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Monthly Archives: June 2007
BalanceNG 1.885 (Default branch)
BalanceNG 1.885 (Default branch) – BalanceNG is a modern software IP load balancing solution. It is small, fast, and easy to use and setup. It offers session persistence, different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Weighted Random, Least Session, Least Bandwidth, Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and a customizable UDP health check agent in source code. It supports VRRP to set up high availability configurations on multiple nodes. It supports SNMP, integrating the BALANCENG-MIB with Net-SNMPD. It integrates pcap packet dumping for debugging purposes and allows the implementation of a “transparent forensic logging bridge”.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
Changes:
A bug in the command communication between the frontend and backend has been fixed. Upgrading is recommended if non-interactive programs are being used to pipe commands into “bng control” or “bng auxctl”.
[FreshMeat]
ZAP announces mysterious high-performance electric car
ZAP announces mysterious high-performance electric car –Filed under: Transportation
ZAP (which stands for Zero Air Pollution) announced another new entry to its electric car stable, an as-yet-unnamed sedan that will apparently sell for $30,000. The California based company claims their new model will reach a top speed of 100 mph, and will have a 100-mile range between charges. But here’s where this story gets really interesting: ZAP announced a different model back in January which still hasn’t seen the light of day, and AutoblogGreen questions whether the company has been using press releases as a method of increasing their stock price for short term cash-flow. Competitors like Tesla have prototypes on the road, but no such luck with ZAP, which certainly raises a number of questions, and definitely gets you thinking about the word vaporware.
Read — ZAP press release
Read — AutoblogGreen’s take on ZAP
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
[EnGadget]
BILK (Beer + Milk) Isn’t Weirdest Of These 10 Beers
BILK (Beer + Milk) Isn’t Weirdest Of These 10 Beers – Can’t forget Beer For The Blind. [Dvorak]
Dubious 1980′s in-home nuclear reactor ad from Japan
Dubious 1980's in-home nuclear reactor ad from Japan –Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Back in the carefree but confusing days of the 1980′s, chicks and dudes were looking for all kinds of new ways to lessen their need for oil-based energy. If you believe anything you see in this ad mockup (and that’s a big “if”), a company in Japan was working on a tiny, in-home nuclear reactor — pleasantly named Chernobyl. We’ll have to assume for the moment that this was pre-catastrophic meltdown, when the Russian power-plant was considered a feat of modern engineering instead of just a big, mutant-making hellride. The device supposedly would have been “simple to operate, even for children and the elderly”, but carried an ominous warning to “discontinue use” if you experience “dizziness or a tingling sensation”. Was this for real? Read the translation and judge for yourself.
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
[EnGadget]
Report: Video game spending to surpass music spending this year
Report: Video game spending to surpass music spending this year –A new report by Pricewaterhouse Coopers predicts that the gaming industry will soon surpass the music industry in the US, and spending on games has already exceeded spending on music globally.
[Ars Technica]
Stanford Gets First Sun Blackbox
Stanford Gets First Sun Blackbox – miller60 writes “The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) will be the first end-user to get a Project Blackbox portable data center from Sun Microsystems. The 20-foot shipping container (which will be white, not black) will sit on a concrete pad behind the computer building with hookups to power, a 10-gigabit network connection and a chiller located on an adjacent pad. The ‘data center in a box’ will allow the SLAC to expand its computing capacity even though its existing data center has maxed out its power and cooling.”Read more of this story at Slashdot.
[Slasdot]
Nokia N95 + RC plane = unlimited DIY aerial photography
Nokia N95 + RC plane = unlimited DIY aerial photography –Filed under: Cellphones, Transportation
If you’ve found yourself tempted by other interesting DIY aerial photography rigs, but spent all your dough on the Nokia N95 instead, you may still be able to make a lifelong (or momentary) dream come true. A pioneering lad over at the N95 Blog has suggested that nearly unlimited high-resolution aerial photography can be yours if you’re willing to strap your precious handset to an RC plane and get savvy with Pict’Earth software. The application allows users to create a theoretical Google Earth of their own if the existing imagery isn’t up to snuff with their personal standards. Still, we’d have to mull this one over mighty hard before attaching such a valuable communicator to a potential death bed, but feel free to let us know how things go if you can muster the courage.
[Via AllAboutSymbian]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
[EnGadget]
WW2 plane will fly to England – 65 years late
WW2 plane will fly to England – 65 years late – A World War II fighter plane once entombed under hundreds of feet of snow and ice in Greenland is taking to the skies again to complete the mission it began nearly 65 years ago. [Dvorak]
Microsoft better at patching XP than Vista?
Microsoft better at patching XP than Vista? – A Microsoft security executive released data Thursday showing that, six months after shipping Windows Vista, his company has left more publicly disclosed Vista bugs unpatched than it did with Windows XP. In total, Microsoft has patched 12 out of 27 disclosed Vista vulnerabilities in the six months after it first shipped last November. During XP’s first six months, Microsoft’s security team patched 36 out of 39 known bugs. The data was published by Jeff Jones, a Microsoft security strategy director, who said that overall, Vista was doing better than XP. “Windows Vista continues to show a trend of fewer total and fewer high-severity vulnerabilities at the six month mark compared to its predecessor product, Windows XP,” he wrote.Jones didn’t address the larger number of unpatched vulnerabilities, but he did note most of the unpatched Vista bugs were not critical. Microsoft had left only one high-severity Vista vulnerability unpatched during the period. At the end of XP’s first six months, there were two high-severity bugs that were unpatched. Microsoft patched 23 high-severity XP bugs during its first six months, compared with only one high-severity Vista flaw. Jones argued that Vista had a lower number of vulnerabilities than competitive operating system products such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Mac OS X.
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News source: InfoWorld
[NeoWin-Main]
AMD to introduce 45nm process AM3 CPU family in 2H08
AMD to introduce 45nm process AM3 CPU family in 2H08 – AMD schedules to launch its 45nm process socket AM3 family processors in the second half of 2008. The processors will support HyperTransport 3.0 and will have a built-in DDR2/DDR3 memory controller. The processors will be backward compatible with the previous AM2 and AM2+ socket motherboards, according to sources at motherboard makers. AMD’s AM3 family will include the quad-core Deneb and DenebFX, dual-core Propus and Regor, and single-core Sargas. Shipments of 45nm products are predicted to surpass those of 65nm products within half a year from launch, noted the sources.Although Socket AM3 processors will be backwards compatible with previous socket AM2 and AM2+ motherboards, socket AM3 motherboards will not be able to support the previous socket AM2 and AM2+ processors. Therefore shipment volumes of socket AM3 motherboards will depend on the speed of transition to DDR3 memory, added the sources
[NeoWin-Main]