A person over at the overclock.net forums and their folding@home team has put together an amazing folding farm, Consisting of 51 nVidia 8800 series GPU’s and 13 MSI P6N Diamond motherboards which each have 4 PCI Express slots for 4 video cards per board, based on calculations this folding Juggernaut can put out about 265,200PPD.
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During the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, I met with Bob Sutor, IBM’s vice president of open source and standards. We discussed document standards and the implications of ISO’s controversial decision to grant fast-track approval to Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) format.
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A fire breaks out in a building on Valley Green Drive on the Apple campus in Cupertino.
Firefighters early this morning have contained a three-alarm fire that started Tuesday night at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, according to the Santa Clara County Fire Department.
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Game developer Blizzard remains unrepentant when delving into the rich fantasy world it has crafted for Diablo. While the upcoming, artistically controversial three-I’d installment brings the trilogy’s story of demonic overlords and highly uncomfortable facial jewelry to an end, it’ll leave the portal open for future games.
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Today the analyst in question is the venerable Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, and he is predicting a September refresh of the iPod lineup. From where did he pull this information? Well, perhaps he cheated and took a look at last years’ calendar. And the year before that. And yes, the year before that.
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Not much has been revealed about “Diablo III“’s storyline, but lead designer Jay Wilson did tell me that the game will round out the story arc set up by the previous two games. And while “Diablo III” ends the trilogy, fans needn’t worry — it’s not the final curtain.
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See the ZERG in action. Finally! Lots of new Protoss and Zerg footage from the internal beta. Can’t wait for this game, especially after seeing how smart the AI is and all the detailed animations.
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In the has put the final piece for USB 3.0 hardware development in place.
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What’s in a name? Everything. Products live and die by their catchy or unique titles. Obviously the same goes for game consoles, which go through several stages of mock ups and codenames before they ever earn the right to sit next to Big Mouth Billy Bass on a Wal-Mart shelf. Some of these you may know, others you may not.
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A federal appeals court held Wednesday that copying free software without complying with its license is copyright infringement. The ruling, which will make such licenses much easier to enforce, is a key victory for the free software community.
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Most of those arrests are in countries with oppressive regimes, such as Egypt, China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. But bloggers have been arrested in Canada, France, Greece, and even the U.S. (with Josh Wolf being one of the most famous incidents—he spent the better part of a year in jail for refusing to turn over journalistic video footage to a jury).
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Electronic Arts, the publisher of the upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, has chosen BitTorrent for the distribution of the closed Beta client. Included in the documentation is a recommendation to use a TorrentFreak ’speed up’ guide.
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