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iX magazine Launches English Test Issue
An anonymous reader writes "The German iX magazine is probably the one targeting the most knowledgable audience of system administrators and 'IT professionals.' They focus on Linux, UNIX and Windows NT. For all those who are interested in the magazine but don't understand German, there's now a free English pilot issue available online." -
Volcanic Eruption - Live
kampi writes: "As I found on heise newsticker the volcano Popocatepetl's eruption is being broadcast live to the Internet. You can get more info from the National Centre For Protection of Catastrophes, if you understand Spanish. " You can also use the fish, of course, for translation. -
Transmeta to Release Processor in January?
Scipius writes "German tech-mag c't reports that Transmeta's new processor will likely be released on the 19th of January 2000. It also reveals the apparent code name: Crusoe." The article's in German, of course. But we'll take a juicy Transmeta rumor - and that's all this is - in any language. Babelfish time! -
China's innovative solution to y2k problems!
marcus writes "China has given its airline bosses the ultimate incentive to solve the "Millennium bomb" computer problem by ordering them to take a flight on New Year's day 2000. Update: 01/15 07:11 by S : Well apparently this was a joke which got misreported: Markus Peter writes "Zhang Qi, responsible for y2k problems in China, told the news that an employee of CAAC (chinese airlines) suggested this as a joke to her working group and it somehow leaked to the news" (translation of the german link above). Well, I don't know about you, but I thought that was a good example of really assuming full responsability... they can't chicken out now can they ? ;-) -
Notebook Fuel Cells
Ronald Pottol sent us a link to an article about a new type of battery for laptops. Gets 10 hours of life, then you refill it with hydrogen. Longer battery life and wireless computing one day will join together and allow me to wear my computer. Joy. -
Bio Chips
Gernot Bauer wrote in to tell us a bit more about organic chips. He writes "Computer chips are nowerdays made on the base of silicon. German computing magazine "c't" wrote about an Norwegian company called Opticom which claims that its ready for series production of organic mass memory (RAM/ROM and all that nice stuff). Imagine 170 Terra-Bytes for a few cents. Read here how it works and what you can expect if this technology is widely used (the article was translated to english). Will new types of real virus be able to trash not only your system but also your hardware?"