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SPAM: VLC media player now available for iPhone and iPod 0

Submitted by vrmediasg on Monday October 25 2010, @10:01AM

vrmediasg writes "VLC is one of the most popular media players for both Windows and Mac platforms, as it plays many multimedia file formats and streaming protocols. Some time back in September, VLC was successfully ported over to Apple's iPad. And now, the latest update brings support for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and the"
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Bees Beat Machines at 'Traveling Salesman' Problem-> 0

Submitted by eldavojohn on Monday October 25 2010, @09:12AM

eldavojohn writes "Recent research on bumble bees has proven that the tiny bee is better than computers at the traveling salesman problem. As bees visit flowers to collect nectar and pollen they discover other flowers en route in the wrong order. But they still manage to quickly learn and fly the optimally shortest path between flowers. Such a problem is NP-Hard and keeps our best machines thinking for days searching for a solution but researchers are quite interested how such a tiny insect can figure it out on the fly — especially given how important this problem is to networks and transportation. A testament to the power of even the smallest batch of neurons or simply evidence our algorithms need work?"
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Oracle Need A Clue As Brain Drain Accelerates-> 1

Submitted by

The Contrarian

on Monday October 25 2010, @09:00AM

The Contrarian writes "Looks like Oracle is not suiting former Sun staff well, nor community members in the Java and OpenOffice.org communities. This weekend saw an unusually large number of rather public departures, with (among many others listed in the article) the VP running Solaris development quitting, the token academic on the JCP slamming the door behind him and top community leaders at OpenOffice.org nailing their resignations to the door after having the ex-Sun people slam the door in their face.

The best analysis comes from an unexpected place, with the marketing director of Eclipse — usually loyal defenders of their top-dollar-paying members — turning on Oracle and telling them to get a clue."
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7 Programming Languages On The Rise-> 0

Submitted by

snydeq

on Monday October 25 2010, @08:06AM

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner reports on once niche programming languages gaining mind share among enterprise developers for their unique abilities to provide solutions to increasingly common problems. From Python to R to Erlang, each is being increasingly viewed as an essential tool for prototyping on the Web, hacking big data sets, providing quick predictive modeling, powering NoSQL experiments, and unlocking the massive parallelism of today's GPUs."
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Cisco Security System Shuts Out Third-Party Tools 37

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 07 2009, @10:19AM
from the trouble-versus-worth dept.

alphadogg writes "Cisco has finally publicly acknowledged it won't add support for new third-party devices to its security information and event monitoring appliance, ending months of speculation about the future of its Monitoring, Analysis and Response System. Some claim it's the beginning of the end for MARS as a multi-vendor SIEM device. 'MARS customers can expect non-Cisco network device data and signature updates to continue for currently supported third-party systems, but no new third-party devices will be added,' Cisco declared in a statement, noting that 'Cisco MARS continues to focus on supporting Cisco devices for threat identification and mitigation.' Cisco's SIEM competitors this week have eagerly grabbed at the topic of Cisco MARS freezing third-party support because of a Gartner research memo published Oct. 29 in which analyst Mark Nicolett stated, 'Cisco has quietly begun informing its customers of a decision to freeze support for most non-Cisco event sources with its [MARS].'"

A look at the Japanese Wii virtual console

Submitted by RotoX on Friday December 01 2006, @05:59PM

RotoX writes "Somehow Siliconera has a Japanese Wii, a day before it launches in Japan. Their video of the Virtual Console shop shows a number of new games such as Gradius, Street Fighter II, Zelda III: A Link to the Past and Super Mario Brothers ready for download. It also looks like Virtual Console titles are slightly cheaper in Japan, Genesis games are 600 points opposed to 800 in North America."

Opening Statements Begin in Microsoft-Iowa Case

Submitted by cc on Friday December 01 2006, @05:54PM

cc writes "The Des Moines Register is reporting that opening statements have started in the Microsoft-Iowa antitrust case. The Des Register reports that the Plaintiffs have shaped their case around nine stories involving competitors from IBM to Linux. Microsoft attorneys say Gates is expected to testify in January, and company CEO Steve Ballmer will likely appear in February. Both men are expected to be on the stand for about four days. Unlike previous antitrust cases against the software giant, the Iowa case is seeking additional damages for security vulnerabilities. Plaintiffs allege that Microsoft's bundling of IE with Windows caused harm to consumers by increasing the consumer's susceptibility to security breaches and bugs. The case is one of the largest antitrust cases in history, encompassing millions of documents and Microsoft's business practices during the last 20 years."

Compressed sound quality ruins young listeners

Submitted by mcguirez on Friday December 01 2006, @05:52PM

mcguirez writes "This article [http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1201/p11s01-stct.ht ml] claims younger listeners get used to audio "quantity" not audio "quality" and don't realize what they're missing. The Consumer Electronics Association is starting a campaign to educate would-be audiophiles. It's claimed that is a side effect of 'in some cases stealing music!'"

Allofmp3 responds

Submitted by

7macaw

on Friday December 01 2006, @05:38PM

7macaw writes "Allofmp3 has issued a statement regarding the WTO negotiations. "...we believe that the site cannot be forced to cease its activities due to Russia's entry to WTO unless Russian legislation undergoes significant changes." They also have a detailed review of not just Russian, but also American applicable laws."

How to silence loud servers?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 01 2006, @04:56PM

An anonymous reader writes "I have two servers in the office, and they're unbelievably loud. One is a SunFire box and the other a SuperMicro dual Xeon. Between the fans and the screaming disks, they're so loud it's impossible to work in the same room with them. We've got limited space and no available closet, so I'm at a loss. Is there such a thing as a server muffler? What else can we do?"