Xbox Clusters Up At Linux Expo
Talkback Microsoft Is Notorious For Bending The Law To Suit Itself Every Chance It Gets. Remember Windows 95? They Were Mass Producing The First Aid programs For It Before They Started Selling It To The Public.
[December 12, 2003, 2:07]
Xbox Clusters Up At Linux Expo
Talkback Xbox running Ed's debian: 1.5 million keys/second. My results with the distributed.net RC5-72 challenge: Dual Xeon 2.8GHz: 7.8 million keys/second. Therefore 5 Xboxes (total $750) would perform the same amount of computation as one Dual Xeon 2.8GHz...
[October 14, 2003, 18:23]
Xbox Clusters Up At Linux Expo
Talkback I don't think there's any doubt that modifying a customer's computer system without prior authorization is a federal crime. The problem is that the federal prosecutors do not work to protect the people against criminals, but rather to protect more...
[October 14, 2003, 17:48]
Xbox Clusters Up At Linux Expo
Talkback Perhaps a good use of such an XBox cluster would be to determine the private key MS uses to sign code.
[October 14, 2003, 14:19]
Xbox Clusters Up At Linux Expo
News On the stand of a multimedia-oriented Linux distribution called dyne:bolic, operating system author and maintainer Jaromil -- the moniker he prefers to be known by -- was demonstrating a hacked Xbox that can be used to offload processing tasks...
[October 10, 2003, 10:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog One is in the shape of a Pocket PC, one an Xbox, one a Tablet (although that's already leaning at a dangerous angle). Windows Server 2003 HPC Edition will include features for running Windows on clusters of machines interconnected by a high-speed...
[June 25, 2004, 17:35]
