From TFA:
Greenpeace, for one, stated that "at a time when it is universally recognized that we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, Greenpeace considers it ridiculous to use resources and billions of euros on this project."
I swear, I think Greenpeace is more concerned about making sure nobody builds any new powerplants than they are about protecting the environment.
They are against new coal plants with modern scrubber technology, they are against fission plants, now they are against this expiremental fusion plant. Do they realize that humanity needs energy to live and thrive? Do they realize that by not building new more efficient powerplants they are forcing people to rely on older, more polluting powerplants more heavily?
It seems counterintuitive to me, it's like they would rather stick their thumb in the eye of corporations than actually help the environment.
You are correct, however I meant moreso to address "Why does it matter if some parts of the rotor are giving negative lift as long as the average overall is still positive...?"
It might be rising now, but once the dust clears from this, we'll see where it's going.
But, if Intel's anything like Microsoft (which they have proved they are, by the very existence of this lawsuit) then it probably won't leave more than a dent.
That part doesn't really seem like a big deal, as it can happen on portion of the wing even when the tip doesn't. Getting the tip going fast is the more difficult part.
Sir, I don't know what aircraft you fly, but remind me to stay away from them. I prefer to arrive at my destination in no more than two pieces.
News: Google To Launch Online Video Playback This Monday
I've confirmed that Monday Google will launch an in-browser video playback feature based on the open source VLC media player. This is the logical next step for Google's video search and upload function, which began taking uploads from anyone who cared to submit back in April.
Google will not disclose the raw numbers of videos that have been uploaded to date, but the company will make all those which were tagged as "free" available for real time streaming through the VLC player, which Google has modified and will make available for download Monday morning. The company also intends to make its VLC code available to the open source community as part of their Google code project.
The video will be searchable via the meta data provided by the submission process (no, there's no PageRank for video, yet).
Now, before we start discussing how this represents the Death of Comcast/The Networks/Windows Media Player et al, this is not quite that, but it is the start of something big. For one, it's clear this will be integrated with the Google payment program which was revealed to be in process last week. Plenty of folks uploaded video to Google with a payment option, and that has yet to roll out, but you can expect that it will.
Secondly, this is a big deal for many institutions which do not have the ability to host and stream their own video, but would very much like to get their message out. In essence, Google is providing their infrastructure free of charge to let anyone upload video and have it be found. That's a very big deal in and of itself.
Third, this is clearly a shot across Microsoft's bow. The Windows Media Player is a standalone application, rife with its own DRM and entanglements with Hollywood. Many once claimed IE would never fall, but Firefox has shown what the open source community can do with some good code and the support of a dedicated user base. I'm pretty sure that once Google's VLC implementation is stared at by enough folks, a stand alone player with hooks into Google Video search and many others will not be far behind.
Fourth, this will help the spread of an alternative universe for video distribution and playback, one independent of the walled garden business model in which video is currently locked. I've ranted on this before, but I do believe that the sooner independent voices have an outlet for their work, and a business model to pay for it, the sooner we'll see content creators revolt from the hegemony of cable and studio models.
I get around this whole "illegal downloads" thing by simply listening to music that's ineligible for copyright, because it's a work of either the United States federal government, or a no-longer-existent nation.
At the Summer of Code webpage you can see a list of participating companies. Some also have links to idea pages where they've listed some projects that participants might work on.
As for hard details, I haven't seen anything yet. I imagine that would come next, after the slot allocation.
Note: I am not a cowboy, and I am not too fast. Nothing is fast enough for Slashdot.
WASHINGTON, June 23 - For thousands of Internet users, the offer seemed all too alluring: revealing pictures of Jennifer Lopez, available at a mere click of the mouse.
Zombie Computer GrowthBut the pictures never appeared. The offer was a ruse, and the click downloaded software code that turned the user's computer into a launching pad for Internet warfare.
On the instructions of a remote master, the software could deploy an army of commandeered computers - known as zombies - that simultaneously bombarded a target Web site with so many requests for pages that it would be impossible for others to gain access to the site.
And all for the sake of selling a few more sports jerseys.
The facts of the case, as given by law enforcement officials, may seem trivial: a small-time Internet merchant enlisting a fellow teenager, in exchange for some sneakers and a watch, to disable the sites of two rivals in the athletic jersey trade. But the method was far from rare.
Experts say hundreds of thousands of computers each week are being added to the ranks of zombies, infected with software that makes them susceptible to remote deployment for a variety of illicit purposes, from overwhelming a Web site with traffic - a so-called denial-of-service attack - to cracking complicated security codes. In most instances, the user of a zombie computer is never aware that it has been commandeered.
