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Blue Sub #6, Outlaw Star, And Tenchi, Oh My!
da3dAlus writes: "Toonami Revolution (check link for exact schedule) has spread the word on the new Toonami lineup beginning the week of November 6th. Basically, Cartoon Network is moving around a few shows to make room for the 4-part Blue Submarine #6 series and the weekly Toonami movies showing every Friday in November at 5pm EST. Gundam Wing will be dropped from the Midnight Run, DBZ will take its place, and Tenchi will fill the 12:30 slot (with NO uncut episodes). Currently, Outlaw Star is scheduled for airing on November 11 at 11 am EST." I highly recommend Blue Sub #6. The Japanese audio track is amazing (great surround sound) but I s'pose CN will air the English track.
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Kursk Destroyed By Cavitation Missles?
A reader submitted: "One of Russia's biggest independent TV networks, NTV, broadcast at about 22:20pm that the developers of the Shkval torpedo system (which was discussed here on July 23rd) claim that Kursk was testing their torpedoes, and one of them accidentially homed on the sub itself. It was also mentioned that the torpedo can travel at the speed of 200 knots. What could it mean to the development of the supersonic underwater devices? It seems that even before corporations get to science, blood does." I just saw this on the news as well, and a number of readers submitted this over the last few days.
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Toonami Plans Revealed
da3dAlus writes: "Cartoon Network has revealed its plans for Toonami for the end of the year. About.com holds the article that details CN's plan for the next wave of anime to hit U.S. shores beginning in September. This includes more Gundam series, Blue Submarine #6, two Reboot movies, Sailor Moon movies, and even some of their own material. Unfortunately, there will be no uncut Tenchi episodes." Blue Sub #6 is crazy but highly interesting (notable for amazing surround sound effects, and abnormal quantity of CGI, that isn't always perfectly integrated).
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Cheap Servlet Hosting?
deander2 asks: "I'm a Web developer specializing in Java servlets. I'm looking for a basic Web-hosting solution that can (cheaply) provide e-mail and the ability to test and run my own personal programs. However, everywhere I go the only packages available with servlet options cost $80+/month, MUCH more than justified for a personal Web site. I ask Slashdot: Are there any hosting companies which offer personal Web hosting with servlet capabilities in the sub $20/month category? Am I asking too much here? Is getting a corporate account the only way to go if I want to show off my work?"
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Is this Sub-$260US PC Worthwhile?
psychosis asks: "At a recent computer show, I came across an interesting bare bones system. It measures only 10.7" x 11.6" x 3.2", and includes a CD-ROM (or DVD), floppy, 2xUSB, lpt, RCA and S-video outputs, sound card, modem, and 10/100 NIC. It just needs a PPGA Celeron 300-500 CUP, RAM, and HDD. All this for about $160 as listed on pricewatch.com. A review of the (admittedly cheesy) customer comments on the first site show that someone claims to be running Linux on it. Someone else mentions the tasty idea of a car-based DVD/MP3/GPS implementation. A good friend of mine brought up a cheap clustering solution. Does anyone have any credible (i.e. not directly from a dealer!) experience with this hardware? What kernel modules do the integrated components use? If this particular one doesn't fare well with the penguin, are there similar ones that do?" And if it doesn't run Linux, how about FreeBSD or Be? I mean, if these things aren't pure crap, these would make a great small computer for the home.
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Linux Appliances
Has anyone else noticed the proliferation of little Linux appliances? The latest couple that have been submitted are the PIA (which runs on a Celeron and looks to be available for $300). The other is from Indrema which is still vapor, but with things like a wireless keyboard and an SVHS port, it looks like a cool game box. Rumored release for it is November with a sub $500 price tag. These guys are getting close to what the NetWinders wanted to be a year ago ... What else does the Linux appliance future hold?
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Budget Laser Printers?
Johnzo asks: "I'm in the market for a new printer, and I've noticed that a lot of sub-$300 laser printers are popping up on the marketplace. I don't need colour, as most of what I print is text -- but I want that text to be crisp and sharp and damp-resistant -- so a cheap laser would seem to be ideal for my needs. So, my question: can one buy a good laser for less than three bills? Does anyone have any input on specific models to look for or to avoid?" Interesting thought. The printer market seems to be chainging from year to year, and now B&W laser printers are becomming affordable for your average computer user. What recommendations do you all have?
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Soviet Sub For Sale
TurboDog writes ""Project 651" is a long range, cruise-missile-carrying diesel submarine. NATO designation - Juliett. Juliett was designed for launching nuclear strikes on the US East Coast cities, using four launchers armed with nuclear cruise missiles." And it's for sale: cheap. Be the first on your block to own a Soviet boomer.
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Open Source or Commercial WWWBoard Software?
BluSkreen asks: "I've got a site that runs Matt's WWWBoard, with most of the available mods added, the counter file lock sub routine, and most of the other hacks various people have done. The site regularly serves 60,000 plus requests a day, sometimes more. There are generally 100 or so posts a day. The last two months we have served about a million pages a month." The gist of it is that he's now having problems and looking for alternatives. Click below for more.
