Storm System Technology is proud to bring you their latest server/workstation desktop PC, the Atlantis XDP-2011 Linux SW. Powered by 2x 2.0GHz Intel Xeon E5-2650 processor, the system is equipped with an Intel C602 Express Chipset, a GeForce 210 512MB graphics card, a 16GB DDR3 RAM, a 2TB hard drive, a 1200W 80PLUS PLATINUM power supply and runs on Linux (CentOS 6.3) operating system. The Atlantis XDP-2011 Linux SW sells for 399,000 Yen (about $4,840). [Product Page]
For some folks out there who cannot live without Facebook, you would have noticed that you were unable to gain access to Facebook earlier this morning. How many of you were affected? Well, it seems that the cause of the downtime or outage of Facebook earlier this morning was due to a change made to the DNS infrastructure. This change brought about the unwanted effect of some folks being affected, and hence, were unable to gain access to Facebook. Facebook mentioned that they “detected and resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100 percent. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
It is rather weird that something like a social network, being down for less than an hour or so, has led folks to be rather upset, as though there was a death in the family or something. This just goes to show how certain parts of our society has grown to be so dependent on Facebook and other kinds of Internet addiction, that even a simple downtime or technical glitch could cause us to rear our ugly sides.
In retrospect, this is one of the first major outages of Facebook since October 11th, when the world’s most popular social network actually went belly up in several countries around the world.
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Dospara has dropped another gaming PC for the mass market, the Galleria XF-A ‘Let’s go by train 9 A’. This Let’s go by train 9 A certified gaming PC is packed with a 3.40GHz Intel Core i7-3770 quad-core processor, an Intel H77 Express Chipset, a GeForce GTX 670 2GB graphics card, an 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 2TB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 550W power supply and runs on Windows 8 64-bit OS. The Galleria XF-A ‘Let’s go by train 9 A retails for 101,980 Yen (about $1,236). [Product Page]
Growing up in the 90s, the use of computers in the classroom was in its infancy as we had a computer class, but we barely had worthwhile applications to teach us besides edutainment titles that featured Carmen Sandiego. Heck – we barely had the Internet when I was growing up and to see how much classrooms have evolved thanks to computers is remarkable. But there are many schools out there who still need help to bring computers into classrooms at an affordable rate, which is what Google is doing this holiday season with its Chromebook.
Google announced today it has teamed up with DonorsChoose.org to offer heavily- discounted Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks for $99 each, which normally retail for $429 for the Wi-Fi-only version.
In order to receive $99 Chromebooks, teachers would need to visit DonorsChoose’s website in order to request a Series 5 Chromebook for their classroom by December 21st, 2012. Once their request is posted, anyone can make a donation to support their classroom. When the teacher meets their funding total, their Chromebooks will be sent from DonorChoose’s fulfillment partner, Lakeshore Learning.
Teachers should know the maximum amount of Chromebooks that can be ordered at one time is 30, seeing as that’s the average amount of students in one classroom.
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Not so long ago, mobile processors from Intel had thermal design points (TDP) of 45W. TDP designates the energy that the chip and its cooling system are designed to dissipate. It is not really a measure of power draw, but both are correlated because dissipating more heat, means that more energy is consumed to produce that heat. (more…)
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The amount of raw computing power found in a 25-GPU cluster is more than enough to take a crack at 6.6 quadrillion password combinations. Just in case your mind is boggled by the amount, let’s just put it simply. That amount is more than enough to check just about every possible eight-character password, ranging from upper/lower-case letters to digits and symbols in a matter of 5.5 hours. Microsoft’s NTLM cryptographic algorithm that has seen action since Windows Server 2003, is relatively weak and particularly insecure in some enterprise settings by today’s standards. Let’s just say that access to a hash of a workstation password, this machine will most probably take less than a day to crack it.
Of course, we are talking about this machine guessing passwords of up to eight characters within a reasonable time period, and throwing in an additional character (to nine characters in total) would take approximately 500 hours to crack. When you have 10 characters in the equation, then such a machine would consume 5.4 years of cracking time. Just how many characters does your password contain for most of your online accounts?
