Archive for January, 2007
{ Wednesday 31 January 2007 @ 01:31:04(+0000) }
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A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers had revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency had been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system was built into every version of the Windows operating system in use. The discovery came close on the heels of the revelations that Lotus, had built the same thing in its popular office program, Notes. Another good reason to use only the Linux Operating System and Free Open Source Software!
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{ Tuesday 30 January 2007 @ 01:30:12(+0000) }
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There’s a rising chorus in the land- “Linux needs proprietary codecs and drivers, or it’s dead as a doornail! Proprietary multimedia 3D bling is the road to Freedom! Sacrifice a little freedom now to get more freedom later!” This is a strange song. It was sung first by fans of Linspire. Now it’s Ubuntu. The plan is these will attract wads of users …
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{ Monday 29 January 2007 @ 01:29:01(+0000) }
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It has been announced that RapidMind and Terra Soft have teamed up to make application development for the PlayStation 3 easier than ever before. Last month Terra Soft announced the release of Yellow Dog Linux of the PlayStation 3, and now with the RapidMind Development Platform, developers can more easily create applications that run on PS3.
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{ Sunday 28 January 2007 @ 01:28:34(+0000) }
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The Yalta Conference decided that the Allies would return all USSR citizens that found themselves outside the Soviet Union. By force if necessary. Not only the liberated Soviet prisoners of war, but it also extended to all other persons like Russian Orthodox Christian refugees. What happened to these innocents? Many of the refugees were summarily executed by the Soviets in earshot of the Allies!
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{ Saturday 27 January 2007 @ 01:27:13(+0000) }
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Apple’s iPhone is undoubtedly beautiful and compelling, but it is wrapped in a cocoon of patents and proprietary software, (and no 3rd party software installing is allowed!) writes Anthony Taylor. The very similar looking OpenMoko Neo phone, on the other hand is almost entirely open and free of proprietary components (and allows installing of any 3rd party Linux apps too!) plus it is available in February 2007!
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{ Friday 26 January 2007 @ 01:26:37(+0000) }
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For those of us that want something a little easier on the wallet, with features we will actually use to full potential; There is the Moko! It is open source, allowing for great customizability and freedom to do what you want with it by allowing you to add or remove software and functionality for free!
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{ Thursday 25 January 2007 @ 01:25:25(+0000) }
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We want to highlight the unfair difference between Greece and other European countries and to propose the solution called Apple Greece, or even better “Apple Hellas”.
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{ Wednesday 24 January 2007 @ 01:24:42(+0000) }
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Two groups committed to the adoption of the Linux operating system announced that they will merge on Tuesday, streamlining operations to standardize Linux and give it a stronger presence in the battle with Microsoft Windows
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{ Tuesday 23 January 2007 @ 23:01:41(+0000) }
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Following an intense day of learning, Saturday night found a half dozen individuals defending the earth from alien invasion via networked PS3s. Sunday was a time to absorb the information gained Saturday, rest, and enjoy the Colorado winter. Some attendees slept in or caught a movie, while others ventured to the mountains to ski, snowshoe, or sled. Monday made way for further classroom education and time for individuals to create their working environments on PS3s or Cell blades. Today, participants move into their personal projects with just four days to complete optimization.
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{ Monday 22 January 2007 @ 01:22:45(+0000) }
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As promised here are some scientific benchmarks that compare the performance of double-precision floating point operations between a PowerMac (2.5 GHz G5) running Mac OS X Tiger (the PowerMac could also run Yellow Dog Linux), a PlayStation 3 (3.2 GHz Cell) running Yellow Dog Linux 5.0, and a Mac Pro (2.66 GHz Xeon) running Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.
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{ Sunday 21 January 2007 @ 01:21:46(+0000) }
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In character with its record of innovation and community involvement, Terra Soft has founded a consortium of thought leaders dedicated to developing and disseminating best practice solutions for high productivity life science computing at the petascale level.
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{ Saturday 20 January 2007 @ 01:20:31(+0000) }
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Could a little bit of hacking be the only thing holding the AppleTV (tv) back from being the perfect Linux Multi-Media set-top box? It’s Intel based and has a hard drive. Sounds a lot like a computer that may be able to boot Linux at some point in the future. With all it’s video ports, it would make a perfect MythTV front-end or similar Linux device.
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{ Friday 19 January 2007 @ 01:19:09(+0000) }
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There are a lot of music players available for Linux. This article is meant to assist you in choosing the one that’s right for you.
