Nov
20
Google is producing their ows switches
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Apparently Google is reusing it’s strategy to build their own equipment.
First they build their own PC’s and now an analytic reveals that they may build their own 10G switches.
What if they are followed by other big data centers?
If it is true this may change switch market.
Nov
13
Give One Get One
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Give One Get One program is active for citizens of USA and CANADA.
Between November 12 and November 26, OLPC is offering a Give One Get One program in the United States and Canada. During this time, you can donate the revolutionary XO laptop to a child in a developing nation, and also receive one for the child in your life in recognition of your contribution.
I think that OLPCÂ project does not need introduction, but in case you hear it for first time click here for more information.
Nov
3
How “Turkish delight” —> “Cyprus delight”
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From 21 October the product well known as “Turkish delight” should be called “Cyprus delight”.
That was the last day for objections.
Nov
3
RIP: ThinkPad
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Lenovo report good results and will no more use ThinkPad brand for their notebooks.
“By making substantial progress on all of our critical priorities over the past few quarters, we’re now a stronger, healthier company,†Amelio added. “One important sign of this progress is our decision to completely transition our Think products from the IBM brand to the Lenovo brand two years earlier than planned. Concurrently, we’ve recently launched our own ‘Best Engineered PCs’ advertising campaign and global sponsorship of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games to promote our brand worldwide.â€
Nov
3
Firefox 2.0.0.9 – Stability update released
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Update of the update:
The 2.0.0.8 release fixed some 200 issues, but accidentally regressed a few things. Most users won’t see any difference or experience any problems, and those 200 fixes make the 2.0.0.8 update very valuable, but you should never have to choose functionality over security. So we’re working fast to understand and fix these problems, and will shortly be issuing a 2.0.0.9 update to address them. The specific problems are:
- Bug 400406 – Firefox will ignore the “clear†CSS property when used beneath a box that is using the “float†property. There is a temporary workaround JS/CSS code available for web developers with affected layouts.
- Bug 400467 – Windows Vista users will get “Java not found†or “Java not working†errors when trying to load Java applets after updating. To fix this, users can right-click the Firefox icon and “Run as administratorâ€, then browse to a page with a Java applet — doing this once will fix the problem and permanently restore Java functionality.
- Bug 396695 – Add-ons are disabled after updating. Users can fix this problem by opening their profile folder and removing three files (extensions.rdf, extensions.ini and extensions.cache)
- Bug 400421 – Removing a single area element from an image map will cause the entire map to disappear. There is no workaround available at this time.
- Bug 400735 – Some Windows users may experience crashes at startup. There is no workaround available at this time.
Oct
25
Gmail now supports IMAP
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On Intertop Google vice-president announced that Gmail will now support IMAP.
This will allow account owner to sync their e-mail between different mobile devices.
Oct
24
Exploit for Acrobat released
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Few hours after Adobe released patch for Acrobat reader exploit was released.
Currently you may receive e-mail with YOUR_BILL.pdf or INVOICE.pdf as attachment. When user opens file Trojan horse is installed to the system.
It is HIGHLY recommended to update to Acrobat reader 8.1.1.
How?
Launch acrobat and go to help –> check for updates.
Oct
19
Firefox 2.0.0.8 – Security update released
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Another security update of Mozilla Firefox is available.
Only addition is that now Mac OS X “Leopard” is supported.
Oct
17
Best use of PlayStation 3
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Recently scientists discovered the power of Sony PlayStation 3.
But not to play games, but to crunch numbers.
Gravity project utilizes 8 PS 3 running Linux – connected in cluster to replace 200 Supercomputer nodes.
Overall, a single PS3 performs better than the highest-end desktops available and compares to as many as 25 nodes of an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer. And there is still tremendous scope left for extracting more performance through further optimization.
This “mini” supercomputer is used to help measure these theoretical gravity waves – ripples in space-time that travel at the speed of light that Einstein’s Theory of Relativity predicted would emerge when such an event takes place.
Oct
9
Even emergencies are not everyday event (except probably for firefighters or people with similar profession) for the people, but sooner or later they happen.
curbly blog gives several advices in their:
How To Be Prepared in a Blackout (or other emergency).
What you may need is:
- plan
- water
- food
- matches
- flashlight
- some cash
- telephone