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Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? 1397

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the just-no-more-muppets-please dept.
jfruhlinger writes "If you use a Unix machine, it probably has a funny name. And if you work in an environment where there are multiple Unix machines, they probably have funny names that are variations on a theme. No, you're not the only one! This article explores the phenomenon, showing that even the CIA uses a whimsical server naming scheme." What are some of your best (worst?) naming schemes?

Comment Real Differences (Score 1) 679

by TokenMacGuy (#24611201) Attached to: What Will Linux Be Capable Of, 3 Years Down the Road?
There are several interesting new filesystems in development. HAMMER is really specific to DragonFlyBSD, but btrfs and Tux3 are both being developed for linux specifically, and all three are attempting to leapfrog zfs. All will make storage a simple question of capacity, and largely remove the concerns of configuration and data integrity. These will be strong advantages over any commercial OS.

There's some substantial activity on the biggest closed source black spots in the linux kernel, drivers for NVidia and ATI graphics cards. The open source versions lag quite a bit behind their propritary counterparts, but that gap will probably narrow.

Feed Engadget: Messaging toaster burns notes into your breakfast (engadget.com)

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For being one of the most brilliantly simple electronic devices ever to exist, the humble toaster certainly draws a lot of design attention, and this messaging toaster from Sascha Tseng certainly adds in a feature we never knew we wanted -- until now. We're not 100 percent clear on exactly how it works, but using the supplied stylus to doodle on the top lid of the toaster will result in a scorchmark-and-bread rendering of your masterpiece. Not exactly the most covert way of sending messages to your family, perhaps, but since when has practicality been important in toaster concept design?

[Via Shiny Shiny]

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Feed Science Daily: Polluted Dead Star Indicates Planets Like Earth May Have Formed Around Other Sta (sciencedaily.com)

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The chemical fingerprint of a burned-out star indicates that Earth-like planets may not be rare in the universe and could give clues to what our solar system will look like when our sun dies and becomes a white dwarf star some five billion years from now. Astronomers report that a white dwarf star known as GD 362, which is surrounded by dusty rings similar to those of Saturn, has been contaminated by a large asteroid that left more than a dozen observable chemical elements in the white dwarf's atmosphere. Such an observation is unprecedented in astronomy. Was there some kind of violent interaction between the star and the asteroid?

Feed The Register: Apple 'retires' AppleWorks (theregister.com)

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Ye Olde Appe dropped for brand spanking new iWork 08

Apple has finally put its venerable AppleWorks integrated productivity software application - a package it hasn't updated for more than three years - out to pasture.
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Submission + - Kernel devs say VMware violates Linux copyrights (venturecake.com)

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Nailer writes: Bloomberg believe VMware's IPO today may the largest technology offering since Google. But doubts have been cast over the company's supposedly proprietary ESX product, as top 10 Linux contributor Christopher Hellwig claims the software violates Linux kernel copyrights.

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