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Journal Journal: Optimize IT Energy Use

Journal by gcorbaz on Friday January 11, 2008 @05:30AM

http://en.wikipractice.org/wiki/Optimize_IT_Energy_Use

A growing number of companies are coming to the realization that they are entering a data center energy crisis.

Reducing energy use clearly is about more than being environmentally responsible. To ensure their long-term viability, organizations must begin now to find and implement solutions that help decrease power consumption.

Feed The Register: Wii wins console war, market watcher claims (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Friday August 24, 2007 @07:52AM

Nintendo next-gen sales surpass Microsoft's

Nintendo's Wii is now the world's best-selling next-gen videogames console, having this week nosed past the Xbox 360. The Microsoft console has been available to buy for the best part of a year more than has the Wii.

Submission + - Lunar Eclipse Next Tuesday Morning (space.com)

Submitted by

Raver32

on Friday August 24, 2007 @07:33AM

Raver32 writes: "Tuesday morning, Aug. 28 brings us the second total lunar eclipse of 2007. Those living in the Western Hemisphere and eastern Asia will be able to partake in at least some of this sky show. The very best viewing region for viewing this eclipse will fall across the Pacific Rim, including the West Coast of the United States and Canada, as well as Alaska, Hawaii, New Zealand and eastern Australia. All these places will be able to see the complete eclipse from start to finish. Europeans will miss out on the entire show, as the Moon will be below the horizon during their mid and late morning hours."

Sun's Trading Symbol Going From SUNW To JAVA 356

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday August 24, 2007 @07:27AM from the big-whoop dept.

Mortimer.CA writes "Straight from Jonathan Schwartz's weblog, Sun is changing their ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA: 'JAVA is a technology whose value is near infinite to the internet, and a brand that's inseparably a part of Sun (and our profitability). [...] To be very clear, this isn't about changing the company name or focus — we are Sun, we are a systems company, and we will always be a derivative of the students that created us, Stanford University Network is here to stay. But we are no longer simply a workstation company, nor a company whose products can be limited by one category — and Java does a better job of capturing exactly that sentiment than any other four letter symbol.'"

Submission + - How SBC (AT&T) pillaged South Africa's economy (busrep.co.za)

Submitted by Kifoth on Friday August 24, 2007 @05:19AM

Kifoth writes: For 8 years, SBC and Telekom Malaysia controlled South Africa's only telecommunications company, Telkom. Telkom had a government granted monopoly in order for it to connect the large parts of South Africa which had been neglected under apartheid. Instead of helping, SBC abused their position and raised Telkom's prices to amongst the highest in the world. The billions they made here ultimately went to fund their AT&T merger.

"SBC, described as "congenitally litigious", is said to have played a major role in the failure of South Africa's telecoms policy to develop a competitive telephone service. Under SBC's control Telkom not only failed to meet its roll-out obligations but behaved "as a tax on industry and a drag on economic growth"."

SCADA Systems a Target for Hackers? 189

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday August 23, 2007 @09:36PM from the isn't-everything-already dept.

superstick58 writes "As a system integrator, I am often providing control solutions that utilize sophisticated Ethernet networks and as they say in the biz 'link top floor to shop floor.' Forbes has an article about the security issues that exist in SCADA systems. When I look back at some of the systems I have put in which include direct I/O control over ethernet and distributed HMI monitoring, if I can get access from the internet, it would be easy to bring down power for a plant or at the very least make operators in the building very uncomfortable. How vulnerable are the manufacturing centers of the world?"

Journal Journal: Fuel cells for home use

Journal by entt on Thursday May 03, 2007 @09:55AM

A Turkish company Vestel (www.vestel.com.tr) announced natural-gas using fuel cells for home-use. It is planned to be commerical Q4 2007. In 2008, Vestel announces, the fuel-cells will be using water as hydrogen source. This is possibly going to be the first water-using fuel-cell for home-use. The main element for producing fuel-cells is boron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron) and %63 of natural resources is found in Turkey. Vestel says they developed a new and cheaper way to process boron.

Comment Who is the thief ? (Score 1) 406

by gcorbaz on Sunday September 18, 2005 @04:26AM (#13588580) Attached to: RIAA Says P2P Encourages Illegal Downloads

What about CD or DVD burner ? it is now easy to copy a whole CD from a friend. Maybe all these devices should also be prohibited. Anyway, we all pay taxes on free media, yes you pay rigths on an empty CD or even HD as you are all potential pirats and thief. P2P is maybe the solution to recover the money stoled on empty medias.

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