Comment please oh please (Score 1, Funny) 837
please let the insurance file be the result of "dd if=/dev/urandom
Comment Good. (Score 1) 149
Now get back to me when you've built 24+2 of them into a 1x10x10 cm 12 core blade with water cooling.
Or 256 of them into a 1U half-depth fanless storage array.
I loathe seeing racks upon racks of heat spewing, power sucking, storage arrays.
Comment 9000 (Score 5, Funny) 395
no "over 9000" option?
for shame, slashdot, FOR SHAME.
New Languages Vs. Old For Parallel Programming 321
joabj writes "Getting the most from multicore processors is becoming an increasingly difficult task for programmers. DARPA has commissioned a number of new programming languages, notably X10 and Chapel, written especially for developing programs that can be run across multiple processors, though others see them as too much of a departure to ever gain widespread usage among coders."
Comment uh (Score 3, Informative) 136
you *do* know that an F5 Big-IP is more than an SSL accelerator? Like, a load balancer with lots of cool features.
I guess you could duplicate the features of an f5 with nginx and more, but I guess it'd take a developer more than 50k worth of time to do it.
Comment Re:No doubt with free spyware and internet filteri (Score 4, Interesting) 901
Well, despite being an Obama supporter (as am I), Taco is being pragmatic. Eric Holden could be his Attorney General, and he's all for net censorship. Plus this is the Democrats we're talking about; the old guard is salivating at the prospect of getting all their old nanny state legislation back on the plate.
Feed New York Times: Apple, Striking Back, Bars NBC Sales on ITunes (nytimes.com)
Apple escalated a dispute with NBC Universal over the pricing of television shows by announcing it would not sell any of NBC’s programs for this fall season on iTunes.
Politics and 'An Inconvenient Truth' 630
Frogbeater writes "The producer of 'An Inconvenient Truth' is accusing the National Science Teachers Association of being in the pocket of Big Oil because she can't get preferential treatment for her film. The entire situation is turning into a 'if you're not with us, you're against us' yelling match. Regardless of the viewpoint, is it even possible that science can remain apolitical? Has it ever been?" The Washington Post makes things out to be less than above board: "In the past year alone, according to its Web site, Exxon Mobil's foundation gave $42 million to key organizations that influence the way children learn about science, from kindergarten until they graduate from high school ... NSTA's list of corporate donors also includes Shell Oil and the American Petroleum Institute (API), which funds NSTA's Web site on the science of energy. There, students can find a section called 'Running on Oil' and read a page that touts the industry's environmental track record -- citing improvements mostly attributable to laws that the companies fought tooth and nail, by the way -- but makes only vague references to spills or pollution. NSTA has distributed a video produced by API called 'You Can't Be Cool Without Fuel,' a shameless pitch for oil dependence."
Purdue Streams a Movie At 7.5Gb/sec 117
the_psilo writes, "My friend just got back from the Supercomputing conference in Tampa, FL where she and the rest of the Purdue Envision Center rocked the High Performance Computing Bandwidth Challenge by streaming a 2-minute-long, 125-GB movie over a 10-Gb link at 7.5 Gb/sec. They used 6 Apple Xserve RAIDs connected to 12 clients projecting onto their tiled wall (that's 12 streams in all). Lots of accolades from the people who set up the challenge. More links to articles and reviews can be found at the Envision Center Bandwidth Challenge FAQ page."
The two-minute video is a scientific visualization of a cell structure from a bacterium.
The Envision Center site hosts a reduced version of the video.
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