A new trailer of Crysis 2 was release. Just take a look:
Crysis 2 - Upcoming on 2010 Holiday
The game should be released on 2010 Holiday.
The book of Eli is in a post apocalyptic setting in which all of humanity is struggling to survive, pockets of humanity barely survive and the whole picture is very gruesome.
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I need to share this with you: NSFW Ubuntu logos.
I post 1 here only to know what to expect:
Microsoft announce the prices for Windows 7 ... and surprise ... for preorder the prices are lower than the prices for Windows Vista.
The prices are from newegg.com
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit 1PK DSP OEI DVD English - OEM for $134.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 1PK DSP English Full - OEM for $99.9
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit 1PK DSP English Full - OEM for $109.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit 1PK DSP OEI DVD English - OEM for $174.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 32-bit 1PK DSP OEI DVD English - OEM for $134.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 1PK DSP OEI DVD English - OEM for $174.99
Spam is one of our major problem, but also the Internet is becoming more and more commercial. The main idea of the Internet meaning is starting to vanish and more and more companies are starting to be selective with what you should see and what not. The meaning of Internet it was to be an open platform where everyone can share through their websites and no one should censorship your ideas. Some restrictions should apply, but only in case of child pornography, spam and other terrible things. Starting censorship internet is like someone is denying your free spech right.
Humanity Lobotomy is a mini documentary showing us what to expect and what is wrong right now:
The creators for the documentary are the guys from http://www.indiegogo.com/Humanity-Lobotomy
Another good site what is talking about Net Neutrality is http://www.savetheinternet.com/. There you will find a spech with Barack Obama about Net Neutrality.
Have a nice day !
The new six core Amd Opteron code name "Instanbul" was released.
Features:
* Six true cores
* HyperTransport™ Technology Assist (HT Assist)
* Increased HT3 bandwidth
* AMD-P power management technologies
* AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™) technology
* Same power/thermal ranges as Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors
Now is interesting to see when Intel will come with their new processor.
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I just found nice post about "Fuck in Linux Kernel".
My deepest and sincere apologies if this site offends someone - my intention is only to show you something funny from my point of view.
Also is a study with graphs and all stuff about fuck and love in kernel comments
We already know about the deal between Rackable and SGI from 1 month ago: Rackable purchased SGI for 42.5 million. SGI was very close to a banckrupt and Rackable get SGI for a GOOD price. Now Rackable will use SGI name for their products: high-performance products for medium- and large-scale data centers and high-performance computing.
Read more here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10238571-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001_3-0-5
From today, 5 may 2009, Windows 7 Release Candidate , the new test stable version, will be free until June 2010. This version will be a full one without any limitation. You can get your copy from http://www.microsoft.com/windows7 and also you can get the serial for this version. One of the most expected features of windows 7 will the "XP mode" :) :) :). XP mode will help you to install XP application under Windows 7 (still a crap).
Hardware requirements:
CPU: 1Ghz
RAM: 1G/32bit 2G/64bit
HDD: 16G for 32bit vresion and 20Gb for 64 bit version.
GPU: Compatible DirectX 9 cu driver WDDM 1.0
Let's don't forget, this days Ubuntu 9.04 and Mandriva 2009.1 was released. :D
The best statistic ever on a linux symposium ... We need to write some sports programs :)
The Apache Derby project announce a new GA feature release of Derby, 10.5.1.1. Derby is a pure Java relational database engine which conforms to the ISO/ANSI SQL and
JDBC standards. Derby aims to be easy for developers and end-users to work with and not for enterprise applications.
Features of the new version:
SQL Roles - as described in SQL 2003 and errata
Generated Columns
Standard ALTER COLUMN syntax
SYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_UPDATE_STATISTICS
LOB Improvements
Replication of encrypted databases
OFFSET/FETCH FIRST - SQL 2008 has added new syntax
In-Memory back end
Linux Foundation started a contest for the best ad promoting Linux. Participants should do the ad in maximum 60 seconds and they need to promote I'm Linux. Was no requirement to mention Apple or Windows. And this ad was not for free. The winner get a free trip to tokyo to participate in the Linux Foundational Japan Linux Symposium.
Read more here: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24408/1231/
Was 90 entries but the best 3 you can see them here:
This is just the third place ... but the finish is so funny
Do you know what is the difference between an apple and a window ?
Other 2 videos what should be mentioned:
In last years it seams the Gnome have some "lack of vision" and is not impressioning the desktop Industry with anything in the last years. In the same time Kde is releasing version after version each of them with a lot of eye candy, performance, and translations.
Gnome has been choose d the default desktop management for Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian and soon they will release version 3.0 . It seems the new version 3.0 it will "revamping the user experience."
Just check this links for more informations for Gnome 3.0
http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeZeitgeist
Last week Computerworld featured an twist gallery of the twenty five universal activate birth releases of the road year, including OpenOffice.org 3.1. The slide notes, "OpenOffice.org 3.1 adds a bunch of new features that make it ever-more-similar to (maybe even better than) You-Know-Who's office suite, from notes in the margin (that you can comment on) to better drag-and-drop for graphics objects. You can download the developer build and decide for yourself."
Dmitri Popov from Linux Magazine expectant readers that they did not have to be an expert to work out modern with OpenOffice's Basic programming interface. "This is for OpenOffice.org comes with its take Basic-based programming language," he said. Dmitri augmented that although OpenOffice Basic was not the most difficult programming language, it still required some time and effort, especially for non-programmers. In his article, Dmitri aimed at providing a few pointers and code snippets to readers, so that they could put OpenOffice Basic to some practical use without learning the language from scratch.
In a E-Commerce Times career suggesting expense rimy measures around the office, Dana Gardner and a panel of experts recommended the account of OpenOffice as they believed MS Office to be a "big oversize cow that right-hand to be sacrificed." They propagated the assistance of open source solutions like OpenOffice and StarOffice that would "go a long, long way toward saving money."
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This is was an mainframe class throughput, but now is happening with the HP ProLiant DL785,who can server 8 AMD Opteron processors. Fusion-io, using fio benchmark, achieved more thna 1,000,000 IOPS and that is happening on x86 class servers and not on a mainframe.
As an HP customer it means that you have platforms that can handle your most demanding enterprise applications. And you can be confident that the engineering know-how that helped reach this unprecedented level of performance in an 8P system also helps drive outstanding levels of performance in the ProLiant BladeSystems as well.
