News for Monday, 22 August 2005

Following the success of the first part of our article dedicated to clustering, today we have published online the second part, describing the different types of nodes, as well as architectures and hardware used in clustering.
It appears in the "Articles" section (on the left part of hardmac.com home-page), or follow the direct link : Clustering - Part 2

Following our previous news on Media Centers, there is a new solution to dedicate your Mac to video playback. This solution is based on the GeexBox linux distribution, which had been ported to PPC.
This distribution is very small, considering that the bootable iso is only 11Mb, and based on MPlayer to allow video playback, supporting all its formats (MPEG, DivX, Xvid ...).
We'll have to investigate if this solution requires only few hardware resources to play the videos, as it is on PC.
We'll be back in detail on the subject after some intensive testing...

If you are an Apple or iPod fan, you can't miss this baby onesie. Available in white, pink or blue in 6 Mb, 12 Mb or 18 Mb... oh sorry, in 6 Mo, 12 Mo or 18 Months ;)

They claimed that each is equipped with a touch sensitive scroll wheel; responsive to your every nudge, tickle and squeeze. Unfortunately, the scroll whell does not allow to reduce baby's volume (Stop crying! Pleeaase!)...
(Thanks to Alexandre)