Bill Gates, Domains, Supercomputers & Booby Traps
In addition to the much trumpeted $100 million Bill Gates has donated to India's fight against HIV, he's funding the Microsoft jihad against Linux to the far more impressive tune of $421 million.
The .au domain name administrator has confirmed plans to initiate second level domain names for states and territories, a move touted as allowing state or local groups to promote their interests online.
Lawrence Livermore National Lab is putting together a supercomputer that will boast nearly the same performance as the ASCI White system from IBM that the lab now uses but it promises to be 10 times cheaper. Called Evolocity, the system will be the fastest clustered supercomputer in the world. But it will be far easier on the wallet, thanks to the use of off-the-shelf components and the open-source Linux operating system.
Louis Dethy, a reclusive pensioner who booby trapped his home in Charlerois, Belgium with the intention of killing his estranged family, died himself when he inadvertently triggered one of his own devices.
The .au domain name administrator has confirmed plans to initiate second level domain names for states and territories, a move touted as allowing state or local groups to promote their interests online.
Lawrence Livermore National Lab is putting together a supercomputer that will boast nearly the same performance as the ASCI White system from IBM that the lab now uses but it promises to be 10 times cheaper. Called Evolocity, the system will be the fastest clustered supercomputer in the world. But it will be far easier on the wallet, thanks to the use of off-the-shelf components and the open-source Linux operating system.
Louis Dethy, a reclusive pensioner who booby trapped his home in Charlerois, Belgium with the intention of killing his estranged family, died himself when he inadvertently triggered one of his own devices.