Helen, Spartan and Sensibility
While reading freshmeat, I stumbled across an emerging operating system named HelenOS. HelenOS (after Helen of Troy) is a new operating system based on a preemptible micro kernel (Spartan) that has some really neat features. You thought microkernels were dead? Read on. Helen boots on pretty much every major architecture (even Xen friendly!). Its being [...]
No more ext3cow journal aborts :)
A good natured ext3cow user named Nicholas finally nailed a problem that has been perplexing at least five people for the better part of a year. Under heavy usage, ext3cow would crash with a nasty journal abort. No damage was ever done, just remounting fixed it .. but it was impossible to build your code [...]
Gridnix Resurrected!
A while back, I was working on my own GNU/Linux distro named “Gridnix”, a cluster friendly distro that was not married to any specific kernel, focusing on the ease of virtualization, grids ‘as a service’ and simple scalability. You should be able to ‘spill’ a cluster or utility grid just like you would a glass [...]
SRCE 1.0.7 is out
From my e-mail to gnupanel-devel: For inclusion with GNUPanel, I have finished and released SRCE 1.0.7. For those of you who don’t know what SRCE is, here’s a synopsis: SRCE stands for (S)ecure (R)emote (C)ommand (E)xecution, however it does much more. SRCE is a non-blocking microkernel style cluster of services that revolves around a very [...]
China jump starts nanotech
Xie Sishen, one of the chief scientists at The Chinese Academy Of Sciences announced a $83.6 Million (620 million yuan) State sponsored ‘hot shot’ into the research and development of nanotechnology today, according to The Shanghai Daily. Nanotechnology, a multi-disciplined science of manipulating matter on a molecular scale allows tiny devices to escape the conventional [...]
GNU Panel 0.2.3 is out :)
I’m excited and pleased to announce that GNU Panel (a free web hosting automation system) version 0.2.3 is out, and that the official Mercurial repositories have been created! A very special thanks to Serverbalance for giving us room to host our Xen farm. GNU Panel now features a dialog based installer, much easier to use [...]
Laser link from Earth to Moon?
Oerlikon recently demonstrated transmission of data over light at a distance of 1.5 million kilometers. The laser is specifically designed to provide data links to and from objects in space (to each other), as well as planetary to object, or possibly interplanetary links. From what the press release says, they achieved speeds of approximately 10MBit/Sec, [...]
Does your DNA smile?
ABC is reporting that Dr. Paul Rothemund at the California Institute of Technology can make 50 billion smileys, each a thousand times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. [ ultra paranoid geek mode ON ] We’ve already seen a patent for music from human DNA. Could this technique result in a patent that [...]
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