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Openbsd Jurnal: Heads up! OpenBSD now supports multi-byte characters!

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:40:58 +0700

On July 27th, Stefan Sperling (stsp@) added support for the multi-byte characters in the OpenBSD libc. Thanks to the work of the people involved in its development, the OpenBSD C library now supports the Unicode character encoding scheme UTF-8. Read on for the full commit message, some words from Stefan about what needs to be tested and how to do so:

Drupal: Case Study: www.aidshilfe.de relaunch

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:33:25 +0700

The Deutsche Aids-Hilfe (DAH) is the leading German non-governmental organization that deals with the concerns of people living with HIV/AIDS and helps raise awareness of effective HIV prevention techniques.
As the governing body for more than 120 local AIDS service organizations, it supports this work at many different levels.

Openbsd Jurnal: [c2k10] (Part 5)

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:07:31 +0700

In all of my interviews at c2k10, there were many things that kept coming up over and over again. One of those things was the release of 2.7 in June of 2000 and 2.8 in November. It was a period when many of the developers, tedu@ included, started to use OpenBSD. There is a reason for these two releases being so popular and a tipping point, so to speak, that attracted many thereafter.

Slashdot: Long In Development, Toyota 'SCiB' Battery Debuts

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:13:00 +0700

relliker notes Toshiba's announcement of the SCiB, a battery we have been following for years. (As usual, use NoScript to avoid the incredibly annoying timed begging popup on Gizmag/'s site.) Here is Toshiba's SCiB site. The battery's specs claim 6,000+ charge/deep-discharge cycles with minor capacity loss, safe rapid charging to 90% in 5 minutes, and enhanced safety regarding overheating or shorting out.

Wired: July 28, 1948: IG Farben Explosion Punctuates Nuremberg Trial

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0700

A deadly explosion at German chemical conglomerate IG Farben's Ludwigshafen plant kills more than 200 people and injures more than 3,800 — 500 of them seriously.

Slashdot: Rambus Could Reap Millions In Patent Settlements

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:30:00 +0700

RedEaredSlider writes "Rambus, a designer of semiconductor chips, won a long-running patent battle with NVIDIA, but that dispute is not the only one the company is involved in — and the upcoming decisions could mean millions in additional revenue. Besides the NVIDIA decision, Rambus is involved in a suit with Hynix Semiconductor that will be heard in October. In that case, Hynix had originally sued Rambus in 2000, but Rambus counter-sued. Hynix lost, and appealed. The parties will appear before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in October.

Slashdot: Data Sorting World Record — 1 Terabyte, 1 Minute

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:29:00 +0700

An anonymous reader writes "Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego have broken the 'terabyte barrier' — and a world record — when they sorted more than a trillion bytes of data in 60 seconds.

Slashdot: Lawsuit Hits Companies Using 'Zombie' Flash Cookies

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:43:00 +0700

A privacy activist has filed a lawsuit targeting eight corporate users of Quantcast's "zombie" Flash cookies, in addition to Quantcast itself. The suit alleges that MTV, ESPN, MySpace, Hulu, ABC, Scribd, and others used Quancast's Flash-based cookies to recreate browser tracking cookies that users had taken the trouble to delete. "At issue is technology from Quantcast, also targeted in the lawsuit. Quantcast created Flash cookies that track users across the web, and used them to re-create traditional browser cookies that users deleted from their computers.

Wired: Photo Gallery: Propelled by the Hand of God

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:59:00 +0700

Drag racing is a sport of extremes. Take a look at these 14 hot pictures.

Slashdot: Possible Room Temperature Superconductor Achieved

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:55:00 +0700

TechkNighT_1337 sends news that surfaced on the Next Big Future blog, concerning research out of the University of Bengal, in India. The report is of a possible superconducting effect at ambient room temperatures. Here is the paper on the ArXiv. (Note that this research has not been peer-reviewed or published yet.) "We report the observation of an exceptionally large room-temperature electrical conductivity in silver and aluminum layers deposited on a lead zirconate titanate (PZT) substrate. The surface resistance of the silver-coated samples also shows a sharp change near 313 K.