Archive for the 'Computing' Category

Xen 3.0 released

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Xen 3.0 is out, with lots of new features including the ability to run unmodified OSes on virtualization enabled hardware (e.g. Windows on Intel VT-x processors), SMP guest operating systems, compatible with large (>4GB) memory and AGP/DRM graphics enabled. Time to go out and buy one of those fancy new processors.
Here’s the announcement from [...]

American passports get RFID

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

It never ceases to amaze me how low a standard American’s set for protection of their own privacy.
On Tuesday, the U.S. State Department issued a ruling that from October 2006, all Americans passports will carry embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) chips. This system has been highly criticized due to the [...]

Flash Crowd crushes web server!

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Friday’s New York Times had a fascinating article focusing on the work of Robert Ryang at New York post production house PS260. Robert created a reworked trailer for Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, as an entry for a competition being run by the New York chapter of the Association of Independent Creative Editors. [...]