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POPSFix found for net security flaw I read about the problem this morning and the fix tonight. Just that the first announcement was delayed till the fix was found and a bit of dramatics. Well done though.
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POPSChinese waging online spy war No doubt that all countries are dabbling in this area. An interesting sidelight is that a lot of earth moving equipment has gone missing/been stolen in Australia to supply the Chinese needs. Apparently there is a shortage world wide of this machinery.
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POPSWhat's the world's fastest supercomputer used for? RIKEN's MDGrape-3 is the first machine to break the petaflop barrier -- that's 1 quadrillion calculations (floating-point operations, to be specific) per second -- and it's three times faster than the currently ranked fastest computer in the world, IBM's BlueGene/L. But MDGrape-3 is so specialized that it can't run the software used to officially rank computing speed.
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POPSA big list of sites that tell you how to do computer stuff Sites include "Instructables", SuTree, TrickLife, VideoJug, Expert Village, eHow, Household Hacker, Make: Podcast, 5min, ViewDo, Sclipo, Helpfulvideo, TeacherTube, Koonji, Squidoo, About.com