-=PCTechTalk=- Interesting articles
- From: "Bashful Bob" <Bashfulbob@xxxxxxx>
- To: "PCTT" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:47:08 -0500
These are from various sources
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2005/tc20050420_1036_tc024.htm?campaign_id=rss_techn
"It's reasonable easy for a thief to steal the
social security number and bank account information (which is printed on
a check) as well as an address. The next generation of financial tools
are fighting this problem. Business Week talks about [1] voice
verification in future debit and credit cards. "Here's how it works: A
special sensor on the credit card stores its owner's previously recorded
voiceprint in digital form. When the owner receives a new card, he or she
speaks a password into the sensor on the card. If the voiceprint matches,
the card is activated.""
Business week online
NEWS ANALYSIS
By Olga Kharif
May I See Your Voice, Please?
As speech-related biometric technology joins the fight against identity theft,
your credit card may start asking you to speak louder
Most consumers, at one point or another, have thought about how easy it would
be to steal an identity, particularly over the phone: You call your bank. To
verify that you are who you say you are, a clerk asks for a Social Security
number, address, date of birth, or account number. Fact is, a thief can get all
that data by stealing a bank statement and talking to your friends. Then, he
might order a credit card in your name or make money transfers out of your
account.
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http://news.com.com/Torvalds+unveils+new+Linux+control+system/2100-7344_3-5678651.html?tag=nefd.top
Torvalds unveils new Linux control system
Published: April 20, 2005, 3:11 PM PDT
By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Linux founder and leader Linus Torvalds has launched a new tool, called Git, to
manage his software project, after a dispute led him to drop the previous
system.
Torvalds stopped using a management system called BitKeeper earlier this month,
reverting to an older, slower technique of simply e-mailing updates among the
hundreds of programmers who contribute to the project. But moving to Git means
the Linux project once again will have an automated mechanism to control the
flow of updates and track changes.
In 2002, Torvalds had adopted BitKeeper, proprietary software developed and
sold by a company called BitMover in South San Francisco, Calif. He praised it
for boosting Linux programmer productivity, but almost immediately others began
objecting to reliance on proprietary software.
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http://www.techworld.com/networking/news/index.cfm?NewsID=3529
21 April 2005
Microsoft to support Linux
In Virtual Server. Should prove interesting.
By John Fontana, Network World Fusion
Microsoft head Steve Ballmer has promised to add Linux support for the first
time in one of its products because, he explained, users need to manage
heterogeneous networks.
Support for the software giant's open-source rival and greatest threat will
come in Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1, due to ship by the end of the year,
Ballmer said as part of his keynote speech at the company's annual summit.
"We will add support for non-Windows virtual machines running on our Virtual
Server, including Linux," he said. "Virtualisation is an area of intense
interest and activity for us. Driving virtualisation is a key technology to
facilitate better compatibility and lower total cost of ownership."
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http://firingsquad.com/hardware/colfax_dual_opteron/
http://firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_dual-core_opteron_875/
In two separate articles, FiringSquad takes a look at
the performance of AMD's dual-core Opteron CPU. The first article
examines the [1]performance of dual-core in scientific computing
applications (MATLAB and LS-DYNA) as well as digital photography, while
the second story focuses on the [2]performance of dual-core Opteron
paired against Intel's dual-core Pentium Extreme Edition in video
encoding, Cinebench, and a few other applications. The performance
improvements are pretty impressive in multi-threaded applications that
take advantage of the technology."
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http://cheapbooks.com/bracket/bracket.html
Hard Drive Cooling for 10 Cents
I have purchased almost every hard drive cooling device on the market, some
costing as much as $50 or more. I have systems that place fans in front of the
drive that suck air from the outside, and fans that mount underneath. The
problem with these setups are that they tend to be expensive, the airflow tends
to be quite low, and in general they just don't cool down the drives by more
than 1 - 5 degrees. I even own one that claims an 80cfm airflow. But alas I was
never satisfied with any of these cooling methods.
For over a year now I have been able to achieve a 10 - 15 degree Celsius
temperature drop on my hard drives simply by using a 10 cent bracket from a
local hardware store.
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http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/flash2005.ars
Ars has published a massive [0]USB 2.0 Hi-speed Flash drive
roundup, with 10 USB 2.0 flash drives that they've tested on three OS's.
They rate the drives by performance, durability, and features/accessories
(including the crappy software that no one uses). Definitely a good read
for anyone who has recently sat on their USB thumbdrive!"
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