Topic: COMPUTER - on June 30, 2012 at 12:09:00 PM CEST
Digitalks Salon “Wie umgehe ich Vorratsdatenspeicherung?”
mit Pepi Zawodsky aka @maclemon & Martin Leyrer aka @leyrer, moderiert von Meral Akin-Hecke (Digitalks). Aufgenommen am 25. Juni im Sektor5, veranstaltet von Digitalks.at
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 25, 2012 at 12:52:00 PM CEST
Turing suicide enigma challenged
Evidence gathered after the death of the scientist from cyanide poisoning at the age of 41 in 1954 was "overlooked" and he could have died as a result of inhaling the poison he used in amateur experiments rather than deliberately ingesting it, according to Professor Jack Copeland.
Prof Copeland, director of the The Turing Archive for the History of Computing and author of a new biography of the academic to be published shortly, spoke as events took place around the country to celebrate the centenary of the under-appreciated scientific genius's birth.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 25, 2012 at 12:50:00 PM CEST
How Britain drove its greatest genius Alan Turing to suicide... just for being gay
With his shabby sports jacket, trousers held up with garden string and fingernails bitten to the quick, Alan Turing could not have looked more like an eccentric scientist.
But hidden behind his shambolic appearance and his awkward, halting speech was a formidable brain that made the British mathematician one of the great unsung heroes of World War II.
By breaking the German military's secret codes - created using the famous Enigma machine - Turing helped British Intelligence stay one step ahead of Hitler, allowing the Navy to defeat his U-boats and win the Battle of the Atlantic.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 23, 2012 at 10:15:00 AM CEST
Breaking the Code - The Biography of Alan Turing
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk. Adapted for Television
Turing Week To celebrate 100 years since Turing’s birth, Wired.co.uk has curated a series of features, interviews and guest posts that shed light on his contributions Top 10 fascinating facts about WWII code breaker Alan Turing
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 21, 2012 at 8:20:00 AM CEST
Centenary of the birth of WWII code breaker Alan Turing
This week sees the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, a man regarded as one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th Century.
He is best known for his work cracking the Germans' secret codes during the Second World War.
He is also regarded as one of the pioneers of computer technology.
An exhibition devoted to his life and achievements opens at the Science Museum in London on 21 June.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 15, 2012 at 10:48:00 AM CEST
Storyboard: 20 Years Later, a Look Back at Wired‘s Beginning
The first issue of Wired hit newsstands almost two decades ago. This inaugural edition is now available digitally on tablets, complete with behind-the-scenes notes and pop-up annotations—even for the ads. (Beware the crowded, multi-font design of the early ’90s.) Plus: An oral history that interviews people who played a key role in getting that first issue out the door.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 15, 2012 at 10:40:00 AM CEST
Hawking is First User of SGI ‘Big Brain’ Supercomputer
Calling your product the “Big Brain Computer” is a heady claim. It helps if you have Dr. Stephen Hawking say that the product can help unlock the secrets of the universe.
That’s the scenario for UV2 “Big Brain” computer from SGI, which is being unveiled in time for next week’s International Supercomputing Conference. The company is billing the UV2 as the world’s largest shared memory system, with the ability to scale up to 4,096 cores and 64 terabytes of memory. At a peak I/O rate of four terabytes per second, SGI says the UV 2 could ingest the entire 10 terabyte contents of the U.S. Library of Congress in less than three seconds.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 21, 2012 at 1:22:00 PM CEST
Raspberry Pi gets snappy with camera add-on
While the the Raspberry Pi foundation continues to struggle to meet the demand for its £16 Linux machine, it has already revealed improvements. The latest: a prototype camera add-on.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 19, 2012 at 9:16:00 AM CEST
Wozniak's Original System Description of the Apple ][
Opening with the line, 'To me, a personal computer should be small, reliable, convenient to use and inexpensive,' Steve Wozniak gave his system description of the Apple-II in the May, 1977 issue of BYTE. It's instructive to read what was worth bragging about back then (PDF), such as integral graphics: 'A key part of the Apple-II design is an integral video display generator which directly accesses the system's programmable memory. Screen formatting and cursor controls are realized in my design in the form of about 200 bytes of read only memory.' And it shows what the limitations were in those days, 'While writing Apple BASIC, I ran into the problem of manipulating the 16 bit pointer data and its arithmetic in an 8 bit machine. My solution to this problem of handling 16 bit data, notably pointers, with an 8 bit microprocessor was to implement a nonexistent 16 bit processor in software, interpreter fashion.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 18, 2012 at 10:11:00 AM CEST
New $74 Android mini computer is slightly larger than a thumb drive
A cheap white brand Android 4.0 USB/HDMI Stick based on AllWinner A10 has started to show up in Chinese websites. Initially, I thought it was like a low cost version of FXI Tech Cotton Candy (which will start shipping this month), but as you can see in the image below, the HDMI port is female so you’d still need a HDMI cable. The hole next to the USB port should be for the power supply, so this device is apparently not powered via USB (TBC).
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 18, 2012 at 10:08:00 AM CEST
VIA unveils AMOS-3002 fanless rugged PC
VIA Technologies has introduced a new mini-desktop PC based around a Pico-ITX sysem board. The VIA AMOS-3002 measures just 7.8″ x 4.1″ x 1.9″ and it features a rugged case that can handle temperatures between about -4 degrees and 140 degrees depending on the configuration. It’s also vibration and shock tolerance.
The little computer has a 1 GHz VIA Eden X2 processor and VX900H media system or a VIA Nano E-series processor processor. It’s not exactly a speed demon, but these low power chips are designed for embedded systems with fanless designs.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 5, 2012 at 10:05:00 AM CEST
Raspberry Pi Review & Initial How-To Setup Guide
Six years ago, Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton set out to reignite programming in schools with a cheap, compact computing platform. Despite targeting students, his foundation's $35 computer captured the imaginations of tinkers worldwide, resulting in overwhelming demand. Interest was so high, that distributors Premier Farnell and RS buckled under the strain of preorders in February. The former outfit later said demand was 20 times greater than its supply, with orders hitting 700 a second at one point.
When the first 10,000 devices shipped in mid-April, the organization graciously sent us a sample for coverage. Along with a hands-on review of the Pi, today we'll be covering basic steps for setting up the computer and other elemental post-installation tasks to get you up and running with applications. In other words, this should serve as a starting point no matter what you want to do with your Raspberry Pi.
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