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Amiga in an FPGA released under GPL-> 2

Submitted by exolon42 on Friday August 10 2007, @05:34AM

exolon42 writes "This is a mandatory read for every (former or current) Amiga hacker. You have to give it to the Dutch: tulips, cheese, and now a guy named Dennis has recreated the original Amiga chipset in a Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA, and recently released all sources under the GPL to boot! This includes the design of a PCB containing the FPGA, the required MC68000 and normal PC-style hardware connectors so you can build your own. A thought-provoking fact is that the Verilog-sources for the recreated chips (Denise, Paula, Agnus etc.) are only around 500-1000 lines each... chips in the eighties didn't contain 1 billion transistors!"
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Houston we've airconditioning problem!-> 0

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Tech.Luver

on Friday August 10 2007, @04:46AM

Tech.Luver writes "FoxNews reports about a dude's innovative solution to his car's air problem, " Faced with exorbitant costs to fix a car air conditioner, Scott Dawson was literally left to his own devices. After finding out he would have to pay $1,200 to fix his car's AC, Dawson, 26, rigged a common household air conditioner to fit on top of his car. The crafty civil engineering graduate from the University of Houston cut a hole in the sunroof to allow the cool air to get in,MyFoxHouston reported. " Pics here: http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/News/Detai l?contentId=4012848&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutC ode=PSTY&pageId=3.2.1"
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First Tamarin vs. SpiderMonkey benchmarks-> 0

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mbarulli

on Friday June 29 2007, @02:41AM

mbarulli writes "Dan Smith, the Tamarin module owner, was kind enough to share with Clipperz the first official benchmarks of Tamarin vs. SpiderMonkey! These numbers are a very good indicator of the benefits that Tamarin could bring to Mozilla-based products. Dan says: "Performance will be greatly improved over current JavaScript implementations, especially for typed code. Tamarin does much better than SpiderMonkey in nearly all tests except some of the numeric tests where it is doing extra type conversions. But future optimizations will certainly address these situations too.""
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Preparing 4 Digg / Slashdot Effect: Beyond Caching-> 0

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Anonymous Coward

on Friday June 29 2007, @02:41AM

Anonymous Coward writes "When preparing for an onslaught of traffic to your web site, the smallest mistake can turn your servers one time chance for fame and fortune into an overly-expensive brick sitting in a collocation cabinet. A great example is MeetMoi.com that, when it was profiled on Fox News as an mobile dating service, was almost unreachable."
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Google Maps New Feature 0

Submitted by peaxie on Thursday June 28 2007, @11:31PM

peaxie writes "Finally, Google Maps has a added a new feature that many of us have sure thought about. Now after mapping out the directions you can click anywhere on the map and drag the course and Google will automatically calculate the new distance and still show you how to get to the initial destination. It's a good feature and it will sure put the Google Maps above Expedia and Mapquest, isn't it already? Go check out the new feature at: http://maps.google.com/"

Apple giving away iPhones!!! 0

Submitted by phantomfive on Thursday June 28 2007, @10:33PM

phantomfive writes "According to Engaget, Apple is giving away a free iPhone to each employee. That is $12million in iPhones (retail). Way to reward your employees! Hope my employer reads this and gets the idea...."

Cash Machine turns 40 years old-> 0

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01100111

on Monday June 25 2007, @03:40AM

01100111 writes "The world's first ATM was installed in a branch of Barclays in Enfield, north London, 40 years ago this week.

Inspiration had struck Mr Shepherd-Barron, now 82, while he was in the bath. The machine paid out a maximum of £10 a time." It struck me there must be a way I could get my own money, anywhere in the world or the UK. I hit upon the idea of a chocolate bar dispenser, but replacing chocolate with cash."

Plastic cards had not been invented, so Mr Shepherd-Barron's machine used cheques that were impregnated with carbon 14, a mildly radioactive substance. However, Mr Shepherd-Barron denies there were any health concerns: "I later worked out you would have to eat 136,000 such cheques for it to have any effect on you.""
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iphone not to be available for Alaskans 0

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Anonymous Coward

on Sunday June 24 2007, @10:02PM

Anonymous Coward writes "Apparently, Alaskans wishing to use the "latest and greatest" release from Apple will be out of luck for perhaps as long as half a decade as AT&T cell phone service, which the iPhone uses, is not available in Alaska. As this article points out, there is a workaround for the Alaskan who absolutely has to have this technology, (which is not recommended by AT&T), but it could result in service cancellation."

PS3 vs. iPhone, since they are both $600-> 0

Submitted by revilo78 on Friday June 22 2007, @01:06AM

revilo78 writes "If you had $600 to spend, would you buy an iPhone or a PS3? When Sony announced the PS3 launch price at $600, the internet community thought Sony was insane. Yet, Apple's $600 price tag for its iPhone didn't cause the same negative reaction. Is Apple's marketing just that good?"
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Which all-in-one inkjet printer is cheapest to use

Submitted by

Ray

on Wednesday June 13 2007, @10:46PM

Ray writes "A year or so ago I got my dad a new computer system that included a Canon PX-160 printer/scanner/copier to replace his aging Lexmark with similar capabilities. On my next visit I asked him how the new printer was working and he said the ink was killing him. The cartridges are expensive, they don't have much ink in them and there are no third party or refilled carts for it or apparently any other Canon. It looks like HP and Lexmark are the most likely to have (relatively) inexpensive supplies but what has your experience been with inkjet all-in-ones as far as TCO goes?"