K’s Weblog

Researchers from IBM and Georgia Tech have come up with a method of running a standard Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) processor at over 500GHz. This amazing breakthrough was achieved by cooling the processor to temperatures around the absolute zero mark. The significance of this is that it may be possible to run SiGe processors at [...]

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This past May, a new documentary film premiered in Los Angeles, the film entitled An Inconvenient Truth. Though many films premiere in this town, its especially fitting that this film would premiere there as the focus of the documentary is global warming and Los Angeles has one of the most polluted airsheds in North [...]

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At the recent AusCERT 2006 Conference, a survey was published by Graham Ingram general manager of the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) which discussed the effectiveness of several leading anti-virus products.  The survey states that an average of 8 in 10 threats are getting through the protection that these products provide.
Some research done by [...]

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For those of you who don’t actively read the Dreamhost blog, or subscribe to Dreamhost’s newsletter, the link below has DH’s explanation of the difficulties they’ve been experiencing over the past month as well as commentary from their customers.
Dreamhost Blog: Anatomy of a(n ongoing) disaster
I have been a customer for just over a year, currently [...]

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