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Cheap IKEA Furniture Makes One Hell of a Linux Cluster
My IKEA experiences have been pretty hit or miss, but maybe that's just because I wasn't building Linux rendering clusters out of the POÄNG chairs. Because one modder took a $40 IKEA Helmer set of drawers and shoved in 6 Intel Quad Core processors. His end product featured 24 2.4 Ghz cores and 48GB of RAM. Where an example render on his DualCore Xenon 2.66 Ghz with 4 GB ram took 552 minutes (9.2 h), the IKEA machine breezed through the same task in just 64 minutes. Just don't try to pick up your Helmer case on a weekend. You could seriously die. [Helmer via MAKE]
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Time Capsule Shipping, Barely Makes Deadline
It looks like Apple will keep their Time Capsule "February" shipping estimate with only a day or two to spare. Pre-order customers just received word their shipments are being prepared. [AppleInsider]
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Time Capsule Hands-on
Apple's Time Capsule backup server is a great idea, and looks great as well. It's the same size as the Airport Extreme, but seems heavier. It has the exact same ports as the Airport Extreme (four Gigabit Ethernet ports, normal power ports) and has 802.11n. The top is different and has a chrome reflective Apple logo. There's not much else to say until we get our hands on it at home and test it ourselves, so check out the gallery to see how it looks. Bad news: The hard drive isn't user replaceable. A guy said he didn't think you could use it for NAS, but it connects to Finder like a normal NAS, so it probably can be used that way.
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Windows Home Server Interactive Demo
Still don't know what Windows Home Server is all about? We could re-explain that it's a server that helps you back up, access, and stream your data/media from inside or outside your house, but it's probably easier to check out this video demo Microsoft put out. It's not a straightforward software suite like Windows Media Center where the features are apparent, so it's tougher to see exactly what it's for. Microsoft's got a tough job ahead of themselves convincing people that they need this. [Microsoft]
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Microsoft Cries Uncle in Europe, Will Give Up Code to Competitors
After nine years of back and forth and a small country's GDP in fines for antitrust violations, Microsoft's finally caving to EU antitrust regulators by giving code to competitors it's fought to keep to itself after a 2004 European Commission directive to hand it over. A ruling last month by the EU's second-highest court affirmed the EU's right to force powerhouse companies to share intellectual property with competitors in order to level the playing field, which purportedly led Ballmer to fly to Europe to cut the deal. More »
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Not only is this LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini capable of streaming fast video over its Gigabit Ethernet to a UPnP media player, it's got file backup, file synchronization, and iTunes server capabilities. It's an update to the Ethernet Disk Mini from two years ago, but offers 500GB of storage plus all those networking functions for a price of only $199. We have to get our hands on one to see what its performance is, but from the spec sheet this looks pretty fantastic. [LaCie]
LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini Streams Media, Acts As iTunes Music Server
Not only is this LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini capable of streaming fast video over its Gigabit Ethernet to a UPnP media player, it's got file backup, file synchronization, and iTunes server capabilities. It's an update to the Ethernet Disk Mini from two years ago, but offers 500GB of storage plus all those networking functions for a price of only $199. We have to get our hands on one to see what its performance is, but from the spec sheet this looks pretty fantastic. [LaCie]
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AMD Launches Quad-Core Opteron, a.k.a. Barcelona
AMD is finally launching its Barcelona quad-core server chip today, although it's officially being called the Quad-Core Opteron. Intel may have been beating AMD to higher clock speeds recently, but the Barcelona offers some performance and power-saving advantages that should level the playing field again. More »
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Made for those super, super nerds who actually have rackmounts at home, Alienware's HD Media server has 1080p via HDMI, internal cable card (OCUR) support, Dolby Digital 7.1 preamp output, and built-in Media Center Blu-ray support. In addition to that, there's going to be native iTunes support so you won't have to exit the Media Center app to listen to your music. Plus, there's the 4 terabytes of hot-swappable storage that ensures you will never run out of room to store your HD shows this coming season. [CEPro]
Alienware Shows High End Rackmount Media Center Server
Made for those super, super nerds who actually have rackmounts at home, Alienware's HD Media server has 1080p via HDMI, internal cable card (OCUR) support, Dolby Digital 7.1 preamp output, and built-in Media Center Blu-ray support. In addition to that, there's going to be native iTunes support so you won't have to exit the Media Center app to listen to your music. Plus, there's the 4 terabytes of hot-swappable storage that ensures you will never run out of room to store your HD shows this coming season. [CEPro]
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Keyspan USB 2.0 Server Brings WiFi, Ethernet to Your Favorite Two Devices
It's time to stop hogging all those fancy USB devices you've collected and let your pals in on the wonders of high-speed portable data storage, printing, scanning and more. Keyspan's USB 2.0 server will help you share whatever you plug in to its two ports via Ethernet or WiFi. Ringing up at $129, this could be your holdover device until Certified Wireless USB inevitably becomes the cheaper alternative. [Keyspan]
Sun Blackbox, Don't Handle With Care
This is Sun's datacenter-to-go, Project Blackbox. And the video after the jump shows what happens in its interior when you put it at the epicenter of a 6.7-magnitude earthquake.
This is Sun's datacenter-to-go, Project Blackbox. And the video after the jump shows what happens in its interior when you put it at the epicenter of a 6.7-magnitude earthquake.
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Windows Home Server to be Available on OEM (That Means You Can Buy It Solo)
We had a close look at the Windows Home Server (WHS) back in April, groping all its sweet, sweet home server features before we were shooed away by Microsoft's people. Good news for PC enthusiasts who want to do their serving from an old PC: Microsoft's just announced that they're going to release WHS as an OEM product. More »
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Microsoft Confirms IPTV on Xbox 360, Windows Home Server - No HDMI/DVR Yet
Microsoft's confirmed the release of IPTV on Xbox 360, but there's no word of HDMI, DVR, or any video on demand features. Maybe they're saving it for later? More »
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Tech Analyst, Tom Rowley, is claiming that there is a immediate need for a consumer version of the Apple Xserve, with massive storage. I think he's dead wrong.
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Concept: Apple iServe
Tech Analyst, Tom Rowley, is claiming that there is a immediate need for a consumer version of the Apple Xserve, with massive storage. I think he's dead wrong.
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Server With Eight Hyperthreaded Dual Core Chips Goes 32-ways: Windows Goes Schitzo
Last week, a reader sent in a photo of Windows Task manager showing off a multiprocessing machine's sixteen gonads. Not bad, pretty cool. In the spirit of one-up-man-ship, I present this: An IBM System x3950 server with eight CPUs, All hyperthreaded Xeons.The result? Windows goes schitzo seeing 32 separate processors. Eric Long, who submitted this screenshot tells us the machine has 32GB of RAM, and is used to do the back end on "This call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes" type voice systems. More »
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Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways
This one goes out to all my IT homies. More »
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