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Archive for January, 2012

Vanguard Summer Schedule – 2012 —

The 2012 DCI summer performance schedule for the Santa Clara Vanguard has been posted here and on the DCI website. To Be Announced (TBA) means we’re currently working on facilities for that day, however, if you can connect the dots and find that we might be in your area, we’d certainly be interested in hearing [...]

AMD’s New Radeon HD 7950 Tested —

MojoKid writes “When AMD announced the high-end Radeon HD 7970, a lower cost Radeon HD 7950 based on the same GPU was planned to arrive a few weeks later. The GPU, which is based on AMD’s new architecture dubbed Graphics Core Next, is manufactured using TSMC’s 28nm process and features a whopping 4.31 billion transistors. [...]

Apple Forcing IT Shops To ‘Adapt Or Die’ —

alphadogg writes “Many IT departments are struggling with Apple’s ‘take it or leave it’ attitude, based on discussions last week at MacIT, which is Macworld|iWorld’s companion conference for IT professionals. Much of the questioning following technical presentations wasn’t about Apple technology or products. It was about the complexities and confusions of trying to sort out [...]

Auntie SparkNotes: Advance Disinvitation —

Dear Auntie, I have a prom question (cue everyone’s foreheads hitting their keyboards as they scream “WHY?!?”). But first some background! I’m a senior, and my girlfriend, who’ll we’ll call Rosie, is a sophomore. We’ve been together for ~4 months, and she’s awesome. Really, really awesome. We’ve met each other’s parents, hang out all the [...]

Why Linux Vendors Need To Sell More Than Linux —

jfruh writes “Mandriva, a venerable Linux distro, is on the verge of shutting down. One of its main problems is that it never grew into more than just an OS vendor. The big players in the commercial Linux space — Red Hat, SuSE, Canonical — all built Linux into their larger computing visions. Is there [...]