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Models hammerhead on 06 Jan 2009
A Career Survival Kit
A Career Survival Kit
The stock price of most major financial firms has plummeted. Such industry stalwarts as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, AIG, and Merrill Lynch have essentially tanked. The economic impacts have extended from Wall Street to Main Street. How can you protect your career in increasingly uncertain times?
Models hammerhead on 31 Dec 2008
Pentax launches limited edition K2000 kit
Pentax launches limited edition K2000 kit
Pentax has announced a limited edition of its K2000 entry-level DSLR kit, with a white camera body and matching DA L 18-55mm and 55-200mm lenses.
AMD Announces Continued Support for the Next-Generation Notebook Platform with New Toshiba Satellite Laptops
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced growing OEM support for its next-generation notebook platform with the addition of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., Digital Products Division’s consumer laptops built on the next-generation AMD notebook platform. Toshiba’s Satellite laptop PC series is offered with different models of the AMD Turion™ X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processors, AMD 7-Series Chipsets, and leading-edge wireless solutions based on the draft 802.11n specification.
Trimble Updates Survey Offerings, Expands Corrections Service
Trimble has unveiled enhancements to its surveying portfolio, including new models of the Trimble S8 Total Station with options for monitoring and tunneling applications, a new version of Trimble Business Center, and a scalable Trimble VX Spatial Station.
Models hammerhead on 30 Dec 2008
Phoenix finally hops on the train
Phoenix finally hops on the train
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Models hammerhead on 29 Dec 2008
AMD Announces Continued Support for the Next-Generation Notebook Platform with New Toshiba Satellite Laptops
AMD Announces Continued Support for the Next-Generation Notebook Platform with New Toshiba Satellite Laptops
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced growing OEM support for its next-generation notebook platform with the addition of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., Digital Products Division’s consumer laptops built on the next-generation AMD notebook platform. Toshiba’s Satellite laptop PC series is offered with different models of the AMD Turion™ X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processors, AMD 7-Series Chipsets, and leading-edge wireless solutions based on the draft 802.11n specification.
AMD Delivers First Stream Processor with Double Precision Floating Point Technology
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — November 8, 2007 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the AMD FireStream 9170 Stream Processor and an accompanying Software Development Kit (SDK) designed to harness the massive parallel processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU). AMD leveraged its unique collective expertise in both GPUs and CPUs to deliver the first integrated hardware and software development solution that meets the needs of the demanding high-performance computing (HPC) market. AMD plans to deliver the FireStream 9170 and supporting SDK to market in the first quarter of 2008. With this launch AMD expects to achieve another important milestone on the path to Accelerated Computing by delivering the first in a series of next-generation heterogeneous compute architectures.
Phoenix finally hops on the train
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Models hammerhead on 28 Dec 2008
Slappa Ballistix Aura Pro-Tour Backpack Review
Slappa Ballistix Aura Pro-Tour Backpack Review
With room for a DSLR kit and a sizable laptop, is the Slappa Ballistix Aura Pro-Tour Backpack as good as it sounds? We put it to the test to find out.
AMD Delivers Optimum Platform for Virtualization with Microsoft
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the availability of robust new virtualization solutions powered by a combination of technologies from AMD and Microsoft Corp. This new deployment model uses AMD Opteron™ processors with AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™) technology together with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to deliver significant efficiencies to enterprises large and small. Mid-market companies in particular, which have traditionally been slower to implement virtualization, can take advantage of the combined AMD and Microsoft product offering to help reduce cost, complexity and energy consumption.
Models hammerhead on 27 Dec 2008
10 tips to preserve data for the long haul
10 tips to preserve data for the long haul
The growth of digital data is threatening to spiral out of control. More than 452 exabytes of information have been created and replicated this year — an amount higher than the world's available storage capacity , according to IDC.
Not all data should be preserved, but efforts to save important information are being stymied by many factors: complacency, fear that the problem of long-term digital access and preservation is too big to take on, inadequate funding, confusion, and lack of alignment among stakeholders, a new report says. A better model for preserving data is needed, and it requires worldwide collaboration, says the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, which consists of experts from universities, major libraries, and one tech company ( Microsoft ).
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"The long-term accessibility and use of valuable digital materials requires digital preservation activities that are economically sustainable — in other words, provisioned with sufficient funding and other resources on an ongoing basis to achieve their long-term goals," task force co-chairman Brian Lavoie of the Online Computer Library Center said in a press release.
Although the task force says an industrywide solution is needed, there obviously are many steps individual IT shops can take to implement a better data preservation plan. The task force's second co-chair, Fran Berman, director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, offered a list of 10 tips for preserving data in a recent article.
Here is a look at Berman's advice:
1. Make a detailed plan for the stewardship and preservation of your data, from its inception to the end of its lifetime.
2. Be aware of data costs including hardware, software, support and time, and include them in your overall IT budget. Determine whether it is more cost-effective to regenerate some of your information rather than preserve it over a long period.
3. Associate metadata with your data. Identify relevant standards for data and metadata content and format, and follow them to make sure the data can be used by others.
