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Chinese Root Server Shut Down After DNS Problem 91

Posted by timothy from the need-a-new-source-of-ginseng dept.
itwbennett writes "After a networking error first reported on Wednesday last week caused computers in Chile and the US to come under the control of a system that censors the Internet in China, the 'root DNS server associated with the networking problems has been disconnected from the Internet,' writes Robert McMillan. The server's operator, Netnod, has 'withdrawn route announcements' made by the server, according to company CEO Kurt Lindqvist."
Education

PA Laptop Spying Inspires FSF Crowdsourcing Effort 135

Posted by timothy from the inspiration-comes-from-many-places dept.
holmesfsf writes "Creeped out by the Lower Merion School District's remote monitoring of students? Check out the Free Software Foundation's response to the laptop spying scandal and help build a wiki listing of school districts that provide students with laptops, so that the FSF can campaign against mandatory, proprietary laptops."
Idle

Directed Energy Weapon Downs Mosquitos 428

Posted by samzenpus from the two-pound-hammer-and-ten-penny-nail dept.
wisebabo writes "Nathan Myhrvol demonstrated at TED a laser, built from parts scrounged from eBay, capable of shooting down not one but 50 to 100 mosquitos a second. The system is 'so precise that it can specify the species, and even the gender, of the mosquito being targeted.' Currently, for the sake of efficiency, it leaves the males alone because only females are bloodsuckers. Best of all the system could cost as little as $50. Maybe that's too expensive for use in preventing malaria in Africa but I'd buy one in a second!" We ran a story about this last year. It looks like the company has added a bit more polish, and burning mosquito footage to their marketing.
Graphics

NVIDIA Shows Off "Optimus" Switchable Graphics For Notebooks 102

Posted by Soulskill from the that's-some-prime-namespace dept.
Vigile writes "Transformers jokes aside, NVIDIA's newest technology offering hopes to radically change the way notebook computers are built and how customers use them. The promise of both extended battery life and high performance mobile computing has seemed like a pipe dream, and even the most recent updates to 'switchable graphics' left much to be desired in terms of the user experience. Having both an integrated and discrete graphics chip in your notebook does little good if you never switch between the two. Optimus allows the system to seamlessly and instantly change between IGP and discrete NVIDIA GPUs based on the task being run, including games, GPU encoding or Flash video playback. Using new software and hardware technology, notebooks using Optimus can power on and pass control to the GPU in a matter of 300ms and power both the GPU and PCIe lanes completely off when not in use. This can be done without being forced to reboot or even close out your applications, making it a hands-free solution for the customer."

Comment Re:I've been carless for over a year now (Score 1) 1385

by cridanb (#27613163) Attached to: Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US
I think you are wrong about the cant sleep or read whilst driving , I have observed many people driving into Washington,DC read papers , applying makeup , eating (using a fork as well as eating fast food) , also using some sort of sign language , that seem to indicate that I was Number one by the way I agree with highspeed rail and any kind of commuter rail, in fact anything to get those cars off the road that stop me whizzing into work

Comment Re:Single Instance Storage (Score 1) 205

by cridanb (#22692842) Attached to: White House Email Follies
Exchange performs SIS only a the storage group level and there maybe many of these per exchange server ( I have seen as many as 10) Exchange broke the SIS in 2003 / 2007 as they found that it didn't scale Lotus domino has a service called shared mail that is also SIS but nobody (ok very few) people us it as it doesn't scale well. In the next version of domino you will be able to SIS attachmnets on a per server basis. There has been talk of using a Content Addressable Storage device (such as EMC's Centera or IBM's DR550) behind the domino server to further SIS the attachments across many machines. there are archive systems that do use SIS very successfully but these are not dynamic mail systems

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