http://www.heatbasketball.org Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:47:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The New York Times Co., Situation Publishing, Dow Jones, The Washington Post, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Computer and Communications Industry Association joined forces to obtain access to "non-confidential public records which have been sealed unnecessarily and unjustly withheld from the public," according to the ... http://www.heatbasketball.org/2010/09/04/groups-request-records-in-amd-intel-case/ SSD Primer, Part 1: SSDs are based on flash memory chip technology and have no moving parts. Hard-disk drives (HDDs), in contrast, use read-write heads that hover over spinning platters to access and record data. With no moving parts, SSDs avoid both the risk of mechanical failure and the mechanical ... http://www.heatbasketball.org/2010/08/30/intel-set-to-take-leap-in-solid-state-drives/ Some analysts think around 1 million of those iPhones have been purchased with the intention of unlocking them to run on other cell networks. If those numbers are true, that means iPhone unlocking exploded in the fourth quarter despite two steps taken by Apple to reduce the number of ... http://www.heatbasketball.org/2010/08/24/iphone-unlocking-explodes-despite-apples-counterm/ commentary Ah! Finally some intelligence on the GNU General Public License (GPL). John Mark Walker says something that few seem to understand, yet it's so simple (and true): No, the GPL does not cede your intellectual property to the public domain - as a matter of fact, it does a pretty good ... http://www.heatbasketball.org/2010/08/21/the-gpl-is-a-capitalists-best-friend/ To see our Archos 705 WiFi photo gallery, click the photo. (Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks) Our review of the super-size Archos 705 WiFi portable video player is now up on CNET. If you've been squinting at your puny PVP and want to upgrade, you owe it to yourself to witness the screen ... http://www.heatbasketball.org/2010/08/21/archos-705-wifi-review-photos/ (Credit: Google) Google's new Google Voice has a few rough edges but for many users, it could be a life-changing experience. The service, a relaunch of GrandCentral, which Google bought in 2007, allows you to choose a local number, which will simultaneously ring up to six phones such as your cell ... http://www.heatbasketball.org/2010/08/21/google-voice-flawed-but-still-awesome/ A still intact Johnny Knoxville recoups. (Credit: Naomi Nelson) The more dangerous--and pointless--the dare, the happier Johnny Knoxville is. Whether it's being gored by a bull or electrocuted by a taser, or starring in a remake of the Dukes of Hazzard, Knoxville is game. Now the actor, comedian, and co-creator of the ... http://www.heatbasketball.org/2010/08/21/mtv-bets-on-a-jackass-move-to-the-web/ Microsoft on Tuesday offered up a few more details on its once-secretive project to use virtualization to offer an "XP Mode" for Windows 7. As noted on Friday, Microsoft is using its Virtual PC technology to allow Windows 7 users to run programs that work in Windows XP but not in Windows ... http://www.heatbasketball.org/2010/08/21/more-on-windows-7s-xp-mode/ A network administrator for the city of San Francisco has been arrested on charges of taking control of the city's computer network and locking administrators out, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Terry Childs, 43, was due to be arraigned on Tuesday after his arrest Sunday. He remains in ... http://www.heatbasketball.org/2010/08/21/san-francisco-it-worker-arrested-in-hijacking-of-c/ At the SMX West conference today, Yahoo is making a big deal of its new open search initiative. This program, not yet live, will allow site publishers to influence the way the Yahoo search engine displays results for their sites. The idea is to get structured data into search results. ... http://www.heatbasketball.org/2010/08/21/yahoo-open-search-good-for-users-but-great-for-y/