Rawstudio: A fast and light RAW photo converter
Rawstudio is an open source, GTK+-based RAW photo converter. It takes a straightforward approach -- no outside-the-box interface designs, no fancy frills. The result is an easy-to-use application that is stable enough for everyday usage, even though it is still undergoing constant development.
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Toyota Testing Plug-In Hybrid Prius
It?s not often we hear about Toyota following GM and Ford in the hybrid race, but today the company announced it would test eight plug-in hybrids on public roads in Japan. The company showed off a Prius converted to be a plug-in. This allows the hybrid to travel up to 8 miles at a time on just the electric motor, compared to the 1.7 miles the standard Prius can travel on electricity.
Even Toyota admits that selling these types of plug-in hybrids to the public won?t happen for ?some time,? as battery technology hasn?t advanced far enough to make the vehicles practical for buyers.
Unlike the plug-in hybrids Ford and GM are working on, the Toyota version will use a gasoline engine to power the car after the electric motor has run out of a charge. Ford and GM are working on a system where the gasoline engine is basically a generator that will recharge the electric motor, which will propel the car at all times.
Toyota Develops Plug-in Hybrid Car for Public Road Tests (The Detroit News)
Got arachnophobia? Your worst nightmare
WILLS POINT, Texas: Most spiders are solitary creatures. So the discovery of a vast web crawling with millions of spiders that is spreading across several acres of a North Texas park is causing a stir among scientists, and park visitors. (Read on Source)
#10 Ranking Could Be Best Case Scenario for Sooners
Saturday night Oklahoma's football future was very much up in the air but today it is crystal clear. The question on everybody's mind was how far would the Sooners free fall after totally collapsing in Boulder? Surprisingly the media and coaches were extremely kind to OU dropping them only to #10 this week in both polls. With seven games left on ... (Read on Source)
Shoemoney RSS Contest Winners for Friday, October 19!!
Here are winners from yesterdays rss contest. Google Winner - Jonathan Holloway $297 - 1 copy of PPCRiches.com - From PPCRiches.com Bloglines Winner - Alexander Barbara $100 - 1 free page on Million Dollar Wiki - From Million Dollar Wiki $50 - Amazon gift certificate - From Desktop Nexus News Gator Winner - James Farmer $100 - Gift card to newegg. ... (Read on Source)
Apple's iPhone Sales Increase After Price Slash
... T Evidently Novell should be afraid - very afraid - because Canonical with its Ubuntu distribution, Dell's little playmate, the Linux Dell's pre-loading on a few of its PCs, ...
Web Hosting Dedicated Server Colocation Firm, AxisHOST, Acquires Linux VPS Firm
Montague, Michigan - (The Hosting News) - November 5, 2007 - Server colocation, managed dedicated server, and cPanel-based shared web hosting company, AxisHOST, Inc., has acquired BuyAVPS, a provider of Linux-based Virtual Private Server solutions.
Tina Peters, General Manager of AxisHOST explained, ''When we initially looked to acquire BuyAVPS, we had to create an iron-clad plan to deal with a number of service problems that have resulted from financial constraints of the previous owners. With our acquisition now complete, we have instituted a host of improvements that have dramatically improved the customer and technical service customers receive. The response has been phenomenal.''
AxisHOST, which boasts more than 10 years of experience in the industry, has made major changes to BuyAVPS as part of the acquisition. Namely, BuyAVPS now maintains a more robust Service Level Agreement, including a 99.99% uptime guarantee and maximum latency of 85ms.
With the acquisition, AxisHOST has hired additional technical support staff and reduced the average ticket response time to under an hour for non-emergency issues. The company has experienced 100 percent uptime since the acquisition, a rare feat in the industry.
Currently, BuyAVPS offers plans starting at $9.99/monthly for 6GB of disk space and 100GB of monthly transfer. Customers can choose from a variety of Linux distributions, including CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Slackware and Gentoo. Over the next 12 months, AxisHOST plans to aggressively market and develop the company. It will introduce additional control panels, platforms, and offer an array of dedicated server options.
