(Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005.
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- Record labels getting better at detecting P2P
- Record labels getting better at detecting P2PAgain - What does an Honor System mean today?I really miss my days as a recording engineer, programmer and producer for the MIA (musicindustryassociation.org) Label at JMU. We relied on a community of our peers who actually encouraged our album works by paying...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Stop! It may be time to change the way you teach math
- A new article in the journal Science describes a controlled trial conducted by Ohio State University researchers testing modern approaches to math education. Though the subject of debate for many years, most math teachers use a variety of concrete examples to demonstrate mathematical concepts and techniques. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Diamonds are jet engines' best friends
- You certainly know that birds are enemies of jet engine turbine blades. But these jet engines have another nasty foe: sand. Even if the turbine blades are protected with thin layers of thermal barrier coatings TBCs, they operate at very high temperatures. When a sand storm hits a blade, grains...
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Better products or just better marketing?
- Oregon State University is reporting a significant increase in Mac usage among its faculty, according to MacNN. While the article focuses on OSU, there seems to be a growing trend to look someplace other than Vista when purchasing new computers. Water-cooler conversations with other faculty at my high...
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- RIAA gets student names, can't do much with them
- The Recording Industry Association of America RIAA was provided with a list of student names flagged as file sharers at Oklahoma State University when a judge threatened to hold the school in contempt. However, according to Ars Technica, because some of the students are represented by an attorney, RIAA...
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- The Official Ohio State Buckeye Football Newsreader for Coach Tressel (xpi)
- The Official Ohio State Buckeye Football Newsreader for Coach Tressel is an officially sanctioned extension by the OSU Buckeyes. This extension works in conjunction with the Official OSU theme - which supports the coach's official site (www.coachtressel.com). This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Software downloads 2008-01-22
- A second open source competitor in health IT
- A second open source competitor in health ITThe Pipe and Mirth[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL7]HL7[/url] is 'the pipe'.No two systems/vendor solutions manage HL7 exactly in the same way. Most are, in fact, custom tooled at the health care site level, taking hundreds of man-hour time to develop and fine-tune, sometimes with the unavoidable result...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- Managing research instruments on the Web
- Telescopes, supercomputers or microscopes can cost millions of dollars. The research institutions which bought them often try to share the costs with other laboratories. And they're also tempted to use Internet to allow remote control of their expensive systems. But Internet traffic is not reliable enough to control a multi-million-dollar...
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- OSU students fight back against RIAA
- OSU students fight back against RIAAA dose of common sensehas never stopped the RIAA before.Class actionSeems to me the RIAA's tactics could be prosecuted under the RICO statutes. (I'm not a lawyer, and don't play one on TV.)Alternately, everyone contacted by the RIAA could join one large class action...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- OSU students fight back against RIAA
- According to Ars technica, 11 Ohio State University students have hired their own expert witness to poke holes in the RIAA's case against them. The expert witness for the students a computer networking and security consultant pointed out several flaws in the technical aspects of the case, as well...
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Genetic research creates dwarf trees
- Researchers at the Oregon State University OSU have used genetic manipulations to create midget trees. In fact, they can control tree height. For example, 'natural' poplars can reach 150 feet or more. These forest scientists have created poplars growing only to a height of 6 inches after two years. They...
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Fixing spreadsheet errors
- Admit it: when you look at a spreadsheet, you trust the results. You don't question the totals or the percentages you see. But data, and formulas used to compute what appear in the spreadsheet cells, are both prone to errors. According to computer scientists from Oregon State University OSU, 90%...
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- Google data centers 'manufacture Internet services'
- "We’re like a large manufacturing facility, but what we manufacture is Internet services," Lloyd Taylor, director of operations for Google, said today, in publicly announcing the creation of a $600 million data center at Mid-America Industrial Park MAIIP in Pryor, Oklahoma, about 40 miles northeast of Tulsa.Google pressures power companies...
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- HDTV's turning Americans into couch potatoes
- HDTV's turning Americans into couch potatoesOrdinary Humans?Wow, were they actually able to find "ordinary humans" as this article states? I suppose that would be the non-sports fans? ROTF!They have been coach potatoes since remote control for TV was inventedNothing new. TV programs and commedy-shows are time killers and...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-16
- The mystery of Oregon's 'dead zone'
- The mystery of Oregon's 'dead zone'Dead zoneThis area is immediately in shore of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and this may be some indication of what is happening in that area. We know that dangerous gases are released by volcanos and fissures beneath the surface of the ocean in these...
- Discussion threads 2006-08-26
- The mystery of Oregon's 'dead zone'
- The area off Cape Perpetua on the central Oregon coast is now a gigantic crab and fish graveyard. It was first discovered in 2002, but according to the Christian Science Monitor, researchers at Oregon State University OSU have taken a close-up look into this coastal dead zone. And things are...
- Blog posts 2006-08-26
- Is the Earth elastic?
- Scientists from Brazil and the U.S. think so. In a surprising discovery, they've found that a GPS station in Manaus, near the center of the Amazon River basin, showed that the Earth level was going up and down by almost 3 inches (75 mm) every year with the seasonal floods...
- Blog posts 2005-10-05
- Electric power from cows?
- Using cow waste to produce electricity has been done before, for example by using the methane released by this waste to power farm machinery. But now, researchers from Ohio State University OSU have found new ways to turn cow waste into elctricity. First, using a half-liter of fluid from the...
- Blog posts 2005-09-03
- Tech worker job confidence rebounds
- Tech worker job confidence reboundsNow wait a darn minute. "Tech worker job confidence rebounds"How can this be. ZDNET at this moment is running a story about "Offshore-outsourcing spending to creep up"http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9589_22-5515479.htmlEither techs are as fickle as my ex-wife or ZDNET is/has or was misinforming to us about the...
- Discussion threads 2005-01-06
- WaveIP Selects WaveSat's WiMAX Non-Certified Solution
- Wavesat's WiMAX Evolutive DM256 Family of Products is a complete solution supporting all the features required to design 802.16-2004 base stations and subscriber units for both licensed and license-exempt radio frequencies. WaveIP selected Wavesat's WiMAX Evolutive DM256 solution to power it's WaveIP's OFDMAX Systems. WaveIP's OFDMAX leverages the IEEE 802.16-2004...
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