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Free MySQL monitoring tool

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Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday February 20 2007, @04:57AM

Anonymous Coward writes "http://www.openwin.org/mike/mysql/leave-it-to-the- webyogs/ mentions that a free alternative to the official MySQL Monitoring Tool is available. It runs on Linux and Windows.

Since the official tools are not available independently, it would be an indispensable tool for all MySQL DBAs."

AMD Athlon 64 6000+ Launched And Tested

Submitted by Spinnerbait on Tuesday February 20 2007, @01:26AM

Spinnerbait writes "AMD officially launched their next speed bump in the Athlon 64 product line, in the form of a new 3GHz part branded the Athlon 64 6000+. This new dual-core Athlon 64 sports 1MB of on-chip cache per core and is designed for AMD's Socket AM2 platform. This chip is still built on AMD's 90nm fab node and is comprised of some 227 million transistors. It also carries a thermal power profile of about 125Watts. Unfortunately, in all the benchmarks seen here, it was still unable to catch Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 chip at 2.66GHz."

Google building Artificial Intelligence

Submitted by kegger64 on Tuesday February 20 2007, @12:51AM

kegger64 writes "Larry Page announced that Google is looking into building an AI system. "We have some people at Google [who] are really trying to build artificial intelligence and to do it on a large scale," the Google co-founder declared. "It's not as far off as people think." http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/02/19/larry -page-google-look-into-ai"

DD-WRT now running on X86

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JimBowen

on Friday February 16 2007, @08:08PM

JimBowen writes "The popular linux-based router firmware project, DD-WRT, based on the free OpenWRT, has recently been made to run on an ordinary PC. This allows a significant increase in performance by the use of much faster hardware, with more memory, enabling advanced SPI firewalls even in the presence of high load P2P software. Various community extensions provide support for extra features like NAS. With the combination of large, desktop-sized storage, this makes for an extremely powerful, yet manageable and easily deployable home server. There is a tutorial on how to set it up over at graynetwork.org."

Bionic Eye Could Restore Vision 167

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 16 2007, @07:15PM
from the we-have-the-technology dept.

MattSparkes writes "A new bionic eye could restore vision to the profoundly blind. A prototype was tested on six patients and 'within a few weeks all could detect light, identify objects and even perceive motion again. For one patient, this was the first time he had seen anything in half a century.' The user wears a pair of glasses that contain a miniature camera and that wirelessly transmits video to a cellphone-sized computer in the wearer's pocket. This computer processes the image information and wirelessly transmits it to a tiny electronic receiver implanted in the wearer's head."

SPAM: Linus fires latest shot in GNOME Wars 4

Journal by stoolpigeon on Friday February 16 2007, @06:03PM

Linux.com is running a story about the continuing feud between Linus and some GNOME folks.Some bad blood between Linus Torvalds and GNOME developers is flaring up again. Previously, Torvalds has said that Linux users should switch to KDE instead of GNOME because of the GNOME team's "users are idiots" mentality. Now he has "put his money where his mouth is" by submitting patches to GNOME in orde

Stallman convinces Cuba to switch to open source

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prostoalex

on Friday February 16 2007, @05:41PM

prostoalex writes "Big victory for Richard Stallman in North America, as Cuba decided to adopt open source software on the national level. Both Cuba and Venezuela are currently working on switching the entire government infrastructure to GNU/Linux operating system and applications, Associated Press reports from Havana: "Both governments say they are trying to wean state agencies from Microsoft's proprietary Windows to the open-source Linux operating system, which is developed by a global community of programmers who freely share their code." AP article doesn't mention the distro used for government workers, but says that the students are working on a Gentoo-based distro."

FCC wants to regulate violence on TV

Submitted by on Friday February 16 2007, @05:05PM

An anonymous reader writes "CNN is reporting that the FCC has released a report that claims Congress can expand the FCC's authority to regulate broadcast television. Currently, the FCC can regulate profanity and sexual content, but the new report calls for the power to regulate violence as well."

Journal: MySpace Not Guilty in Child Assault Case 228

Journal by AppleButter on Thursday February 15 2007, @02:31PM

The Washington Post reports that a Texas judge dismissed a $30 million case against MySpace for their role in a child assault case. 19-year old Peter Solis lied about his age on MySpace to gain the confidence the confidence of a 13-year old girl. The judge ruled, "If anyone had a duty to protect Julie Doe, it was her parents, not MySpace."

Female Gamers have More Sex

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 15 2007, @01:50PM

An anonymous reader writes "A Belgian research firm found that girls who never play computer games have less sex than girls who do play games on their PC or gaming consoles. Breeze says the girls who do play games have sex 4.3 times a week, while the girls who never play games only go to bed 3.2 times a week."