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Submission + - Nokia N900 Linux smartphone running OS X 10.3 (www.tuug.fi)

Submitted by Rovaani on Monday February 01, 2010 @06:39AM

Rovaani writes: (via The Nokia Blog). Here is a video of a Nokia N900 smartphone running the full desktop Mac OS X 10.3 From the author, Tomi Nikkanen: "I believe this makes the N900 the first smartphone EVER to run the full version of Mac OS X (at any speed, slow or otherwise). As you can see from the heavily edited video, it took almost 2 hours to reach the "About my Mac..." window. Keep your eye on the time display as that will give you an impression of just how uselessly slow it is. "

Comment Re:This is stupid (Score 1) 897

by ztane on Monday August 04, 2008 @08:55AM (#24465159) Attached to: Mozilla SSL Policy Considered Bad For the Web

Mod parent up! If someone was trying a man-in-the-middle attack with your online bank, you would want to be loud about it, now wouldn't you. Man-in-the-middle is just too easy, considering for example that we had a serious DNS flaw published not so long ago, and that not every DNS server has been patched. In that case you'd want to freak out any users that come across with invalid certificates. Otherwise the SSL is just void for security, and we could pretty much use plain HTTP anyway.

Submission + - Benchmarking power efficient servers

Submitted by

modapi

on Monday August 20, 2007 @02:43AM

modapi writes: "According to the EPA data centers — not including Google et. al, — are on track to double power consumption in the next five years. Forget about global warming, that is a lot of expensive power. Can we cut the power requirement? We could, if we had a way to reliably benchmark power consumption across architectures. Which is what JouleSort: A Balanced Energy-Efficiency Benchmark (PDF) by Suzanne Rivoire, Mehul A. Shah, Parthasarathy Ranganathan and Christos Kozyrakis tries to do. StorageMojo summarizes the key findings of the paper and contrasts it with the recent Google paper "Powering a warehouse-sized computer". The authors use the benchmark to design a power-efficient server and to consider the role of software, RAM and power supplies in power use."

Submission + - AMD's Black Box Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Launched (hothardware.com)

Submitted by

MojoKid

on Monday August 20, 2007 @12:12AM

MojoKid writes: "Rumors of a new high-end AMD Athlon 64 X2 chip circulated in July but availability and specifics of the chip were unconfirmed at the time. Today however, AMD has officially taken the wraps off their new Athlon 64 X2 6400+, a 3.2GHz dual-core Athlon X2 set to compete with Intel's Core 2 E6750 and E6850 series. HotHardware notes that the new 6400+ is still built on AMD's 90nm fab process, has a single 2GHz HyperTransport link and 2MB of on-chip L2 cache (1MB per core), just like its predecessor the 6000+. The new processor is said to be a "channel only" offering and will retail at $239 or so, in a black retail box without a heatsink."

Submission + - Student finds 5000-year-old chewing gum (kierikki.fi)

Submitted by

itsthebin

on Sunday August 19, 2007 @10:51PM

itsthebin writes: "Sarah Pickin, 23, found the lump of birch bark tar — complete with neolithic tooth prints — on a dig in Finland. Ms Pickin's tutor at the University of Derby, Professor Trevor Brown, said birch bark tar contained phenols, which are antiseptic compounds. "It is generally believed that neolithic people found that by chewing this stuff if they had gum infections it helped to treat the condition. It's particularly significant because well-defined tooth imprints were found on the gum which Sarah discovered," he said. Ms Pickin was on a volunteer program at the Kierikki Centre on the west coast of Finland when she made the find. It is not for sale on Ebay yet :-)"

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