olyar - Slashdot User

Submission + - Is "Open Government" actually possible? 1

Submitted by olyar on Thursday December 09, 2010 @12:43AM

olyar writes: All of the Wikileaks coverage — and their insistence that they are trying to promote "open government" got me to thinking. We take for granted that our government has to have secrets, but do they really? What if made it our policy that what you see is what you get? What if we openly published all of our military capacity and strategies, were blunt about our plans to deal with difficult world leaders, etc? Could that actually work?

Submission + - Joss Whedon to Direct the Avengers (mtv.com)

Submitted by olyar on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @05:38PM

olyar writes: Great news for Joss fans and comic fans alike. Looks like Joss is going to direct the Avengers movie. Best commentary I saw came via @DRUNKHULK on Twitter: "JOSS WHEDON TO DIRECT AVENGERS MOVIE! OUT OF TRADITION FOX HOPE FIND WAY TO TAKE MOVIE AWAY FROM HIM!"

Submission + - Google to Launch OS (wsj.com)

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olyar

on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @02:03AM

olyar writes: "The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google has announced their intent to launch their own operating system.

Initially they'll target low end netbooks."

Submission + - How do I put unused servers to work? 1

Submitted by

olyar

on Monday February 16, 2009 @10:23PM

olyar writes: "I worked for an internet start-up last year and during the "we have plenty of money" phase, a lot of server hardware was purchased. Eight months later, there is very little money, but we're still plugging along — using only a fraction of the hardware. We just cleared out a co-lo and I now have a stack of 17, 1U servers in my garage. Each of those has 2 servers, each of which is a 2-processor, dual-core box with 8 GB of RAM. Add that up and I have 136 processors and 272 GB of RAM with nothing to do.

The IT guy in me thinks that's a waste of FLOPS. The wanna-be businessman in me thinks its probably a waste of money as well.

So I've been brainstorming ways to put all of that power to good use. Any ideas?"

Submission + - Scientists Create Sheep that's 15% Human

Submitted by olyar on Monday March 26, 2007 @12:38PM

olyar writes: In a story that seems custom made for Slashdot comment mayhem, Scientists Have Created a Sheep that's 15% human. They say its for generating donor organs...

Submission + - How Vista Will Change the Landscape

Submitted by

olyar

on Thursday November 30, 2006 @04:57PM

olyar writes: "CNN Money has an interesting article about the hardware changes and shift in focus that Vista will bring along with it. Like it or hate it, you can't argue that as it gets adopted, the face of home computing will shift. This article has some good insights into what that shift might look like."

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