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NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer

NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputerSo that's who's keeping SGI aliveGranted, I know that the Itanium 2 scales well, but so does the POWER6. In fact, if the POWER6 scales as well as it should, they would require half of the cores that the Itanium 2 would need....

Tags: Processors, Operating systems, Intel Itanium, IBM POWER6, Intel Itanium 2, Silicon Graphics Inc., HPC Space, NASA, supercomputer, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-11-15

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Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?

The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG.  Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer.  AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer.  This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...

Tags: Webmaster, Traffic, Malware, Register, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Scanners, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Sync files between computers over the Web, free

Freeware application and Web service Dropbox instantly backs up and syncs your files over the Internet and to any Windows or Mac computer. Once you install the application, it will create a Dropbox folder on your hard drive. Any file you put inside that folder will sync...

Tags: Web, File, Computer, Dropbox Web Interface, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Multiple Facebook vulnerabilities reported on Full-Disclosure

Multiple Facebook vulnerabilities reported on Full-DisclosureMy poll answer[i]No, I don't use them, but not because I'm concerned about their security.[/i]I have no space in MySpace, my Face is in no Book, and I'm not LinkedIn.HahahaNice.You sure you don't want to add me to your friends list???-Nate

Tags: Multiple Facebook, Full-Disclosure

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Multiple Facebook vulnerabilities reported on Full-Disclosure

Jouko Pynnonen posted a message to the Full-Disclosure mailing list today, citing multiple "script injection" vulnerabilities within Facebook.  I'm not sure if this is a surprise to anybody out there, it's certainly not to me, as numerous web applications have major problems with Cross-site Scripting vulnerabilities, but I think this...

Tags: Facebook, Vulnerability, XSS, JavaScript, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Sandbox, JS, Canvas Page, Web Browsers, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Does True Knowledge see value in distance from the bubble?

The flurry of attention around yesterday's Microsoft/ Powerset news set me thinking once more about UK-based True Knowledge, which has been compared with Microsoft's latest acquisition. TechCrunch UK's Mike Butcher reported last month that nameless venture capital firms were valuing True Knowledge at about £20million ($40million), and...

Tags: Valuation, Knowledge, U.K., Microsoft Corp., TechCrunch UK, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-02

What MP3 player and mobile phone sound the best to you?

What MP3 player and mobile phone sound the best to you?don't get itWhat type of blog is this? Should you provide with some scientific proof of which one sounds best? Has ZDnet become now a discussion forum?what's zune?Best quality comes from the headphones most of the time. In my experience...

Tags: Digital music, Media players, Digital media, headphone, phone, MP3 player, BlackBerry 8320, MP3, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Win-Traveller (exe)

Win-Traveller is a script based Packaging suite, capable of customizing MS Windows 2000/XP/2003, to better organize and manage User's Profiles including: User's Data, settings, and computer programs. It's Either for: Safe keeping or as Backup; High and handy portability from home to home and office or even for Traveling; For...

Tags: Portable, Computer, Traveller Soft, Win-Traveller, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-07-02

McCain's campaign team has no Facebook chops

You have to admire the chutzpah of the idea of convincing voters that they should vote for a candidate through an arcade game rip-off of Space Invaders, because it's simply ludicrous coming from a candidate who has declared he doesn't even know how to "use a computer." Aaron Jacobs-Smith of...

Tags: Facebook, Team, John McCain, McCain, Jacobs-Smith, Games, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-07-01

VMware: The Hyper-V assault is underway, but the war is a long one

VMware: The Hyper-V assault is underway, but the war is a long oneA few points..."...as well as a price point that is absolutely unbeatable — free with the Windows Server 2008 OS..."I expect Neely Kroes will have something to say about this."VMware is great, but you need Microsoft to make...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, virtualization, operating system, Hyper-V, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer

So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...

Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Could Twitter become the next PayPal?

"Twitter's not going to make their money with advertising. So how can they be a Billion Dollar Company in a year?", writes Nate Westheimer over at Silicon Alley Insider. The answer, he says, is for Twitter to get into the P2P mobile payments space. by Steve O'Hear

Tags: Mobile Messaging, Payment, Mobile, PayPal, Twitter, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Why computers fail

Why computers failA good UPS...will decrease failure rates tremendously. I use Belkin AVR UPS's and the only systems I've had go down in the last year were ones installed by my predecessor without UPS's. There is no doubt in my mind that bad power is a PC's worst enemy....

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, chip, failure rate, hardware, software, United Parcel Service of America Inc., redundancy, computer

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Happy Bubble (exe)

Control the angle, and shoot! If the bubble come into contact with identically coloured bubbles, forming a group of three or more, those bubbles, and any bubbles hanging only from them, are removed, and points are awarded depending on how many bubbles are removed. As the game proceeds all the...

Tags: Bubble, Microgameplay, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-07-01

CrystalWorms Screensaver (exe)

Colourful, ethereal worms that roam around the screen, intertwining with each other and exploring the space on your screen. You can control the number of worms, the number of segments in each, and whether or not they have eyes, to some degree. You can also control the quality of the...

Tags: Screen, Worm, Teagster Programming, Cyberthreats, Video Cards, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2008-07-01

A nice customer service experience with Dell?

Our central office needs a new server. Configuration is hardly rocket science: it's a mission critical application, DNS, and DHCP server, as well as a domain controller for the office. Fortunately, there are never more than 10 people accessing it, so a single server can get the job...

Tags: Customer Service, Dell Computer Corp., Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Asus Eee PC 901 (Windows XP)

We've been impressed by the Asus Eee PC line from the very first 7-inch model in the fall of 2007, and it seems as if every time we turn around, there's a new version hitting store shelves. This 9-inch version, the

Tags: Chipsets, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Eee PC, Eee PC 900, Intel Corp., Asus Eee, ASUS

Product reviews 2008-06-30

Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'

An intriguing article by 'meaning based computing' company Autonomy's CEO Mike Lynch in today's Financial Times: Embracing the friend, taming the beast – Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Autonomy are mature and stable (with a 4 billion market capitalisation), rapidly becoming the second largest pure software company...

Tags: Web, Autonomy Corp. Plc, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Conferences as conversation starters

Ten years ago Comdex - the gigantic Las Vegas hi tech conference and show - was reaching its high point. In that pre broadband internet era of CD ROM's, beige boxes and Windows 95, tens of thousands would converge on Vegas, stay in massively marked up hotel rooms and walk...

Tags: Web, Industry, Conference, Web 2.0 Movement, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Strategy, Marketing, Internet, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Is designing for the small screen more fun?

I have completely fallen in love with my iPhone. As far as I can tell it comes as close to the perfectly designed device as possible and it seems like I'm discovering cool usability aspects all the time. Things like when you get a text message with a phone number...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Desktop, Application, Mobile, Mobile World, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-06-30