"Aside from the security concerns of the script, we are having problems with the script supporting that many users (up to 30 to 50 concurent, during peak times). During peak times, we can get 3 to 6 requests a second, which is fine for veiwing static pages with our configuration, but when multiple people try to post, the script can't support it. It sits on a T-1 all by itself on a Cobalt RAQ2, with 256 MB RAM. I like the "slash" package, but I've not been able to make it run on the RAQ2 just yet.
I'd like to "Ask Slashdot", what software/ hardware combination would you recommend? Is there a way to modify Slash so that the main articles are generated by the users, instead of submitted by the moderators? And lastly, has anyone been able to get Slash to run on a Cobalt box."
Anyone have other alternatives for WWWBoard software? I'm sure there are plenty out there, but how well do these packages work (especially under heavy loads)?
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$200 Linux PCs
Gekko and Webslacker were the first of many to tell us about the stir over at ZDNet, which is reporting on the arrival of sub $200 PCs due Q1 2000. These new desktops from Taiwan's Tatung come in eye-catching candy colors a la Apple's iMac. Tatung has opted for Rise and Cyrix K6 chips instead of Intel Pentiums, and a CD-ROM drive is an option. One wonders with the increase in the cost of DRAM how this will impact the price?
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Spooks in the Wire
Salon is running a cool article about numbers stations - shortwave radio stations that broadcast encrypted messages to spies worldwide. I hadn't known about this, though it makes sense if you think about it - the U.S. government uses a similar scheme to communicate with nuclear subs at sea. The article includes links to a site which has .mp3 recordings of some of the transmissions. Spooky. They've even transcribed some messages for a possible crack attempt, though if the men in black are truly using one-time pads this seems (ahem) unlikely to succeed.
- 3rd Party PPC Machines from IBM specs
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Compaq Attempts to Muscle eMachines in Court
Anonymous Coward writes "Compaq is suing eMachines for patent infringement, but the real reason might be that eMachines is invading their sub-$1000 market. Sounds too similar to the Packard Bell story. " (The Packard Bell reference is explained in the linked-to article in case you don't remember Compaq's similar suit against Packard Bell back in 1994.)
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African Optical Backbone "Ring of Fire"
evilandi wrote in to send us a nifty bit from BBC Sci/Tech about Africa's Ring of Fire. Essentially its a fiber cable that will circle the continent and provide 40gbs net access all around. The cable will be laid by robotic subs and the article says it will be self healing. All this for a mere $1.2 Billion.
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New chips on the horizon
Rewbob writes "Rise Technology officially released its roadmap for chips in the sub-$600 PC market and confirmed it will release a chip faster and compatible with Intel's Celeron. Check out the whole story over at news.com. "
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Ask Slashdot: Linux on Mobos w/ Integrated Sound & Video.
Steven M. asks: "Does anyone have any experience with using Linux on PC's that have video and sound support built into the motherboard? One board that's caught my eye is the Tiger Micro-ATX Socket 7. That would mean I'd only need to get a floppy and hard drive, memory, and network card to hook it up to my current system, and a case to put them in. Saving a fair amount on my budget by dropping the need to buy seperate video and sound cards. I'm not looking to build a cutting edge system, just something decent on which to connect to the internet, and possibly learn some programming. Would this work? Or am I better off with a bare-bones Motherboard and seperate video and sound cards?" Is there an FAQ on this? I'm not aware of one and this topic would be important to sub-$500 PC crowd.
- New Encryption Bill in House
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Japan Palmtops Direct
Ferrari writes "Mentioned in the new wired is the Japan Palmtops Direct where Sub 3.0 lb Notebooks straight from Japan are sold. Every one has great pictures and info. Worth visiting just for a peek at what notebook inovations there are in store. " I wandered through this place awhile back- there's lots of crazy stuff. I'm really interested in doing a review of the current crop of subnotebooks running Linux- anyone have contacts to get me some demo machines?
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AMD K6-3 reviewed before public release
AnandTech and Sharky Extreme have published the first K6-3 evaluations with alpha-silicon... and the K6-3 screams at around 10% faster than the equivalent frequency Pentium II. It includes an on-board 256 Kb L2 cache while making the L2 on your motherboard become an L3 cache running at 100Mhz (improving performance by an additional 5%). An additional CXT write combination mode should also increase performance. With a total of 64+256+512 = 832Kb of cache, I expect kernel compilations will fly. Looks like Intel will find it difficult to knock AMD out of the sub-$1000 market, although the pricing pressure should keep buyers happy. Nevertheless initial K6-3 prices are rumoured to be around $350.
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Sub $800 K6 Notebooks Coming
homebrewer writes "Here is an article talking about AMD helping to drop notebook prices. Maybe I can even afford to buy one.... They even mention Transmeta a bit, saying they are working on a new chip...is this what Linus is working on?" In related news, Trident revealed that it has designed with VIA Technologies Inc an integrated chipset combining a graphics chip and core logic on a single die. Socket 7 still seems to have a long life in front of it.
