en gets pwned by the god of virtual machines
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Virtual machines come to Opteron, 64-bit
Xeon
Virtual machines come to Opteron, 64-bit
Xeon
04/19/2004 07:00 PMVMware goes forth
VMware Takes Virtual Machines Mobile
VMware Takes Virtual Machines Mobile
09/20/2004 08:19 AMThe company extends secure computing environments to the mobile
enterprise with VMware ACE.
Gambling Machines Much Safer Than
Electronic Voting Machines
Gambling Machines Much Safer Than
Electronic Voting Machines
06/14/2004 03:33 AMIt appears that making sure gambling is fair is much more important
than making sure our elections are fair. One of the defenses pulled
out by those who want to keep going with existing electronic voting
machines is that no one seems to complain about electronic gambling
machines. Perhaps that's because
electronic gambling
machines are held to a much higher standard than electronic voting
machines. This NY Times editorial lists six different ways in which
gambling machines in Nevada are under much more scrutiny than
electronic voting machines. These include things like the fact that
the state requires copies of the source code of all electronic
gambling software, as well as their stringent licensing procedure for
any company that wishes to sell electronic gambling machines.
Employees of any such company have to go through background checks to
make sure they have no criminal record. Considering that Diebold had
convict
ed felons involved with their electronic voting systems - you
wonder if a similar licensing procedure might make sense for voting
machines as well.
2 mln fax machines and combo machines
were sold in the US in 2004
2 mln fax machines and combo machines
were sold in the US in 2004
03/27/2005 05:50 AMZDNet Mar 27 2005 10:35AM GMT
Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines
Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines
12/04/2003 01:10 PMSlashdot Dec 4 2003 12:50PM ET
Virtual PC 7 The first major update to
Virtual PC since Microsoft bought the
emulation program from Connectix
Virtual PC 7 The first major update to
Virtual PC since Microsoft bought the
emulation program from Connectix
01/03/2005 07:57 PMMacWorld Jan 3 2005 11:05PM GMT
The Virtual Mobile Virtual Network
Operator From 7-Eleven
The Virtual Mobile Virtual Network
Operator From 7-Eleven
04/27/2004 05:27 PMMobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) are nothing new. Virgin,
both in the UK and the US, has been quite successful creating their
own mobile phone carrier, despite not having a network of their own,
but simply handling the branding and management, while leaving all the
technology issues to a network operator partner. So far, most MVNOs
seem to be targeting the youth market (often with "pre-paid plans"),
and considering just how
lucrative
that market seems these days, it's no surprise that plenty of
others want into the market. However, operating the whole MVNO is
probably a lot of work, so now we're getting to the point where you
have
virtual MVNOs (VMVNOs) who will do all the work for a
company, and simply slap their brand on the final product. That seems
to be what's happening with convenience store 7-Eleven, who has
announced plans to
sell pre-paid
mobile phones and service under the "Speak Out" brand - though,
all the work appears to be done by Ztar Mobile. Other retailers are
quickly expected to follow. Wal-Mart is at the top of the list, with
Costco and Home Depot also apparently considering their own mobile
phone offerings. The idea is to target younger users, or those with
bad credit histories, who can simply pick up a phone at the store, and
use it until their minutes run out, at which point they can top it up
again - back at the store, of course.
HotFix Watch: Stop error message when
you install Virtual PC Additions and SMS
client components on a Windows NT
4.0-based virtual machine
HotFix Watch: Stop error message when
you install Virtual PC Additions and SMS
client components on a Windows NT
4.0-based virtual machine
09/08/2004 07:55 PMVirtual Universe 0.42 (Virtual World
Server)
Virtual Universe 0.42 (Virtual World
Server)
01/28/2004 06:54 AMA platform independent 3D virtual reality environment.
Virtual machine shootout: Virtual PC vs.
VMware
Virtual machine shootout: Virtual PC vs.
VMware
08/01/2004 11:39 PMEver wondered which virtual machine product was right for your needs?
Ars puts VMware and Virtual PC through their paces to determine which
VM gives you more bang for the buck.
Virtual Universe 0.39 (Virtual World
Server)
Virtual Universe 0.39 (Virtual World
Server)
12/02/2003 03:47 PMA platform independent 3D virtual reality environment.
Virtual Universe 0.49 (Virtual World
Server)
Virtual Universe 0.49 (Virtual World
Server)
08/15/2004 09:31 PMA platform independent 3D virtual reality environment.
Virtual Universe 0.46 (Virtual World
Server)
Virtual Universe 0.46 (Virtual World
Server)
06/26/2004 04:00 PMA platform independent 3D virtual reality environment.
Virtual Universe 0.38 (Virtual World
Server)
Virtual Universe 0.38 (Virtual World
Server)
11/02/2003 10:51 AMA platform independent 3D virtual reality environment.
"Peter Ludlow is not just a computer
gaming enthusiast. He's also a
philosophy professor, with an abiding
interest in the relationship between the
real and the virtual worlds. So when the
world's most successful virtual-reality
game, the Sims, launched an ..."
