Tuesday, May 02, 2006

 

N64 Emulator for PSP just released!

Yep we have a N64 Emulator! StrmnNrmn has released the first public build of his N64 Emulator, Daedalus. And it's working pretty good. Although it's a port, it still shows that given the right amount of perseverance, anything can be achieved.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 6:04 AM  
 

BREAKING NEWS: Broadcast flag is back

Senator Ted Stevens slipped the Broadcast Flag into a net neutrality bill introduced in the Senate today. There are lots of things going on in this bill, it's 135 pages, but any bill that enables the FCC to implement the Broadcast Flag must be stopped.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 6:04 AM  
 

Need a new Identiy? Download one today!

The Social Security numbers, driver's license information and bank account details belonging to potentially millions of current and former residents in Florida's Broward County are available to anyone on the Internet because sensitive information has not been redacted from public records being posted on the countyâ??s Web site.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 6:01 AM  
 

Larger Than Life Sculptures - Two-stories High and Hyper-Realistic

Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor who creates gargantuan-sized sculptures that capture details of the human body so well that they're hard to believe. Mueck is a master at capturing human expression and recreating the detail of muscles, skin, fat and bones that we are all made of. Also - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Mueck

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:55 AM  
 

Does Wal-Mart Control Game Design?

"Do you buy your electronic games at Wal-Mart? Never mind, doesn't matter. The retail games you buy at GameStop or Best Buy or online are the games Wal-Mart has decided you can buy."

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:54 AM  
 

MIT Chemist discovers secret behind nature's medicines

MIT scientists have just learned another lesson from nature. After years of wondering how organisms managed to create self-medications, such as anti-fungal agents, chemists have discovered the simple secret.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:54 AM  
 

Google's DNA

An analysis of Google's business structure that argues that the company's unique organizational structure gives it the flexibility to consistently transform to meet any challenge the globe can offer.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:54 AM  
 

Top 10 US cities best prepared for an oil crisis

What would happen to the U.S. city you live in if the cost of a coil shot up to $100 per barrel, well this story analyzes just that, and apparantly we should all move to New York,NY.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:53 AM  
 

Good Article for PHP lovers

This article displays a good information on how Digg.com built on LAMP successfully. It seems PHP has won over Java in Web 2.0. Also a small note on DB change. Which DB is the best for a heavy application like Digg.com? Owen Byrne, any clues?

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:53 AM  
 

Pictures of world's thinnest mobile phone

Samsung's new X828 is the world's thinnest phone. At 6.9mm thin it's just half the thickness of a RAZR, yet still packs a 2 megapixel camera, and much more.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:52 AM  
 

Is this the Last Day of the Month?

One of the issues that has long irritated Unix users when setting up cron jobs is how to set up a job to run on the last day of the month. Here are some solutions.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:52 AM  
 

University BANS all P2P Traffic

UConn (University of Connecticut) Information Technology Services says itâ??s going to in effect ban all p2p file sharing programs, except DC++.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:52 AM  
 

GOVT to PayPal: Give us your users information

A ruling today allows the government to subpeona PayPal's records for your banking information. Apparantly, many of PayPal's users are suspected of having offshore accounts and the government wants to know about them. So much for privacy.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:51 AM  
 

Software Engineer Named 'Best Job in America' by Money Magazine

MONEY Magazine and Salary.com researched hundreds of jobs, considering their growth, pay, stress-levels and other factors. These careers ranked highest.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:50 AM  
 

250+ working proxies for safe access from work/school

Great Resource...

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:50 AM  
 

Google, eBay And Amazon To AT&T: We'll Build Our Own Network

AT&T and the telcos are threatening to charge Google and other Web sites extortion-type fees unless Google and others pay for adequate bandwidth. But Google and others may soon have this answer for them: No, thanks. We'll build our own fat pipe into customers' homes.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:45 AM  
 

Intel's next gen CPU code named Merom is swappable into Mac minis

"It is possible to drop in Merom into mini, one hell of an upgrade path. Confirming this is a working combo, just drop the chip in." ..."This backward compatible capability has been advertised by Intel."

