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Stories · 5

  1. Boost UltraSPARC T1 Floating Point w/ a Graphics Card?

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the computed-outside-of-the-box dept. · 71 comments
    alxtoth asks: "All over the web, Sun's UltraSPARC T1 is described as 'not fit for floating point calculations'. Somebody has benchmarked it for HPC applications, and got results that weren't that bad. What if one of the threads could do the floating point in the GPU, as suggested here? Even if the factory setup does not expect an video card, could you insert a low profile PCI-E video card, boot Ubuntu and expect decent performance?"

  2. Results in for UCSB Capture the Flag Contest

    It · Security · · posted by timothy · from the when-school-is-play dept. · 8 comments
    Thorsten Holz writes "A few hours ago, the UCSB International Capture The Flag (CTF) contest ended. The CTF contest is a multi-site, multi-team hacking contest in which a number of teams compete independently against each other. It is the biggest contest worldwide and different from the DEFCON CTF because it involves nine educational institutions spread worlwide. Our team (called '0ld Eur0pe') managed to get second place, although our VMware image was 'rm -rf'ed during the contest! The final scoreboard shows the result and some impressions can be found at our homepage." Update: 06/12 00:17 GMT by T : Thanks to reader Bob MacSlack, who spotted my goof and corrects it thus: "The article incorrectly attributes the contest to UC Berkeley. UCSB is actually UC Santa Barbara."

  3. Results in for UCSB Capture the Flag Contest

    It · Security · · posted by timothy · from the when-school-is-play dept. · 8 comments
    Thorsten Holz writes "A few hours ago, the UCSB International Capture The Flag (CTF) contest ended. The CTF contest is a multi-site, multi-team hacking contest in which a number of teams compete independently against each other. It is the biggest contest worldwide and different from the DEFCON CTF because it involves nine educational institutions spread worlwide. Our team (called '0ld Eur0pe') managed to get second place, although our VMware image was 'rm -rf'ed during the contest! The final scoreboard shows the result and some impressions can be found at our homepage." Update: 06/12 00:17 GMT by T : Thanks to reader Bob MacSlack, who spotted my goof and corrects it thus: "The article incorrectly attributes the contest to UC Berkeley. UCSB is actually UC Santa Barbara."

  4. Two-Finger Scrolling For Older Mac Laptops

    Apple · Applelaptop · · posted by Zonk · from the let-your-two-fingers-do-the-walking dept. · 86 comments
    Michael Stroeck writes "Want that nifty scrolling on your portable but have an older one? No problem, Daniel Becker has written a free alternative driver for older PowerBooks and iBooks that works like a charm. It is based on Apple's AppleADBMouse-209.0.10 driver from Mac OS 10.3.7 that is available as part of the publicly released Darwin source code. As such, the driver is covered by the APSL (Apple Public Source License)."

  5. Free Software for Chemical Process Simulation?

    Ask · Software · · posted by Cliff · from the a-virtual-chemlab dept. · 28 comments
    chthonicdaemon asks: "I am about to embark on a mission: to create a Free (as in freedom) chemical process simulator. My field is control engineering, and as such, dynamic simulation is what it is all about. There is an open source steady-state simulator called sim42, but I have not found one that can do dynamics. There is also a lot of work available in the form of implementation standards, so I am confident that it can be done. Is there anything like this out there that I have not found, and what open technology could I leverage to get this done faster (perhaps something like SML)."