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Graphic Map of Linux-2.6.36 25

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 16, 2011 @09:51PM from the under-the-hood dept.

conan.sh writes "The Interactive map of Linux Kernel was expanded and updated to the recent kernel linux-2.6.36. Now the map contains more than four hundred important source items (functions and structures) with links to source code and documentation."

Website Sells Pubic Lice 319

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @03:23PM from the gift-that-keeps-on-giving dept.

A British website called crabrevenge.com will help you prove that there is literally nothing you can't find online by selling you pubic lice. A disclaimer on the site says the creators "do not endorse giving people lice," and the lice are for "novelty purposes only." The company also boasts about a facility "where we do all of our parasite husbandry and carefully considered selective breeding." Three different packages are available: "Green package - One colony that can lay as many as 30 eggs for about $20. Blue package - Three colonies to share with your friends or freeze a batch or two for about $35. Red package - A vial of 'shampoo-resistant F-strain crabs' which can take up to two weeks to kill for about $52."

Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ 278

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 14, 2008 @02:06AM from the creative-excuse-for-the-late-night-set dept.

vik writes "According to local media, multiple eye witnesses are reporting that a meteorite crashed into a warehouse in Auckland, New Zealand last night, setting it on fire. The warehouse roof was destroyed but no nearby buildings were damaged and there was only one minor casualty — a man who happened to be inside the building at the time. The fire service have not yet made an official announcement."

Comment Re:I have a serious question: (Score 1) 425

by ZuggZugg on Monday July 14, 2008 @11:19PM (#24191229) Attached to: IBM's Eight-Core, 4-GHz Power7 Chip

The "problem" you are noticing is that most software is not programmed to take advantage of multiple execution cores.

The problem in a nutshell is that writing parallel execution routines in software is not trivial.

What you point out is exactly the problem that many have been "freaking out" about for a while. That multi-core is all fine and dandy for workloads that can leverage parallelism. But for a lot of applications this is very difficult to accomplish.

In the case of this "computer" at this university, it's likely a number crunching "computer" or supercomputer. Very likely to be just a gang of machines networked together to process ridiculously parallel problems.

Not something you'll ever boot Vista on and expect to run Half Life any faster on...

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