Category: News

12/21/09

Originally Published March 14, 2008; Updated and Republished August 04, 2008:This week the United States, as part of its National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, conducted its second National Cyber Exercise (NCE), Cyber Storm II.The Department of… more »

11/10/09

Permalink 06:32:25 am by linux, Categories: HPC, News, Clusters , Tags: clusters, roadrunner, supercomputing
IBM's Roadrunner takes number one slot on the list of Top 500 Supercomputers at 1.026 petaflops (10 with 15 zeros), without feathers.Web: Description of the Roadrunner. Principal cluster customer is DOE more »

10/24/09

Permalink 12:54:06 pm by linux, Categories: News, Net Neutrality
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski expresses support (.1M pdf) for an free and open Internet:“It is vital that we safeguard the free and open Internet.”--Julius Genachowski--Genachowski went on to outline six principles r… more »

10/22/09

Permalink 06:13:27 am by linux, Categories: News, Crypto
A group at UCLA has discovered another mersenne prime 243,112,609 − 1, a 13 million digit number!Ironic Times asserts it was discovered in the latest bailout proposal.Web: UCLA group discovers humongous prime number more »

02/13/09

Permalink 02:37:46 pm by linux, Categories: News
A piece of trivia for UNIX and Linux aficionados—today epoch time hits the unique number 1234567890 (Friday, February 13th 2009, 23:31:30 UTC). more »

01/13/09

Permalink 10:55:45 pm by linux, Categories: News, Linux Security
The top 25 most dangerous1 coding errors according to the National Security Agency and collaborative partners are: CWE-20:Improper Input Validation CWE-116:Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output CWE-89:Failure to Preserve SQL Query Structure CWE-… more »

12/22/08

Permalink 11:25:53 am by linux, Categories: News, Accessibility
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) releases Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. WCAG strives to implement the four principles of accessibility: Perceivable - Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways t… more »

11/14/08

Permalink 06:28:21 pm by admin, Categories: News
Originally Published September 24, 2007; Updated and Republished November 14, 2008: Just in time for Christmas One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) will be launching a two week period of Give One, Get One (two for $399) beginning November 12, 2007. The, fir… more »

08/20/08

Originally Published May 28, 2008; Updated and Republished August 20, 2008: VIA has open sourced a WiMAX capable laptop design (OpenBook) under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license. Blog: CC, VIA Releases OpenBook, Opens CAD Des… more »

08/01/08

Permalink 05:44:14 pm by linux, Categories: News, Net Neutrality
FCC orders (86K pdf) Comcast to cease wrongfully discriminating against certain types of Internet traffic1. Net neutrality principles prevent Telecom, Cable, and other internet service providers from wrongfully preferring some Internet data packets ov… more »

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