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Icebergs Sailing Past New Zealand 236

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 16, 2006 @12:51AM from the kiwi-smoothie dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A fleet of icebergs is heading north from Antarctica and at least one has reached New Zealand, an event that has not occurred in decades. While not necessarily a consequence of global warming it is very cool!"

Comment Overload the DNS? (Score 2, Insightful) 221

by eniacx on Thursday September 07, 2006 @05:08PM (#16062125) Attached to: Will Vista Overload the DNS?

Before freaking out. Look at their algorithm.

From TFA:
"""For example, Microsoft designed Vista so PCs will query in the address of the type assigned to the system, the company said.

Computers that don't have an IPv6 address will not do IPv6 queries, the company said.

Also, when a machine does do an IPv6 query, it will do so only to a DNS server that responded to its initial IPv4 query, the company said. "Name errors are not repeated, so the Net traffic will less than double," it said."""

Apple to Face iPod Clone Attack 394

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 02, 2006 @05:34AM from the they-have-cool-armor dept.

chr1sb writes "The Age has a commentary piece outlining how Apple's domination of the online media market is continuing to grow, but speculating that significant competition from the likes of Nokia and Motorola will rapidly relegate Apple's presence in the market to a corner, just as clone manufacturing of IBM PCs dominated the initial success of the Macintosh. From the article: 'The iPod/iTunes system will move into a niche with Macintosh computers because Steve Jobs has again stuck with closed architecture and total control. This will happen quickly because mobile phones are being turned over about every year.'."

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