Zenblaster's Rants of Silence
Rantings in the digital wind as your Grot Shop of the information age. "I didn't get where I am today without recognising a completely useless machine when I see one" - C.J.
Saturday, December 6, 2003

Great saying about how SCO was invented

SCO Suing Google?.

Rumor has it that SCO plans to sue Google for failing to pay its Linux tax. Google has about 10,000 servers running Linux in its its farm. "Meanwhile, industry wags are saying that God invented SCO to give people a company to hate more than Microsoft." (Via Slashdot.)

[Wagner's Weblog]
11:13:16 PM    comment []

Large NY Times story on iPod

The Guts of a New Machine [New York Times: Technology]
11:08:50 PM    comment []


3rd fastest using G5s and Infiniband

Virginia Tech Supercomputer Is World[base ']s Third Fastest. Confirming that the Virginia Tech supercomputer built from 1,100 Power Mac G5 computers ranks as the third fastest supercomputer in the world, the List of Top 500 Supercomputers web site writes, [base "]The third system ever to exceed the 10 TFflop/s mark is Virgina Tech[base ']s X Cluster Institute measured at 10.28 TFlop/s. This cluster is built with the Apple G5 as building blocks.[per thou] [Nov 19] [Apple Hot News]
11:05:50 PM    comment []


Waking up to Vulnerability?

Wifi + parkinglot mischief. From Techdirt: busted in parking lot stealing wifi. Wonder what will happen - keep an eye on this story. [Wifi Security Project]

http://techdirt.com/news/wireless/article/2971
10:59:49 PM    comment []


No Surprise here... Cisco airs out Wi-Fi vulnerability. Uh-oh: Aironet AP's vulnerable. [Wifi Security Project]
10:57:02 PM    comment []

Update to our Burn in Hell section

Judge orders SCO to show Linux infringement. IBM wins a victory in a legal battle with SCO Group when a judge orders SCO to show the Linux software to which it believes it has rights and point out where it believes IBM is infringing. [CNET News.com - Front Door]
8:39:33 PM    comment []


Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 is coming. [Hack the Planet]
8:37:37 PM    comment []

Zero Install is a Java Web Start-like system for running Linux applications without any manual installation. [Hack the Planet]

This looked kinda cool, especially if you can set it up for your own purposes such as apps in the hoome or office.
8:36:48 PM    comment []






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