The Register - HardwareBiting the hand that feeds ITYes! It's the Knight Rider satnav!- June 23, 2008 'Turn left at the next junction, Michael' The days when Michael Knight tore across the US in KITT are long gone, but Mio is keeping the memory alive with a Knight Rider inspired satnav.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/23/knight_rider_satnav/ HP throws Tru64 code to Linux fanciers- June 23, 2008 GPL love-in Hewlett-Packard plans to make its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System available to the open source community.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/hp_tru64_open_source_gpl_2... Daewoo's laptop is child's play literally- June 23, 2008 The Lukid, aka Intel Classmate PC Further details have emerged online of Intel's second-generation Classmate PC sub-laptop, but this time the education-oriented unit's been branded by Daewoo.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/23/daewoo_lukid/ Microsoft should buy Rackable instead of building custom computers- June 20, 2008 Out-acquiring Google Comment We're in the midst of some very strange times. An online book seller owns the leading utility computing service. An advertising company manufactures its own servers and switches. And spots in rural America best known for being, well, rural are turning into technology heavyweights because they have access to cheap power and generous taxpayers.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/20/microsoft_rackable_buy/ E-food crisis abates as Sainsbury's online sparks into life- June 20, 2008 Netizens scramble to replenish frozen pizza stockpiles The UKs net population narrowly escaped starvation today as Sainsburys finally got its e-commerce site up and running again.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/20/sainburys_back/ Cobbler pieces together mass Red Hat Linux installations- June 19, 2008 Deploy Windows and then obliterate it Summit One of the main community-driven projects that prompted Red Hat to open source its Satellite code today was the Linux boot server, Cobbler.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/19/red_hat_summit_2008_cobble... Are Dell's Energy Smart servers really smart at all- June 19, 2008 $270 extra buys X amounts of brain A couple of years ago, Dell launched a new line of so-called Energy Smart servers. They were billed as modified versions of the company's standard PowerEdge systems, which cost a bit more up front but helped customers save more money over the long haul by reducing power consumption. But, we wondered, how smart were the Energy Smart systems here in 2008. Or more precisely, is Dell living up to its green computing claimshttp://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/19/dell_energy_smart_dig/ Jumbo bug crashes Cisco anti-hacker appliances- June 19, 2008 I saw a peanut stand, heard a rubber band Security appliances from Cisco can crash when handling Jumbo Ethernet frames, the networking giant warned on Wednesday.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/19/cisco_ips_bug/ Sun shrinks Constellation for HPC run- June 18, 2008 Hopes to outdo Bull Sun Microsystems has suffered from a hate-hate relationship with the supercomputing world over the past few years. The shift to Linux clusters caught the company totally off guard, and resulted in Sun vanishing from the Top500 supercomputers list. That's hardly the "right" position for a company that prides itself on selling servers and building big systems to occupy.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/sun_constellation_small/ Start-up outfoxes Apple, Dell and HP by offering stock options with PCs- June 18, 2008 Community for hire God bless Silicon Valley. Where else will you find a PC start-up offering stock options to create faux communitieshttp://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/cherrypal_paid_reviews/ |