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What I Wish Wikipedia and Others Were Saying About SOPA/PIPA

The SOPA/PIPA blackout today by Wikipedia, Mozilla, WordPress.com and many other sites is (I hope) drawing attention to proposed legislation that is considered a...

XAA In X.Org Has Finally Met Its Executioner

The XAA 2D acceleration architecture is finally set to be stripped out of X.Org Server 1.13 and upstream open-source X.Org drivers... Read more at Phoronix

Proposed New Cloud Standard Could Give Amazon Serious Competition

In the cloud computing arena, one of the biggest debates in 2011 surrounded cloud "lock-in," as many businesses and organizations are demanding increased portability...

Amazon Takes Another Pass at NoSQL with DynamoDB

Amazon's Dynamo paper (PDF) is the paper that launched a thousand NoSQL databases, if you'll pardon a twisted metaphor and wee bit of exaggeration....

From CES: Will HTML5 Threaten the Closed World of the App Store?

Last week I attended the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. A few years ago CES was not on my calendar...

Teach Yourself with Anki: Open Source Flashcards on Linux

Prepping for a Linux certification exam? Helping the kids with schoolwork? No matter what the subject is, Anki can help you commit it to...

Intel Has 50 Patches For ACPI/Power In Linux 3.3

The fun for the Linux 3.3 kernel merge window is not over quite yet; Intel this morning published 50 patches for integration into this...

Microsoft’s ReFS File-System: Competitor To Btrfs?

Microsoft has released extensive details on their next-generation ReFS file-system to be introduced with Windows Server 8. How though does the file-system compare to...

Pushing the 3D Boundaries in WebKit with CSS 3D and Three.js

Sometimes, you need to see what a technology can do before you can fully appreciate it. Take, for instance, CSS 3D and Three.js. It's...

Marc Hamilton on HPC Design Challenges

HP’s Marc Hamilton came away from a recent meeting on future HPC Design Challenges with some interesting thoughts on power, cooling, and IO. Flash...