http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2009, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2009-12-17T08:33:13+00:00 Geeknet, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl //slashdot.org/submission/1135694/Locating-Managed-Dedicated-Server-Hosting?from=rss If you have been online for an extended amount of time, then you probably know a thing or two about blogs and websites. You might also know that blogs are hosted on a web server, which is simply a computer that holds your sites files and is connected to the internet. When someone wants to access your site, they simply type the url into the browser address bar.Lets say you want to start your own blog about stamp collecting but am unsure what you need to get that blog live. Well there are a couple of routes that you can go with depending on what your needs are.We need to ask a few questions first.* Is my site going to use a lot of media?* How many visitors do you think will visit your site in a month?Its pretty tough to judge site visitors at the get go because this depends a lot on your marketing efforts and the quality of your content on the site. Its important to know how much media your planning on using because if your site uses lots of video and pictures you’ll have to get hosting that has a lot of memory and bandwidth per month. The next consideration is whether you need dedicated managed server hosting or non-managed dedicated server hosting. Basically, the only difference is whether you take care of the servers or if the hosting company takes care of the servers.If you elect to go the non-managed route, then you will need to be a little more tech savvy then your newbie computer person. For those of us that don’t have much experience running servers it is best to choose the managed dedicated server hosting. This way if anything goes wrong with the server or there are technical difficulties, they will get taken care of quickly.Alright, so you know what kind of hosting you need. Now its time to find the best managed dedicated server hosting for the best price. This is not really one of the easiest things to do because there are a lot of choices out there for hosting. A lot of hosting companies give similar packages and comparable rates. chillyzhosting 2009-12-17T08:29:50+00:00 //slashdot.org/submission/1135692/China-Shop-ShelvingsShopfittingsShop-Equipment-M?from=rss SuMetall is a China manufacturer and supplier for quality shop equipment and shop fittings, Main products including Shop shelvings, Gondola shelving, Retail shelving system, Shopping trolleys, Shopping baskets, Checkout counters, Supermarket fittings and various shop display fixtures shopfittings 2009-12-17T08:27:05+00:00 //slashdot.org/submission/1135690/Cloud-Computing-and-Shared-Hosting-Services-India?from=rss Shared Web Hosting -Cloud Computing ,Cloud Hosting Services, Cheap Shared Hosting — Shared Web Hosting Provider, Reseller Hosting Provider With Cpanel Shared Hosting by chillyz.com chillyzhosting 2009-12-17T08:19:39+00:00 //slashdot.org/submission/1135688/Playoff-Schedule?from=rss NFL Playoff Schedule give you the playoff tree structure for 2009 — 2010 NFL season. We’re football fans and we’re not afraid to say that we follow every game in the NFL Playoffs Schedule, all through the post season! tomharry124 2009-12-17T08:13:14+00:00 //slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=7867464&from=rss And GPUs rock Nvidia CEO Jen Hsun Huang believes the US Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit against Intel could "completely transform the computer industry." What is your recession sales strategy? registerfeed 2009-12-17T08:12:38+00:00 //slashdot.org/submission/1135686/Mozilla-Firefox-Mobile-will-kill-app-stores?from=rss Mozilla claims that its new Firefox Mobile browser could be the beginning of the end for the hugely popular app stores created by Apple and its ilk. Mozilla claims Firefox Mobile will have the fastest Javascript engine of any mobile browser, and that will allow developers to write apps once for the web, instead of multiple versions for the different mobile platforms. "As developers get more frustrated with quality assurance, the amount of handsets they have to buy, whether their security updates will get past the iPhone approval process... I think they'll move to the web," Mozilla's mobile VP, Jay Sullivan, told PC Pro. "In the interim period, apps will be very successful. Over time, the web will win because it always does." Barence 2009-12-17T08:12:28+00:00 //slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=7867458&from=rss A Googlephone for business? Review Earlier this year, Motorola was doing a very good impression of a company that, if not quite dead in the water, was certainly looking increasingly like shark bait. But then came its Android-powered Dext, with some advanced social networking capabilities and a clutch of high-end features, and the US company suddenly seemed to be back in the race. registerfeed 2009-12-17T08:12:26+00:00 //slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=7867456&from=rss The Peter principle says people get promoted