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HP has also posted a notice on its Web site that states ProLiant Servers Configured with a Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor “require a Service Pack Upgrade for Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP 3 or Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 to Support AMD PowerNow! Feature.”

Currently, Proliant DL585 G2 servers use dual-core Opteron processors. But HP documentation updated last month makes copious reference to the quad-core Opteron used in HP’s High-Performance Technical Computing (HPTC) DL585 models. For instance, documentation states: “The second generation (G2) HP ProLiant DL585 server offers the performance and efficiency of quad-core AMD Opteron processors, enhanced by improvements to all major subsystems in the server.” This is found in a paper
entitled “HP ProLiant DL585 G2 server technology.”

Hewlett-Packard has committed to Advanced Micro Devices’ quad-core Opteron “Barcelona” processors in its Proliant DL585 servers, according to company documents.

This comes as AMD is preparing to send samples of its “B3″ quad-core Opteron processor to customers. The B3 stepping (or version) fixes, in silicon, a rarely occurring glitch in the Barcelona chip, referred to as the TLB bug. The bug has delayed shipment of quad-core chips to top-tier U.S. server vendors, giving Intel a leg-up in the high-end server market.

The DL585 servers are targeted at the HPTC market in areas including electronic design automation (EDA)/semiconductor, financial applications, petrochemical applications, enterprise resource planning (ERP)/customer relationship management (CRM) applications, large database applications, and video rendering applications, among other uses, according to HP.

Specifications for the DL582 G2 architecture include AMD Opteron 8200 series dual-core or 8300-series quad-core processors, Nvidia nForce Professional 2200 and 2050 chipsets, and the AMD 8132 chipset. Also: two 100MHz PCI-X slots, four PCI Express x4 slots, three PCI Express x8 slots, and two embedded multifunction gigabit network adapters.

Top-tier U.S. server vendors are, for the most part, waiting for the B3 stepping of the Barcelona processor, though selected shipments of earlier versions of the Barcelona are going to specialized, high-performance computing (HPC) customers.

“After discussions with Martin, we’ve agreed that I’ll be stepping down from my position as president & CEO of the About Group and leaving the Times Company,” the memo says. “I am incredibly proud of all that we have accomplished together as a team at About. The About Group is in a very strong position. I will miss not being a part of About’s future, but I’m confident that the Group’s best days are ahead.”

About.com Chief Executive Scott Meyer is leaving the company after almost three years at the site and almost eight years at parent company The New York Times Co., the company confirmed on Wednesday.

Meyer’s last day will be March 6, after which he will take some time off, he told according PaidContent.org.

In a memo to staff, Meyer wrote that Martin Nisenholtz, senior vice president of digital operations for The New York Times, will take over for now.

A spokeswoman for The New York Times confirmed the report and said the company would be looking for a new About.com chief executive from within and outside the company.

UPDATE 5 p.m. PST with company confirmation

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After doing a little research I learned that it’s actually a sci-fi show based on a BBC series. Of course, being the geek that I am, as soon as I learned about the sci-fi aspect I became intrigued. Also, with Clarke Peters from The Wire involved, I have to at least give it a try now.

Maybe however, you’re looking for something a little different. Perhaps you’d like to play Pong and have the game interrupted every few seconds to answer trivia questions about a show you’ve never heard of and just last night saw a commercial for. Well, that was my experience at least.

As for the show, as I mentioned, I saw a commercial for it last night for the first time and had no idea what it was about. Seeing Harvey Keitel with a huge flowing mullet kicking in a door didn’t excite me much either.

You may have to read the instructions a few times to get the gist of the game.

From the few minutes I’ve spent with it, I can say that the controls are responsive, but the A.I. isn’t challenging at all on the first few levels. I would have played further but I just couldn’t deal with the game constantly pausing to ask me ’70s- and Life on Mars-related trivia questions. Otherwise, it’s a pretty good version of Pong.