AxisHOST is a debt-free and profitable privately held corporation, based in Montague, Michigan. Started in 1997 under the name White Lake Web, the company's services include server co-location, Web site hosting, domain registration, development and business consultation.
To learn more about BuyAVPS, please visit: www.buyavps.com.
For more information about AxisHOST, Inc. please visit: www.axishost.com.
Teleconferencing Etiquette Tips and Ground Rules
When one enters a meeting, he brings a demeanor that has been honed over a life time. To make a good impression, he must possess social graces that are proper and unobjectionable. During a teleconfere...
Va. schools teach 'Net safety lessons (AP)
AP - On a screen at the front of a classroom, Gene Fishel flashed an online social-networking profile of "hotlilflgirl," which said she was 15, enjoys being around boys and wants to meet new people.
Program Discourages HIV Transmission In Russia
Sexual behavior counseling during drug addiction treatment should be considered an important component among Russian substance-dependent individuals, in order to decrease risky sexual behavior in the HIV at-risk population, according to recent research.
A Little Linux and Unix Humor - Error Messages
The Linux and Unix Menagerie:
"89. “Go away. You don’t exist.”
90. Tsk tsk? Have I been a bad computer?
91. line 2706 compiler error: schain botch "
Obama Delivers Remarks at NAACP Convention
SEN. BARACK OBAMA, (D-ILL.): It is always humbling to speak before the NAACP. It is a powerful reminder of the debt we all owe to those who marched for us and fought for us and stood up on our behalf; of the sacrifices that were made for us by those we never knew; and of the giants whose shoulder...
Is OpenSolaris in hot water?
Here's how it works: Novell owns Unix's IP (intellectual property). SCO sold Unix's IP to Sun. Sun then included some Unix IP into Solaris. Finally, Sun open sourced Solaris as OpenSolaris. Sounds like trouble, doesn't it? While Sun's Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps described the line of logic above as "sheer speculation," others see a major potential legal problem for Sun. However, analysts, lawyers and open source leaders also agreed that it's unlikely Novell would ever choose to make trouble for Sun. Novell, however, has not commented on its intentions despite several attempts to get the Linux company's take on the issue.
SEO Chat Forums - Dropping
Date: July 30th, 2008 02:15 AM - Dennis John - Untitled Post: First of all, Analyze your website to know why your website ranking gone down. If noticed correct it and start optimising it. As there would be a number of things: 1) Website redesign / content change 2) Competition increase 3) B...
Sharpe answers SOS
Nathan Sharpe will fly to South Africa to replace injured Wallabies lock Dan Vickerman. Vickerman went down with a shoulder injury in Saturday’s Test against the Springboks. Initially left out of Robbie Deans’s touring squad, Sharpe will now rejoin the team and fill the role of premier lineout jumper. Hugh McMeniman is also recovering ... (Read on Source)
CIA More Fully Denies Deception About Iraq
The controversy over a best-selling author's account of forgery and deception in the White House deepened yesterday with a new CIA denial that it helped the Bush administration produce phony documents suggesting past links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.
First Novel to Address the Epidemic of Returning Veterans and PTSD: Broken: One Soldier's Unexpected
Broken: One Soldier's Unexpected Journey Home is an intimate portrayal of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Author and PTSD survivor W.C. Turck. The book describes the physical and psychological trauma faced by returning Iraq and Afghan War Veterans, and its brutal effects on families and relationships. These are the silent casualties of war, suffered by perhaps as high as 70% of returning vets. They are scars not easily seen, but as real and debilitating as any physical wound. The book is currently available at barnesandnoble.com, and at Amazon.com. (PRWeb Sep 3, 2008)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/PTSD/Veterans/prweb1274204.htm
Old Web idea of micropayments finally finds a home (AP)
AP - Seventeen-year-old Alexis Corocan spends about $5 a month on clothes, accessories and eyes of various shapes and shades for her online persona on IMVU, a popular Internet hangout.
