Posts by B Parnell

Fanboi called 911 repeatedly because iPhone didn't work

*rolls eyes*

what an iTwat!

Virgin Media to issue firmware update after Superhub slows to crawl

You can use your own hardware.

You can use your own router, you just have to set up the DMZ option in the "superhub" config, give your internal router the relevant IP address and Bang, you are albe to connect to all the fancy interwebby stuff through your own kit!

One thing I had to do to get any form of working stable connection was to turn off the added feature of "Flood Protection" for some reason it likes to limit DNS connections and renders your connection all but useless when its enabled!

B.

Freebie Spotify is back, also £5 no-ads option

@ TOM15 would you be willing to give one away?

Would you be willing to give an invite away?

Boffins snare swollen 'excited giant' in forcefield prison

qubit

they can be 0, 1 or a superposition of both!

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubit for more details

US boffins build, test working 2-qubit quantum processor

LOL

"in a mysterious semi-undead waveform zombie condition"

OK, so who do I bill for the new keyboard as it is now covered in Coke!

Funniest thing I have read today!

B.

Superfast-charging batteries? Whoa there, MIT

MOD

I am amazed that the MOD has not hushed this one up to use it for their new rail guns. Multiple MKVA discharging in seconds should really give them new guns a kick ;)

Black Helicopter for obvious reasons!

B.

Big Blue to build DARPA cat-brain machine

Is that Skylab?

This is the first step in creating skylab!

When are we going to learn....... PHZzzzzzzz ...

Oh heck, here comes another T1000

B.

Judge points laser dazzler man towards prison

joke

what about Helicopper

LOL

Mine's the high visibility overcoat.

NASA to unleash 'mind meld' intelligent machines

Just remember Dr Forbin...

Machine to Machine communication, you can see where this will lead!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

I really hope they do not name the first one Colossus! Oh the Humanity!

Operating systems are old and busted

OS Virtualisation

To a degree this can already be done.

All the virtualisation products that have been discussed here are hardware based / hypervisor products.

What about Virtuozzo (for windows) or OpenVZ for linux?

They virtualise the operating system. You only install one OS (on the host) then virtualise the OS components that are required for the virtual environment.

http://www.swsoft.com/en/virtuozzo/

http://openvz.org/

Just my 2p worth!