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Behind AnandTech – The Search for the Perfect Server

Author: JT Smith

Anandtech story from Aug. 23 describes the evolution of Anand’s servers from the site’s humble beginning on Geocities to the current set of AMD-powered boxes housed at a data center in Pittsburgh.

Category:

  • Unix

Los Alamos Labs and supercomputing center on the skids?

Author: JT Smith

The place has been plagued by reputation-ruining spy and security scandals. Officials say most of the top-end physicists there are at or near retirement age and young blood isn’t there to replace them. And it’s even worse on the computer side; Los Alamos can’t find new IT people and is losing many of those it already has to dot-com startups that pay better. Washington Post story at MSNBC.

Category:

  • Linux

DSL in Silicon Valley: promises, promises

Author: JT Smith

Silicon Valley has some of the world’s highest demand for DSL service, but according to sv.com, Pacific Bell is more effective at marketing this service than at actually installing it in customers’ homes and offices.

Category:

  • Linux

Preview: Sea Dogs

Author: JT Smith

IGN previews Sea Dogs, a 3D Caribbean pirate sim. The game is being developed by Microprose, the same company that created “Pirates,” a game ranked #3 in the IGN listing of the top 25 games of all time.

Counterstrike beta 7 released

Author: JT Smith

Counter Strike beta 7 has been released to the Internet at large. This add on for Half-Life greatly enchances the multiplayer experience with terrorist/counter terrorist scenarios, incredibly detailed weapons models, and new methods of cooperative team play.

Internet Wire to turn over records

Author: JT Smith

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a subpoena in order to track the source of a falsified report claiming that Emulex had lower profits than expected. This caused a drop in the stock of 50% to 55$ a share, which then ralied back up to within 7$ of the original price when the report was found to be fraudulent.

Category:

  • Open Source

Restoring balance in free expression

Author: JT Smith

Dan Gilmore of the Mercury News strongly speaks out against the recent decisions by the WIPO in resolving domain name disputes, the RIAA vs. Napster case, and the MPAA vs. everyone who linked to DeCSS case. He argues that free expression is being unnecessarily stiffled by overly inclusive rulings in these matters.

Tech groups rally behind Napster, despite reservations

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet is reporting that techgroups are filing briefs to support Napster’s side in the ongoing court battle between Napster and the RIAA. The groups are quick to point out, however, that they mean to stop possible loss of consumer rights, and do not directly support Napster.

Computers raise stress levels

Author: JT Smith

Oi, Windows! No!” The Register has a somewhat tongue-in-cheek blurb on computer stress. The page reports on a study conducted by ICL on computer problems, and their effects on the users.

Category:

  • Management

Automatic Investor releases new version

Author: JT Smith

Automatic Investor, producers of software which helps people choose investments, announced the release of a new version. This latest release includes the ability to quickly change how it makes decisions about the stocks using a new stock modeling system.