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» Homebrew Cray-1A As part two (see previous attempt) of my ongoing series in ‘computational necromancy,’ I’ve spent the last year and a half or so constructing my own 1/10-scale, binary-compatible, cycle-accurate Cray-1. This project falls purely into the “because I can!” category – I was poking around the internet one day looking for a Cray emulator and came up dry, so I decided to do something about it. Luckily, the Cray-1 hardware reference manual turned out to be useful enough that implementing most of this was pretty straightforward. The Cray-1 is one of those iconic machines that just makes you say “Now that‘s a super computer!” The Cray-1A Architecture Now, let’s get down to specs – What is this bad boy running? It’s a fairly RISC-y design, with 8 64-bit scalar (S) registers , 8 64-bit/64-word vector (V) registers, and 8 24-bit address (A) registers. One of the coolest aspects of this machine is that everything is fully pipelined. The vector instructions are particularly cool. The Hardware
Crystal Wilkerson The Best Horror Movies of 2011 [The Top 10 Released and Top 5 Unreleased] | HorrorsNotDead.com -- A Favorite Horror Movie Blog for OVER NINE THOUSAND years running. Horror Movie Reviews and News. 2011 was a really shitty year for horror. There’s no reason to dance around it; it just sucked. Sure, some good movies managed to find release, but not nearly enough. You know it’s been a bad 12 months of genre when it’s a struggle to assemble a Top 10 filled with films that leave any kind of a significant mark– and even then, several are just unreleased films from 2010. But such is the genre these days… The Best Horror Movies of 2011 10. The latest from May director Lucky McKee isn’t for everyone. 9. I’ve taken a lot of flak for defending the hell out of Fright Night, but I’ll take everything the haters have got if it means at least one more person gives this smart, unique remake a shot. 8. Seconds Apart is the most interesting flick After Dark Horror films has ever been involved with. 7. 6. Jee-woon Kim’s I Saw the Devil is one of the most brutal movies you’ll see this or any year. 5. It’s a shame that Undocumented didn’t become the hit it deserved. 4. 3. 2. 1. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. 5. 4. 3.
Techblog - From 0 to cryptography Published on September 18, 2012 by Tiberiu Barbu This guide is designed to explain why you need to hide information and how can you do this when you do not trust the channel through which messages are conveyed. We will discuss about cryptographic system, encryption, decryption, one-way function, asymmetric keys and more. Do you think it is safer by plane? Terminology plaintext or cleartext : intelligible message that sender wants to transmit to a receiverciphertext : unintelligible message resulted from plaintext encryption using a cryptosystemencryption : the process of converting a plaintext into a ciphertextdecryption : the process of converting a ciphertext into a plaintext (reverse of encryption) Conventional cryptography It is also called symmetric-key or shared-key encryption. You and your roommate, both use the same key to lock/unlock the door of your house. Advantages: Fast. Disadvantages: Not safe! Key distribution Diffie-Hellman key exchange And here comes math. p > 2 g < p Example:
IHeart Organizing Infographic Design | Louisville Social Media Marketing | NowSourcing.com 502-442-7914 Exploring Local » Blog Archive » Google Maps announces a 400 year advantage over Apple Maps UPDATE September 24, 2012: The Comment Cycle for the following entry is now closed. Thanks to everyone who has contributed. I had a call from Marc Prioleau of Prioleau Advisors this morning and speaking with him prompted me to look into the uproar over Apple’s problems with its new mapping application. In my June blog on Apple and Mapping , I postulated that the company would find building a high quality mapping application very difficult to accomplish. • However, it is not (mapping) San Francisco that will give Apple heartburn. • Currently Apple lacks the resources to provide the majority of geospatial and POI data required for its application. • My overall view of the companies that it (Apple) has assembled to create its application is that they are, as a whole, rated “C-grade” suppliers. • Apple seems to plan on using business listing data from Acxiom and Localeze (a division of Neustar), supplemented by reviews from Yelp. Recommendations 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Conclusions Until next time.
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Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 with Windows 8 to be priced at $799 with keyboard ThinkPad 2 for $799 w/keyboard? Last night we popped by PepCom, a little tech event that happens every few months here in New York City. We were curious if Samsung would be there with their ATIV lineup (answer: no) and we were hoping to maybe spot some interesting tidbits for you folks. For instance, we managed to get our mitts on the upcoming Lenovo Thinkpad 2, sporting Windows 8 Pro and a 10.1” 1,366 x 768 IPS display. Surprisingly, Lenovo told us straight up the price tag when we asked: $799 and yes, it will launch October 26th (presumably at 12:01am). Up until now, the price of the ThinkPad Tablet 2 was only rumored to be between $600 and $700, making this on the higher end of that spectrum. Presumably, we could easily be looking at much less were you to buy it without the keyboard, bringing it back down to that $600 range or slightly higher if you add more options (like a fingerprint scanner). Update: For those asking about the CPU, the speed has yet to be confirmed by Lenovo.
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