O3b Links With Google for Fast Satellite Internet Capacity
Satellite company O3b Networks has linked up with Google and other investors to bring cheaper, high-speed wireless Internet...
Childhood cancer genes pinpointed
Scientists pinpoint three genes considered key to the development of a form of childhood brain cancer.
E-ZCharge Dock Wrangles Charge Cords
If cell phone cables are lying around everywhere in your home on counters or desks, the EZCharge Dock promises to clear the clutter up for you. The device is a U-shaped cradle that adheres to any charger for portable devices without having to touch the plu...
WatchGuard Debuts Financing Services for Network Security
... The WatchGuard family of wired and wireless unified threat management appliances and WatchGuard SSL VPN remote access solutions provide extensible network security, unparalleled network visibility, management and control. WatchGuard ...
First Class Flurry flight attendant game released
Viqua Games has released its latest casual game, First Class Flurry. Players take on the role of a flight attendant, Claire, who must help bring a bankrupt airline to success through making passengers happy. She must serve drinks, prepare meals, hand out pillows, and usher people to their seats....
Oracle tries to step up on high-end databases
Since 2005, Oracle has spent at least $32 billion on acquisitions -- turning itself into the vendor of a top-to-bottom enterprise software stack that is arguably broader in scope than any rival suite.
In doing so, Oracle hasn't diluted its database focus. Sales of databases and middleware still account for more than half of its revenue. And according to consulting firm Gartner, Oracle controlled 49 percent of the global database market last year, with more revenue than the next four vendors -- IBM, Microsoft, Teradata and Sybase -- combined.
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But Oracle has shown some signs of vulnerability at the high end of the database market. For instance, many Web 2.0 companies are eschewing its databases and instead running open-source technologies like MySQL on grids of PC servers. And corporate users with data warehouses sized in the hundreds of terabytes, or even in the petabyte range, are finding column-oriented databases and specially tuned data warehousing appliances to be more scalable than Oracle databases are.
So Oracle's annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco two weeks ago was heavy on database news as the company tried to show that it is agile enough -- and its software is robust enough -- to respond to the new challengers.
At the top of the list was Oracle's announcement of a pair of hardware products -- its first ever -- aimed at users looking to get ultrafast performance out of their ultralarge databases.
For the past six months, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison had teased users and analysts with hints that the vendor would introduce a "database accelerator" at OpenWorld. That turned out to be the Exadata Storage Server, which combines Oracle's parallel query software with ProLiant servers from development partner Hewlett-Packard.
What makes the Exadata system different from a typical storage server, according to Oracle, is the database intelligence built into the device. Ellison claimed that Exadata can speed up large queries by performing lower-level calculations on the information it stores and then sending the results to the main database, instead of flooding it with raw data.
The other new product, the industrial-sounding HP Oracle Database Machine, is a self-contained system designed to match up against integrated data warehousing appliances from vendors like Teradata and Netezza.
The Database Machine combines eight regular database servers running Oracle Database 11g with 14 Exadata systems that have a total storage capacity of 168TB and InfiniBand connections offering 14GB/sec. of aggregate data bandwidth.
That all costs a mere $2.33 million -- for existing customers that have enterprise or unlimited Oracle database licenses. New customers would have to pony up for licenses for the eight database servers; based on the configuration recommended in an Oracle white paper, that would cost an additional $3.22 million, analysts said.
Even so, Christo Kutrovsky, a database administrator at The Pythian Group, an Ottawa-based company that manages databases for corporate clients, said he thinks the Database Machine could be worth the steep cost if the alternative is having the IT department try to assemble a similar system itself.
"Ninety percent of the problems I've seen are due to improperly configured systems," Kutrovsky wrote in Pythian's corporate blog. Installing the Database Machine eliminates that issue by making configuration errors "impossible," he said.
According to Oracle, customers that tested production workloads on a half-size Database Machine said queries ran 10 to 72 times faster than they did on other systems. Those early users include the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, supermarket chain Giant Eagle and LGR Telecommunications, which develops data warehousing systems for telecommunications carriers.