"Peter Ludlow is not just a computer
gaming enthusiast. He's also a
philosophy professor, with an abiding
interest in the relationship between the
real and the virtual worlds. So when the
world's most successful virtual-reality
game, the Sims, launched an ..."
01/17/2004 11:07 PMVirtual Reference So Virtual We Couldn't
Use It
Virtual Reference So Virtual We Couldn't
Use It
07/07/2004 01:15 AMAnother virtual reference failure tonight. Kailee was reading about
Neti and Ditto, the cloned monkeys, when she asked if we could find a
picture of them. After a couple of fruitless attempts on the web,
I again suggested she try my System's virtual reference
project since we still had 15 minutes before they "closed" for the
night.
So we fired up the URL and after a couple of confusing attempts to
connect, we waited for a librarian to "answer" our call. And we
waited. And we waited. And we waited. We finally gave up and submitted
the question via email, only to be told we'd probably receive an
answer in 1-2 business days.
It's extremely frustrating to try to teach Kailee to turn to
librarians online for help only to keep running into problems and dead
ends when she actually tries to do this. If she didn't have librarian
parents, I'll bet she'd be giving up on us now.
Mean machines
Mean machines
07/29/2004 11:32 AMWith "I, Robot," Hollywood has returned to Asimov's three laws to keep
robots in their place. But what would it really take to stop robots
from hurting humans?
"How many Google machines"
"How many Google machines"
05/03/2004 09:24 AMWhen machines breed
When machines breed
08/12/2004 09:23 AMEvolvable hardware -- gadgets that design themselves -- can get the
job done, even if humans have no idea how they do it.
How many Google machines
How many Google machines
05/03/2004 02:23 AMGoogle's bajillion servers. Everywhere I've worked, they never have
enough servers. Apart from Time Out, I guess. They had enough. Oh yeah
.. How many systems does Google have? ..
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Inferior machines
Inferior machines
11/12/2003 10:24 PM
Les
Orchard: I see that Mark Pilgrim has posted a picture of
himself as a kid, working at an Apple //e. Based on what I wrote
this past Summer about being Newly Digital in 1983, I would guess
that around the same time I was working on a Commodore 64, and I
would have teased him in a relentlessly geeky way about his clearly
inferior machine.
Bah. In 1983, I was working on a
3033. (16 MB RAM, 4.7
MIPs).
Of course, this probably could have been replaced with a
Palm Pilot Tungsten W...
How Many Google Machines, Really?
How Many Google Machines, Really?
05/02/2004 12:51 PMGetting Misty Over Old Machines
Getting Misty Over Old Machines
08/19/2004 03:21 PMYou ever get sentimental over an old computer? One that you just
can't throw away?
Back in 1998, I worked part-time at Best Buy so Annie and I could
pay cash for our wedding the next summer. That Christmas season was
the year a complete PC system (computer, monitor, printer) broke the
$1,000 barrier.
I still remember the doors opening on Sunday mornings to a throng
people nearly drooling at the prospect of a system for $999. You used
to have to hold up the weekly flier, point to a package, and say,
"Everyone who wants this, go over there, and, " — pointing at a
different one — "everyone who wants this, come over here." It
was crazy.
Anyway, sometime during that job, someone returned a Compaq
Presario 4508 mini-tower, and I persuaded the inventory guy to let me
buy it as-is for $200. The box said it was 200 MHz, but BIOS told me
233. It had 24MB of RAM, but only 1MB of video memory, so I dropped
$20 on a used 4MB video card, taking up one of the two PCI slots in
the process. The hard drive was a monstrous 4.3GB.
That computer served me well for almost four years. I managed to
cram 48MB of memory in it — the most it would take (the case
design was so poor that adding memory was a 30-minute operation). It
ran Windows 95 for all those years until I got a new machine (a 1 GHz
Athlon, which I still use today) and I put Linux on it briefly. I
remember installing Office 2000, then having to uninstall it because
it was just too slow.
About three years ago, I passed the computer on to my
mother-in-law. She's one of those folks who does two things: surfs
the Web and sends email. In that capacity, the little machine has
worked great, until now.
I think it's finally started to die. The hard drive cycles
endlessly, and every once in a while it reboots to Safe Mode, a
phenomenon I can only attribute to some obscure bit of hardware going
to pieces so that it doesn't respond correctly on reboot. I have it
running Windows 98 SE, stripped down to virtually nothing. Everything
that can be removed has been, but it's still using 10MB more memory
than it has immediately after rebooting.
I'm going to start looking for another machine for my
mother-in-law, but I just can't bear to throw the old Presario away.
It's chugged along for seven years now, and enabled the sending and
receiving of countless baby pictures. I'm a little sentimental about
the old bird, and I think I'll just store it away in the basement for
a while in the hopes that my wife never finds it and sells it at a
garage sale one day.
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Sex Machines At Work
Sex Machines At Work
08/29/2004 03:57 PM
Xeni Jardin:
Online photo gallery with
portraits of garage-geek inventors of "sex machines" -- and the people
who use them -- shot by photographer Timothy Archibold. I hatehatehate
the site's 1.5MB gorilla Flash interface, and I hate that I can't copy
and paste some of the project notes for you here in text. But the
images and the subject matter they detail (online communities that
connect people who imagine, build, and use these machines) are
fascinating. At left: "Scott at his kitchen table, Sex Machines
Unlimited."
