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Comment SMS Backup does the same thing (Score 1) 415

by yourruinreverse on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @05:43PM (#34106066) Attached to: Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App

I've been using SMS Backup for months now. Install it (free), configure it and let it copy your text messages to a gmail account. Only it isn't caled s3cr3t SMS Backup so it's perfectly alright to use (and has better purposes than spying).

An Open Source Compiler From CUDA To X86-Multicore 71

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @03:06PM from the abstraction-gains-a-layer dept.

Gregory Diamos writes "An open source project, Ocelot, has recently released a just-in-time compiler for CUDA, allowing the same programs to be run on NVIDIA GPUs or x86 CPUs and providing an alternative to OpenCL. A description of the compiler was recently posted on the NVIDIA forums. The compiler works by translating GPU instructions to LLVM and then generating native code for any LLVM target. It has been validated against over 100 CUDA applications. All of the code is available under the New BSD license."

Comment SCO Unix success story? (Score 2, Insightful) 66

by yourruinreverse on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @10:18PM (#29740279) Attached to: Details Emerge of 2006 Wal-Mart Hack

Is this information about POS backends still valid?

FTA:
"Wal-Mart has thousands of servers nationwide, and any one of them crashing would ordinarily be a routine event."

"Someone had installed L0phtcrack, a password-cracking tool, onto the system, which //crashed the server// when the intruder tried to launch the program." [emph. added]

From http://www.sco.com/company/success/story.html?ID=21 :
"Nearly all of the 350 chains using PDI/RMS are deployed on SCO UNIX® technology [...]"

"McLane Co., Wal-Mart's wholesale subsidiary, acquired PDI in 1991. Fischer says one goal of the acquisition was to achieve tighter integration with some of the 30,000 c-stores that McLane serves. However, PDI continues to operate as a stand-alone entity and many of its customers are served by other wholesalers."

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