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In other words, CPUs and GPUs fetch data from off-chip main memory at approximately the same speed, but GPUs can execute the functions that use that data more quickly. So, if a CPU determines what data a GPU will need in advance, and fetches it from off-chip main memory, that allows the GPU to focus on executing the functions themselves – and the overall process takes less time. In preliminary testing, Zhou’s team found that its new approach improved fused processor performance by an average of 21.4 percent. - Fritz

Massive Attack on a positive trip featuring Sting ;) - Fritz

Ova s gitarom me gusta - ILLA

You know how Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created Unix on a PDP-7 in 1969? Well around 1971 they upgraded to a PDP-11 with a pair of RK05 disk packs (1.5 megabytes each) for storage. When the operating system grew too big to fit on the first RK05 disk pack (their root filesystem) they let it leak into the second one, which is where all the user home directories lived (which is why the mount was called /usr). - Fritz

To date in 2011, the project has migrated 9,000 systems; it had originally planned to migrate 8,500 of the 12,000-15,000 PC workstations used by city officials in Munich. - Fritz

The ICE numbers aren’t complete accounts, but they met the traditional definition of “commercial” copyright infringement that justified the criminal charge (US District Court Case # 10-2822). What they don’t do is describe a very lucrative or, in any other respects, criminal business. - Fritz

ReFS, (which stands for Resilient File System), is built on the foundations of NTFS, so it maintains crucial compatibility while at the same time it has been architected and engineered for a new generation of storage technologies and scenarios. - Fritz

dropping compression, quotas and hardlinks? seriously? We are in 2012 and btrfs is becoming the default in Fedora and Ubuntu. I was hoping to see MS drop the NTFS compatibility, and although they say that they have not done that, all evidence says otherwise. You can't boot from ReFS in Win8, it does not support quotas, compression or hardlinks, and NTFS can't be upgraded to it. So... what exactly have they kept compatible, considering that those are the only useful higher-level fs features in NTFS? - horza

The CPU design firm Venray Technology announced a new product design this week that it claims can deliver enormous performance benefits by combining CPU and DRAM on to a single piece of silicon. We spent some time earlier this fall discussing the new TOMI (Thread Optimized Multiprocessor) with company CTO Russell Fish, but while the idea is interesting; its presentation is marred by crazy conceptualizing and deeply suspect analytics. - Fritz

Web server certificates (SSL/TLS) | Client and mail certificates (S/MIME) | 128/256-bit encryption | US $ 10,000 insurance guaranteed | Valid 365 days (1 year) - Fritz

NirCmd is a small command-line utility that allows you to do some useful tasks without displaying any user interface. By running NirCmd with simple command-line option, you can write and delete values and keys in the Registry, write values into INI file, dial to your internet account or connect to a VPN network, restart windows or shut down the computer, create shortcut to a file, change the created/modified date of a file, change your display settings, turn off your monitor, open the door of your CD-ROM drive, and more... - Fritz

Ne da mi se pisat kobasa password pa ga skriptom load-am u clipboard pri OS boot-u :) - Fritz

We are watching political movements of enormous value, capable of transforming the lives of hundreds of millions of people, resting on a fragile basis — like, for example, the courage of Mr. Zuckerberg, or the willingness of Google to resist the state, where the state is a powerful business partner and a party Google cannot afford frequently to insult. The technologies are too centralized, too vulnerable to state retaliation and control. We need to fix this. We need to fix it quickly. - Fritz

Eben Moglen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Fritz

Classic Shell is a collection of features that were available in older versions of Windows but are removed from Vista and Windows 7. It has a classic start menu for Windows 7, it adds a toolbar for Windows Explorer and supports a variety of smaller features. - Fritz

So true: "And finally the keyboard usability is awful. To tell it “yes, I know what I’m doing, I want to overwrite all files” you have to press Alt+D, up, up, up, Space! It is harder than performing the Akuma Kara Demon move in Street Fighter 3" - fx

Cars of the future may use the driver’s rear end as identity protection, through a system developed at Japan’s Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology. A report surfaced earlier this month that researchers there developed a system that can recognize a person by the backside when the person takes a seat. - Fritz

