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Comment What about the dodo? (Score 1) 277

by um_atrain on Thursday January 21, 2010 @12:34AM (#30842204) Attached to: Scientists To Breed the Auroch From Extinction

Their small, portable, cute, and probably taste like chicken!

Comment UltraVNC single-click (Score 5, Informative) 454

by um_atrain on Sunday November 22, 2009 @05:47PM (#30196566) Attached to: Simple, Free Web Remote PC Control?

UltraVNC single click. Its a reverse VNC, designed for this purpose. They double click the executable, and then automatically connects to your listening client.

Its customizable so you can make it look professional if needed. They only have to run the file, it does everything else.

Comment Re:PC UPS/PS (Score 1) 63

by um_atrain on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @05:07PM (#26818867) Attached to: UPS, Generators Join Servers For Boxed Data Centers

Not worth it. They would be too big to fit inside standard cases, you wouldn't be able to power accessories (eg: external harddrive, other stuff that shouldn't be turned off)

Also, UPSs are pretty efficient, there isn't too much extra loss converting to AC and back. There is no need for this.

New Top 500 Supercomputer List 138

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 17, 2008 @08:15PM from the every-one-a-winner dept.

geaux and other readers let us know that the new Top 500 Supercomputer list is out. The top two both break the Petaflops barrier: LANL's IBM "RoadRunner" and ORNL's Cray XT5 "Jaguar." (Contrary to our discussion a few days back, IBM's last-minute upgrade of RoadRunner salvaged the top spot for Big Blue. Kind of like bidding on eBay.) The top six all run in excess of 400 Teraflops. HP has more systems in the top 500 than IBM, reversing the order of the previous list. Both Intel and AMD issued press releases crowing over their wins, and both are correct — AMD highlights its presence in 7 of the top 10, while Intel boasts that 379 of the top 500 use their chips.

Comment How much research did they do? (Score 1) 689

by um_atrain on Friday October 31, 2008 @01:27PM (#25586139) Attached to: Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista

From TFA: "Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition easily ranks higher than any other Linux desktop OS we've looked at"

I have a strong feeling they've never tried DSL, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, etc... After looking through the first 5 pages of search results for "Linux", the only other distribution than Ubuntu was Linpus. I think Ubuntu is great, but if your looking for performance, there are better alternatives out there.

The Notable Improvements of GNOME 2.22 265

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 29, 2008 @01:43PM from the short-but-pretty dept.

Michael Larabel writes "Phoronix has up a list compiling eight of the most interesting improvements on track for GNOME 2.22. These improvements include the Epiphany browser switching to the WebKit back-end, transition effects inside the Evince document viewer, a new GNOME application for taking photos and recording videos from web cameras followed by applying special effects, a mouse tweaking module for improved accessibility, and a new GNOME VNC client. On the multimedia end, GNOME 2.22 has a few new features appended to the Totem movie player and the Rhythmbox player. Totem can now search and play YouTube videos and connect to a MythTV server and watch past recordings or view live TV. Rhythmbox now can utilize FM radio tuners, integration with new lyric sites, improved Podcast feed support, and even has support for communicating with newer Sony PSPs. There will also be a standalone Flash player and flash previewing support from the file browser in this release."

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