until they reach the level of their own incompetence – now mathematics proves it nsfeed 2009-12-17T08:12:14+00:00 //slashdot.org/submission/1135684/Supreme-Court-to-hear-text-message-privacy-case?from=rss http://blog.cytalk.com/2009/12/supreme-court-to-hear-text-message-privacy-case/ Cytalk 2009-12-17T08:03:48+00:00 //slashdot.org/submission/1135682/Klima-Stop-Sweat-Solutions--The-Strongest-Antiper?from=rss http://www.klimadeodorant.com/home.php valentine83 2009-12-17T08:02:53+00:00 //slashdot.org/submission/1135680/Zalman-CNPS10X-Quiet-CPU-Cooler-Review--Tweaknews?from=rss The Zalman CNPS10X Quiet cpu cooler can be summed up to be a quiet winner. Although the installation was a little daunting, the performance after the fact made this cooler worth the effort and frustration. It beat everything with ease and could even be used for mild overclocking if temperatures are monitored and the speeds adjusted for the fan's capacity. Anonymous Coward 2009-12-17T07:55:39+00:00 //slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=7867106&from=rss Just in time for the holiday season, SteveD alerts us to the news that PPL, Phonographic Performance Limited -- a separate UK licensing group, which collects for performers and producers (unlike PRS, which is for songwriters/record companies) -- is pushing forward with demands for charity shops to pay up for a license on top of the license they already pay PRS. In the past, the UK government exempted charities from having to pay the PPL license, but they've now removed that exemption, and like so many music collections societies, PPL didn't bother to consider how it would look to shake down charity shops, and apparently just drove forward with plans. Nice of them. This is what happens, of course, when you create the statutory ability to shake down anyone who plays music. That right just expands more and more, and the musicians and songwriters never have to actually give people a reason to buy: they just sit back and collect. Permalink | Comments | Email This Story techdirtfeed 2009-12-17T07:52:41+00:00 //slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=7867102&from=rss While there are questions as to how separated the "church" and "state" part of the newspaper business has been, it seems to be disappearing almost entirely these days. We already talked about one paper that was starting to have editorial staff report to ad sales staff, and now we've been alerted to a story about a journalist in Colorado who was apparently (at least according to his side of the story) let go for writing a column critical of local ski resorts, who are major advertisers in the paper: Berwyn said Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz called him at the paper and expressed displeasure with the column. "I don't remember his exact words, but the thing that stuck in my mind was 'This calls into question our ability to work with you,'" said Berwyn. "That was sort of the main thing that stuck in my mind." Berwyn says Jim Morgan, the publisher, was concerned that Vail Resorts would end their advertising relationship with the newspaper. When describing what Morgan said to him, Berwyn said, "he went on to talk about the business situation of the Summit Daily and how it was a business, how they had to watch out for the bottom line." Now, I've never really believed that the church and state parts of the news business were really that separated, and I actually don't have a huge problem with the two sides understanding where the other is coming from. But, if you're going to deal with such a situation, then you have to know that the scrutiny is going to be even stronger over anything that smacks of bias or favoritism. And stories like this raise serious questions about the credibility of The Summit Daily as a news gathering operation. And, without credibility, it's hard to get readers, and without readers, it's going to be hard to get advertisers -- even if some of those advertisers are pissed off about a random column here or there. If the paper had stuck up for its author, telling Vail that its credibility was more important than a few ads -- and Vail had still threatened to pull its ads -- then the paper could have told its readership what happened, and built up even stronger credibility with its audience (and that, in turn, could create additional ad revenue from elsewhere). Permalink | Comments | Email This Story techdirtfeed 2009-12-17T07:52:30+00:00 //slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=7867098&from=rss The Browser Size tool provides an overlay to reveal how likely it is people are reading the extremities of a Web page. cnetfeed 2009-12-17T07:52:14+00:00 //slashdot.org/submission/1135678/26-of-software-defeats-American-military?from=rss According to a report just published by the "Wall Street Journal", SkyGrabber — a computer program that can be easily purchased for $25.95 off the Internet — can read and store the data transmitted on an unsecure channel by an unmanned drone. Drones are crucial to American military operations, for these aerial vehicles enable Washington to conduct war with a reduced number of soldiers. The