* Gearhead: Video fun with avatars and Skype * Backspin: Getting the upper hand on your e-mail * The past 7 days on GibbsblogGearhead: Video fun with avatars and SkypeA couple of weeks ago we stumbled across a very odd video called “Breakup” on YouTube. The video stars a young lady named Melody who is just talking.To read this week’s Gearhead in its entirety, click here. Backspin: Getting the upper hand on your e-mailThere was an interesting discussion on one of my favorite mail lists about how people organize their e-mail. What kicked it off was an article on “CNN Money” titled Secrets of greatness: How I work. To read this week’s Backspin in its entirety, click here.The past 7 days on GibbsblogThe Museum of Modern BetasHeard of “Match My Pet”? matchmypet.com is a Web site currently in beta that aims to help you search for the best match for your pet! What kind of best match? I have no idea as the site appears to be offline at present but as and when I feel the need to match whatever it might be to my pet, I now know where to go …You may be wondering how I came about this rarified knowledge …*** Jobs on closed DRMIn my Backspin column this week — “Laws in France kick Apple’s pants” I discussed the French government’s proposed anti-closed DRM legislation and in this blog a couple of items ago we had some discussion on the topic. Well, it turns out that Apple is at least historically in favor of the idea!***Open Wi-Fi Stupidity Last August I wrote about the case of a Florida man who was being prosecuted for using an open Wi-Fi access point without permission (see Open Wi-Fi, a national risk). Ever wondered what happened to the poor guy? Sorry, but I have no idea — search as I might so far — nothing, nyet.But lest you think that was an isolated incident an Ars Technica item discusses the case of an Illinois man who pleaded guilty to the same “crime” — remotely accessing another computer system without the owner’s approval — and “was handed one year of court supervision and a US$250 fine.”***The Answer Really is 42!There is an important sequence of numbers called “the moments of the Riemann zeta function.” Although we know abstractly how to define it, mathematicians have had great difficulty explicitly calculating the numbers in the sequence. We have known since the 1920s that the first two numbers are 1 and 2, but it wasn’t until a few years ago that mathematicians conjectured that the third number in the sequence may be 42 — a figure greatly significant to those well-versed in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. — Marcus du Sautoy, seedmagazine.com, March 27, 2006 Related content news Dell provides $150M to develop an AI compute cluster for Imbue Helping the startup build an independent system to create foundation models may help solidify Dell’s spot alongside cloud computing giants in the race to power AI. By Elizabeth Montalbano Nov 29, 2023 4 mins Generative AI Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence news DRAM prices slide as the semiconductor industry starts to decline TSMC is reported to be cutting production runs on its mature process nodes as a glut of older chips in the market is putting downward pricing pressure on DDR4. By Sam Reynolds Nov 29, 2023 3 mins Flash Storage Technology Industry news analysis Cisco, AWS strengthen ties between cloud-management products Combining insights from Cisco ThousandEyes and AWS into a single view can dramatically reduce problem identification and resolution time, the vendors say. By Michael Cooney Nov 28, 2023 4 mins Network Management Software Cloud Computing opinion Is anything useful happening in network management? Enterprises see the potential for AI to benefit network management, but progress so far is limited by AI’s ability to work with company-specific network data and the range of devices that AI can see. By Tom Nolle Nov 28, 2023 7 mins Generative AI Network Management Software Podcasts Videos Resources Events NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe