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Submission + - Morse Code: A Fading Signal

Submitted by

srizah

on Wednesday December 27, 2006 @09:13PM

srizah writes: "http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/business/27morse .html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin FCC will not need ham radio operators to have a proficiency in dits and dahs anymore. Ham radio operators will however still nurture the code as they consider it their bedrock. Morse code lingers in our minds as the pioneering image of communications and there is a resistance to let it go."

Journal Journal: AM2 to account for 95% of AMD shipments in 1Q

Journal by OSTG Marketing on Wednesday December 27, 2006 @08:14PM

95% of AMD's CPU shipments in the first quarter of 2007 will be the Socket AM2 . "Socket 1207 will still be in the market in the first and second quarter, accounting for 5% of AMD's CPU shipments, while socket 939 will be discontinued by the end of 2006, according to the chipmaker's plan. In the third quarter of 2006, AMD will introduce its Stars family of 65nm quad-core CPUs that use socket AM2+, whose proportion of the chipmaker'

Submission + - I suppose you're wondering why...

Submitted by shanen on Thursday December 21, 2006 @12:47AM

shanen writes: I suppose you're wondering why I've called you all together? Well, I wanted to tell you a funny story about a guy who called everyone together. They wondered why, so he started by telling them a funny story about a guy who called everyone together. Then the story recursed forever, the stack was consumed, and the entire story crashed.

Ergo, the real problem is that I don't know any funny stories, recursive or otherwise? Can you help?

Seriously, this is the season for holiday cheer and good humor. Do you have funny stories to share? Extra kudos if they are related to the year now ending and have a computerized twist.

I hope you and yours are all doing well, and seasons greetings to all! (No, it isn't a war on Christmas, but I'm not a Christian, so it would seem kind of bogus for me to pretend to be so Christian about it. New years is the big holiday in this country. So there.)

Submission + - YouTube Whistleblower barely scratched surface

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14, 2006 @01:57AM

An anonymous reader writes: A previously featured story ( YouTube Used for Whistleblowing) outlined the efforts of a former Lockheed Martin engineer to bring attention to security flaws in the refurbished fleet of Coast Guard patrol boats. Interestingly, it turns out the scandal is of a much larger scale: "[The] Coast Guard did not inform Congress that it was warned two years ago by its chief engineer that a proposed National Security Cutter, meant to be the flagship of its fleet, had "significant flaws" in its structural design and should not be started until the problems were addressed." It is disappointing that more engineers did not attempt to publicize this massive defrauding of US taxpayers before it was too late.

Submission + - Should diagnostic tools be included in Flash ROM?

Submitted by now3djp on Wednesday December 13, 2006 @10:05PM

now3djp writes: Jon Grant poses an interesting point on his blog, "PCs these days all have a BIOS which launches the OS bootstrap from disc. If the harddisc fails this leaves us stuck scrabbling for bootable CDs/USB Sticks/Floppies to diagnose the problem." So why don't motherboard vendors include recovery tools in Flash ROM? LinuxBIOS could solve part of this!

Submission + - Approaching Solar Storm forces ISS to take cover

Submitted by

vichyschwa

on Wednesday December 13, 2006 @06:16PM

vichyschwa writes: "A Coronal Mass Ejection resulting from an X3 Solar Flare earlier today is forcing the ISS and Shuttle astronauts to take cover and may result in communication disruptions. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061213_solar _storm.html

From the Article:
"We're looking for very strong, severe geomagnetic storming" to begin probably around mid-day Thursday, Joe Kunches, Lead Forecaster at the NOAA Space Environment Center, told SPACE.com this afternoon.

Last week, the same sunspot generated what astronomers described as a rarely imaged solar tsunami. The activity began with an X-9 flare Dec. 5.

According to Spaceweather.com, "satellites may experience some glitches and reboots, but astronauts are in no danger." However, the astronauts were ordered to a protective area of the space station as a precaution."

Submission + - Scanned Mozart scores now available for free

Submitted by on Wednesday December 13, 2006 @05:37PM

An anonymous reader writes: As reported by elmundo newspaper (Spanish), all Mozart compositions are digitized for first time and made available online for free. The Mozarteum foundation, in cooperation with The Packard Humanities Institute are behind this project. Currently there are 25,734 pages of scores, extracted from modern printed books, that can be searched by tonality, name, title, character's name (for operas), length... and there will be more (from the article):

Ulrich Leisinger, foundation's science director, explains that starting by summer of 2007 it will be possible to access all works in their original version. That is, the scores that Mozart himself wrote with his hands. They expect to get international support and colaboration with museums of Paris and Cracovia to offer 90% of original scores by Internet. He also says that in two or three years, the complete set of handwritten works of Mozart will be available to view on Internet, including letters, schemes, annotations, and other documents.

Submission + - Your Swiss Army Knife is Inadaqate, and so are You

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13, 2006 @04:55PM

An anonymous reader writes: These are sold out for Xmas, but here is a review of the Utimate Swiss Army Knife: it has every blade and tool ever put in a knife. It weighs over 2lbs, and costs over 500 British pounds. And you though you were bad because you got a PS3 and a Wii for Xmas...

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/consumer/story /0,,1965050,00.html

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