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{ Thursday 18 January 2007 @ 01:18:11(+0000) }
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People wanting to dive into PS3 Linux application development have less excuses to get on the ball and start doing their thing. The Yellow Dog should be having puppies in no time. Rapid Mind will be providing a full-featured version of the new RapidMind Dev Platform version 2.0 for distribution from Terra Soft Solutions’ YDL.net Enhanced accounts.
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{ Wednesday 17 January 2007 @ 17:17:15(+0000) }
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Robert E Meyer: “I have been puzzled, from the time of my earliest consideration of the matter, that science is used as a means of discrediting the existence of God. It should never be the objective of Christians to oppose the wonders of scientific progress, but only “science falsely so called;” that is, metaphysics festooned as science.”
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{ Tuesday 16 January 2007 @ 01:16:45(+0000) }
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Robert E. Meyer: “For me, atheism has a logical problem of philosophical cogency. The atheist worldview has an epistemology that won’t comport with its metaphysical narrative.”
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{ Monday 15 January 2007 @ 01:15:37(+0000) }
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Robert E. Meyer: “Defining atheism is a daunting undertaking. It can be an elusive moving target, with constantly varying definitions and ramifications.”
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{ Sunday 14 January 2007 @ 01:14:22(+0000) }
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Robert E. Meyer: It is quite possible that atheists as a group are more intelligent than the community of theists at large. I don’t have statistical evidence to support this claim, but anecdotally, I can believe that it is quite likely.
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{ Saturday 13 January 2007 @ 01:13:08(+0000) }
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Robert E. Meyer: What will become of scientific investigation? Early scientists saw their inquiries as a method of ‘thinking God’s thoughts after him.’ Without a construct in place which binds technology to ethics, what limits on social and scientific experimentation will inform the distinctions between what can be done, vs. what ought to be done?
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{ Friday 12 January 2007 @ 00:01:36(+0000) }
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Ever wanted to hack the PS3? Not only do you not have to pay a dime to go and hack a PS3 w/YDL but Terra Soft will feed you too! Free lunch and snacks are served every day. Not just any lunch, but a fully home cooked catered experience including home baked breads and deserts. What else? PS3 Games, A hot tub, foosball, free beverages, and much more!
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{ Thursday 11 January 2007 @ 01:11:03(+0000) }
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Week-long event grants hands-on code development experience with PLAYSTATION®3 and Mercury, IBM Cell products.
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{ Wednesday 10 January 2007 @ 01:10:12(+0000) }
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These 9 sermons show the Orthodox Christian teaching of the young earth (approximately 7,515 years old) and the creations of the sun, the moon, the birds, the fish, the land animals, and human beings in the first 8 days of creation as described in the Bible. Very interesting reading about how if man was created as an adult that so too could Earth.
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{ Tuesday 9 January 2007 @ 01:09:25(+0000) }
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This is a post made by David Mendels that inspired me to get this message out. I too have noticed that a few people Still perceive Flash as a proprietary technology. If you are one of those, read this then ask yourself the two questions at the end. I had a completely different view of Flash before Adobe and Macromedia merged.
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{ Monday 8 January 2007 @ 01:08:59(+0000) }
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Director of the Academy of Sciences Institute of Applied Astronomy Andrey Finkelstein believes that ‘the Universe could not have come into being had the human life not been intended.’ The data accumulated by scientists in the recent decade drastically change the traditional concept of the Universe and bring up a question of its origin’s randomness.
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{ Sunday 7 January 2007 @ 01:07:25(+0000) }
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Christ is Born!
Dear friends in Christ,
A blessed Nativity Feast to all Orthodox Christians. Orthodox Christianity celebrates the Lord’s Nativity in the Flesh (Christmas) today, 25 December 7515 according to the Julian Calendar, or 7 January 2007 on the Secular/Civil Gregorian Calendar. May God grant you all many blessings and many years this Nativity Season!
In Christ,
Νικολάος Διάκονος
http://EuphrosynosCafe.com
{ Saturday 6 January 2007 @ 01:06:41(+0000) }
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{ Friday 5 January 2007 @ 01:05:23(+0000) }
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First article in a series on PS3 programming using Linux. This series shows how to take advantage of IBM’s new Cell BE Processor under Linux. This article gives instructions on how to install Yellow Dog Linux on the PS3 and the first steps to writing a program that utilizes the Cell BE Processor’s Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs).
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{ Thursday 4 January 2007 @ 01:04:42(+0000) }
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Amulet, Inc. announces the launch of Japanese Language Package of Yellow Dog Linux v5.0J for the Sony Computer Entertainment PlayStation®3, slated to ship January 4, 2007. YDL is a distribution specialized for PowerPC developed by Terra Soft Solutions and highly regarded as the leading Linux platform for Apple’s Power Macintosh Series in Japan.
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