] The Mountain View, Calif.-based company on Monday
] announced the S5000, which it says is the first processor
] that can add new instructions while operating. The chip
] combines an existing RISC (reduced instruction set
] computing) architecture with a large reconfigurable area
] of programmable logic called the Instruction Set
] Extension Fabric, ISEF. The company's own C/C compiler
] automatically spots areas in a program that require
] intensive computation and creates new instructions for
] the processor to handle those tasks.

Dan: do you know who these people are?

Chip rewires itself on the fly | CNET News.com

dmv wrote:
] ] Many companies are quickly coming to realize this, as you
] ] can see from the impressive customer list on MySQL's
] ] website. I'm sure that most readers have used the Yahoo!
] ] (Nasdaq: YHOO) Finance site on many occasions (like
] ] perhaps this one), but would probably be surprised to
] ] learn that even Yahoo!'s massive source of data is fed
] ] from MySQL databases.

Is this another "worse is better"/Linux vs BSD phenomenon?
From what anyone's ever told me, Postgresql is a much better
DBMS in several regards:

1. fine-grained locking -- much more scalable when doing many
concurrent INSERTs or UPDATEs in the same table.

2. Beter/real transaction management.

I guess many web-based workloads are almost all SELECT ... in which
case MySQL wins since its optimized purely for that...

RE: Fool.com: MySQL Makes Waves [Motley Fool Take] April 23, 2004

] Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has gone from an after
] thought among server customers to the darling of the
] enterprise world in just a year. The company’s Opteron
] chip has opened doors of corporate server rooms for AMD,
] and many enterprises are flirting with the new kid on the
] block.

Opteron customers show AMD in new light

] Umem cards are battery-backed RAM cards that replace disk
] accesses with non-volatile memory accesses to improve
] response time and maintain reliability in server and
] storage appliances.

This is the special sauce that makes the difference between
a real raid controller and a Linux box. This device is
supported under linux and shows up as a block device. Its
probably really expensive, though. Its just a PCI card with
a bunch of battery-backed dram on it.

Micro Memory's PCI NVRAM Cards

Google now has a calculator -- looks like it has the functionality
of the unix 'units' program, as well.

Google Search: golden ratio

]
] Now, a team at Purdue University in Indiana, funded by
] the US National Science Foundation, has developed an
] air-based technique that, at 40W/cm2 has a cooling rate
] comparable to that of water.

Neat.

Chip cooling technology struck by lightning

]
] Philips, Sony and E-Ink have come together to announce
] the Worlds first consumer application of an electronic
] paper display module in the Sony LIBRIé e-Book reader.
] The black and white ink-on-paper look of the plastic
] display film is 170 pixels per inch (PPI) and resembles
] newsprint.

Holy shit!

Sony LIBRIe - The first ever E-Ink e-Book Reader : Handhelds : MobileMag

] FastCGI is a language independent, scalable, open
] extension to CGI that provides high performance without
] the limitations of server specific APIs. See the docs for
] more details.

Persistent processes. I'd never heard of this before.

FastCGI

] Vanu, Inc. licenses software radio applications and
] provides design consulting services to wireless OEMs,
] system integrators and service providers. Vanu Software
] Radio solutions meet the needs of our customers --
] including cellular infrastructure OEMs and service
] providers, public safety agencies, network operators and
] development labs, and the military -- in ways that
] traditional hardware radios cannot.

Named after its founder, Vanu Bose (the son of the "stereo" Bose).

Vanu, Inc. -- Software Defined Radio

inignoct wrote:
] ] The Prestige 2000W VoIP Wi-Fi phone, compatible with IEEE
] ] 802.11b wireless standard, is a perfect solution for
] ] Voice over IP applications. It allows users to make or
] ] receive phone calls as long as they are in the coverage
] ] of IEEE 802.11b or 11g wireless Access Points. By using
] ] the Prestige 2000W, users no longer have to pay expensive
] ] communication fees and can enjoy the convenience of
] ] wireless mobility.
]
] [ Some pretty non-wack techmology, imho. Neat stuff. -k]

Dammit... I want one that does VoIP and is a cell phone.
Granted, it will be many more years before I can roam between the
AP in my apartment and Sprint but I'd still like to be able to
use the same device on both networks.

RE: ZyXEL Prestige 2000W - VoIP Wi-Fi Phone