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We have seen our fair share of documentaries in the past which involves hunting down something or someone – a great treasure perhaps, or clues in a murder case that happened years ago. Well, code hunters could be the premise for a new documentary, as some folks have discovered clues of future and upcoming software being embedded or included in current versions of a software. Case in point, it seems that there are clues pointing to Google Now making a move on the Chrome browser sometime down the road, and even on the ChromeOS itself.
Folks who have given Google Now a run with the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update would realize that this is one interesting system that pulls together everything that Google has a handle concerning you from your search history, GPS location, and even calendar events, pushing out the kind of information that you are looking for intelligently. It seems that the Chromium branch code has added “skeleton for Google Now for Chrome implementation”, which means we could see Google Now cards integrated into the Chrome Notifications system down the road. All it takes now is some patience, and when contacted, Google mentioned, “We’re always experimenting with new features in Chrome, but have nothing to announce at this time.”
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Check out this newly launched slim workstation PC from Unitcom, the Seed Slim FP-A300/DVR. The system is equipped with a 3.40GHz AMD FirePro APU A300 processor, an AMD A85X chipset, an 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 1TB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 300W 80PLUS GOLD power supply and runs on Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (SP1) OS. The Seed Slim FP-A300/DVR retails for 109,970 Yen (about $1,333). [Product Page]
Valve, as many of you already know, recently rolled Steam Big Picture Mode out of beta. For those who need a refresher, Big Picture Mode takes Steam and makes it play nice with larger screens, upping the resolution and allowing users to navigate the Steam interface using a controller. Despite the relatively simple idea, it would appear that Big Picture Mode has taken off, with Valve boss Gabe Newell telling Kotaku that the response from users has been “stronger than expected.”
Looking into the not-so-distant future, what’s on deck for Valve is rolling Steam for Linux out of beta. After that’s done, Valve wants to make Big Picture Mode compatible with Linux. Doing those two things will apparently pave the way for Valve to develop its own hardware for the living room. Newell suggests that PC manufacturers will begin releasing packages aimed at the gamer, which would be computers that players could hook up to a TV and use to run programs like Steam.
It would appear that Newell counts his own company among the ones that will be releasing these PC packages, which he points out will compete with the console world’s next generation offerings. Unfortunately, don’t expect Valve’s hardware – if it ever comes into existence, that is – to be an open system. “Well certainly our hardware will be a very controlled environment,” Newell said. “If you want more flexibility, you can always buy a more general purpose PC. For people who want a more turnkey solution, that’s what some people are really gonna want for their living room.”
Of course, we’ve been hearing for a very long time that Valve will one day begin creating gaming hardware of its own, and we have to remember that Gabe Newell is a man who likes to talk about the future of technology, especially as it relates to games. In other words, this doesn’t necessarily count as confirmation that Valve is actually working on the oft-rumored Steam Box, but it is something fun to think about. We’ll just have to wait and see how this whole thing unfolds, so stay tuned.
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I don’t know about you, but virtually everyone I know who spends plenty of time with YouTube over the past few years would have watched the “Charlie bit my finger” viral video, and this has certainly added up over the years. In fact, Charlie bit my finger is the first user generated YouTube video to hit the 500 million views milestone on YouTube, making it the most successful user-generated viral video to date. Of course, you do have some of the more recent hit YouTube videos like Psy’s Gangnam Style, but those were specially packaged to impress, and was scripted and executed accordingly. Not with Charlie though, and when Charlie grows up, you can be sure that he will have some sort of swagger or calling card to help him out in life.
Interestingly enough, the 500 million milestone does cross paths with the launch of the new series, where it will not only feature Harry and Charlie, but also their younger brother Jasper. There are three pilot episodes that have been titled Biting News, King of The Week and Charlie Bites…Toys, respectively. Those videos were produced by Viral Spiral in conjunction with Rightster and are now live just in case you are interested.
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