The networks of zombie computers are used for a variety of purposes, from attacking Web sites of companies and government agencies to generating huge batches of spam e-mail. In some cases, experts say, the spam messages are used by fraud artists, known as phishers, to try to trick computer users into giving confidential information, like bank-account passwords and Social Security numbers.
Officials at the F.B.I. and the Justice Department say their inquiries on the zombie networks are exposing serious vulnerabilities in the Internet that could be exploited more widely by saboteurs to bring down Web sites or online messaging systems. One case under investigation, officials say, may involve as many as 300,000 zombie computers.
While the use of zombie computers to launch attacks is not new, such episodes are on the rise, and investigators say they are devoting more resources to such cases. Many investigations remain confidential, they say, because companies are hesitant to acknowledge they have been targets, fearful of undermining their customers' confidence.
In one recent case, a small British online payment processing company, Protx, was shut down after being bombarded in a zombie attack and warned that problems would continue unless a $10,000 payment was made, the company said. It is not known whether the authorities ever arrested anyone in that case.
Zombie attacks have tried to block access to Web sites including those of Microsoft, Al Jazeera and the White House. In October 2002, a huge but ultimately unsuccessful attack was mounted against the domain-name servers that manage Internet traffic. The attackers were never caught.
Federal officials say the case involving the athletic jerseys was solved after some college computers in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania were found to be infected with software code traced to a user whose Internet name was pherk. That hacker, a high school student in New Jersey, told investigators that he was acting at the behest of a merchant - the owner of www.jerseydomain.com.
The merchant, an 18-year-old Michigan college student, could face trial later this year in a federal court in Newark. The case offers a rare glimpse both into the use of zombie computers and into the way that law enforcement officials are trying to combat the problem.
More than 170,000 computers every day are being added to the ranks of zombies, according to Dmitri Alperovitch, a research engineer at CipherTrust, a company based in Georgia that sells products to make e-mail and messaging safer.
Capricorn Technologies says it has completed delivery of more than a petabyte of storage to the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization based in San Francisco that creates periodic snapshots of the Internet. Capricorn's PetaBox products are based on Via mini-ITX boards running Debian or Fedora Linux, and deliver the lowest cost-per-GB and cost-of-ownership available, the company claims.
Capricorn started as a project within the Internet Archive (IA) to develop inexpensive storage devices based on Linux and commodity PC components. The project was spun out in June of 2004, resulting in the formation of Capricorn Technologies. The company has since supplied its PetaBox products to a number of universities, research centers, libraries, and national archives, both within the US and overseas, according to CEO C.R. Saikley. The IA remains Capricorn's largest customer, however, Saikley says.
The IA is an online digital library with very large collections of audio, video, texts, web sites, and software. For example, it claims to host footage of more than 20,000 live concerts, and snapshots of the Internet dating back to 1996, accessible through the well-known Wayback Machine, which currently hosts over 40 billion web pages.
The IA's PetaBox installation comprises about 16 racks housing 600 systems with 2,500 spinning drives, for a total capacity of roughly 1.5 petabytes. Despite its large size, the IA's PetaBox installation draws only about 50kW of power, Saikley says, and is maintained by one full- and one half-time person who spend a disproportionate amount of time working on older systems. "We've improved reliability considerably," Saikley claims.
The IA systems boot Debian or Fedora Linux from a central PXE boot server, and are remotely monitored using nagios. "The beauty of nagios is that it is so readily extensible," says Saikley. "If the register exists on the board, nagios can figure out how to read it. We typically provide hard disk temperatures, cpu temperatures, ping response, capacity utilization, that sort of thing."
The PetaBox can also be managed by Linux cluster management software, according to Saikley.
The PetaBox
Capricorn claims that its PetaBox storage devices provide the lowest ownership cost and cost-per-GB available. The company offers 40- and 64-terabyte models comprised of racks with 40 1U systems. The 1U systems are available in 1- and 1.6-terabyte models that are essentially the same but for hard-drive capacity. Both systems run Debian or Fedora Linux on Via mini-ITX motherboards.
The PetaBox is based on Via mini-ITX motherboards
Each 1U system includes a Via M-10000 mini-ITX board with a 1GHz Via C3 processor and 512MB of RAM, expandable to 1GB. Each includes four Hitachi ATA hard drives with 8MB caches and a claimed 8.5ms of typical latency.
