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+ - Free energy

Submitted by

JustElite

on Sunday November 12, 2006 @07:56AM

JustElite writes "The Magenn Power Air Rotor System (MARS) is an innovative lighter-than-air tethered device that rotates about a horizontal axis in response to wind, efficiently generating clean renewable electrical energy at low cost."

Journal: Sun to Open-Source Java Under GPL 0

Journal by Alphager on Sunday November 12, 2006 @07:55AM

Eweek is reporting that Sun will Open-Source Java under the GPLv2. The portions of Java to be released are:
JAVA SE
JAVA ME
JEE

This includes the Java Runtime Environment and the Java SDK, which should ease the integration of Java into linux-distributions.

Netbeans and Catfish will be relicensed under the CDDL and the GPLv2.

+ - Sun to Open-Source Java Under GPL

Submitted by Alphager on Sunday November 12, 2006 @07:55AM

Alphager writes " Eweek is reporting that Sun will Open-Source Java under the GPLv2. The portions of Java to be released are:
JAVA SE
JAVA ME
JEE

This includes the Java Runtime Environment and the Java SDK, which should ease the integration of Java into linux-distributions.

Netbeans and Catfish will be relicensed under the CDDL and the GPLv2.
"

+ - AMD up, Intel down in supercomputers

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Sunday November 12, 2006 @04:15AM

Anonymous Coward writes "AMD up, Intel down in supercomputers http://badhardware.blogspot.com/2006/11/amd-up-int el-down-in-supercomputers.html Latest Top500 list to be announced on November 14th, finds the following: AMD dual core Opteron chips were used in 113 supercomputers or 22 percent of those on the latest list, up from just 11 percent a year ago ago."

+ - The Perfect Setup - OpenVZ with CentOS 4.4

Submitted by

hausmasta

on Sunday November 12, 2006 @02:20AM

hausmasta writes "This article describes how to prepare a CentOS 4.4 server for OpenVZ virtual machines. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers.

http://www.howtoforge.com/openvz_centos4.4"