Japanese develop 'female' android

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Japanese develop 'female' android: "Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet devised - a 'female' android called Repliee Q1."

Google OS 7 Countdown

No More Sysadmin Appreciation Day | Google OS 7 Countdown | BlogMeet Nostalgia | No More Security Updates for Windows Vista | Bill Gates on Google's Future | Posts From the Future: "Next week, Google will reveal Google OS 7 in a Hawaii party of unprecedented grandeur (according to some news sources, there will be 1,000 dancing girls scantily clad in the four Google colors)."

Japan to build world's fastest supercomputer

CNN.com - Japan to build world's fastest supercomputer - Jul 25, 2005: "Japan has plans to start building a supercomputer next year that can operate 73 times faster than the world's fastest supercomputer, the government said Monday."

Japan wants to develop a supercomputer that can operate at 10 petaflops, or 10 quadrillion calculations per second, which is 73 times faster than the Blue Gene, an official of the ministry said on condition of anonymity.

Powermanga 0.79 - TLK Games: Open Source Games For GNU/Linux (shoot'em up and breakout released under the GPL)

Powermanga 0.79 - TLK Games: Open Source Games For GNU/Linux (shoot'em up and breakout released under the GPL): "Powermanga is an arcade 2D shoot-em-up game with 41 levels and more than 200 sprites. It runs in 320x200 or 640x400 pixels, with Window mode or full screen and support for 8, 15, 16, 24, and 32 bpp."

Tab Mix Plus

Tab Mix Plus is the very best of Tab extension for FireFox. You might give it a try!

DMTF - Common Information Model (CIM)

DMTF - Common Information Model (CIM): "CIM provides a common definition of management information for systems, networks, applications and services, and allows for vendor extensions. CIM’s common definitions enable vendors to exchange semantically rich management information between systems throughout the network.

CIM is composed of a Specification and a Schema. The Schema provides the actual model descriptions, while the Specification defines the details for integration with other management models."

Netweaver 2004 needs SLD to be configured prior to run any adaptive RFC application.

Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system

Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system: "Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features."

Cool! BTFS

btslave.html: "A new program is available in the btslave distribution: btmount. This program uses the FUSE module to allow you to mount a torrent as a file system. Check out the Sourceforge page for downloads."

Collaborative VNC

Collaborative VNC: "Collaborative VNC lets you share a computer desktop between multiple people, who can each be all the way across the Internet from each other. Everyone can see everyone else's mouse pointers, and you can take turns controlling the desktop, so that everyone is not clicking on everyone else's toes all the time."

Xen virtual machine monitor

Computer Laboratory - Xen virtual machine monitor: "Modern computers are sufficiently powerful to use virtualization to present the illusion of many smaller virtual machines (VMs), each running a separate operating system instance. Successful partitioning of a machine to support the concurrent execution of multiple operating systems poses several challenges. Firstly, virtual machines must be isolated from one another: it is not acceptable for the execution of one to adversely affect the performance of another. This is particularly true when virtual machines are owned by mutually untrusting users. Secondly, it is necessary to support a variety of different operating systems to accommodate the heterogeneity of popular applications. Thirdly, the performance overhead introduced by virtualization should be small.

Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation. Xen is Open Source software, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. We have a fully functional ports of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 running over Xen, and regularly use it for running demanding applications like MySQL, Apache and PostgreSQL. Any Linux distribution (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake) should run unmodified over the ported OS."