Nick Duncan

Being struck with the problem of finding a host for myScoop that’s not going to cost me an arm and a leg in terms of bandwidth use, I have decided to explore some of South Africa’s hosting companies and compare their prices with each other. Note that I have used their middle to premium packages to calculate their cost per megabyte for this exercise and all servers are local. Here are the results:

For years, the scientists at the German GEO600 experimental facility have been baffled by an inexplicable “noise”. The GEO600 experiment is home to a detector that stretches for 600 metres which is supposed to detect gravitational waves – ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as black holes and neutron stars. Since the birth of this experiment, none of these gravitational waves have been detected, instead, they may have made the most important discovery in physics for the past 50 years.

Ha ha. found someone mentioning this on Twitter… Wikipedia reckons our ears can detect semen. I’ll give it a skip thanks.

As announced on 13 November 2009, the Cray XT5 supercomputer known as Jaguar, knocked out the previous world number 1, IBM’s “Roadrunner”. This amazingly powerful supercomputer, built only this year boasts amazing speeds and processing power. The Jaguar’s theoretical processing peak is said to be 2.3 petaflops per second (that’s 2.3 quadrillion calculations per second!)

Yup, you read right. Wireless electricity has arrived. I’m sure many of you have screamed and yelled due to electrical cords at some point. Hell, I’ve even been blown away across a room a few times in my life due these tangling annoyances. Well there is soon to be no need for them!