Database is the bottleneck of most of applications. OrientDB scales out very well on a single machine. A single server makes the work of about 125 servers running MySQL. The transactional engine can run in distributed systems supporting up to 9.223.372.036 Billions of records for the maximum capacity of 19.807.040.628.566.084 Terabytes of data distributed on multiple disks in multiple nodes. OrientDB is totally written in Java and can run in any platform without configuration and installation. The full Server distribution is about 1Mb. - Fritz

what's the point of comparing the workload/benchmarks of nosql vs relational? (wrt mysql comparison) - zytzagoo

Yesterday, it was revealed GoDaddy actively supported SOPA - to the point of arrogance and dedain towards those opposing the US censorship law. As a result, a boycott was instated on reddit, which was picked up all over the web. Today, the company rescinded its support for SOPA - but for some high-profile clients, it's too late. Behold, the power of the internet. - Fritz

ICanHazCheezburger too: http://gizmodo.com/5870638... - Fritz

This review of VDI solutions features the two heaviest of virtualization heavyweights. for companies that need to be able to grow and manage a large number of virtual desktop users, XenDesktop and View are the only way to go. - Fritz

Test of 12 specialized anti-rootkit software for the detection and removal of rootkits (April 2010) - Fritz

MINIX received a €2.5 million grant from the European Research Council. The ERC very much wants the results to be commercialized. We are going to port it to the ARM and do that starting in January. - Fritz

I thought BSD was going to take over the world. It was a mature and stable system. I didn't see any point in competing with it, so I focused MINIX on education. Four of the BSD guys had just formed a company to sell BSD commercially. They even had a nice phone number: 1-800-ITS-UNIX. AT&T sued them over the phone number and the lawsuit took 3 years to settle. That was precisely the... more... - Fritz

Android is only popular on phones and tablets. Nobody is controlling his car, aircraft, or MRI scanner using it. Also noteworthy is that Google and others are putting a huge effort to remove much of the code from the Linux kernel and replace it with BSD code in userland, both to make it simpler and get rid of the GPL. We are 5 years ahead on this. - Fritz

NEL GIRO di pochi giorni è accaduto qualcosa di importante, sia in Italia sia in Grecia, che ci obbliga a inforcare nuovi occhiali, di tipo bifocale, fatti per vedere quel che accade in Italia e simultaneamente in Europa, quel che s'è guastato e va riparato qui da noi e lì. - Fritz

Six-core processors for enthusiasts are finally migrating to Sandy Bridge microarchitecture. And in the process they acquire quad-channel memory controller, integrated PCI Express 3.0 controller and extensive overclocking-friendly functionality. - Fritz

Cijena, prava sitnica: http://goo.gl/70tEt - Fritz

OPA Backup (which stands for Office Product Activation backup) is a free portable software for the Windows operating system that can backup and restore the activation of Microsoft Office on a computer system. - Fritz

Što se to dogodilo da je osteoporoza od praktički nepostojećeg medicinskog problema, koji ljudski rod nije prepoznao u tisuću godina, tijekom samo jednog desetljeća prerasla u globalnu epidemiju? Presudna je bila definicija bolesti koja se pojavila 1994. godine. - Fritz

Learning your way around a new software stack is challenging enough without having to spend multiple cycles on the install process. Instead, we have packaged such stacks into pre-built Oracle VM VirtualBox appliances that you can download, install, and experience as a single unit. - Fritz

Opera Mini is essentially an user interface. Much of the actual processing is done via Opera's intermediate servers, with content optimized and compressed on the back-end for delivery over the Internet to the Opera Mini front-end. Opera Mini can also provide a rather nice alternative web browser in bandwidth-limited situations, such as using a dialup connection, since Opera's intermediate servers optimize and compress content. - Fritz

Also popular in China on mobile phones. - Goran Zec

Works as advertised :) - Fritz

Chromium, secured. - Fritz

Comodo bought EasyVPN and made it's own Hamachi. Free-for-life for non-commercial use, uses 128-bit SSL encryption. - Fritz

Social productivity app for teams. - Fritz

Free, multiplatform (Web & Windows/OSX/iOS/Android native clients), GTD-compatible, cloud-synced task manager. - Fritz

...is a process related to Microsoft .NET framework, used to precompile .Net framework assemblies in the background. - Fritz

Background compiling with a daemon = abomination. - Fritz

Deploying and supporting Macs presents distinct challenges, particularly in organizations where Macs are in the minority or are being introduced for the first time. As with many aspects of IT, having the right tool for the job is the key to managing a new or existing population of Apple desktops and notebooks. - Fritz

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