Friday, November 09, 2001

NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM - news) said on Friday it will build a supercomputer that is smaller and 15 times speedier than the current fastest computer, enabling users to solve complex questions more quickly and opening the door for its commercial use.

The new computer is expected to be used for everything from weather modeling to studying genomics data and running commercial database applications, IBM said.

It is the second computer planned as part of an expanding five-year, $100 million project called Blue Gene which IBM began in 1999 with the intention of studying proteins.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011109/tc/tech_ibm_supercomputer_dc_1.html

Monday, November 05, 2001

Sunday, November 04, 2001

Ananova - CIA put transmitter in cat and used tail as antenna to get Kremlin secrets
Headlines for root.skaletsky.org, Too Tired to be Root...

World: CIA put transmitter in cat and used tail as antenna to get Kremlin secrets. 02:51 ET - Ananova [NewsBlip.com]
3:13:54 AM
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Australian tax dollars at work. The Australian government has put together The National Public Toilet Map. As the name suggests, it is an interactive map of every public toilet in the country. [kuro5hin.org]
3:12:27 AM
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HP Calculator Department is Closing [Slashdot]
1:31:58 AM
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Does this mean that Microsoft can call anything it wants part of Windows??? I think the fix is in...
Did Brett Glass find the "killer clause"? [Scripting News]
1:09:35 AM
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Cisco.com: The Charlie Rose Interview: Linus Torvalds [Linux Today]
1:03:55 AM
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Wow... Unix is 30. This is a great timeline; I got on board at SunOS 3.0, I think. I don't see Venix, which I remember working with at JPL...

UNIX hits the Big Three-Oh [Slashdot]
12:17:46 AM
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Saturday, November 03, 2001
BOFHs to blame for LAN downtime after all. Guns don't kill people - routers do [The Register]
2:07:16 AM
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InfoWorld says WinXP much slower than Win2K [Slashdot]
2:05:49 AM
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Friday, November 02, 2001
Intel Chips For The Near- And Semi-Near Future [Slashdot]
1:27:18 AM
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Thursday, November 01, 2001
Doc Searles (Linux Journal Senior Editor) reports on the Geek Cruise with RMS (Richard Stallman), Steve "Wordy" Roberts (I used to subscribe to TechNomads a long time ago), and others...
11:29:45 PM
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Interview With the Creators of CRUX and ROOTLinux. 1 Nov 2001: Linux is much more than (the highly marketed) Red Hat or Mandrake. Assuming you got the skills required, a Linux distribution can be created, distributed or sold by anyone. This is what Free Software is all about anyway. Two Sweedish Linux coders are offering their own, home-brewed Linux distros for some months now (with newer versions on the way). Per Lidén has put together CRUX from scratch, while John Eriksson has evolved a lightweight Slackware version to his own ROOTLinux. OSNews inter [RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix]
1:10:39 AM
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WIRED: Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary (Red Hat's Michael Tiemann says "Boycott the Monopolist") [Linux Today]
1:09:47 AM
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Interactive Fiction Competition 2001 [Slashdot]
1:09:12 AM
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John Robb: "Is the US Post Office worth saving?" [Scripting News]
12:30:22 AM
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Pentagon Has a 3-D View to a Kill. The U.S. military is using high-resolution 3-D maps so troops can view battlefields before a mission. By Wired News' Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]
12:28:17 AM
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The Lighter Side of CPAN. Alex Gough takes us on a whirlwind tour around the more esoteric and entertaining areas of the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, and makes some serious points about Perl programming at the same time. [Perl.com Perl.com]
12:27:01 AM
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Jerry Pournelle rolled his truck in Death Valley in 1998 and had to walk out. [Scripting News]
12:26:43 AM
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Mine is, so's my wife and kids...Forget about your birthday ... is your name in pi? [Memepool]
12:22:38 AM
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This is a hoot. ...list of dangerous terrorists. [Scobleizer]
12:16:57 AM
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Business: Sun Micro CEO: Ready for Economic Storm. 20:31 ET - Reuters [NewsBlip.com]
12:15:16 AM
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Wednesday, October 31, 2001
Happy Halloween!!! Here's hoping you have a great day..
Just in case someone wants to have the candy X-Rayed: http://www.snopes2.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.htm
12:06:02 AM