Itching to play Pong on the Web? Well, you’re in luck since there are tons of sites that offer Java or Flash-based versions. One of my favorites–since about 20 minutes ago–being this one.

ABC, in an attempt to promote its new ’70s cop drama Life on Mars, is offering Pong for play on its site and as a widget.

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As far as I can tell, this is the same site as news.bbc.co.uk, which is blocked in the mainland.

I mentioned this in my last post, but it deserves its own: there’s an extraordinarily easy way to read BBC News from within China. All you need to do is use this URL: newsvote.bbc.co.uk.

I don’t know how long this has been around, but I caught it in the comments on The Peking Duck. Thanks, Liuzhou Laowai! Enjoy your pithy BBC write-ups, everyone!

The one bummer is that linking to playlists is not as simple as an affair as it is on Muxtape, which gives you your own personal URL. The upside is that you can create multiple mixes using a central account.

Rafe and I enjoyed playing around with Muxtape yesterday (review), but were turned off by the uploader and potential limited life span of the service due to its lenient position on copyrights. If you’re looking for a slightly more flashy experience, and one that works without having to upload 50MB of music from your hard drive, check out Mixwit. It lets you create gorgeous-looking Web mix tapes to share with others and pulls in media from various streaming services such as Seeqpod and SkreemR.

See also:
Create viral mixtapes with Fuzz

Mixwit tapes can be embedded in all the major social networks, along with any regular blog, which I’ve done below.

Maybe its greatest asset is that the players look like real compact cassette tapes, with moving spools to match how far you are through the mix and each song. You can tweak the look and feel of the tape, the font, and the playlist with a wonderfully simple Flex editor. If you feel like going back to make changes, you can also go in and add, reorder, or get rid of songs that don’t make the cut.

Arguably, there is no more important ski technology than the boot. To drill the bumps or come out flying through the powder, you have to wear a boot that responds to your every move. If you haven’t skied for years then you won’t appreciate just how responsive a boot can be. In the case of the Tecnica Diablo Magma HiPerFit, I began to think it was reading my thoughts, though it sometimes erred on the side of flexibility.

I’ve never seen a boot give (in a good way) like this Tecnica boot. We skied it with its out-of-the-box settings, but one of the other areas in which it shines is its adaptability. Bow-legged? (Admit it.) You can adjust the boot to compensate. Want a stiffer ride? Easily adjusted.

Indeed, the thing that really sets this ski boot apart is its flexibility. I don’t just mean it flexes a little. I’m talking about insane flexibility.

Tecnica’s Diablo Magma also helps you ski the crud comfortably with an anti-vibration system that includes bi-injected rubber inserts to filter and absorb shock waves. This technology means decreased vibration and increased comfort (and performance).

Tecnica Diablo Magma HiPerFit

If I sound like I’m gushing, it’s because I am. As noted, we reviewed a range of other boots. Rather than make you read about them, however, we opted to focus on the best performing boot of the lot. If you happen to come to Utah to ski, let’s make sure you get to try out this solid boot. You’ll never go back to whatever it is you normally wear.

If there is a perfect ski boot, it may well be the Tecnica Diablo Magma HiPerFit. We evaluated a range of boots from Nordica, Lange, Head, and Dalbello, but this Tecnica boot took top prize from each of the four reviewers that evaluated it. This boot gets my vote as the best ski boot of 2007, though it had stiff competition, especially from Lange. (It’s perhaps not surprising that I liked it so much since I have actually been evaluating it off and on for nearly two years.)

Tecnica accomplishes this by combining both hard and soft plastics with three different zones of hardness within the boot. Unlike its boots geared toward intermediates and beginners, the Diablo Magma HiPerFit uses more hard than soft plastic to deliver more power and resilience. Even so, it’s surprisingly easy to get into and out of the boot (which is often not the case with front-entry boots).

