Two forces are at work here, then: the immediate utility of a social service pre-populated with people you know, combined with the habitual behaviors associated with checking your email throughout the day. via edition.cnn.com Interesting article on the recently released Google Buzz, the social […]
Author: mcastel
Dustin Kirkland: 35,000-Core Ubuntu Server Farm Renders Avatar
They have a 2 Petabyte disk array, 10gbps networking, and 35,000 cores (4,000+ HP blades) in their data center, and still it takes 48 hours to render some of their graphic sequences. According to Paul, Ubuntu is at the core of all of this, […]
Dustin Kirkland: 35,000-Core Ubuntu Server Farm Renders Avatar
They have a 2 Petabyte disk array, 10gbps networking, and 35,000 cores (4,000+ HP blades) in their data center, and still it takes 48 hours to render some of their graphic sequences. According to Paul, Ubuntu is at the core of all of this, […]
Exploring New Nepomuk Features in Mandriva Linux 2010 | KDE.news
via dot.kde.org Interesting and detailed article on Nepomuk, the semantic desktop technology that is already part of the KDE platform: two of the “driving forces” behind the project, explain the Nepomuk features and also those that have already been introduced in Mandriva Linux 2010. […]
Official Google Mac Blog: Google Chrome for Mac goes beta!
via googlemac.blogspot.com I recently installed Chrome on my Mac, and I have to say that it starts really fast (detectably faster than Firefox, for sure…) I still can’t adopt it as main browser, since I’m too addicted to Firefox extensions (and at the moment […]
Google Chrome OS Use Cases
Google didn’t do a good job at explaining the intended use of Chrome OS and many people wondered if Google’s operating system is an alternative to Windows. The goal is to build “an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing […]