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Submission + - Second Life financial crisis!! (sl-investors-bank.com)

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Thelen LOL
Thelen LOL writes: "Financial Sector in Crisis? Second Life's Investor's Bank CEO Tyrian Camilo looks at the recent mistakes that Linden Labs has made, the effect on the 'game' and where SL is likely to go now. Second Life Investor's Bank(SLIB) is one of the few business endevours that have followed a business plan and successfully adapted to changes in the market, and even the rules of the system!! I wonder if SL would be better run by SLIB's CEO Tyrian Camilo, and other leading individuals of the SL business world."
Media (Apple)

Submission + - iPhone reportedly unchained from AT&T (hackint0sh.org)

Submitted by LwPhD
LwPhD writes: The details still seem sketchy, but it appears as if a cloning method enables the iPhone to be used on networks other than AT&T. Posts in the comments warn that such cloning, even if only used to connect the iPhone to a legitimate account by the account owner, may still be illegal depending on your country of residence. Nevertheless, this is the first apparently credible source I've yet seen that claims to allow the iPhone to be unchained from AT&T. Time will tell if this method is really viable or merely a false start...
Classic Games (Games)

Submission + - SIGGRAPH: Giant Laser Projection Tempest Game

Submitted by
i4u
i4u writes: "I4U News reports that at the San Diego Civic Theatre a one-of-a-kind vector-based projection system designed by Cleveland-based Raven Systems Design and Chicago-based Aura Technologies takes the classic video game Tempest to new giant dimensions during SIGGRAPH 2007. The interactive video game laser show must be very impressive as tickets go for $50. The laser video game show will feature celebrity gamers at nightly shows during SIGGRAPH."
The Internet

Submission + - Fake Steve Jobs: Unmasked!

Submitted by Stony Stevenson
Stony Stevenson writes: It had to happen sooner or later, and it has: The identity of Fake Steve Jobs — the proprietor of the hottest, funniest blog in technology — is no longer a well-guarded secret. Fake Steve isn't Andy Ihnatko or Leander Kahney or Harry Shearer or any of the other people who previous muckrakers thought they'd identified as the blog's true author. The New York Times figured out that he's Daniel Lyons, a reporter for Forbes who has also blogged under his own name.
Media

Submission + - Data Visualization: Beauty in Modern Approaches (hatejeff.com) 1

Submitted by Hatejeff
Hatejeff writes: We are in a New age where information is the new frontier. Information is always at our fingertips and programmers & artist are starting to make works of art out of all this information. Searches, uploads, Hits, Video's, downloads are all tracked and are starting to be visualized & implemented in new ways... warning you may be looking at these for hours so don't say I didn't warn ya..... Hit the Jump for full list. http://www.hatejeff.com/?p=34
X

Submission + - Enable compiz-fusion in Ubuntu Feisty (vanzonneveld.net)

Submitted by
kevmaster
kevmaster writes: "Linux desktop effects have come a long way. Over time we've seen different implementations like compiz & beryl. These 2 projects have lead a life of their own but have now been merged back together again in a new project called: compiz-fusion. Compiz-fusion has got some awesome eye candy effects, but it's still a little bit tricky to get it to work though. There are some other howtos online but those didn't cut it for me, so eventually after getting it to work, I wrote one myself."
Space

Submission + - Illuminated Smoke Plume From Phoenix Spacecraft (stormvideographer.com)

Submitted by
StormVideo
StormVideo writes: "Here is a very cool picture from the launch yesterday of the Delta II rocket that carried the Phoenix Spacecraft on it's journey to Mars. The pic is of left over's from the launch of the rocket smoke trail and gas plume. It was very cool as the gas plume was being illuminated by the sun that was still below the horizon making for a awesome scene in the dark morning Florida sky."
Graphics

Submission + - New Milestone Demoscene Releases. (pouet.net) 4

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An anonymous reader writes: With over 3000 visitors one of the biggest computer festivals, the Assembly 2007, just closed doors. The event saw the release of some of the best demoscene productions of this year. Among them the first good demos for the XBOX 360, but also for platforms as obscure as the Atari VCS2600 from 1976. The main demo competition was won by Lifeforce, one of the most acclaimed demoscene demos ever. Other releases can be found here.
Programming

Submission + - Hackers Extract Main Key to iPhone Unlocking (gizmodo.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After reverse-engineering Nucleus, the iPhone's radio/multimedia chip RTOS, the iPhone Dev Team has achieved the next big milestone to free the iPhone from the AT&T network: they have extracted the full content of the S-Gold2 chip's NOR memory. Bluntly put, these are the plans for the damn Death Star and "is the main key to achieve true unlocking." They are also calling for donations to help them keep their efforts.
Data Storage

Submission + - What OS/FS to use for 16TB storage array? 1TBx16!!

Submitted by
Dan Cabrera
Dan Cabrera writes: "So I just took delivery of a large package (pickup truck bed sized box) labeled 'server' — turns out it's the one I've been waiting for a while from a client. We had some miscommunication and I assumed this was a 2-4, maybe 5TB system for use as a production content shared drive, but it turned into a real monster, SuperMicro SC-836 with HighPoint 2240 Controller and *16*x*1TB* Hitachi drives in a RAID5 array. It's got WinXP64 loaded, but there must be a better solution after reading of ZFS and related technology now available as open source, no? Looking forward to your comments and suggestions! I'll repost with some benchmarks as this puppy grows up (into the wee hours of the morning I'll work :) Happy SD'in! PS: Just need a large drive to save rendered projects to and backup music/other projects (This is for a world known DJ, so the each tour/show can involve a LOT of media!) ...and, how the heck am I gonna do off-site backup for this in event of disaster? Ay-yay-yi!"

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