November 2007


Nick Breese, memanfaatkan PS3 untuk melakukan cracking password.

Ada yg mau beliin PS3? :)

Para pemilik PS3 juga bisa membantu upaya Folding@Home di Stanford University memecahkan teka-teki dalam bioteknologi terkait hubungan protein dan penyakit. Dalam berita tertanggal 27 Maret 2007 di The Times, tercatat sudah 25ribu pemilik PS3 yg terlibat. Kemampuan pengolahan (processing powers) dari 25ribu PS3 ini setara dengan 990 teraflops atau 70% dari total kemampuan pengolahan skema Folding@Home. Sisa 30%, didapat dari 300ribu PC lain (=100 teraflops).

Found an article from the Asahi Shimbun

Interesting quote:

Mohammad, 38, runs an Asian grocery store in Tsunashima, Yokohama. The Sri Lankan had 520,000 yen in savings, and was thinking of donating 300,000 yen towards the purchase of the mosque. He changed his mind and donated 500,000 yen, virtually emptying his account.
Indian Muslim Nasr-abdllah, 49, who runs an Asian food store in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward, married a Japanese woman 16 years ago. “The Japanese do good deeds but worry too much about other people’s opinion. Sometimes my wife is preoccupied with school and garbage collection and ends up delaying her prayers,” says Nasr-abdllah with a wry smile.

There is a new initiative to boost speed in data transmission on mobile phone, name it: LTE/SAE Trial Initiative (LSTI). Technology involved here is LTE (Long Term Evolution) or SAE (System Architecture Evolution) (with PPT). It is reported on PCWorld

100Mbps!?! You can watch HDTV using this connection! wow…

Updated 071130: Verizon of US will adopt LTE

Wow :)

US Govt national outstanding debt

This video below showed how’s difficult the work of journalists when their work involved the most moral army in the world.

A Video Journalist was shot deliberately by IDF’s force in the Occupied Territory of Palestine: