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CNET News | The disco ball of Intel’s failed hopes

I am longtime AMD fan so this is not a big news for me.

Happy Thanksgiving

Just came back from my first Thanksgiving dinner at a friends place. Had fabulous food which ranged from the mandatory turkey to sushi.

The Register | UK prof pioneers new LCD screen system

High quality, low-cost displays almost here.

CNET | Sandia pushes limits of solar technology

Project in New Mexico will test whether a farm of solar dishes can compete with conventional fuels for electricity generation. The installation will create the world’s largest array of solar dishes that use the so-called Stirling system.

World Community Grid

IBM with support of UNDP, WHO and the Mayo Clinic has initiated a worldwide volunteer-based grid computing initiative for humanitarian needs like disease research. The Inquirer has reported it.

BBC NEWS | How to smash a home computer

One of the jewels is “…the case of a man who became so mad with his malfunctioning laptop that he threw it in the lavatory and flushed a couple of times.”

Programming Africans’ linguistic needs

This article talks about the efforst being made to bring some of the 90% of the languages currently unrepresented on the Internet.

I am right now sitting at Sonja Haynes Stone Center at UNC listening to a UCIS Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati. He is going to speak about the ‘In Defense of Globalization’ with an introductory talk by Jesse Kalisher on the occasion of the groundbreaking of the Global Education Center.

Give Dell customers the choice to buy AMD

Well I didn’t even consider Dell when buying my laptop because they didn’t offer an AMD Athlon 64 option. AMD technology is now cheaper, faster and better you would have to be a moron to buy Intel these days. AMD has the best x86 performance in the market (the best processor performance would probably go to the IBM G5 or PowerPC 970). Some of the best words from the article, “Intel, for obvious performance reasons, doesn’t publicly compare its processors with those from AMD.

At last year’s ClusterWorld conference in San Jose, Dave Jursik, IBM vice president of worldwide Linux cluster sales, said: “It was an important decision for us to adopt AMD’s technology, in addition to our longstanding relationship with Intel, which is still in place, by the way. But our customers demanded we come to market with AMD.”"

WebPro | Microsoft Crawling Google Results For New Search Engine

Is Microsoft using Google search to improve its own upcoming search engine?

PhysOrg | NASA’s X-43A to Attempt Mach 10 Flight Next Week

Force 10 from NASA-ron !? This will be the fastest air-breathing engine at almost 7000mph.

New Scientist | Cassini discovers music of the rings?

Planetary music! how long before its ripped and remixed ?

New Scientist | Concerns over tilting Taj Mahal dismissed?

While alleviating concerns this article sheds light on some little known architectural facts about the Taj.

HEXUS.net | Armari, Seymour Cray and a giant gold sarcophagus

This is a fascinating insight into the world of Cray supercomputers.

ScienceDaily | Gut Microbes Can Open Gates In Fat Cells

One of the gems in this article is “…based on cell number, each of us is 90 percent microbial and 10 percent human. The genomes of our gut microbes probably contain 100 times more genes than our own genome, providing us with traits we haven’t needed to develop on our own.”