“[According to Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment,] PS3 will include a 60GB hard drive (which is upgradeable) with Linux preinstalled.”
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PS3 Comes With Linux Preinstalled
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M4 Project Cracks Second Message
“The second break has occurred on March 7th, 2006. The signal in question is the third of the intercepts in Erskine’s letter. You can read the raw server logs as well as an interpretation and translation.”
M4 Project via BBC via Juha
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What Happened To Dynamic Range?
“What happened to dynamic range? That’s a question that should be asked of record labels, producers, artists, and last but not least, recording and mastering engineers. The question needs to be asked because we’re the ones responsible for what’s happened to our music. The music we listen to today is nothing more than noise with a beat. It’s not because it isn’t good music. It’s because it lacks dynamic range. When music lacks dynamic range, it lacks punch, emotion, and clarity.”
cdmasteringservices.com via Juha
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A Cool Lamp Made Out of CDs
“If you’ve got hundreds of old AOL discs laying around, why not put them to good use? This creation was made from a pile of old CDs, an ATX power supply, and a custom circular base.” -
Immense Solar Storm Coming
“It’s official: Solar minimum has arrived. Sunspots have all but vanished. Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet.
Like the quiet before a storm.
This week researchers announced that a storm is coming–the most intense solar maximum in fifty years.”
NASA via Juha
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Darik's Boot and Nuke: Safe Erase a Hard Disk
“Darik’s Boot and Nuke (“DBAN”) is a self-contained boot floppy [or, optionally, a CD-ROM] that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.”
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G2P Beta: Using Google to locate MP3s
“Why would we want to use Google to find MP3s instead of using P2P apps? -P2P/BT is being monitored — Using Google we can download a lot more safely[.]”
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DUI defense lawyers challenging widely used breath test machine
“Timothy Muldowny’s lawyers decided on an unconventional approach to fight his drunken driving case: They sought computer programming information for the Intoxilyzer alcohol breath analysis machine that determined he was drunk to see whether the test was accurate. […]
The company that makes the Intoxilyzer refused to reveal the computer source code for its machine because it was a trade secret. A Seminole County judge tossed out Muldowny’s alcohol breath test – a crucial piece of evidence in a DUI case – and the ruling was upheld by an appeals court in 2004.”
St. Petersburg Times Online via The Inquirer via IRC-URLs.net