Following AMD’s launch of its latest server chips last week, it’s Intel’s turn to be in the spotlight.Intel plans to launch its newest generation of desktop processors on Monday. Called Core i7, the chips are aimed at the high-end desktop and gaming market.The move puts Intel ahead of its rival AMD by more than a few months ago.
TorrentValley, one of the larger BitTorrent sites with millions of visitors each month, has been shut down by Bulgarian authorities. The site’s servers were seized by a Cyber Crime Unit, which acted based upon evidence provided by the Bulgarian music industry.
You probably rely on the services on your own private network — wikis, mail servers, Web sites, and other applications you’ve installed. What happens when you have to leave the friendly confines of your network? With minimum exposure and few simple tools, you can get all of the comforts of home anywhere you can find an Internet connection.
This WordPress optimization guide is a collection of useful tips and tutorials on how to speed up your WordPress site. If you ever experienced slow WP admin panel, “MySQL server has gone away” message, pages taking forever to load or you want to prepare your site for a major increase in traffic (for example Digg fp) this is the guide is for you.
Pop quiz: you have a web site and you want it to be popular. It must scale to tens, hundreds of thousands, even millions of visitors. It has to be snappy and responsive. What server platform will you host it on? Here’s what two of the world’s most popular sites – Wikipedia and Digg - went with, and it wasn’t Windows.
The rise this year of a host of new Web video sites targeting high-minded, edifying content suggests that today’s marketplace of ideas is rapidly moving online. From interviews with obscure geniuses to splashy marquee names and hoary conference proceedings, an entire back catalog of cerebral Web video is steadily accumulating online.
The Network-Attached Storage or NAS was designed for the enterprise file sharing services. Now the consumer NAS has integrated many additional features including BT/eMule downloading, digital media server and video surveillance.
Newly obtained computer schematics provide further detail of how electronic voting data was routed during the 2004 election from Ohio’s Secretary of State’s office through a partisan Tennessee web hosting company. A network security expert with high-level US government clearances says the documents raise troubling questions.
Canonical plans to release Ubuntu 8.10, aka Intrepid Ibex, on Thursday. This latest installment of Linux for desktop computers and servers strives to be easy to use, a tough challenge given the complexities of Linux.
Ubuntu, the open source GNU/Linux based operating system, is about to release its next big update - Intrepid Ibex. In the past, the update servers would crash very quickly on a big release day, making it hard for people to get the latest update. With BitTorrent, however, this can be easily avoided.