Iranians have taught Islamic thugs in Iraq how to read the intercepted data. " ... the intercepts could give America's enemies battlefield advantages by removing the element of surprise from certain missions and making it easier for insurgents to determine which roads and buildings are under U.S. surveillance. ... Some of the most detailed evidence of intercepted feeds has been discovered in Iraq, but adversaries have also intercepted drone video feeds in Afghanistan, according to people briefed on the matter. These intercept techniques could be employed in other locations where the U.S. is using pilotless planes, such as Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, they said." reporter 2009-12-17T07:51:16+00:00 //slashdot.org/submission/1135676/Nanotube-woven-into-commercially-viable-fibers?from=rss H+ presents a photograph of "the first macroscopic, commercially usable boron nitride nanotubes", spun into a piece of BNNT "yarn". Visible to the naked eye, these nanotubes are now long enough to be woven into fibers, "and thus capable of being used for a vast number of commercial applications." While it's small in size, it's being hailed as a significant sign of "the coming of the one technology that can definitively (in theory) bring about abundance...within a decade or less from the time when we get a complete grasp on its use as a production technology." destinyland 2009-12-17T07:48:30+00:00 //slashdot.org/submission/1135674/Developers-defecting-from-App-Store-to-HTML5?from=rss Frustrated by Apple's long review process and seemingly arbitrary rules, mobile app developer Nextstop is bypassing the entire App Store and releasing their products using HTML5. Besides easy distribution, HTML5 also allows the apps to work on many different mobiles phones and supported browsers on the desktop. With web development getting easier, how long until mobile app developers migrate completely to the web? FutureDomain 2009-12-17T07:39:09+00:00 //slashdot.org/submission/1135672/Negative-energy?from=rss Contact Environics for Machinery Breakdown, Office Decoration, Environmental Energies, Employee Stability, Higher Productivity, Empowering Staff, Vaastu in Office. Manisha tapar 2009-12-17T07:38:02+00:00 //slashdot.org/submission/1135670/MEDICAL-TREATMENTS-FOR-MESOTHELIOMA--What-is-MESO?from=rss Malignant mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer which occurs in the lining of the lung (the pleura) or in the abdomen (the peritoneum). In very rare cases, mesothelioma can occur in other areas of the body as well. Anonymous Coward 2009-12-17T07:32:52+00:00 //slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=7866694&from=rss Google Goggles uses a smartphone’s camera to identify what it sees and return a stream of information. nytfeed 2009-12-17T07:32:23+00:00 //slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=7866682&from=rss In a new study conducted by Scott Owens out of the University of Mississippi, the Wii Fit was loaned to eight families and the usage and fitness impact was tracked over time -- three months before they got the Wii, and three months after. The verdict? "No significant changes" in family fitness from the Wii. Interestingly, over the period of three months the daily Wii Fit usage declined a staggering 82 percent, from 22 minutes a day for the first half of the time all the way down to an average of four minutes a day for the last six weeks. The biggest winners here were the children, who did display some "significant" increases in the specific area of aerobic fitness, but we get the feeling that with a bit more stick-to-itiveness the whole family might've been able to raise its game here. Or maybe Nintendo could invest in making some more motion-controlled games that don't become repetitive and shallow after two playthroughs. Wii Fit found to have 'little effect' on family fitness level, boredom seems to be the main culprit originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. PermalinkPC World | Ole Miss |Email this|Comments engfeed 2009-12-17T07:32:06+00:00 //slashdot.org/submission/1135668/Kenya-Holiday-Destinations-Luxury-Lodge-Safaris-i?from=rss Anonymous Coward 2009-12-17T07:31:09+00:00 //slashdot.org/submission/1135666/DIJUAL-CEPAT-RUMAH-TUA-DI-DAERAH-GAJAHMADA?from=rss DIJUAL CEPAT RUMAH TUA DI DAERAH GAJAHMADA JAK-PUS JL.KEJAYAAN GG TALIB 3 BARU GAJAHMADA JAK-PUS LOKASI DEKAT DG PUSAT KOTA ( GAJAHMADA, HAYAMWURUK, ANGGABESAR, PASARBARU) LUAS TANAH : 120MTR2 UK.20x6MTR HARGA DIHITUNG LUAS TANAHNYA SAJA TANPA BANGUNAN HARGA@Rp.8JT/MTR BISA NEGO!! SURAT : SHM, IMB Anonymous Coward 2009-12-17T07:29:09+00:00 //slashdot.org/submission/1135664/Xmas-Christmas?from=rss Christmas Gifts Guide,Christmas Decorations,Best Perfumes For Xmas,Benefits of Buying Christmas Toys Online,Sing a Sweet Christmas Carol,Santa Suits,Christmas Piano,Decorate Your Home With Christmas Miniature Villages,# 80's Costume Ideas — Funky and Puniky Rock Star Costumes# The Best 2009 Halloween Costumes Ideas For Men royalart 2009-12-17T07:25:17+00:00 //slashdot.org/submission/1135662/Did-Obama-switch-jobs?from=rss haerlem 2009-12-17T07:18:24+00:00