CrunchGear shares a video which uses some amazing techniques to enhance and edit video; coming from someone who has had to work tedious hours correcting badly lit or shot scenes, this is the cat's meow!

 

There is so much I could say, but I just won't say a thing.

Scientists at the Institute for Neurological Research at the University of California have had amazing results using an existing drug in a new way!

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/health/article3603996.ece

Not only did AMD's Quad Core dissapoint, now I can't even reach their website because the database server is down...

Okay, if this is for real, then I must get me an iPhone. Quake 3 burned many of my adolescent hours, and the accelerometer!

Seeing as the iPhone is coming in 3G pretty soon, this may just be my ticket!

I recently acquired some high end server equipment and am looking to liquidate, if you are interested, please drop me an email badmark@gmail.com.

Description:

This equipment (minus one unit for inspection) is still in original packaging and in excellent condition.

(8) Egenera pBlade Servers (Each with (4) Intel Pentium Xeon 3.2 Ghz HT EM64T CPU and 8 GB / NO HD)

(8) Egenera pBlade Servers (Each with (2) Intel Pentium Xeon 3.2 Ghz HT EM64T CPU and 4 GB / NO HD)

Although I would prefer to sell as a lot, if you are interested in just individual components, I will consider any offer. The entire lot consists of:

(48) Intel Pentium Xeon 3.2 Ghz HT EM64T CPU 

(96) Micron MT18HTF12872Y 1GB DDR2 400 CL3 ECC REG

 

Below are snaps of the interior of the units.

 

I have launched a new blog, The Beltway Tech. This site will be dedicated to reviewing and discussing tehnology based companies that operate in the Washington DC Metro area. Sometimes called the Silicon Valley of the east coast, the DC metro area is quickly becoming an epicenter of innovative and emerging technologies.

All comments and suggestions of companies to review are always welcome.

I don't normally post job listings, but this one is to help out a friend.

A contracting company in the Sterling/Chantilly Northern Virginia area is seeking to fill (2) positions: Senior Unix /Storage Engineer and a Storage Engineer.
Sr UNIX / Storage Engineer:
Proficient with Sun Solaris, as well as Sun Enterprise hardware
(Specifically: V120, V240, V280, V480, V490, F3800, F4800, F6800, V20z, V40z, X4100, V880, E15k, and E25k) and SUN/Hitachi/3rd Party Storage Area Network devices.

The engineer is responsible for meeting with the client technical staff to document "as is" infrastructures, analyze collected data, collaborate with team members and implement an optimized, resource efficient, accredit able solutions. He ensures that the team's implementation, quality, schedule and project/task objectives are met on time while sharing best practices with peers and management.

Backup Engineer:
Provide day to day O&M to Sun branded Storagetek libraries such as L8500 & L700 models in a mixed Linux/Unix/Windows environment.

The engineer supports all aspects of daily backup and restore activities dealing with tape backups / rotation, media planning and applies patches, firmware upgrades, testing of back ups, disaster recovery plans, and create accurate documentation.: Administer the SAN with a combination of Hitachi, 3Par, CISCO MDS and Brocade with a variety of hosts running Solaris, Windows, Linux, and OS/X. Create zones, provision storage LUNS, and be able to provide storage utilization reports. All requires experience working on Sun Solaris Enterprise class machines.

The company is flexible on the Storage or SAN requirement for both positions, so if you are a candidate who may be a 'close' fit, but not a 'perfect' fit, please contact regardless.

Please send all contact to Job@PlateWire.com