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Upping the flex of the Diablo Magma

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“You would create an avatar that would work with all the virtual world services. Then you would have all your other type of productivity apps attached. So then everything would be integrated. So if you make a document on your computer and it auto syncs to the online service and is automatically added to your online word processor. All these services are available but all of them are all over the place. Why can’t they all be integrated? More or less.

“tehrani625″ as he or she is called, comes off as thoroughly unimpressed with the status quo and says it’s time to go beyond the conventionally stale thinking about social networks. Take a look and let me know what you think.

“I am bored of all the new social networks it would be nice if some one took something like open id and attached a friends list and then you would manage the thing from a central home page. That would give all the social aspects you need. Because you would add the various apps kinda like a face book page. Then it would connect to a storage service and some sort of email service. Then you would have all your games synced to this account.”

I wanted to repost this reader response to my Monday blog about a slowdown in venture capital funding for Web 2.0 start-ups.

Of course, isn’t that pretty much the promise (or threat?) of OpenSocial plus the social graph API? (Apropos, check out Rafe Needleman’s interview with Google’s David Glazer on the future of OpenSocial.)

“It would be nice to have an account and then not have to create an account every time I want to post on a certain forum. But that’s just what I think. It would also be nice to have integration into ones cell phone with a reasonable access fee instead of the $5 you have to pay on Verizon and then some and you don’t even get mobile web. If anything it would be nice to have better more available virtual words that are more usable.”

And here I thought Microsoft had a cross-license pact with nearly every tech company other than Red Hat.

Apparently there are still a few more names to cross of the to-do list Microsoft set-up a few years back. On Thursday, Microsoft announced a deal with Tokyo-based Onkyo, which will pay Microsoft an undisclosed amount of compensation to Redmond.

Onkyo also signed a deal to use Microsoft’s Windows Rally technology which aims to offer a better connection between PCs and other consumer electronics, such as Onkyo’s home theater and audio/video gear.

The reason is clear: If a content provider wants to innovate, it needs an open-source platform with which to do so. Building on a proprietary platform is a dead-end.

Kaltura is an open-source “video application server” and has been getting tremendous press. After spending a half-hour on the phone with co-founder Shay David today, I can see why. This is such a cool open-source opportunity. According to the company’s Web site:

As with Ringside and social networks, Dimdim with Web conferencing, JasperSoft and Pentaho with business intelligence, etc., open source makes a huge amount of sense for service and content providers by putting such customers in control and allowing them to tailor-fit software to their needs.

That was life before Kaltura.

By the way, I also really like the revenue model. There is a Community version available to download, and then a hosted/SaaS version for those who want Kaltura to take that headache away. It’s completely based on the LAMP stack, of course, and suggests a highly promising business model. Download and install for free, or let Kaltura take that burden upon itself for a fee. Loopfuse and others are experimenting with this model. I think it’s a winner.

Kaltura’s open-source platform enables any site to seamlessly and cost-effectively integrate advanced interactive rich-media functionalities, including video searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, and sharing. Kaltura’ goal is to bring interactive video to every site and to create the world’s largest distributed video network.

I asked Shay how open source benefits Kaltura, never mind the benefits to its customers. He indicated that a range of functionality has been contributed from its community, things that might not be the center of Kaltura’s attention but which are very important to certain members of its community. In open source, everyone is a product manager of sorts and can add to the product’s corpus.

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As the Web gets richer video content, Web publishers are going to want to have more control over the process by which video content is managed and delivered through their sites. This is why Wikipedia chose Kaltura to bring video to every one of its entries. Wikia, Remix America, and others (e.g., New York Public Library) are also using it.

There used to be a time when proprietary “Internet TV platform” providers Brightcove and Maven slept soundly at night…

Kaltura has a golden opportunity to dramatically reshape the Web, making video pervasive, compelling, and cheap. This is one of those open-source companies to keep a very close eye on.

Interested? You can download Kaltura’s GPL code on Sourceforge, and give it a spin here.