4. Make multiple copies of valuable data. Store some copies off-site and in different systems.
5. Plan ahead of time for the transition of digital data to new storage media. Plan budgets for new storage and software technologies, file-format migrations, and time. Move data to new technologies before your storage media become obsolete. ( Compare storage products.)
6. Plan for transitions in data stewardship. If the data eventually will be turned over to a formal repository, institution or other custodial environment, make sure it meets the requirements of the new environment and that the new steward indeed agrees to take it on.
7. Determine the level of "trust" required when choosing how to archive data. Are the resources of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration necessary, or will Google do?
8. Tailor plans for preservation and access to the specific needs of users. Gene-sequence data used daily by hundreds of thousands of researchers worldwide may need a preservation and access infrastructure that's different from the infrastructure needed, for example, for digital photos viewed occasionally by family members.
9. Pay attention to security. Be aware of what you must do to maintain the integrity of your data.
10. Know the regulations. Know whether copyright, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the U.S. National Institutes of Health publishing expectations, or other policies or regulations are relevant to your data. That way, you can make sure your approach to stewardship and publication is compliant.
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Models hammerhead on 26 Dec 2008
AMD Delivers First Stream Processor with Double Precision Floating Point Technology
AMD Delivers First Stream Processor with Double Precision Floating Point Technology
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — November 8, 2007 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the AMD FireStream 9170 Stream Processor and an accompanying Software Development Kit (SDK) designed to harness the massive parallel processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU). AMD leveraged its unique collective expertise in both GPUs and CPUs to deliver the first integrated hardware and software development solution that meets the needs of the demanding high-performance computing (HPC) market. AMD plans to deliver the FireStream 9170 and supporting SDK to market in the first quarter of 2008. With this launch AMD expects to achieve another important milestone on the path to Accelerated Computing by delivering the first in a series of next-generation heterogeneous compute architectures.
AMD Announces Continued Support for the Next-Generation Notebook Platform with New Toshiba Satellite Laptops
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced growing OEM support for its next-generation notebook platform with the addition of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., Digital Products Division’s consumer laptops built on the next-generation AMD notebook platform. Toshiba’s Satellite laptop PC series is offered with different models of the AMD Turion™ X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processors, AMD 7-Series Chipsets, and leading-edge wireless solutions based on the draft 802.11n specification.
Models hammerhead on 25 Dec 2008
AMD Delivers Optimum Platform for Virtualization with Microsoft
AMD Delivers Optimum Platform for Virtualization with Microsoft
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the availability of robust new virtualization solutions powered by a combination of technologies from AMD and Microsoft Corp. This new deployment model uses AMD Opteron™ processors with AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™) technology together with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to deliver significant efficiencies to enterprises large and small. Mid-market companies in particular, which have traditionally been slower to implement virtualization, can take advantage of the combined AMD and Microsoft product offering to help reduce cost, complexity and energy consumption.
Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors Deliver World-Record Web Performance
Demonstrating its superior ability to handle the strenuous and increasing demands placed on today’s high-traffic Web-based businesses, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that the power- and cost-efficient Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor Model 2356 and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 8356 now hold the top x86 web performance records for both 2P and 4P servers, as measured by the SPECweb®2005 benchmark. These records demonstrate that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors deliver the ideal platform for dynamic web-based businesses to help scale with peak loads, improve server utilization, minimize data center power consumption and deliver next generation Web 2.0 infrastructure.
Models hammerhead on 24 Dec 2008
Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors Deliver World-Record Web Performance
Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors Deliver World-Record Web Performance
Demonstrating its superior ability to handle the strenuous and increasing demands placed on today’s high-traffic Web-based businesses, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that the power- and cost-efficient Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor Model 2356 and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 8356 now hold the top x86 web performance records for both 2P and 4P servers, as measured by the SPECweb®2005 benchmark. These records demonstrate that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors deliver the ideal platform for dynamic web-based businesses to help scale with peak loads, improve server utilization, minimize data center power consumption and deliver next generation Web 2.0 infrastructure.
An Eye for Landscapes
The portable HELIMAP system maps both vertical and horizontal geographic features while maintaining optimal flight parameters, enabling creation of digital terrain models, digital surface models, and 3D city models.
Models hammerhead on 23 Dec 2008
AMD Delivers First Stream Processor with Double Precision Floating Point Technology
AMD Delivers First Stream Processor with Double Precision Floating Point Technology
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — November 8, 2007 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the AMD FireStream 9170 Stream Processor and an accompanying Software Development Kit (SDK) designed to harness the massive parallel processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU). AMD leveraged its unique collective expertise in both GPUs and CPUs to deliver the first integrated hardware and software development solution that meets the needs of the demanding high-performance computing (HPC) market. AMD plans to deliver the FireStream 9170 and supporting SDK to market in the first quarter of 2008. With this launch AMD expects to achieve another important milestone on the path to Accelerated Computing by delivering the first in a series of next-generation heterogeneous compute architectures.