Link
(NSFW). (
Thanks, alfie)
Segways May Become War Machines
Segways May Become War Machines
12/02/2003 06:32 AMA Pentagon program drafts inventor Dean Kamen's self-balancing
scooters, hoping to create an army of battlefield helpers capable of
transporting injured troops and hauling soldiers' gear.
Better Answering Machines
Better Answering Machines
12/05/2003 02:11 AMMy old faithful answering machine is a dinosaur and I had to re-record
my message on it this morning for...
Rise of the Machines
Rise of the Machines
04/09/2004 04:01 PMConn Hallinan, an "analyst" for Foreign Policy in Focus, a
liberal/left-wing
think tank, has written a strange agitprop
piece on military robotics. In it he explains that the DARPA Grand
Challenge and military robots in general are a "coldly calculated"
conservative plot masterminded by Bush, a "powerful circle of arms
manufactures", and an "empire-minded group of politicians" to develop
"Frankenstein
killing machines" that target civilians. His article also appears
in the Asia Times
online with an amusing illustration that adds to the humor.
Rage Against the Machines
Rage Against the Machines
12/25/2004 04:45 PMSlashdot Dec 24 2004 7:37PM GMT
Speaking machines!
Speaking machines!
01/04/2004 01:14 PM A brief
history of speech synthesis : an interesting read, with photos and
sound samples!
China had first complex machines
China had first complex machines
06/10/2004 05:56 PMCraftsmen in ancient China were using complex machines to work
jewellery long before such devices are traditionally thought to have
been invented.
Vending Machines of Japan
Vending Machines of Japan
04/30/2004 11:54 AM
Vending Machines
of Japan PhotoMann recently decided to 'collect' images of unique
vending machines found in Japan. They are everywhere. Estimates
suggest there are 5.6 million vending machines which works out to be
one for every 20 people in Japan. Sales from vending machines in 2000
totaled $56 billion! The most common are drink and cigarette machines
followed by machines with pornography
Will Perspex Machines Lead to AI?
Will Perspex Machines Lead to AI?
02/05/2005 09:44 PMAccording to a University of
Reading press release, Dr. James
Anderson of Reading's Department
of Computer Science has developed a new way to write computer
programs. Instead of code, he uses a geometrical structure that he
calls
a perspective simplex or Perspex. A Perspex exists in Perspex space
and,
it is claimed, can do anything a computer program written as
instructions of code can do. The developer alleges the Pespex
"provides one solution to the centuries-old problem of how mind
arises in physical bodies" and
"provides a model that is
accurate
enough for a robot to use to describe its own mind and body". Dr.
Anderson details his invention in "The Book of
Paragon" which provides a detailed
explanation of the Perspex Machine (PDF format). Meanwhile, the
University website has further information under the more mundane name
of
"New
Artificial Neuron" and includes the bizarre statement "In theory,
perspex neurons could process an infinitely long program and thereby
become omniscient, but, in practice, physical limitations force them
to
work only with finite programs".
Botnet with 10,000 Machines Shut Down
Botnet with 10,000 Machines Shut Down
09/10/2004 11:53 PMFla. vote machines flawed
Fla. vote machines flawed
06/14/2004 06:15 PMUSA Today Jun 14 2004 9:54PM GMT
Rise of the Machines at Toyota
Rise of the Machines at Toyota
01/06/2005 03:21 PMForget low-cost labor. Toyota's testing no-cost labor in Japan.
am3 Anime Vending Machines
am3 Anime Vending Machines
07/08/2004 08:44 AM
Thanks to Tyler
and Mohammed and everybody else that sent in pictures of these am3
Anime Vending machines for the Advance Movie player. I'm fairly sure
that eh one of the left (the Pokemon-branded one) is the newer model,
while the one on the right is the older, less full-featured model that
has been out for a while. I love that in an all-digital machine,
they've somehow still found it necessary to incorporate a giant crank
dial on the front.
Look - am3?GBA [Watch.Impress]
Look - Product
Page
Related
am3 Sets Up Anime Vending Machines
for Game Boy Advance [Gizmodo]
Steamboy Rages Against Machines
Steamboy Rages Against Machines
03/22/2005 05:13 PMAnime legend Katsuhiro Otomo explores the corrupting power of science
in Steamboy, a sci-fi fable set in Victorian England. The ambitious
animated film is a gorgeous action movie, though ultimately
overwhelmed by its own machinery. By Jason Silverman.
Print on the old RISO machines
Print on the old RISO machines
04/15/2004 11:43 AMIf you are using an old RISOgraph with OS 9 because the company that
makes RISO claims that the old printers will not work with the new
drivers, don't upgrade to their new $30,000 printer just yet. Instead,
use the old RISO w...
Next News: Rise of the machines
Next News: Rise of the machines
04/22/2004 02:41 PMUS News Apr 22 2004 7:11PM GMT
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