Daily Readings July 15, 2005. 16:45:34
Slashdot
- Sharp will soon release a double-view LCD TV that will show show images to views on left and right.
- SCO apparently ignored the advice of an outside consultant, hired in 2002, who found no copyright violations in the linux kernel.
- Jason Striegel weighed the internet, or calculated the total number of users online in one day, using physics.
- IBM will stop all OS/2 sales on December 23, 2005, and has a site for OS/2 users to switch to Linux.
- A planet in a solar system with 3 suns has been discovered, like Tatooine. This questions the theory that planets form from dust of orbiting around one sun.
- Fujitsu .
- Drupal documents the huge responce to requests for donations. They raised $10,000 and received a new Sun Fire V20z server.
- Forbes documents the differences in Microsoft’s Sender ID and Yahoo/Cisco’s DKIM authoritative email specifications.
- Engadget has an article about a new feature in Longhorned call PVP-OPM (Protected Video Path - Output Protection Management). DRM protect for your hardware.
- SCO fights back with an announcement that the earlier rumored email is inaccurate. And so are they.
- Customers of Time Warner Cable in San Diego can watch live TV over their internet-connected computers. Neat, IPTV.
Neowin
- AMD has completed their 90nm SOI transition, ending all Socket A processor production.
- TweakTown covers overclocking a AMD Athlon FX-57 to 3.54GHz with Phase Change cooling.
