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- Tetris (Penn State Student Project) (exe)
- Play through multiple levels, and earn a place on the High Scores list! A regular Tetris game, coded in C++ with the aid of the CImg library. With the general features of any tetris game, with cool colors, and standard features. Made by "Team Roflcopter", it is a very simple...
- Tags: Penn State, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-02-11
- Solar decathlon: Germany in the lead, could Colorado lose its title?
- It's Monday and here are the standings in the current Solar Decathlon. Darmstadt 238.472 Georgia Tech 236.814 Maryland 235.922 NYIT ...
- Tags: Penn State, Blogging, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- Penn State researchers invent anti-worm technology
- Penn State researchers invent anti-worm technologyWhy patent an anti-worm technology?Can someone make a nutshell for why an anti-worm technology gets patented?Seriously, I think this would be an unfair competition for other manufacturers to compete on getting those worms off of the computer systems...I only skimmed the article, so I didn't...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Gary, anti-worm, anti-worm technology, Penn State
- Discussion threads 2007-02-10
- Penn State researchers invent anti-worm technology
- Researchers at Penn State have filed a provision patent for new anti-worm technology that promises to identify and contain network worms milliseconds into an attack without using anti-virus signatures.The technology, dubbed Proactive Worm Containment PWC, pinpoints worm activity on a network by targeting a packet's rate or frequency of connections...
- Tags: Hackers, Zero-day attacks, Vulnerability research, Spyware and Adware, Botnets, Exploit code, Viruses and Worms, Data theft, Penn State, worm, Proactive Worm Containment
- Blog posts 2007-02-10
- Penn State students blast Napster deal
- Penn State students blast Napster dealThis seems a little oddSo $160 per semester.That works out $40 a month assuming the standard 4 month semsester. It seems to me that Napster only costs $10 a month to subscribe to. So what's the discount they talk about here?This seems more like a...
- Tags: Napster Inc., RIAA, Penn State
- Discussion threads 2003-11-07
- Penn State Builds a 128-Node Dell Cluster Configured With Intel Processors and Running Linux to Extend High-Performance Computing Services
- The Pennsylvania State University Penn State is harnessing the power of hundreds of off-the-shelf Intel processors inside Dell PowerEdge servers to provide the power of supercomputers at a fraction of the cost. Penn State built its first evaluation cluster using Dell Precision workstations during the summer of 1998. With scalability...
- Tags: Processor, Linux, Dell Computer Corp., Penn State, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Intel Corp., Servers, Research & Development, Hardware, Business Operations
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- Girls are as smart as boys, but tests are getting dumber
- New research published in the journal Science confirms what all of us teachers have known for a long time: girls are just as smart as boys. I hope none of our tax dollars went into that one. A quick quote from the article before I get into the...
- Tags: Test, Teacher, Hyde, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux
- Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...
- Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives
- Crucial Micron Solid State Drive installation and configuration by Jason Perlow
- Tags: Micron Technology Inc., Solid State Disk, Jason Perlow, flash memory, micron, crucial, ssd, solid state drive
- Image galleries 2008-07-25
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)
- Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Is open source hurt by piracy?
- Is open source hurt by piracy?Only hurts Open Source if proprietary is seen as "better"Sounds like what you are saying is for example, that the competition in the office suite space is Open Office Vs MS Office Vs pirated MS Office. Those willing to pirate see both Open Office...
- Tags: Operating systems, open source, piracy, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship
- NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...
- Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...
- Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private networkBut who is monitoring the monitor?Gartner's statement not worth quoting. They are the most worthless thing to hit IT.Was Childs the only IT person on staff that knew anything about computers? That's what it sounds like. But this isn't that hard to believe. Most IT...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Most IT department, private network, network, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...
- Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Facebook gets serious about app quality
- Facebook at its F8 developer powwow had a bevy of announcements that garnered interest, but among the most notable were its efforts to improve the quality of applications on the social networking site. First, the brief recap of Facebook's news (statement, Steve O'Hear's takeaways, Webware and Techmeme...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- No e-commerce worries here? Amazon doubles earnings
- Updated: Amazon's second quarter earnings doubled from a year ago as sales jumped 41 percent and executives said that the e-tailer may be benefiting from a slowing economy courtesy of its free shipping deals. On Wednesday, the company reported net income of $158 million, or 37 cents a share,...
- Tags: Jeff Bezos, Quarter, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, E-business, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- NY gov signs game bill into law
- New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...
- Tags: Law, Minor, Games, Personal Technology, video games, video game violence, Nintendo DS, New York, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-23
- Another student hacks another police website
- Oh the fun. Once again, another police website has been hacked by a student, showing that even the police aren't safe from all crimes. This is another link in the long chain of attacks over the years from egotistical teenagers trying to get a kick out of life without sticking...
- Tags: Web Site, Attack, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
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