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:45 AM  
 

Google make 12 cents for every search you perform!

...and that's a lot of cash considering;

"Americans alone did more than 2.7 billion searches via Google in January 2006"

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:45 AM  
 

PlayStation 3 still far from complete?

According to The Inquirer there's still lots of work on the PS3 which is ought to be released within 6 months.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:44 AM  
 

Innovation in Linux: An extraordinary Linux review

There are plenty Linux reviews, though almost none of them are about Linux. You see, Linux is only a kernel, but most Linux reviews are about KDE, SuSE, the desktop and so on. Those reviews aren't about Linux, strictly speaking. In contrary, this review IS about Linux, made for the people who normally don't configure and compile their own kernel.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:43 AM  
 

Physics Goes To The Movies

The popularity of a particular film largely depends on word-of-mouth recommendations according to a new study by statistical physicists in the US and Chile. Physicists have also developed a quantitative indicator of a film's quality, which they say could be used by film producers and studios to estimate the commercial value of a movie

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:43 AM  
 

Bill Gates on Piracy: "They'll get addicted, and then we'll collect"

The proliferation of pirated copies nevertheless establishes Microsoft products â?? particularly Windows and Office â?? as the software standard. As economies mature and flourish and people and companies begin buying legitimate versions, they usually buy Microsoft because most others already use it. It's called the network effect.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:43 AM  
 

Open Source Presentations that Will Make Proprietary Office Suites Jealous

Have you ever tried to create a slideshow presentation only to find that the templates that came with your favorite open source office suite overly bland?

Here are some high quality presentation templates available only in the Open Document Format!!

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:42 AM  
 

A look at NASA's computer setup!

Here's a video from NASA's press event for the 25th anniversary of its first shuttle launch: A look at 'Discovery,' a supercomputer that turns out any kind of space-related data at an incredibly quick rate. NASA's Rupak Biswas gives the tour.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:41 AM  
 

Why Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is not always good

In this article, the developers of Drupal (a community and content management framework written in PHP) explain why they chose to not use PHP's object orientation features and show how you can write virtually object oriented code with plain simple functions.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:40 AM  
 

Linux and Unix DDoS armies!

Internet security researcher Barrett Lyon yesterday raises the specter of a new generation of zombies, Linux zombies, being used to launch attacks against targets. He says in a recent battle he had to defend a site that was under attack from a Japanese hacker who had been hired by someone to take out their competitor.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:38 AM  
 

AMD's revenues up 70%, Gains further on Intel

AMD saw revenue surge 70 percent during the first quarter as it continued to take market share from Intel, the chipmaker announced Wednesday.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:38 AM  
 

Godaddy going public!

According to reports, domain registrar and Web hosting provider Go Daddy Group (godaddy.com) is preparing plans for an initial public offering.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:37 AM  
 

Useful Google Calendar Shortcuts

The Google Calendar Help Center has a nice roundup of keyboard shortcuts that you can use inside Google Calendar.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:37 AM  
 

Map your ZIP Code

Outline the perimeter of your ZIP Code using Google Maps and census data.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:37 AM  
 

Exxon Chief Made $144,573 Per Day

This kind of news makes you really ponder when oil companies feed the line of crap like "We're all in this together," or "We're feeling the strain too."
Meanwhile gas is darn near $3.00 a gallon while fat cats laugh all the way to the bank.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:35 AM  
 

Interested in Computer Science?

If your planning on going to University for it here is an article that will give you a small taste of what Computer Science is like.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:35 AM  
 

New to linux? You need this.

This is the best linux newbie list i have seen yet. If you have never used linux but want to try go here to see what you're getting yourself into.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:34 AM  
 

Can I drink the water in NYC? (Updated with correct URL)

Can we drink the water in New York City? The answer is a resounding yes. How does it taste? Many New Yorkers say they drink bottled water because it tastes better, but ABC's 20/20 did a blind taste test.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:34 AM  
 

Double Phone Dipping: Free 411 and Free Skype calling.

Don't pay for your Skype calls and don't pay for your 411 on your cell or home phone!

