Tuesday, August 24, 2010

24-Aug-2010 AM clippings

Enjoy:

Some time this month, the 5 billionth device will plug into the internet:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/081610-5billion-devices-internet.html

The New Zealand Open Source Awards panel has been chosen and you can now nominate your favourite piece of Kiwi Open Source goodness:
http://nzoss.org.nz/news/2010/new-zealand-open-source-awards-judges-announced

Following a complete lack of - well, anything from Oracle really - the OpenSolairs Governing Board dissolves itself:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2010-August/008012.html

Tohoku University uses a cantilever tip to achieve a magnetic data density of 4 trillion bits/sq inch. Seagate think they can do 50:
http://www.physorg.com/news201250166.html

And finally. A direct plea to the Russian president may save the Pavlovsk seed bank that scientists starved to death in to preserve:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/16/russia-president-pavolvsk-twitter

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