Best Motherboards With Large RAM Capacity?
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITcortex writes “I routinely need to analyze large datasets (principally using Matlab). I recently ‘upgraded’ to 64-bit Vista so that I can access larger amounts of RAM. I know that various Linux distros have had 64-bit support for years. I also typically use Intel motherboards for their reliability, but currently Intel’s desktop motherboards only support 8GB of RAM and their server motherboards are too expensive. Can anyone relate their experiences with working with Vista or Linux machines running with large RAM (>8GB)? What is the best motherboard (Intel or AMD) and OS combination for workstation applications in terms of cost and reliability?”
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Gen Y Hits The Library The Most -- But Not For Books
Not books. Most were seeking gaming software programs, characters in the Second Life virtual world and online help with homework." Another way to think about the results: about 47 percent of Americans didn't visit a library even once last year.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
IPhone Wants To Hang On To The Old Year
pdclarry writes "Users of the iPhone have noticed that it is showing December 31, 2007, even where it is already the new year. There have been a number of reports confirming the problem: Bug in Clock, Problem with New Year: My Clock — shows wrong year, Worldclock went wrong for "tomorrow" items."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
The Rising Barcode Security Threat
eldavojohn writes "As more and more businesses become dependent on barcodes, people are pointing out common problems involving the security of one- or two-dimensional barcode software. You might scoff at this as a highly unlikely hacking platform but from the article, 'FX tested the access system of an automatically operated DVD hire shop near his home.
Reinhold Weber's Blog: From PHP To Ruby - 30 Similarities And Differences
Reinhold Weber has posted his lists of some of the similarities and differences between Ruby and PHP: If you are a PHP developer chances are you have heard some of the buzz on Ruby on Rails, an open source web framework for rapid application development.
Sanisoft Blog: Theming Your CakePHP Apps (V1.2)
The Sanisoft blog has a quick post covering the theming of a CakePHP application (via the functionality in the core of the framework). Despite this there are continued request for information on how to use this functionality on the list and even googling for cakephp + theme does not really return anything definitive.
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This posting by Ka-Ping Yee on why PHP should never be taught is precisely why PHP should be taught. If something is popular but hard to understand then we need an education process. To just shake our heads and give up is simply immature (or trolling).
Computer Glitch Halts Seattle New Year's Fireworks
The source of the problem is reported to be a corrupted file that wasn't checked until the last minute. After two reboots, the fireworks had to be detonated manually. And yes ... one blog commenter, claiming to have worked on prior shows, said that the shows run on Windows."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Apricot Team Selected For Fully Open Source 3D Game
An important side-effect of the project is to improve open source tools for the professional game development industry." I look forward to more 3D games on my desktop, even if this one won't be the first. (And where is the open-source bus-driving counterpart to the under-rated FlightGear?)Read more of this story at Slashdot.
27 Billion Gigabytes To Be Archived By 2010
2 project priority for corporations in 2008, up from No. 4 in 2007. IT teams are looking into clustered architectures and centralized storage-area networks as one way to control capacity growth, shifting away from big-iron storage and custom applications.
Office 2003 Service Pack Disables Older File Formats
And of course because these are, after all, old file formats ... many users will encounter the problem only months or years after the software change, while groping around in dusty and now-inaccessible archives."Read more of this story at Slashdot.