Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Hugh Pickens writes "Nick Bostrom has an interesting interpretation on why the failure of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) for the past half-century is good news and why the discovery of life on Mars could foretell our doom. Bostrom postulates a 'Great Filter,' which can be thought of as ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Several readers wrote to tell us about one of the next major projects to enter the Google-verse. We already have pretty views of the Earth and the Sky, the next target is apparently a 3D map of the oceans. "The tool — for now called Google Ocean, the sources say, ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
AlexGr notes an article by Jeff Gould where he says " Sometimes I wonder whether Ubuntu is really an open source software company any more. Yes, yes, I realize Ubuntu is not a company at all but a free Linux distribution, GPL'd and open source by definition. But still, the ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Tracy Mayor writes "Is a gig on an IT help desk really the career death it's always assumed to be? Not always, this Computerworld writer found out, just don't get comfy and stay too long. "
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
paleshadows writes "Pidgin, the premier multi-protocol instant messaging client, has been forked. This is the result of a heated, emotional, and very interesting debate over a controversial new feature: As of version 2.4, the ability to manually resize the text input area has been removed; instead, it automatically resizes depending ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Michael J. Ross writes "For creating Web sites, developers are increasingly making use of content management systems (CMSs), any of which can provide the framework for a new site. But just as there are many similarities among all the leading CMSs, there are some significant differences, such as how easy ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
teh bigz writes "There's been a lot of talk about integrating the GPU into the CPU, but David Kirk believes that the two will continue to co-exist. Bit-tech got to sit down with Nvidia's Chief Scientist for an interview that discusses the changing roles of CPUs and GPUs, GPU computing ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
AlexGr notes an article by Jeff Gould where he says " Sometimes I wonder whether Ubuntu is really an open source software company any more. Yes, yes, I realize Ubuntu is not a company at all but a free Linux distribution, GPL'd and open source by definition. But still, the ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Enterprise search vendor Dieselpoint is behind a new open-source project centering on a document "pipeline" -- or as the Chicago company's CEO, Chris Cleveland, puts it, "all the boring stuff you need to make enterprise search work."
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
eldavojohn writes "The man credited with inventing the internet at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee, has made a statement on the 15th anniversary of the internet that the web is still 'in its infancy'. He also made a pretty insightful comment about CERN's releasing of the code for the internet into public ...
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