Saikley says Capricorn did extensive testing to qualify hard drives for capacity, reliability, and cost, finally choosing Hitachi. "Although Hitachi does not offer an 'enterprise' or '24x7' SATA drive, our testing found their drives to be as reliable as anything out there, enterprise distinction or not," Saikley said.
The 1U PetaBox units (shown stacked in a rack, on the right) include all I/O on the front panel, reducing the need to access the back panel while maximizing its cooling capacity. Drives are housed in EZ-Latch bays that can be easily changed after the 1U unit is removed from the rack and had its cover removed. "We experimented with hot-swap, but found it caused as many problems as it solved. It actually induced failures, so we backed away. But you still have to make it easy to replace disks," Saikley said.
Similarly, Saikley says Capricorn tried then backed away from RAID (redundant arrays of inexpensive disks), instead opting to recommend JBOD (just a bunch of disks) configurations to most of its clients. "We had a painful experience with RAID 5, which does not scale well to petabyte-level storage," Saikley notes.
Der Artikel
U-Power announces Pentium upgrades for Mac Cubes
Monday, February 28 2005 @ 10:27 AM EST
Views: 1401
U-Power - a boutique PC manufacturer from Korea - is set to release an accelerator designed for the Power Macintosh G4 Cube. Unlike previous upgrades the PCube doesn't contain a G4 - or indeed any other PowerPC Chip - but brings Pentium-M power to Apple's venerable Cube.
U-Power's US spokesman Rudy Keppelmeyer explains that the PCube upgrade is designed not for conventional Mac users, instead aims for those PC users who admire the G4 Cube's design but don't want to run PowerPC software such as Mac OS, Mac OS X or Linux.
"There are a substantial number of people who love Apple's hardware from a design point of view, but who have no desire to run Apple software," says Keppelmeyer. "This upgrade is theirs. For people out of the ordinary."
The upgrade is based on the powerful mobile version of Intel's Pentium, the Pentium-M, and initial boards will be available in either 1.5 or 1.8GHz versions with 2MB L2 cache, manufactured on Intel's 90nm process.
Keppelmeyer explains that the innovative new upgrade is more than just a processor card. "There's a substantial difference between a G4 processor card and one with a Pentium onboard, and we've put the hard work in to ensure Windows compatibility."
"Not the least of our problems was working around the Cube's open firmware, the Mac equivalent if you like to a PC's BIOS. We have glue logic sitting in a layer over the top of open firmware allowing the real BIOS to believe it's interacting directly with the hardware" says Keppelmeyer. "Combined with a small layer of emulation to allow the execution of open firmware code, any software that runs on the PCube upgrade believes it's running on a PC with the same specifications as a Macintosh Cube".
Performance is expected to be slightly below the level of a similarly equipped PC, as the PCube cards must operate with the Cube's dated 133MHz memory bus. U-Power is already working on a solution, claiming an upcoming replacement daughterboard for the Cube will allow it to use faster DDR memory, faster wireless and other features using Intel's Centrino chipset.
"We don't believe this will be an issue with our target market, people who will finally have the Cube they've desired and be able to run their favorite software with it."
The PCube 1.5 and PCube 1.8 upgrades are compatible with Microsoft Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003, when used with the U-Power supplied drivers that allow Windows full access to the Cube's hardware.
Both upgrades will be available early next month, priced at $US399 and $US449 respectively. A 2.13GHz version is planned by late Summer.
Actually, while that not may be the best sentence in the world, it's far from being a run-on a run on would be something more like this sentence which includes more than one subject-verb thingie without anything to properly link them do you understand what I mean?
Now I understand the nostalgia value, and all of that, but, really. It's simply not worth transmitting on the original frequency, because so few people will actually be able to receive it by radio. Sure, it's available online...but we're not commemorating the anniversary of online radio!
Broadcast on a common frequency, and reach an audience which is appropriate for such a monumental anniversary.
Slashdot Mirror
A Slashdotted colon is what you get when you eat too much Mexican food and get diarrhea.
From TFA: Greenpeace, for one, stated that "at a time when it is universally recognized that we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, Greenpeace considers it ridiculous to use resources and billions of euros on this project." I swear, I think Greenpeace is more concerned about making sure nobody builds any new powerplants than they are about protecting the environment. They are against new coal plants with modern scrubber technology, they are against fission plants, now they are against this expiremental fusion plant. Do they realize that humanity needs energy to live and thrive? Do they realize that by not building new more efficient powerplants they are forcing people to rely on older, more polluting powerplants more heavily? It seems counterintuitive to me, it's like they would rather stick their thumb in the eye of corporations than actually help the environment.
