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Super Fast but Super Ugly

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Professor Joel Adams and the student Tom Brown at the Calvin College have built their own super computer made out of standard components.
It has a capacity of 26.25 gigaflops and it’s size: it fits on your desk!

The components can be bought in practically every computer part dealer so you to can build one.
The computer is […]

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Microsoft accused of rigging the OOXML vote

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Sweden voted yes for OOXML, or was it Microsoft themselves that rigged the voting?.
When SIS held the vote whether OOXML becomes a new ISO-standard or not in Sweden, 24 new member companies signed up so they could vote - majority Microsoft partners
The Swedish blogger Marcus Rejås who paid 17000 SEK to vote against OOXML found […]

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Skype is acting sneaky on your computer

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Skype users are reporting that skype is acting strange on their computers accessing files it shouldn’t be supposed to do
They reported that is reading files on the system like /etc/passwd, firefox-profile, plugins and other plugins as well.
The discovery was made by users using the AppArmor and strace while running Skype 1.4.x.
It seems skype is conducting […]

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Fastest connection in the world

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Do you think that you have a fast connection?
If you have 100 megabits both ways or even a gigabits both ways and think you’re on the top of the game then please sit down for this!
Whatever connection you’re sitting on you won’t be close the the one Sigbritt Löthberg in Sweden has!
She got internet access […]

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More work

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

I pretty much thought that the job would be finnished by afternoon today, but a unwanted suprise poped up that pretty much ruined those plans for me, however at this late time I can finally say that it’s done!
But the unwanted suprise scattered my plans to finnish my new article, sadly but that’s the fact.
So […]

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