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Journal Journal: Kernel.org is 10 years old...

I just finished making the logo to mark 10 years since kernel.org was announced...

Happy birthday kernel.org!

Windows

Submission + - Windows Expert Sees the Light

An anonymous reader writes: Scott Finnie, computerworld's windows expert gives the final verdict to Windows, after 3 months of using a Mac. And the verdict is: "Sayonara".
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9010759&intsrc=hm_ ts_head
From the article: "If you give the Mac three months, as I did, you won't go back either. The hardest part is paying for it — everything after that gets easier and easier. Perhaps fittingly, it took me the full three-month trial period to pay off my expensive MacBook Pro. But the darn thing is worth every penny." Scott Finnie is well known to / readers from earlier stories documenting his trials with Vista Betas, and more recently his displeasure of it.
Supercomputing

Quantum Computer To Launch Next Week 224

judgecorp writes "D-Wave Systems of British Columbia is all set to demonstrate a 16-qubit quantum computer. Simple devices have been built in the lab before, and this is still a prototype, but it is a commercial project that aims to get quantum devices into computer rooms, solving tricky problems such as financial optimization. Most quantum computers have to be isolated from the outside world (look at them and they stop working). This one is an 'adiabatic' quantum computer — which means (in theory, says D-Wave) that it can live with thermal noise and give results without having to be isolated. There's a description of it here — and pretty pictures too."

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