A slashdot user writes in to tell about Infoworld’s 7 Dirtiest Jobs in IT. As they explain, working in IT isn’t always pretty and this is the list of the worst of them. From your stock-standard black ops to dealing with legacy systems, its got them. Unfortunately, dirty jobs — whether you’re being chained to [...]

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Researches are currently (and have been for some time) discussing a “clean slate” for the internet. Things are changing, there are no more space constrictions, processing power is plentiful as is bandwidth – the internet is no longer relevant to the mediums it works on. The idea may seem unthinkable, even absurd, but many believe [...]

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NS has an article about a company that intends to start selling servers that are swimming in oil! The microprocessors inside servers and desktop computers are normally cooled using fans that blow air across the components. But UK a company called Very-PC hopes to see a much more radical, oil-based alternative, take off instead. Technically [...]

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Slashdot’s got the news saying that sun spots have reached a thousand year peak. More good news for our dying world… “Researchers at the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich are reporting that solar sunspot activity is at a 1000-year peak. Records of sunspots have been kept since 1610. The period between 1645 and 1715 (known [...]

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“From the poles to the tropics, the earth’s climate and ecosystems are already being shaped by the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases and face inevitable, possibly profound, alteration, the world’s leading scientific panel on climate change said Friday.” Obviously I’m more than a healthy amount paranoid – but the recent report on Global Warming is [...]

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Ban for decisive efforts to alleviate impact of global warming New York, April 8. (PTI): Expressing concern over experts warning of major adverse impact of global warming on the earth’s natural system, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to all nations to make “decisive efforts” to alleviate its consequences. The report released in Brussels by [...]

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