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Sun Releasing 8-Core Niagara 2 Processor 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2007, @10:11PM

An anonymous reader writes "Sun Microsystems is set to announce its eight-core Niagara 2 processor next week. Each core supports eight threads, so the chip handles 64 simultaneous threads, making it the centerpiece of Sun's "Throughput Computing" effort. Along with having more cores than the quads from Intel and AMD, the Niagara 2 have dual, on-chip 10G Ethernet ports with crytopgraphic capability. Sun doesn't get much processor press, because the chips are used only in its own CoolThreads servers, but Niagara 2 will probably be the fastest processor out there when its released, other than perhaps the also little-known 4-GHz IBM Power 6."

Why Is There Almost No HIV/AIDS In Japan?-> 0

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hurr1

on Thursday August 02 2007, @09:28PM

hurr1 writes "Total cases in twenty years amount to only 7,500 or 375 a year. By comparison, Cambodia, whose population is less than a tenth of Japan's, had 170,000 people living with HIV or AIDS, according to United Nations estimates. See the Ten Myths Of HIV/AIDS video movie explore this problem in human society."
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WPA bug in Vista, is that a security problem?-> 1

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Anonymous Coward

on Thursday August 02 2007, @09:25PM

Anonymous Coward writes "Many people, such as me-said-the-idiot, or maybe all, cannot connect to a WPA protected WiFi network with Vista. So many will have to use an unsecured network configuration in order to go online. Practically all new PC laptops sold now are bundled with Vista, so this could well become the biggest and easiest to exploit security leak.. Many posts on MS forum http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx? PostID=481371&SiteID=17 but apparently it still isn't considered a problem by MS.."
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Desktop Linux: does anyone care?-> 0

Submitted by ramboando on Thursday August 02 2007, @08:55PM

ramboando writes "There's been a lot of fanfare about Linux replacing Windows on desktops but we've yet to see all but a few vendors offer Linux as a pre-installed option. Dell offers Ubuntu, but only in the US, and Acer notebooks are being pre-installed with Ubuntu it on Singapore. Initially they decided not to sell it in the UK, but have now flip-floped on their decision and said it will be made available.

ZDNet Australia talked to several manufacturers, and industry experts to find out how long we'll have to wait."
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Dell Punishes Workers By Closing Call Center 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2007, @08:36PM

An anonymous reader writes "After employees at Dell's Roseburg, Oregon call center filed a lawsuit about violations of state and federal labor law Dell responds by closing the call center and stating "the closure has nothing to do with a lawsuit filed by employees of the Roseburg center in February". This act in itself seems to be another violation of labor law due the closure being a retaliatory act."

Still afraid of Open Source-> 0

Submitted by

madgreek

on Thursday August 02 2007, @08:35PM

madgreek writes "Still getting a lot of resistance to open source at work. Show them this article. http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/s till-afraid-of-open-source-16645"
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The Pirate Bay About To Relaunch Suprnova.org 3

Submitted by kungfujesus on Thursday August 02 2007, @08:02PM

kungfujesus writes "The Pirate Bay crew has been working on this secret project for quite some time now. Back in April they wrote a cryptic post on their blog announcing that something was coming. In a response to this announcement TPB admin Brokep told TorrentFreak: "The past, the present and the future. It's all the same, but one thing's for sure, we will radiate for weeks", today it became clear that he was referring to the resurrection of Suprnova. Article Here"

Breaking: Grand Theft Auto IV Delayed-> 0

Submitted by

njkid1

on Thursday August 02 2007, @05:53PM

njkid1 writes "Were you expecting to play GTA IV this holiday? Well, you're just going to have to wait. Take-Two and Rockstar have just moved the title into next year, leaving Halo 3 to potentially dominate even more this holiday season. Take-Two has reduced its guidance for the year as well."
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Bill Gates Sells 3 Million Shares in Microsoft-> 2

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eldavojohn

on Thursday August 02 2007, @05:14PM

eldavojohn writes "Today Bill Gates has sold 3 million shares of Microsoft's common stock for $28.99 to $29.44 each. A vote of no-confidence from the chairman himself?"
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Star Wars Light Saber Game-> 1

Submitted by joeblstrn on Thursday August 02 2007, @04:42PM

joeblstrn writes "Use the mouse to aim the incoming droids. Shoot them before they shot you."
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