| Hardware NVIDIA Details GeForce 9600 GT
Corporate guidance from NVIDIA lists the initial GeForce 9600 GT shipments come stock with a 650 MHz core clock and a 1625 MHz unified shader clock. Unlike the G84 core found on GeForce 8600 GT, D9M will feature a 256-bit memory bus interface. Coupled with a 900 MHz memory clock, NVIDIA calculates the memory bandwidth at 57.6 GB/s. The texture fill rate is estimated at 20.8 billion pixels per second. The company would not indicate how many shaders or stream processors reside on the D9M core. Late last year, NVIDIA confirmed the D9 family will use TSMC's 65nm process node. The company introduced its first 65nm processor shrink in November 2007: the G92. Other details of the D9M family have already surfaced. ChileHardware published slides yesterday claiming the GeForce 9600 requires a 400W power supply that requires 26A on the 12V rail. Unlike previous mid-range GeForce cards, the D9M will require a 6-pin supplementary power connector.
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt and Northrop Grumman Corp. have announced a Space Act Agreement to develop advanced remote sensing systems for science experiments on earth and in space. The experiments will measure such things as climate change and the evolution of planets, the company and NASA said. Joseph Ensor, sector vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman's Space and ISR Systems Division in Linthicum, and NASA officials signed the agreement at the state capital in Annapolis yesterday. .
Syracuse Professor Milton Mueller Named First XS4ALL Professor
But our dependence on the Internet also brings up issues of security, privacy, and trust in technology. The subject very much deserves more academic research, and we're happy that the internationally renowned professor Mueller will be doing the job."
The Professorship, which begins January 1, 2008, is part time; Mueller will continue to spend 60 percent of his time at the iSchool at Syracuse. At the close of the fall semester, Mueller stepped down as program chair of the M.S. in telecommunications and network management at the iSchool, and is working with Professor Martha Garcia-Murillo, who takes over the position in January, to ensure a smooth transition.
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Desegregation more complicated than black and white
Often, the more realistic split is 60-40, he said, with the majority alternating between the races. “It depends on the qualifications and the availability of who is out there," he said. On the administrative side, the district has more black administrators than white ones. Five building-level principals are black, while three are white. Still segregated? In the classrooms, the district is mindful of the racial breakdown. Administrators work to group white children so they are never alone in a class, Morris said. But the result does mean some all black classes. That segregation isn't something Morris wants. “With us living in a global society, the more diverse a classroom is, it gives our children a better view of what their working environment will be like," he said.
Trapper Byrne
Henry K. Lee is liveblogging the Hans Reiser murder trial. See his most recent Chronicle article on the trial here, and all his blog entries here. 12:17 p.m.: Oakland police crime-scene technician Bruce Christensen testified this morning that he processed Nina Reiser's 2001 Honda Odyssey minivan Sept. 9, 2006, the day when resident Chris Bunn found it on Fernwood Drive off Highway 13. Bunn has testified that the vehicle had been there for three or four days. Prosecutor Paul Hora flashed pictures of the minivan and its contents on a screen as Christensen narrated. Among the things found in the Odyssey was a purse, a compact mirror, a comb, a cell phone charger and a flip-style cell phone in the open position and with its battery detached, Christensen testified. He said search dogs were directed to some of those items in hopes that they could detect her scent and eventually find her.
Meet Anastasius the Librarian
Two weeks ago, I identified the first pope not to become a saint in either the Western or the Eastern Church. This was Anastasius II, who reigned for two brief years, 496-498. Anastasius was overwhelmed by heresies and growing tensions between church leaders in Rome and Constantinople. .
Indigo co-owner pleads guilty to credit card fraud
A former co-owner of the now-defunct Indigo Lounge admitted Thursday in federal court to stealing thousands of dollars from restaurant patrons. Kevin O'Connell, 33, flew to Great Falls from Buffalo, N.Y., where he lives, to appear on a felony charge of credit card fraud. He pleaded guilty to the charge, acknowledging that he made $44,209 in unauthorized charges to the credit card accounts of several customers. He said he saved receipts from credit card purchases made in the restaurant, and later used the card numbers on the receipts to make additional charges. .
Donald Newell, retired firefighter, dies at 86
After serving in the US Army Air Corps during World War II, he spent 37 years as a firefighter out of Orient Heights in East Boston for Ladder 21 and Engine 56. "He just felt so honored that he could do a job that would save people's lives," said his daughter, Julie Covey of Saugus. "That meant a lot to him." Mr. Newell also was commander of the American Legion in Saugus for five years in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was active with Shriners Aleppo Temple Fire Brigade during his retirement. In addition to his daughter, Mr. Newell leaves a son, Robert of Danvers; three sisters, Beulah Kanarkiewicz of Saugus, Phyllis Leston of Danvers, and Fern Ruble of Woburn; and four grandchildren. Services have been held. Burial was at Puritan Lawn Memorial Park, in Peabody.
Politics sway reward offers for crime tips
It's really a matter of if there's nothing else left, no other information, and it is the kind of case that shocks the conscience of the community: a drive-by, a young person senselessly shot down, an older person, a good community member that is senselessly brutalized," said Capt. Kyle Jackson, head of the Los Angeles Police Department's robbery homicide unit. All rewards must be formally proposed by a City Council member and approved by the council, but often detectives initiate the process. Many investigators say rewards are seen as a last resort to get a lead on a case gone cold. They contend the low collection rate often stems from fear in the community of coming forward. Some investigators also admit to being reluctant to offer rewards in gang-on-gang crimes or in which the victim would not attract much community sympathy.
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