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UN debut for $100 laptop for poor |
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Topic: Technology |
6:31 am EST, Nov 17, 2005 |
The green machine was showcased for the first time by MIT's Nicholas Negroponte at the UN net summit in Tunis. He plans to have millions of machines in production within a year. The laptops are powered with a wind-up crank, have very low power consumption and will let children interact with each other while learning.
UN debut for $100 laptop for poor |
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Topic: Technology |
7:34 pm EST, Nov 4, 2005 |
Y Combinator does exclusively seed funding. Seed funding is the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays your expenses while you develop a prototype. Some companies may need no more than seed funding. Others will go through several rounds. There is no right answer: how much funding you need depends on the kind of company you start. At Y Combinator, our goal is to get you through the first phase. This usually means: get you to the point where you have a convincing demo, so you can get more funding. We also try to match you up with investors-- and in some cases even acquirers.
Y Combinator: Funding |
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Doubts Cast on Vietnam Incident, but Secret Study Stays Classified - New York Times |
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Topic: Technology |
6:47 am EST, Oct 31, 2005 |
The historian's conclusion is the first serious accusation that communications intercepted by the N.S.A., the secretive eavesdropping and code-breaking agency, were falsified so that they made it look as if North Vietnam had attacked American destroyers on Aug. 4, 1964, two days after a previous clash.
The New York Times repeats itself. Doubts Cast on Vietnam Incident, but Secret Study Stays Classified - New York Times |
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How to add printers with no user interaction in Windows |
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Topic: Technology |
9:18 pm EST, Oct 30, 2005 |
How to add printers with no user interaction in WindowsView products that this article applies to.Article ID:189105Last Review:January 27, 2005Revision:5.1This article was previously published under Q189105SUMMARY Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 provide the ability to install a printer using a command line. This is particularly useful when you add or remove a printer from a group of users using a login script or a scheduled event. Although Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Zero Administration Kit (ZAK) contains tools such as Con2prt.exe, the Con2prt.exe tool provides the ability to add or delete only network printers. You can also modify and delete local printers using Windows 2000. The result is that an administrator can control all aspects of a user's ability to print by having users run a batch file or logon script. NOTE: Using this command in a login script or a client-launched batch file requires the client computer to be running Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003. Because the login script runs on the client computer, a Windows NT 4.0 client is unable to process the command. In addition, these commands can be run from an administrator's workstation or from a server so that the printers are push-installed to the client computers without having to go to the actual computer.
How to add printers with no user interaction in Windows |
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Java Parallel Processing Framework |
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Topic: Technology |
3:10 pm EST, Oct 30, 2005 |
ava Parallel Processing Framework is a set of tools and APIs to facilitate the parallelization of CPU intensive applications, and distribute their execution over a network of heterogenous nodes. It is intended to run in clusters and grids. Features * an API to delegate the processing of parallelized tasks to local and remote execution services * a set of APIs and user interface tools to administrate and monitor execution services * real-time adaptive load balancing capabilities * scalability up to an arbitrary number of processing nodes * support for failover and recovery * limited intrusiveness for existing or legacy code * fully documented APIs, administration guide and developer guide * runs on any platform supporting Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 (J2SE 1.5)
Java Parallel Processing Framework |
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NSA Operating System Security Guides |
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Topic: Technology |
3:06 pm EST, Oct 30, 2005 |
NSA has developed and distributed configuration guidance for operating systems. These guides are currently being used throughout the government and by numerous entities as a security baseline their systems.
NSA Operating System Security Guides |
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Linux.com - The Software-RAID HOWTO: Detecting, querying and testing |
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Topic: Technology |
7:21 pm EDT, Oct 29, 2005 |
6.5 Monitoring RAID arrays You can run mdadm as a daemon by using the follow-monitor mode. If needed, that will make mdadm send email alerts to the system administrator when arrays encounter errors or fail. Also, follow mode can be used to trigger contingency commands if a disk fails, like giving a second chance to a failed disk by removing and reinserting it, so a non-fatal failure could be automatically solved. Let's see a basic example. Running mdadm --monitor --mail=root@localhost --delay=1800 /dev/md2 should release a mdadm daemon to monitor /dev/md2. The delay parameter means that polling will be done in intervals of 1800 seconds. Finally, critical events and fatal errors should be e-mailed to the system manager. That's RAID monitoring made easy. Finally, the --program or --alert parameters specify the program to be run whenever an event is detected. Note that the mdadm daemon will never exit once it decides that there are arrays to monitor, so it should normally be run in the background. Remember that your are running a daemon, not a shell command. Using mdadm to monitor a RAID array is simple and effective. However, there are fundamental problems with that kind of monitoring - what happens, for example, if the mdadm daemon stops? In order to overcome this problem, one should look towards "real" monitoring solutions. There is a number of free software, open source, and commercial solutions available which can be used for Software RAID monitoring on Linux. A search on FreshMeat should return a good number of matches.
Linux.com - The Software-RAID HOWTO: Detecting, querying and testing |
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How to use offline files in Windows XP |
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Topic: Technology |
5:17 pm EDT, Oct 29, 2005 |
Configuring your computer to use Offline Files To configure your computer to use the Offline Files feature: 1.Click Start, and then click My Computer.2.On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.3.Click the Offline Files tab.4.Select the Enable Offline Files check box, and then click OK.Back to the topMaking files or folders available offline To make shared network files or folders available when you are offline: 1.Click Start, and then click My Computer.2.Click My Network Places.3.Double-click the network place that contains the folder or file that you want to make available offline. 4.Right-click the file or folder that you want, and then click Make Available Offline. The Offline Files Wizard starts. Click Next to continue.5.Select the Automatically synchronize the Offline Files when I log on and log off my computer check box, and then click Next.6.Select the Create a shortcut to the Offline Files folder on my desktop check box, and then click Finish. The files are copied to your computer, and a "Shortcut to Offline Files" folder is displayed on the desktop.
MS even mentions on their page that this works fine with Samba. How to use offline files in Windows XP |
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