Monday, October 04, 2004

File Deletion Flaw In Firefox Fixed. The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox stand-alone browser has a bug of its own, the open-source group says. [InternetWeek] 4:23:20 PM    comment []  trackback []

Product Previews. Cray taps Linux for more affordable supercomputing Trying to expand outside its traditional technical markets, Cray on Monday unveiled its first Linux-based supercomputer. The new Cray XD1 series runs Suse Linux on AMD’s Opteron chip. The 64-bit system is organized as six two-way SMPs that can deliver 58 gigaflops per chassis. The system can handle as many as six 3.5-inch serial ATA drives and has a memory bandwidth of 12.8GB per SMP. It also features four PCI-X bus slots and a dual port Gigabit Ethernet PCI-X card for as many as eight Gigabit Ethernet ports per chassis. Pricing starts at $50,000 for a 12-processor chassis and goes to $2 million for a 288-processor configuration with two racks of 12 chassis each. XD1, Cray [InfoWorld: Top News] 1:14:57 PM    comment []  trackback []

LII @ Cornell Unleashes New Web Version of U.S. Code [teknoids] Finally, a new US Code:"For the first time, we're also releasing the underlying XML dataset, which you will find at http://lula.law.cornell.edu/uscxml . A soul-sucking registration is required. I am particularly interested in getting word of this out to information-science researchers, since it's the first time anything like this has been made available, and I'd certainly like to encourage people to work with legal text -- so pass this on to any CS or IS lists that seem appropriate to you. Any of you wanting to republish particular chunks of legislation as part of some other project will find it handy too, I hope." Tom Bruce announced this on Teknoids last week.  You can find the Code at http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode.  LII is also releasing the underlying XML version of the code which should be a fun dataset for developers:-)  The dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 license. 10:07:18 AM    comment []  trackback []

USPO Ditches Home Photo Stamps. Make a stamp? Nope, no more, says the U.S. Postal Service. Though most used the service to create postage from images of their dogs, babies and weddings, some folks made legal postage out of images of not-so-nice people. [Wired News] The concept is great: personalized postage.  I would buy this, nice stamps for Chrismas cards, birthdays, etc.  Of course, some folks can't restrain themselves from pushing the buttons, and thanks to photos of the Unabomber and Monica's blue dress, it is not likely that the rest of us will get to use this service.  One bad apple... 9:38:05 AM    comment []  trackback []