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The Register: Win-XP vs Red Hat 7.2 [Linux Today]
12:02:01 AM
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Tuesday, October 30, 2001
BE CAREFUL - this food is da bomb...?
Reuters: U.S. warns Afghans of yellow cluster bomblets [Robot Wisdom]
11:59:49 PM

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ArabNews: ObL's cave located by pure deduction? [Robot Wisdom]
11:54:09 PM
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Gawd, I miss this... it was pretty cool for it's time.
http://catalog.com/hopkins/images/pizzatool.gif
11:34:25 PM

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Follow the links to catalog.com where you can read Don Hopkins' (Sims/Simcity designer) complaints about X-Windows!!!
PLUS:

The database client/server model (the server machine stores all the data, and the clients beseech it for data) makes sense. The computation client/server model (where the server is a very expensive or experimental supercomputer, and the client is a desktop workstation or portable computer) makes sense. But a graphical client/server model that slies the interface down some arbitrary middle is like Solomon following through with his child-sharing strategy. The legs, heart, and left eye end up on the server, the arms and lungs go to the client, the head is left rolling around on the floor, and blood spurts everywhere.

- The X-Windows Disaster; by Don Hopkins: "This is Chapter 7 of the UNIX-HATERS Handbook. The X-Windows Disaster chapter was written by Don Hopkins." How to make a 50-MIPS Workstation Run Like a 4.77MHz IBM PC


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This is what started this - this article on Slashdot: Maxis Developer on Linux Game Porting [Slashdot]
11:13:14 PM
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NeuStar to Manage .US Registry [Slashdot]
10:34:47 PM
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MS-DOS is Dead??? No, sorry, that's wrong.
9:05:36 PM
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User shows up at tech support pilot fish's cube, complaining about an error message he gets on boot-up. "What does the error message say?" fish asks. "I don't know," user answers.... for the rest - click here at computerworld
9:05:35 PM
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What Do You Know About Databases And XML? [Slashdot]
12:50:03 AM
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The Internet Reached It's Peak Today. The Internet reached it's peak today. Well, not as much today as within a few weeks or months of today, but the idea is there. Windows XP, lousy broadband, the RIAA, sites failing due to lack of funds: everything seems to be going downhill. Perhaps this is the natural evolution of things. [kuro5hin.org]
12:43:20 AM
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Scary stuff...
CounterPunch: Neo-Nazi Wm Pierce predicted many details [Robot Wisdom]
12:36:28 AM

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Monday, October 29, 2001
HDTV On Your PC And Hard Drive [Slashdot]
9:15:57 AM
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It's probably a good thing that someone is doing this....
1:51:18 AM
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Remember when the slogan was "Coke ADDS Life?"
The New Threat: Coca-Cola. From the site cokemachineaccidents.com:This site is dedicated to our dear son and brother Kevin Mackle, who was found dead in his Residence at Keuhner Hall, Bishop's University, Lennoxville Quebec on December 13th 1998, a day of sorrow for us, his family. A toppled Vendo Model Coca-Cola machine which was put in place, unsecured, by the Beaver Foods Company crushed him. [kuro5hin.org]
1:47:33 AM

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UK Telegraph: In case of war, steal (Pakistan's) nukes [Robot Wisdom]
1:45:08 AM
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Report on Shashdot about AMD chips frying with no heatsink; AMD disputes it.
The Report of My Thermal Death Have Been... [Slashdot]
12:25:20 AM

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Robert Scoble writes: Harry Potter Legos. I'm one too, but my son is totally nuts about Harry Potter. He's quite proud of the fact that he's the first kid in his class to get some Harry Potter Legos. (My wife works at Valley Fair Mall and got some of these highly-prized treasures. Already they are the hottest things for putting under the Christmas tree and extremely hard to find -- when I picked up my son from school two parents asked "where did you find those Harry Potter Legos?") [Scobleizer]
Okay, if I've seen this before, they will be featured on various TV shows this week (Rosie O'Donnell or Oprah will GUARANTEE this is a hit).
12:18:55 AM

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