An international venture called the Universal Library Project has made more than one million books freely available in digitized format. The joint project of researchers from China, India, Egypt, and the US has the eventual aim of digitizing all published works of man, freeing the availability of information from geographic and socioeconomic boundaries, providing a [...]
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The Perl community just celebrated the 20th anniversary of Perl. Here are some stories from Perl hackers around the world about problems they’ve solved and memories they’ve made with the venerable, powerful, and still vital language. [From Memories of 20 Years of Perl]
The VMware ecosystem:VMware was once a tool to improve server utilization for engineers, but now it’s an ecosystem of third-party products and services.
Introducing Python Pickling: By Amit Kumar Saha
$2.2 Million Grant Calls for Designing Computer Software to Predict the UnpredictableUniversity of Arizona Professor Jerzy Rozenblit has received a $2.2 million grant to design computer software that will analyze volatile political and military situations.
Why EDGE versus 3G matters less than you think
The 700MHz Question:Will the Wireless Spectrum Auction Lead to Innovation or More of the Same?
The World’s Biggest SANs
One less reason to adopt IPv6? Cisco, Microsoft promote DHCPv6 instead of autoconfiguration
Big Brother is watching us allThe US and UK governments are developing increasingly sophisticated gadgets to keep individuals under their surveillance. When it comes to technology, the US is determined to stay ahead of the game.
Seven Wonders of the IT WorldThe fastest supercomputer. The most intriguing data center. The constantly changing core at the heart of Linux. Take a tour of the most impressive and most unusual marvels of the IT world.
Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic, Seeding Impossible
Xen or VMWare?
Two days after VMWare had one of the most successful IPOs on recent years, and one day after XenSource announces that it is being acquired by Citrix. Money is flowing into the two major virtualization players at a rate we haven’t yet seen, what are your feelings about using Xen or VMWare on Linux?
Two good articles on this topic: Why DRM won’t ever work | Tech News on ZDNet DRM Scorecard: Hackers Batting 1000, Industry Zero
Understanding HDMI Ver 1.3
Avical’s DVE User-Level Video Calibration Tutorial
Cell Phone Security Has At Least One Flaw:
Bryan Ford: Structured Streams: a New Transport Abstraction….:Bryan Ford: Structured Streams: a New Transport Abstraction.
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An introduction to IPTV
