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Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows? on Tuesday June 30, @12:30PM
“Part of our business at my work involves transferring mission critical files across a 2 mbit microwave connection, into a government-run telecommunications center with a very dodgy internal network and then finally to our own server inside the center. The computers at both ends run Windows. What sort of protocols or tools are available to me that will guarantee to get the data transferred across better than a straight Windows file system copy? Since before I started working here, they’ve been using FTP to upload the files, but many times the copied files are a few kilobytes smaller than the originals.”
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30 Jun 09 | China Bans Gold Farming on Monday June 29, @03:10PM
“The trading of virtual currency for real cash employs hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and generates between $200 million and $1 billion annually, according to a 2008 survey conducted by Richard Heeks at the University of Manchester. He estimates that between 80% and 85% of gold farmers are based in China. Game companies typically forbid gold farming but committed virtual currency traders find ways around such rules. Some game companies have recognized the futility of trying to ban the practice and have built virtual commerce into their game infrastructure.”
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China Bans Gold Farming on Monday June 29, @03:10PM
RIAA Defendant Moves For Summary Judgment on Sunday June 28, @03:29PM
“One thing you don’t see too much of in RIAA litigation is a defendant moving for summary judgment, but that is what just occurred in federal court in Westchester, in Lava Records v. Amurao II. The RIAA had brought suit against Rolando Amurao, a middle aged man who knew nothing about file sharing. After haranguing him for 2 years, they dropped the case and sued his daughter, Audrey, who had used LimeWire years ago. When the RIAA moved for summary judgment against Audrey, however, she surprised them with a summary judgment motion of her own, calling for dismissal of the complaint on the grounds that the statute of limitations had run out on the RIAA’s claims. The brief filed by her attorney (PDF) also points out some of the other infirmities in the RIAA’s case, such as the inadmissibility of its evidence, the legal nonexistence of a claim for ‘making available,’ and the unconstitutionality of its damages theory. According to sources, the RIAA is unhappy about Audrey’s motion, and is preparing a letter to send the Judge asking the Judge not to allow her to make it. Meanwhile, Audrey’s father’s case, Lava Records v. Rolando Amurao, is on appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit over the issue of whether the RIAA should have to reimburse Mr. Amurao for his attorneys fees. Although the appeal was fully briefed and scheduled for argument May 19th, the RIAA has been asking for postponements of the argument.”
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RIAA Defendant Moves For Summary Judgment on Sunday June 28, @03:29PM
Licensing Issues Shut Down Pandora Outside US on Monday June 29, @02:15AM
“I’m in France for the summer and have been listening to Pandora at work. I tried logging on tonight and was greeted with a surprising message: ‘We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the US. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative. … The pace of global licensing is hard to predict, but we have the ultimate goal of being able to offer our service everywhere.’ I’m not sure what the deal is or what licensing requirements suddenly changed, but Pandora in France is no more…”
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Licensing Issues Shut Down Pandora Outside US on Monday June 29, @02:15AM
DARPA Wants a 19″ Super-Efficient Supercomputer on Saturday June 27, @05:40PM
“If you can squish all the processing power of, say, an IBM Roadrunner supercomputer inside a 19-inch box and make it run on about 60 kilowatts of electricity, the government wants to talk to you. The extreme scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency this week issued a call for research that might develop a super-small, super-efficient super beast of a computer. Specifically, DARPA’s desires for Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) will require a new system-wide technology approach including hardware and software co-design to minimize energy dissipation per operation and maximize energy efficiency, with a 50GFLOPS per watt goal.”
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DARPA Wants a 19″ Super-Efficient Supercomputer on Saturday June 27, @05:40PM
Microsoft To Offer Windows 7 On USB Thumb Drives? on Saturday June 27, @03:34PM
“Microsoft is reportedly considering offering Windows 7 on USB thumb drives to allow netbook owners to upgrade their machines. Windows has, until now, only been distributed on DVDs or via download. However, netbooks don’t have optical drives and the Windows 7 ISO weighs in at 2.3GB, which would take several hours to download on an average broadband connection and potentially do serious damage to a customer’s broadband data cap.”
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Microsoft To Offer Windows 7 On USB Thumb Drives? on Saturday June 27, @03:34PM
Lenovo Software Update Stealthily Installs Adware on Thursday June 25, @02:34PM
“A recent Lenovo automatic software update has the great feature of displaying annoying pop-up ads for Lenovo products. What’s worse, it appears that many users are unable to turn the advertisement ‘feature’ off, subjecting them to pop-ups every couple of hours. Gee guys, a note about your 20% off sale in my e-mail wouldn’t have bothered me that much, but you really had to pop up over top of my PowerPoint slides? I’m sure that all of my office colleagues will be running to order ThinkPads …”
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Lenovo Software Update Stealthily Installs Adware on Thursday June 25, @02:34PM
China Starts/Stops Blocking Google on Thursday June 25, @08:38AM
“I’m an American currently living and working in Chongqing, China. As of 9am (UTC +8) China began blocking google.com, gmail.com, google analytics and many if not most other google sites other than google.cn. Internet speed for connections outside the mainland have in general have come to a crawl. Surprisingly this has yet to pick up major coverage in the press. Using an open proxy or VPN for connection to hosts outside of the mainland continues to allow access to google, as does connecting directly to a google.com IP address. As of 6pm (UTC +8) access to gmail and google.com have returned to normal.”
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China Starts/Stops Blocking Google on Thursday June 25, @08:38AM
Book Reviews: A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux 2nd ed. on Wednesday June 24, @02:55PM
“One thing I love about Linux is the rapid development and frequent updates that allow me to run the latest versions of all my favorite software packages. My favorite distributions make it simple to always have the latest and greatest. In fact, the distros themselves roll out new versions regularly, and I am always excited to see what new packages and features will be included. For book publishers this must be a little less exciting. Anything tied to a specific product that is under active development is going to quickly be behind the times. Mark Sobell’s A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux managed to avoid the worst of this by providing a lot of information that is useful for any Linux user running any distro. But still things move forward and almost exactly a year later we have A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux 2nd ed. I was very pleased with the first edition and I think they’ve managed to really improve what was already a solid resource.”
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Book Reviews: A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux 2nd ed. on Wednesday June 24, @02:55PM
Alleged Plagiarism In Chris Anderson’s New Book on Wednesday June 24, @12:27PM
“Blogger Waldo Jaquith alleges in his blog that Chris Anderson, Wired magazine’s editor-in-chief and writer of The Long Tail, has apparently plagiarized content from various sources without attribution for his soon-to-be-published book. ‘In the course of reading Chris Anderson’s new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, for a review in an upcoming issue of VQR, we have discovered almost a dozen passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources. … Most of the passages, but not all, come from Wikipedia.’ When questioned about the similar passages, Anderson responded, “All those are my screwups after we decided not to run notes as planned, due to my inability to find a good citation format for web sources… As you’ll note, these are mostly on the margins of the book’s focus, mostly on historical asides, but that’s no excuse. I should have had a better process to make sure the write-through covered all the text that was not directly sourced. I think what we’ll do is publish those notes after all, online as they should have been to begin with.’”
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Alleged Plagiarism In Chris Anderson’s New Book on Wednesday June 24, @12:27PM
