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Fast Forward: With Snow Leopard, Apple Changes Few of Its SpotsIt's no insult to call Apple's new Mac OS X Snow Leopard the company's least exciting operating-system update in years.
Washington Post Sunday, September 06, 2009Twitter Writ Larger: WooferSometimes, 140 characters isn't nearly enough. That's the premise behind a droll Web site recently launched by a couple of Washington-based friends. While the microblogging site Twitter caps entries at 140 keystrokes, the parody site Woofer requires entries a minimum of 1,400 keystrokes. It's a...
Washington Post Sunday, September 06, 2009Vietnam frees blogger ahead of Australia visitHANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has freed a blogger who was recently detained over a plan to distribute anti-China T-shirts, he said on Sunday, as Communist Party chief Nong Duc Manh prepared to leave on a visit to Australia and New Zealand.
Reuters Sunday, September 06, 2009Ex-Google China chief to fund Chinese tech start-upsHONG KONG (Reuters) - Kai-fu Lee,
google Inc's former China chief who quit the search giant this week, said on Sunday he will
launch his own business next week to fund Chinese technology start-ups.
Reuters Sunday, September 06, 2009Help File: Fios in D.C. and Alexandria; A Firefox Tabbed-Browsing TipQNow that Verizon agreed earlier this year to bring Fios Internet and TV to the District, when will people be able to sign up for it here?
Washington Post Sunday, September 06, 2009Discovery astronauts successfully complete third spacewalkWashington - Two astronauts from the space shuttle Discovery successfully completed a third and final spacewalk Sunday outside the International Space Station (ISS). US astronaut John Danny Olivas and Swede Christer Fuglesang began the spacewalk at...
Earth Times Sunday, September 06, 2009Network, storage, and music: New technology productsMunich - Belkin is offering a new Powerline adapter, the F5D4076ea, to provide
home networking over the power grid. Passing data at speeds of up to 1,000 megabits (one gigabit) per second, a starter packet with...
Earth Times Sunday, September 06, 2009Logged and tagged: Geodata for digital photos and moreFrankfurt - Now where was that photograph taken? Sorting through photos can put even the strongest of memories to the test when it comes time to recall the location associated with each snapshot. Those who want to put their brain cells to other tasks...
Earth Times Sunday, September 06, 2009Astronauts complete mission's final spacewalkTwo spacewalking astronauts took on shelving and antenna jobs at the international space station Saturday in their final trek ...
USATODAY Sunday, September 06, 2009Con Kolivas Returns, With a Desktop-Oriented Linux Schedulermyvirtualid writes "Con Kolivas has done what he swore never to do: returned to the Linux kernel and written a new — and, according to him — waaay better scheduler for the desktop environment. In fact, BFS appears to outperform existing schedulers right up until one hits a 16-CPU machine, at which point he guesses performance would degrade somewhat. According to Kolivas, BFS 'was designed to be forward looking only, make the most of lower spec machines, and not scale to massive hardware. i.e. [sic] it is a desktop orientated scheduler, with extremely low latencies for excellent interactivity by design rather than 'calculated,' with rigid fairness, nice priority distribution and extreme scalability within normal load levels.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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