Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) image of a huge, handle-shaped prominence taken on Sept. 14,1999. Prominences are huge clouds of relatively cool dense plasma suspended in the Sun’s hot, thin corona. The hottest areas appear almost white, while the darker red areas indicate cooler temperatures.
Jonathan Schwartz of Sun presents a sneak peak at a 48 drive, 4 unit high disk array called Thumper.
A free 10-week "AJAX Programming" online course is about to start from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX. In this 10-week course, students learn basic concept of AJAX as well as how to use various AJAX frameworks and toolkits….
60 days ago Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz issued a daring invitation to developers: write a public review of "the world’s most power efficient server" and keep the server. Be careful what you wish for.
A start-up called Simply RISC has built a single-core variant of Sun Microsystems’ UltraSparc T1, an indication of interest in Sun’s plan to encourage others to adopt and modify open-source designs for the processor.
Here’s a pretty obvious idea that’s a long time coming: solar-powered air conditioners. I mean, these things suck up more juice than pretty much any other appliance, and they’re sticking out there in the sun all day long — why not get at least some of the energy they consume from the sun they’re cooling us off from? It’s the circle of life, baby!
In a discussion about "Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3" Linus is quite pessimistic about Sun’s commitment to open source: "So they want to use Linux resources (_especially_ drivers), but they do *not* want to give anything back especially ZFS, which seems to be one of their very very few bright spots)."
Using plastics to harvest the energy of the sun just got a significant boost in efficiency thanks to a discovery made at the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Project Indiana is a new initiative from Sun that aims to make OpenSolaris as easy to adopt as Ubuntu. Inspired in part by Ubuntu’s ease of adoption, Indiana is Sun’s answer to well-integrated Linux distributions.
Since 50 Mt is 2.1
×1017 joules, the average power produced during the entire fission-fusion process, lasting around 39 nanoseconds, was a power of about 5.4×1024 watts or 5.4 yottawatts. This is equivalent to approximately 1% of the power output of the Sun. The detonation of Tsar Bomba therefore qualifies as being the single most powerful device.
