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2007/08/04 Its My Birthday
Yah I am 17 that is all I can talk about today as I will be offline for the next 2 – 2 1/2 weeks. though there will still be posts on weekdays. Hopefully Tom will Post somethings also when I am away.
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2007/08/03 How to Make an ISO Image of your Ubuntu
here is the link to the page: This may be helpful I am not sure since I cannot try this because I do not have Ubuntu installed on my computer.
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2007/08/03 Sun To Release 8-Core Niagara 2 Processor
Here is a good story from Slashdot: An anonymous reader writes “Sun Microsystems is set to announce its eight-core Niagara 2 processor next week. Each core supports eight threads, so the chip handles 64 simultaneous threads, making it the centerpiece of Sun’s “Throughput Computing” effort. Along with having more cores than the quads from…
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2007/08/02 Proposed IPv6 Cutover By 2011-01-01
Here is a story from slashdot: IO ERROR writes “An internet-draft published this month calls for an IPv6 transition plan which would require all Internet-facing servers to have IPv6 connectivity on or before January 1, 2011. ‘Engineer and author John Curran proposes that migration to IPv6 happen in three stages. The first stage, which would…
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2007/08/01 Mouse or Trackball?
Here is the story from Slashdot: Loconut1389 writes “I’ve been an avid mouse user for years, but lately all of the wrist movements have added up and combined with a desire for some added precision when not using my tablet in photoshop, I decided to purchase a large trackball. Logitech makes a few with…
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2007/07/31 Slashdot: A Majority of Businesses Will Not Move to Vista
Here is the story from Slashdot IT: oDDmON oUT writes “An article on the Computerworld site quotes polling results from a potentially-divisive PatchLink survey. The poll shows that the majority of enterprise customers feel there are no compelling security enhancements in Windows Vista, that they have no plans to migrate to it in the…
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2007/07/30 Microsoft FUD Watch!
Well here is something that it seems to go on and on. Slashdot’s story of Microsoft FUD Watch: rs232 writes “Not a week goes by when Microsoft doesn’t manufacture a little fear, uncertainty and doubt about something. Yesterday’s financial analyst conference was full of it … Our approach is simple: We look at who said…
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2007/07/29 IT on Slashdot: Don’t Overlook Efficient C/C++ Cmd Line Processing
here is a story on Slashdot: Firedog writes “There’s been a lot of recent debate over why Linus Torvalds chose the new CFS process scheduler written by Ingo Molnar over the SD process scheduler written by Con Kolivas, ranging from discussing the quality of the code to favoritism and outright conspiracy theories. KernelTrap is…
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2007/07/28 Dell to offer more Linux PC’s
Here is an article on Slashdot: “According to this article, Mark Shuttleworth from the Ubuntu camp says Dell is seeing a demand for the Linux-based PC and, “There are additional offerings in the pipeline.” I’m starting to see flashbacks of the days when Microsoft partnered up with IBM to gain control of the desktop market.…
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2007/07/27 Slashdot: A historical Look at the First Linux Kernel
This is a article on slashdot taking a look at the historical Linux Kerel 0.01: LinuxFan writes “KernelTrap has a fascinating article about the first Linux kernel, version 0.01, complete with source code and photos of Linus Torvalds as a young man attending the University of Helsinki. Torvalds originally planned to call the kernel “Freax,”…