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POPSMcCain, complete and utter netwit It took me a couple of years with books and a recovering brain to understand computers. He has had plenty of time if he had the interest. My motivation was the search for information and I'm loving it. McCain feels he will be needing information if he becomes president. But not now?
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POPSSwitch on a chip to boost internet speed What a great improvement. Telstra is among the worst in the world, old equipment, just for starters. The comparison will show that this will make us as fast as the rest of the world.
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POPSFix found for net security flaw I read about the problem this morning and the fix tonight. Just that the first announcement was delayed till the fix was found and a bit of dramatics. Well done though.
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POPSRussians behind zombie PC threat Don't be opening those emails from the Kremlin. Will Dick'n'George be able to save us? Will global warming cook the russian computers? Will the chinese over react and apply sanctions?
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POPSWhat's the world's fastest supercomputer used for? RIKEN's MDGrape-3 is the first machine to break the petaflop barrier -- that's 1 quadrillion calculations (floating-point operations, to be specific) per second -- and it's three times faster than the currently ranked fastest computer in the world, IBM's BlueGene/L. But MDGrape-3 is so specialized that it can't run the software used to officially rank computing speed.
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POPSHow Nanowires Work To some this is old news, others may enjoy learning a little more about how brilliant the micro chip and the people who build them actually are.