You are correct, however I meant moreso to address "Why does it matter if some parts of the rotor are giving negative lift as long as the average overall is still positive...?"
Building your own system ranks somewhere between getting an A+ certification and tying your shoes in the universal skill spectrum.
Okay, to save my karma from crashing...seriously. Building your own system is not hard. People are just lazy and/or stupid.
Therefore I am forced to agree with you and the majority of the Slash community.
It might be rising now, but once the dust clears from this, we'll see where it's going.
But, if Intel's anything like Microsoft (which they have proved they are, by the very existence of this lawsuit) then it probably won't leave more than a dent.
Also, I'm not a cowboy.
For such a complex question, one might not expect such a short answer.
It's because efficiency is key. That is not efficient at all.
Helicopters already change the angle of attack on the retreating (relative to the helicopter) blade. They already get lift on both cycles.
Inside the hub is a track-like thing that reverses the angle. It's why they're so damned complex.
So that's why they random catapult themselves through hangar ceilings!
I've got your coral cache right here:
News: Google To Launch Online Video Playback This Monday
I've confirmed that Monday Google will launch an in-browser video playback feature based on the open source VLC media player. This is the logical next step for Google's video search and upload function, which began taking uploads from anyone who cared to submit back in April.
Google will not disclose the raw numbers of videos that have been uploaded to date, but the company will make all those which were tagged as "free" available for real time streaming through the VLC player, which Google has modified and will make available for download Monday morning. The company also intends to make its VLC code available to the open source community as part of their Google code project.
The video will be searchable via the meta data provided by the submission process (no, there's no PageRank for video, yet).
Now, before we start discussing how this represents the Death of Comcast/The Networks/Windows Media Player et al, this is not quite that, but it is the start of something big. For one, it's clear this will be integrated with the Google payment program which was revealed to be in process last week. Plenty of folks uploaded video to Google with a payment option, and that has yet to roll out, but you can expect that it will.
Secondly, this is a big deal for many institutions which do not have the ability to host and stream their own video, but would very much like to get their message out. In essence, Google is providing their infrastructure free of charge to let anyone upload video and have it be found. That's a very big deal in and of itself.
Third, this is clearly a shot across Microsoft's bow. The Windows Media Player is a standalone application, rife with its own DRM and entanglements with Hollywood. Many once claimed IE would never fall, but Firefox has shown what the open source community can do with some good code and the support of a dedicated user base. I'm pretty sure that once Google's VLC implementation is stared at by enough folks, a stand alone player with hooks into Google Video search and many others will not be far behind.
Fourth, this will help the spread of an alternative universe for video distribution and playback, one independent of the walled garden business model in which video is currently locked. I've ranted on this before, but I do believe that the sooner independent voices have an outlet for their work, and a business model to pay for it, the sooner we'll see content creators revolt from the hegemony of cable and studio models.
More on this as it develops...
I get around this whole "illegal downloads" thing by simply listening to music that's ineligible for copyright, because it's a work of either the United States federal government, or a no-longer-existent nation.
At the Summer of Code webpage you can see a list of participating companies. Some also have links to idea pages where they've listed some projects that participants might work on.
As for hard details, I haven't seen anything yet. I imagine that would come next, after the slot allocation.
Note: I am not a cowboy, and I am not too fast. Nothing is fast enough for Slashdot.
For a manager of a project of this magnitude, you'd think Greg would have at least bothered to spell out the names of the organizations...
An Army of Soulless 1's and 0's
WASHINGTON, June 23 - For thousands of Internet users, the offer seemed all too alluring: revealing pictures of Jennifer Lopez, available at a mere click of the mouse.
Zombie Computer GrowthBut the pictures never appeared. The offer was a ruse, and the click downloaded software code that turned the user's computer into a launching pad for Internet warfare.
On the instructions of a remote master, the software could deploy an army of commandeered computers - known as zombies - that simultaneously bombarded a target Web site with so many requests for pages that it would be impossible for others to gain access to the site.
And all for the sake of selling a few more sports jerseys.
The facts of the case, as given by law enforcement officials, may seem trivial: a small-time Internet merchant enlisting a fellow teenager, in exchange for some sneakers and a watch, to disable the sites of two rivals in the athletic jersey trade. But the method was far from rare.