In a blog post, Forrester Research Inc. analyst James Kobielus described the introduction of the Database Machine and Exadata as "a bold move into petabyte scale-out territory -- an emerging, very-high-end niche in which one veteran vendor, Teradata, has been preeminent."
Kobielus also noted that Oracle's storage layer is transparent to applications, meaning they don't need to be rewritten in order for users to see performance gains on the new systems.
Lukewarm reception
But Tim Hall, a U.K.-based Oracle DBA, blogged that he was "a little underwhelmed" by the OpenWorld announcement. "It all seems a little irrelevant to me," Hall wrote, citing the price tags and high-end focus of the new products. "For me, this is like discussing the merits of a Lamborghini when I'm actually going to buy a Renault Clio."
And independent database analyst Curt Monash said that although the Database Machine and Exadata are impressive from a technical standpoint, he doesn't expect them to win over many Web 2.0 companies or other new users. The technologies make the most sense for businesses that already use Oracle's data warehousing products and "are content to pay Oracle prices," Monash said.
For companies that don't have money to spend on a turbocharged system like the Database Machine, Oracle is touting 11g's Advanced Compression option. In a session at OpenWorld, Oracle officials said the data compression technology can dramatically shrink database table sizes and boost read/write speeds by as much as three to four times in data warehouses as well as transaction databases.
In fact, Oracle claims that companies using Advanced Compression no longer need to move seldom- or never-used older data to archives. Instead, they can keep all that information in their production databases, according to Oracle officials.
But users haven't flocked to Advanced Compression yet. One reason is that it's not a free add-on: Licenses start at $11,500 per processor -- a relatively high price in its own right.
In addition, the technology is available only to users of the year-old 11g Enterprise Edition, which has yet to be widely adopted. Andrew Mendelsohn , senior vice president of server technologies at Oracle, said that 75 percent of the company's database customers are running its 10g release, while another 20 percent are still using the even older 9i version.
For instance, LGR Telecommunications has built a pair of 300TB data warehouses for AT&T, which stores its caller data records in them. But the databases, which run concurrently, are based on 10g and can't take advantage of Advanced Compression yet.
Hannes van Rooven, a technology manager at LGR, said during a presentation at OpenWorld that his company uses compression only to a limited extent now, although it does plan to increase its usage "extensively" in the future.
Intermap Technologies Inc. is running the spatial version of 11g for an 11TB database of mapping and imagery data that is expected to grow to 40TB by the first quarter of 2010. But Sue Merrigan, senior director of information management at Intermap, said that the company doesn't compress the data "because we're concerned it would lose its accuracy."
That wouldn't happen, Oracle officials said. But comments such as Merrigan's show that even among some of its loyal customers, the vendor still has a sales job to do on Advanced Compression -- never mind the Database Machine and Exadata.
Chris Kanaracus of the IDG News Service contributed to this story.
The Princely Sum of $26,097 was Scooped by 'princessaces' from West Lothian in Last Night's Ladbroke
princessaces from Scotland wins $26,097 last night in the annual online Ladbrokes Poker festival. As the poker alias suggests the winner is indeed a woman and has won a tournament that funnily enough is called the DADDY. princessaces has in the last 10months won over $60k on Ladbrokespoker.com. princessaces now has a shot at playing for a million dollars in SKY Sports 2 televised poker tournament Poker Million VII in December. (PRWeb Oct 29, 2008)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/poker/addedmoneytournaments/prweb1543524.htm
'White Gold' Makes Appearance at Beauty Salons
Goodby, Silverstein's latest effort for the California Milk Processing Board's "Got milk?" initiative features faux rock band White Gold and the Calcium Twins in an effort to reach teenage girls by focusing on the beauty benefits of milk. (Read on Source)
What just happened at Valleywag? The FAQ
Denton's trying to follow Wired's footsteps: Take an insidery, localized publication and make it a national daily read. Will it work? Maybe. Will Chris Tolles still reload obsessively? That's the challenge. (Read on Source)
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