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Archive for October, 2007
Redhat Videos
Oct 27th
Some more good videos coming through. These were created by Redhat last year I believe. A Must watch for everybody.
Revolution OS
Oct 27th
Revolution OS is a old 2001 documentary which traces the history of GNU, Linux, and the open source and free software movements. Linus Torvalds is interviewed on his development of the Linux kernel as well as on the GNU/Linux naming controversy and Linux’s further evolution, including its commercialization. Richard Stallman remarks on some of the ideological aspects of open source vis-á-vis Communism and capitalism and well as on several aspects of the development of GNU/Linux.
Companies such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle, Wipro, Ogilvy & Mather, OSTG, and Dreamworks Animation have rented REVOLUTON OS for private theatrical screenings. It has also screened in numerous film festivals including South By Southwest Film Festival, the Atlanta Film & Video Festival, Boston Film Festival, and Denver International Film Festival. REVOLUTION OS won Best Documentary at both the Savannah Film & Video Festival and the Kudzu Film Festival.
Microsoft creates the world largest supercomputer
Oct 26th
yep you read that right. Microsoft has created the worlds largest supercomputer, and its humongous. Consider this
BlueGene/L, the title holder until now has 128K CPU cores, the new supercomputer has 10 million CPU’s at its disposal at its best. BlueGene has 32 terabytes of Ram, this daemon has 1-10 petabytes. This beast is so huge that it is bigger than the world’s largest 10 supercomputers combined(http://www.top500.org/lists/2007/06).
However there’s a catch. The computer is not really a computer , its a worm ! yep and its called StormWorm. Basically the resources that StormWorm has at its disposal, makes it bigger than the world largest supercomputer. The worm currently infects 10 million Microsoft windows machines(and growing) and has the ability to use them as a cluster. At last we now have one windows in the top 50 supercomputers (45 run linux ). Thats no mean feat Microsoft, great work. Thanks for creating Windows and giving away the world most powerful machine into the hands of spammers , crackers and terrorists.
Read more about the worm at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Worm
and if you are still running the crappy windows make sure you have a antivirus and its updated.
