rom the BBC:
China is ramping up efforts to become the world's supercomputing superpower.
Its Nebulae machine at the National Super Computer Center in Shenzhen, was ranked second on the biannual Top 500 supercomputer list.
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Install a Touchscreen in Your Netbook
From PC World
Tired of your netbook's tiny touchpad? Here's how to install a touchscreen.
Is your netbook envious of touch-driven devices? You can't turn your netbook into an iPad, but you can retrofit it with a touchscreen and avoid the tiny touchpad.
WARNING: Only skilled or daring hardware hackers should attempt this process. Voiding the warranty is the least of your concerns; you'll have to solder parts together, cut away some of the laptop's plastic housing, and otherwise make permanent changes that you can't undo. Make the wrong move, and you'll break the laptop. We are not responsible for anything that goes wrong with your PC as a result of your following our instructions.
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Lucid dream: Ars reviews Ubuntu 10.04
From ARS Technica
During a keynote at the OSCON conference in 2008, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth urged the Linux development community to improve its focus on usability. He vowed that Canonical would contribute financial and technical resources to help make Linux more beautiful and functional. He aimed to raise the bar and set a whole new standard—not just for Linux, but for the entire desktop computing industry.
"The great task ahead of us over the next two years is to lift the experience of the Linux desktop from something that is stable and robust and not so pretty, to something which is art," he said in 2008. "Not emulate, but blow right past Apple in the user experience we deliver to our end users."
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