Experts say hundreds of thousands of computers each week are being added to the ranks of zombies, infected with software that makes them susceptible to remote deployment for a variety of illicit purposes, from overwhelming a Web site with traffic - a so-called denial-of-service attack - to cracking complicated security codes. In most instances, the user of a zombie computer is never aware that it has been commandeered.
The networks of zombie computers are used for a variety of purposes, from attacking Web sites of companies and government agencies to generating huge batches of spam e-mail. In some cases, experts say, the spam messages are used by fraud artists, known as phishers, to try to trick computer users into giving confidential information, like bank-account passwords and Social Security numbers.
Officials at the F.B.I. and the Justice Department say their inquiries on the zombie networks are exposing serious vulnerabilities in the Internet that could be exploited more widely by saboteurs to bring down Web sites or online messaging systems. One case under investigation, officials say, may involve as many as 300,000 zombie computers.
While the use of zombie computers to launch attacks is not new, such episodes are on the rise, and investigators say they are devoting more resources to such cases. Many investigations remain confidential, they say, because companies are hesitant to acknowledge they have been targets, fearful of undermining their customers' confidence.
In one recent case, a small British online payment processing company, Protx, was shut down after being bombarded in a zombie attack and warned that problems would continue unless a $10,000 payment was made, the company said. It is not known whether the authorities ever arrested anyone in that case.
Zombie attacks have tried to block access to Web sites including those of Microsoft, Al Jazeera and the White House. In October 2002, a huge but ultimately unsuccessful attack was mounted against the domain-name servers that manage Internet traffic. The attackers were never caught.
Federal officials say the case involving the athletic jerseys was solved after some college computers in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania were found to be infected with software code traced to a user whose Internet name was pherk. That hacker, a high school student in New Jersey, told investigators that he was acting at the behest of a merchant - the owner of www.jerseydomain.com.
The merchant, an 18-year-old Michigan college student, could face trial later this year in a federal court in Newark. The case offers a rare glimpse both into the use of zombie computers and into the way that law enforcement officials are trying to combat the problem.
More than 170,000 computers every day are being added to the ranks of zombies, according to Dmitri Alperovitch, a research engineer at CipherTrust, a company based in Georgia that sells products to make e-mail and messaging safer.
"What this
You whore.
It's ridiculous to think that MIT can be Slashdotted! It just...it cannot be done!
Capricorn Technologies says it has completed delivery of more than a petabyte of storage to the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization based in San Francisco that creates periodic snapshots of the Internet. Capricorn's PetaBox products are based on Via mini-ITX boards running Debian or Fedora Linux, and deliver the lowest cost-per-GB and cost-of-ownership available, the company claims.
Capricorn started as a project within the Internet Archive (IA) to develop inexpensive storage devices based on Linux and commodity PC components. The project was spun out in June of 2004, resulting in the formation of Capricorn Technologies. The company has since supplied its PetaBox products to a number of universities, research centers, libraries, and national archives, both within the US and overseas, according to CEO C.R. Saikley. The IA remains Capricorn's largest customer, however, Saikley says.
The IA is an online digital library with very large collections of audio, video, texts, web sites, and software. For example, it claims to host footage of more than 20,000 live concerts, and snapshots of the Internet dating back to 1996, accessible through the well-known Wayback Machine, which currently hosts over 40 billion web pages.
The IA's PetaBox installation comprises about 16 racks housing 600 systems with 2,500 spinning drives, for a total capacity of roughly 1.5 petabytes. Despite its large size, the IA's PetaBox installation draws only about 50kW of power, Saikley says, and is maintained by one full- and one half-time person who spend a disproportionate amount of time working on older systems. "We've improved reliability considerably," Saikley claims.
The IA systems boot Debian or Fedora Linux from a central PXE boot server, and are remotely monitored using nagios. "The beauty of nagios is that it is so readily extensible," says Saikley. "If the register exists on the board, nagios can figure out how to read it. We typically provide hard disk temperatures, cpu temperatures, ping response, capacity utilization, that sort of thing."
The PetaBox can also be managed by Linux cluster management software, according to Saikley.
The PetaBox
Capricorn claims that its PetaBox storage devices provide the lowest ownership cost and cost-per-GB available. The company offers 40- and 64-terabyte models comprised of racks with 40 1U systems. The 1U systems are available in 1- and 1.6-terabyte models that are essentially the same but for hard-drive capacity. Both systems run Debian or Fedora Linux on Via mini-ITX motherboards.
