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Entries from August 8, 2010 - August 14, 2010
Wednesday
Aug112010
Brandon DavenportThe life of a Proton in the LHC »
The life of a Proton in the LHC“Once inside the LHC, the proton beams still need to be accelerated and shaped even further before collisions can take place. To help you understand how it all works, we’ll take a complete trip from the proton source to the detectors within the LHC, and explain how each step contributes to the final output.” — Ars Technica
Wednesday
Aug112010
Dell Streak Coming to AT&T on August 13th for $300
Dell Streak Coming to AT&T on August 13th for $300
Closely following this morning’s DROID announcement, Dell revealed that the Dell Streak would be making its way over to the States starting this Friday. At AT&T stores, you will be able to get ahold of this 5” slate for $300 on a 2 year contract and $550 without. And if you signed up on Dell’s site for that pre-sale, you get a Dell Streak order on Thursday. Now if only they could do something about that nasty outdated Android 1.6…
Tuesday
Aug102010
These students won't be Pirating any time soon »
These students won't be Pirating any time soon“Illinois State uses a packet shaping device called the Packeteer; it singles out P2P traffic and clamps down hard on its available bandwidth to ensure it can’t disrupt other, likely more productive uses of the campus network. In addition, the school’s intrusion prevention system tries to block P2P traffic in both directions at the campus border, though only if it comes from residence and wireless hotspots—faculty and staff are trusted to use P2P applications responsibly.” — Ars Technica
Tuesday
Aug102010
Tearing apart Microsoft's claims that PCs are better than Mac
I can’t say a company can’t support their product, but do they really have to stoop to this level? — not to say Apple hasn’t done the same thing, but usually it was in the form of cute commercials, or claims actually backed by evidence or demonstrations. I’m also not saying that competition like this isn’t good, it’s just not a great idea to do it in this way — but before we start, let me mention it took me about 20 min to actually find the page because of the mess their website is, know what I mean?
Tuesday
Aug102010
Amazon working on other non-Kindle devices »
Amazon working on other non-Kindle devices“According to people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans, who declined to be identified because they are not authorized to speak publicly about Amazon’s internal workings and unannounced products, Lab 126 has been looking into building other gadgets that it could sell to consumers.” — NY Times
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