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Two Laptops Per Child: A New Commercial Concept

12/19/2007  
Relevance: 6.09
In my previous articles, I have talked about the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project, how it works, what the software looks like and the version of Linux it runs. Well, it seems that since last month, we have the opportunity to not only purchase a little green notebook for a child overseas, but we will even be able to finally get one of these green monsters for ourselves, too.
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Bubba Two: The little server that could

10/03/2008  
Relevance: 5.33
Converting an old PC into a home or office server may look like a good idea on paper, but in reality, the idea has a few serious drawbacks. For starters, old PCs tend to be noisy, power-guzzling monsters, and older components make them less reliable. Turning an old PC into a server also means installing and configuring all the necessary software, which can be a time-consuming and laborious process. If the drawbacks of this approach outweigh for you its possible advantages, consider instead Bubba Two, a nifty Debian-based device that can be used for a variety of tasks.
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Book review: The End of Poverty

07/31/2007  
Relevance: 5.17
Last weekend I finished reading this book and watched Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, all in the span of 24 hours. Thoughts of global warming, the threat of a permanently altered planet, and extreme poverty killing thousands every day were swimming in my mind. While I felt a sense of urgency, I also felt conflicted. Because it's hard to feel urgent about both. In fact, history shows it's hard for the US government to give urgent attention to more than one crisis at a time. So what to do in the face of such cultural monsters?
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Linutop 2.2: A desktop where smaller is better

08/20/2008  
Relevance: 5.07
A shift from multi-core power-gobbling monsters toward whisper-quiet systems with single-digit power consumption is rippling through the desktop market. This trend plays right into the hands of a Paris-based company called Linutop, which offers a miniature Linux-based desktop system. The latest version of the machine appeals to customers who are in the market for a machine with green credentials and low maintenance costs. After testing one myself, I found the tiny desktop has a lot going for it.
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Breathing new life into those old Silicon Graphics machines

11/26/2008  
Relevance: 4.67
Silicon Graphics have always made great workstations. I’m not just talking about brutal 3D monsters that could apply video feeds as textures in real time (over a decade ago). The machines are responsive and balanced, and this makes them perfect for general desktop use. Annoyingly, too, as it means when I’m on the road and using my Macbook, I’m constantly frustrated by a gutless machine with a glitzy UI that gets in the way and slows things down. With IRIX officially dead, the Open Source community is the only place any sort of IRIX-related development is happening. The crew over at Nekochan have developed Nekoware, an entire distribution ofOpen Source apps ported to IRIX, tuned and optimised for MIPS.
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Siggraph: Pixar animation software to get boost on Windows supercomputers

08/14/2008  
Relevance: 4.58
The rendering software behind such hit animated movies as The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Monsters Inc. should become even more powerful when it becomes available on Microsoft Corp.'s most advanced operating systems later this year. At the Siggraph 2008 computer graphics conference in Los Angeles this week, Pixar Animation Studios Inc. said that a new RenderMan Pro Server 14.0 release will be the first version of the software that runs on Windows HPC Server 2008, the upcoming release of Microsoft's operating system for high-performance computing clusters and supercomputers. RenderMan 14.0 will also support the 64-bit version of Windows Vista, according to Pixar's announcement.
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