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ATI Radeon HD 5970 Graphics Now Available
by danijelzi
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AMD today released the ATI Radeon HD 5970, “the fastest graphics card ever created”. According to AMD, the Radeon HD 5970 brings a pair of “Cypress” GPUs linked on a single board by a PCI Express bridge for nearly 5 TeraFLOPS of computer power, or a mind boggling 10 TeraFLOPS when setup in CrossFireX.
Diaporam@Forum (Powered by Invision Power Board)
by fotopol
DIAPOFORUM le forum consacré au diaporama, forum, ressources
Sage: Open Source Mathematics Software
by karlcow
& 4 others
Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface.
Full Interview: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger on forgetting in a digital age | Spark | CBC Radio
by karlcow
That means that Google has more informational power over us, and that’s a concern. A related concern is the fact that we must understand and realize whatever we say today will or might be held against us in the future.
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October 2009
Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web
by ycc2106
Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, altavista, babelfish, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell. Surfraw abstracts the browser away from input. Doing so lets it get on with what it's good at. Browsing. Interpretation of linguistic forms is handed back to the shell, which is what it, and human beings are good at. Combined with netscape-remote or incremental text browsers, such as lynx, links or w3m, along with screen a Surfraw liberateur is capable of navigating speeds that leave GUI tainted idolaters agape with fear and wonder.
Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web
by ycc2106
Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, altavista, babelfish, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell. Surfraw abstracts the browser away from input. Doing so lets it get on with what it's good at. Browsing. Interpretation of linguistic forms is handed back to the shell, which is what it, and human beings are good at. Combined with netscape-remote or incremental text browsers, such as lynx, links or w3m, along with screen a Surfraw liberateur is capable of navigating speeds that leave GUI tainted idolaters agape with fear and wonder.
Compass
by ycc2106
& 1 other
Compass is a stylesheet authoring framework that makes your stylesheets and markup easier to build and maintain. With compass, you write your stylesheets in Sass instead of CSS. Using the power of Sass Mixins and the Compass community, you can apply battle-tested styles from frameworks like Blueprint to your stylesheets instead of your markup. Sass – Sass is part of the Ruby-based project called Haml. It will be installed as a dependency of compass automatically during the next step.
Carsonified » How Colour Communicates Meaning
by Xavier Lacot
& 1 other
Colour is a complex subject with many strands and it has the power to subliminally convey values and stories.
Dell PowerEdge T310 Server Overview
by danijelzi
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The Dell PowerEdge T310 is the company’s latest single-socket tower server.
Along with a single Intel Xeon 3400 Series quad-core CPU, the Intel 3420 chipset-based PowerEdge T310 includes up to 32GB of registered (RDIMM) or up to 8GB of unregistered (UDIMM) DDR3 memory, and up to four 3.5″ cabled or hot-swap SAS or SATA hard drives for a maximum of 4TB of internal storage.
The system has an onboard SATA controller without RAID functionality, but there’s a variety of additional storage controllers supporting up to RAID 10. The basic network adapter is an embedded dual Gigabit NIC, which can be accompanied by various single-, dual-, or quad- port Gigabit cards. For server management, customers can use the baseboard management controller and one of optional iDRAC6 controllers.
Dell’s T310 features the Matrox G200eW GPU, a DVD drive, optional PowerVault tape or hard drives for backups, and five PCIe Gen. 2 slots: two x8 slots (one with x16 connector), a x4 slot (with x8 connector), and two x1 slots.
Power supply options include a redundant 400W and a non-redundant 375W unit.
On the front of the chassis, the 20.5 inches deep tower server has an optional LCD screen for system monitoring.
The new PowerEdge comes without operating system or with one of Windows Server, Windows Essential Business Server, and Small Business Server editions, as well as with optional Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The starting price for the Dell PowerEdge T310 is $949, with the 3Yr Basic Hardware Warranty included.
The server can be purchased at dell.com.
GeekFG's web services & applications - Twitter recommendation-power indicator - - Twitter
by Krome
Twitter recommendation-power indicator tool
September 2009
IPS, Inc. - We're community experts
by mozkart
& 1 other
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For over 7 years, Invision Power has been at the forefront of web community solutions. Our range includes forum, blog and gallery software, available for download or as part of our fully managed Hosted Community packages.
Dell PowerEdge T710 Tower Server Overview
by danijelzi
(via)
The Dell PowerEdge T710 is the company’s new dual-socket tower server.
The virtualization oriented T710 is based on the Intel 5520 chipset and supports up to two quad-core or dual-core Intel Xeon 5500 series processors. It has 18 DIMM slots for up to 144GB of ECC DDR3 memory and supports 16 2.5-inch or 8 3.5-inch hot-plug hard drives, depending on customer’s choice. The 5U chassis, mountable in 19″ racks, also includes two media bays for optical drives or tape backup units, and two power supplies with optional redundancy.
Integrated storage controller choices include SAS 6/iR or PERC 6/i SAS RAID, but there’s also a variety of additional HDD controllers. Customers can also choose between various host bus controller, management card, and network adapter options.
Dell’s T710 has 6 PCI Express 2.0 slots and the integrated Matrox G200 video chip, and offers an interactive LCD on the front of the server for system health monitoring, alerts and control of basic management configuration.
Regarding software, the PowerEdge T710 ships without OS or with one of Windows Sever, SUSE Linux, or Red Hat Linux editions, with VMware or Citrix virtualization software, and with various optional management and backup applications.
The Dell PowerEdge T710 currently starts at $1,199 at the official Dell Small Business website.
PRESETS AND ADOBE CAMERA RAW (ACR) – A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN | x=blog stay informed
by mozkart
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Presets for ACR are not new, however the free presets available for ACR are both less numerous and less diverse than those created for Lightroom. One way to leverage Lightroom presets in ACR is to copy every setting by hand over to ACR and save the preset, however this is extremely time consuming, and introduces more opportunity for human error.
The following is a procedure that streamlines the conversion process using the metadata power of Adobe’s DNG file format.
Land Art Generator Initiative
by karlcow
& 1 other
According to the US Department of Energy (Energy Information Administration), the world consumption of energy in all of its forms (barrels of petroleum, cubic meters of natural gas, watts of hydro power, etc.) is projected to reach 678 quadrillion Btu (or 7.15 exajoules) by 2030 – a 44% increase over 2008 levels (levels for 1980 were 283 quadrillion Btu and we stand at around 500 quadrillion Btu today).
The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server - Bret Taylor's blog
by karlcow
Today, we are open sourcing the non-blocking web server and the tools that power FriendFeed under the name Tornado Web Server.
Tornado Web Server
by karlcow
1 comment
Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure.
