see that you can. What a lemmon.

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