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:34 AM  
 

How to get a refund for your defective game

Store policy usually means you get another copy of the same bad game. This guy found a way around that.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:31 AM  
 

Google in need of the feminine touch

"Don't be evil."Those were the famous words Google included in its 2004 stock exchange listing - and a search on this term lists Google's corporate philosophy page.But that New Age corporate philosophy is under threat by the very people it aims to help, because Google Australia can't find any female engineers who want to work for it.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:31 AM  
 

Turn your Camera Phone into a Scanner

A new free service that allows you to take a camera phone picture (or any digital picture) and turn it into a searchable PDF file. If you have a camera phone with at least one megapixel of resolution, ScanR is great for turning things like whiteboard images and paper drawings into something more usable.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:30 AM  
 

Google Bookmarks in Firefox

This Firefox extension allows you to use, add and manage your Google Bookmarks right from Firefox's interface. It's very useful, works similar to the normal bookmarks, except that everything is synchronizing with server.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:30 AM  
 

James Bond's new phone reveiled

You know his name, you know his number....you also know what car he likes to drive - Aston Martins. Well now our favourite secret service agent has been kitted with a Nokia 8800 cellphone with an engraved Aston Martin logo. And it costs a Pretty (Money) Penny too.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:30 AM  
 

5 Truths About Code Optimization

"See if you can speed this code up." It's usually code I've never seen. It's probably important, otherwise they wouldn't be worried about how it is performing. And speed it up to what? Still, there are some basics you can fall back on when someone asks you to optimize some code.
1) Start with working code and good tests or you are doomed
2) Rest assured, you don't know where the problem is
3) There is always a long pole in the tent, but it is not always the same pole
4) If it doesn't help, take it out
5) You need to know when to stop

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:27 AM  
 

Software bug lead to bomb scare at Atlanta airport

CNN- TSA says software did not display "This is a test" during "routine testing for security screeners." Leads to evacuation of airport screening areas and long dealys.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:23 AM  
 

Apple Offers Free Computer Take-Back Program

US customers who buy a new Mac through the Apple Store (www.apple.com) or Apple's retail stores will receive free shipping and environmentally friendly disposal of their old computer as part of the Apple Recycling program.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:23 AM  
 

Sex offender killer used sex offender registry and GPS to hunt victims

A Cape Breton man who killed two sex offenders in Maine visited the homes of another four sex offenders but no one answered the door.

Maine state police say Stephen Marshall had a global satellite positioning program on his laptop computer, which allowed investigators to trace his movements.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:20 AM  
 

Download movies legally $29.99, get the headache for free!

A mans diary of his adventeures trying to use movie link.com to download a movie legally,(for a price usually double that of a better quality dvd)GOOD READ!

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:18 AM  
 

New Engine and Fuel Developed: Contains More Energy than E85

A Texas A&M chemical engineer has developed a process to convert biomass to a mixed alcohol fuel that contains more energy than fuel ethanol. He has also developed a compact Brayton-cycle engine (the same thermodynamic cycle employed by jet engines) capable of being powered by any type of fuelâ??including his MixAlco mixed alcohol fuel.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:17 AM  
 

Spam King Alan Ralsky jailed, may bring down hacker/spammer network

Alan Ralsky arrested! I just scored an interview with a local hacker who says the "Spam King" might rat out a massive network of spammers and hackers to the DOJ to lighten his sentence.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:16 AM  
 

Why Kingdom Hearts is so Huge

An interesting examination of the reasons why the Kingdom Hearts franchise is so massively huge for Square/Disney.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:15 AM  
 

Why isn't Vista built on .NET? You may not believe the answer.

Vista and .NET. Type safety anyone?
Gary McGraw is CTO of Cigital Inc and author of : Software Security: Building Security In www.awprofessional.com/title/0321356705

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:14 AM  
 

Congress May Consider Mandatory ISP Snooping!

It didn't take long for the idea of forcing Internet providers to retain records of their users' activities to gain traction in the U.S. Congress!

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 5:14 AM  
 

Professor builds room-size tornado in classroom

For all those little tornado machines posted on digg-- this tornado simulation is room-size! It is one of the most impressive models I have ever seen!

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