Wednesday, September 10, 2008

10-Sep-2008 AM clippings

Enjoy:

The London Stock Exchange goes offline for 7 hours during frantic trading. Suspicion is its .NET-based system choked with high volumes:
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSL01084620080908

Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 9.04 will be called Jaunty Jackelope, and will have as its mascot a warrior rabbit:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080908-ubuntu-9-04-to-be-called-jaunty-jackalope.html

Google to digitise millions of old newspapers and make them available online. The hard part is sorting out who gets the advert revenue:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10035172-93.html

Tech Report reviews Intel's entry into the SSD market, and it's fast:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/15433

A sneak peek at OpenOffice 3.0, with link to installables:
http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-39220-97.html

A new variant on the RepRap 3D printer is capable of printing objects from files on an SD card without the use of a PC to drive it:
http://builders.reprap.org/2008/09/pic24-printing-from-sd-card.html

Plastic Logic is introducing a full-size ebook reader that will work with existing document formats:
http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-39220-97.html

And finally. Here's a look into the toolbox needed when you go up to repair the Hubble Space Telescope:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/09/1367343.aspx

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