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beezly (197427)

beezly
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I am a Senior Systems Engineer working for a company in the East of England.

I used to be the systems manager of the High Performance Computing Facility at the University of Sheffield [shef.ac.uk].

I used to work as a network administrator at the University of Sheffield [shef.ac.uk]

I studied a BSC Honours degree in Computer Science at Salford University, England.

I used to work for Sun Microsystems as a CPRE Lab Engineer.

I have around 12 years Unix experience, at User, Admin and Systems programming level.

beezly (197427)

  Your Rights Online: Has RIAA Abandoned the 'Making Available' Defense? 2007-09-17 03:21

Posted by Zonk on Monday September 17 2007, @03:21AM
from the slippery-fish dept.
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's standard complaint (pdf) was thrown out last month by a federal judge in California as speculation in Interscope v. Rodriguez. Interestingly, the RIAA's amended complaint (pdf), filed six days later, abandoned altogether the RIAA's 'making available' argument. (Whereby making files available at all for download is infringement.) It first formulated that defense against a dismissal motion in Elektra v. Barker. This raises a number of questions: Is the RIAA is going to stick to this new form of complaint in future cases? Will they get into a different kind of trouble for some of its their new allegations, such as the contention that the investigator "detected an individual" (contradicting the testimony of the RIAA's own expert witness)? And finally, what tack will defendants' lawyers take (this was one lawyer's suggestion)?"

  OLPC's trickle-down effect[->] 2007-06-06 04:10 Diomidis Spinellis

Submitted by Diomidis Spinellis on Wednesday June 06 2007, @04:10AM
Diomidis Spinellis writes "PCPRO runs a story regarding the $189 laptop that Asus revealed at the Computex 2007 trade show. The laptop, in common with the hardware of the one laptop per child initiative, uses solid state memory for storage and runs Linux. It weights 900g (2 lb) and measures 120 * 100 * 30mm (4.7 * 4 * 1.2"). I'm currently using an actual OLPC for localization work and experiments with educational applications, and I was dreaming being able to buy similar machines to use as cheap and cheerful terminals around the house. With Quanta having made a similar product announcement it seems that the Star Trek nirvana of a computer in every room can become an affordable reality."
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/114773/computex-2007-asus-stuns-computex-with-100-laptop.html#
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  Robots crawl the tubes under the city. 2006-12-28 08:52 Johan Louwers

Submitted by Johan Louwers on Thursday December 28 2006, @08:52AM
Johan Louwers writes "Robots will crawl tubes in a short while to investigate power cables running in the tubes to make sure they are still undamaged or in need for a repair. The Robotic Cable Inspection System is developed by Alexander Mamishev a assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington. Making use infrared thermal analysis and acoustic partial discharge analysis the robot will be checking mile after mile of cable while crawling his way in the tubes."
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