The PetaBox is based on Via mini-ITX motherboards
Each 1U system includes a Via M-10000 mini-ITX board with a 1GHz Via C3 processor and 512MB of RAM, expandable to 1GB. Each includes four Hitachi ATA hard drives with 8MB caches and a claimed 8.5ms of typical latency.
Saikley says Capricorn did extensive testing to qualify hard drives for capacity, reliability, and cost, finally choosing Hitachi. "Although Hitachi does not offer an 'enterprise' or '24x7' SATA drive, our testing found their drives to be as reliable as anything out there, enterprise distinction or not," Saikley said.
The 1U PetaBox units (shown stacked in a rack, on the right) include all I/O on the front panel, reducing the need to access the back panel while maximizing its cooling capacity. Drives are housed in EZ-Latch bays that can be easily changed after the 1U unit is removed from the rack and had its cover removed. "We experimented with hot-swap, but found it caused as many problems as it solved. It actually induced failures, so we backed away. But you still have to make it easy to replace disks," Saikley said.
Similarly, Saikley says Capricorn tried then backed away from RAID (redundant arrays of inexpensive disks), instead opting to recommend JBOD (just a bunch of disks) configurations to most of its clients. "We had a painful experience with RAID 5, which does not scale well to petabyte-level storage," Saikley notes.
Pe
Mod Parent Up!!
(Hey, it's not like they're going to have any effect anyway. And you must admit, it's funny.)
I'm using an ECS motherboard right now...I don't care how great they say they are...ECS boards are crap. Errors out the ass.
*RUBLE
Mod up now It just became on-topic. With my arrival.
Der Artikel U-Power announces Pentium upgrades for Mac Cubes Monday, February 28 2005 @ 10:27 AM EST Views: 1401 U-Power - a boutique PC manufacturer from Korea - is set to release an accelerator designed for the Power Macintosh G4 Cube. Unlike previous upgrades the PCube doesn't contain a G4 - or indeed any other PowerPC Chip - but brings Pentium-M power to Apple's venerable Cube. U-Power's US spokesman Rudy Keppelmeyer explains that the PCube upgrade is designed not for conventional Mac users, instead aims for those PC users who admire the G4 Cube's design but don't want to run PowerPC software such as Mac OS, Mac OS X or Linux. "There are a substantial number of people who love Apple's hardware from a design point of view, but who have no desire to run Apple software," says Keppelmeyer. "This upgrade is theirs. For people out of the ordinary." The upgrade is based on the powerful mobile version of Intel's Pentium, the Pentium-M, and initial boards will be available in either 1.5 or 1.8GHz versions with 2MB L2 cache, manufactured on Intel's 90nm process. Keppelmeyer explains that the innovative new upgrade is more than just a processor card. "There's a substantial difference between a G4 processor card and one with a Pentium onboard, and we've put the hard work in to ensure Windows compatibility." "Not the least of our problems was working around the Cube's open firmware, the Mac equivalent if you like to a PC's BIOS. We have glue logic sitting in a layer over the top of open firmware allowing the real BIOS to believe it's interacting directly with the hardware" says Keppelmeyer. "Combined with a small layer of emulation to allow the execution of open firmware code, any software that runs on the PCube upgrade believes it's running on a PC with the same specifications as a Macintosh Cube". Performance is expected to be slightly below the level of a similarly equipped PC, as the PCube cards must operate with the Cube's dated 133MHz memory bus. U-Power is already working on a solution, claiming an upcoming replacement daughterboard for the Cube will allow it to use faster DDR memory, faster wireless and other features using Intel's Centrino chipset. "We don't believe this will be an issue with our target market, people who will finally have the Cube they've desired and be able to run their favorite software with it." The PCube 1.5 and PCube 1.8 upgrades are compatible with Microsoft Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003, when used with the U-Power supplied drivers that allow Windows full access to the Cube's hardware. Both upgrades will be available early next month, priced at $US399 and $US449 respectively. A 2.13GHz version is planned by late Summer.
...Kento?
What the fuck? Only on Slashdot could that possibly have been moderated flamebait.
Actually, while that not may be the best sentence in the world, it's far from being a run-on a run on would be something more like this sentence which includes more than one subject-verb thingie without anything to properly link them do you understand what I mean?
Now I understand the nostalgia value, and all of that, but, really. It's simply not worth transmitting on the original frequency, because so few people will actually be able to receive it by radio. Sure, it's available online...but we're not commemorating the anniversary of online radio!
Broadcast on a common frequency, and reach an audience which is appropriate for such a monumental anniversary.