The Pirate Bay Tops 15 Million Peers

Today, The Pirate Bay reached a new milestone, as they now have more than 3 million registered users. On top of that, they track close to 15 million unique peers. The largest BitTorrent tracker just keeps growing and growing, and there is no sign that this will be put to a halt anytime soon.

When this article is published, The Pirate Bay now tracks nearly 1,288,514 torrents and 14,786,539 unique peers. As a comparison, in December 2006 they tracked 576,080 torrents and 4,274,698 peers, so today’s figures represent quite an increase.

TiAMO, one of Pirate Bay’s co-founders and the one responsible for keeping the hardware up and running, is happy with the traffic increase, and writes:

“A big thanks to all our users helping to make the site what it is. We’ll keep growing for as long as you keep using the site, filing it with content, sharing.”

This traffic increase is apparently placing quite a lot of stress on their server park. In July, the site went offline for more than a day, as the server setup had trouble keeping up with the ever-growing demand. It is estimated that The Pirate Bay currently returns results to between 7 and 8 million searches per day, roughly 230 million a month.

The popularity of The Pirate Bay hasn’t gone unnoticed with artists either. Timbuktu, a well known Swedish rapper released his latest single exclusively on The Pirate Bay earlier today. Free of DRM, high quality and free to share and remix of course.

Source : torrentfreak.com

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Who Are the Richest People In Tech?

Forbes has once again released its list of America’s richest people and, not surprisingly, Bill Gates topped the list with an estimated wealth of about $57 billion.

But Gates isn’t alone as the only technology titan on the country’s list of the richest people.

On the list again this year is Gates’ old partner Paul Allen, Sergey and Larry from Google, and Steve Jobs. New to the list is Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who sneaked in ahead of EMC’s Richard Egan and VC Vinod Khosla.

The Richest People in Tech

1. Bill Gates (Microsoft), $57 billion
3. Larry Ellison (Oracle), $27 billion
11. Michael Dell (Dell), $17.3 billion
12. Paul Allen (Microsoft), $16 billion
13. Sergey Brin (Google), $15.9 billion
14. Larry Page (Google), $15.8 billion
15. Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), $15 billion
33. Jeff Bezos (Amazon), $8.7 billion
47. Rupert Murdoch (News Corp.), $6.8 billion
54. Pierre Omidyar (eBay), $6.3 billion
59. Eric Schmidt (Google), $5.9 billion
61. Steve Jobs (Apple), $5.7 billion
84. Gordon Moore (Intel), $4.4 billion
84. John Sall (SAS Institute), $4.4 billion
91. David Sun (Kingston Technology), $4 billion
91. John Tu, (Kingston Technology), $4 billion
105. Richard Shulze (Best Buy), $3.5 billion
144. Ray Dolby (Dolby), $2.9 billion
161. Mark Cuban (Broadcast.com), $2.6 billion
246. Irwin Jacobs (Qualcomm), $1.9 billion
246. Omid Kordestani (Google), $1.9 billion
262. Henry Samueli (Broadcom), $1.8 billion
281. David Filo (Yahoo), $1.7 billion
321. Amar Bose (Bose), $1.5 billion
321. Todd Wagner (Broadcast.com), $1.5 billion
321. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), $1.5 billion
355. Richard Egan (EMC), $1.4 billion
355. Vinod Khosla (Sun Microsystems), $1.4 billion
355. Theodore Waitt (Gateway), $1.4 billion

Source: techcrunch.com

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Windows 7 M3 Build 6780: Pictures and Videos

Yes, new post about latest Windows 7 M3 Build 6780. Background: I’ve reported priori Windows 7 versions before.

Start Menu: the visual design of search box and shutdown/lock buttons are changed. The right panel is simplified.

What programs are installed?

Accessories

Calculator

User Account Control appeared only once during my experience. When I clicked SnagIt installer UAC popped up. That’s very nice to see Microsoft has decided to restrain UAC.

source: thinknext.net

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New Windows Live Betas – Download Wave 3 Now!

Recently Microsoft Published the so long waited Services from the Live family. With the Windows Live Wave 3 beta due to start today, we thought we’d provide our readers with a small headstart on the rest of the world.

Here’s the download links for the new Wave 3 suite of applications, including Messenger v9, Windows Live Movie Maker, Mail with Calendar synchronisation, Writer, Photo Gallery, Family Safety and the Outlook Connector.

There are two options to download the package (English)

Web (installer) 1mb

Full (installer) 134mb

You can access to the Liveside.net website to find more links which by the way, offers the betas in more languages.

English
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/en/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/en/wlsetup-all.exe

Italian
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/it/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/it/wlsetup-all.exe

German 
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/de/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/de/wlsetup-all.exe

France
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/fr/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/fr/wlsetup-all.exe

Spanish
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/es/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/es/wlsetup-all.exe

Download : Windows Live Beta Installer (Web)
Source : Live Side

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Intel releases six-core processors

Intel today claimed its new Xeon 7400 Series processors could increase performance by almost 50 percent. The new processors in the 7400 series consist of seven 45-nanometre-manufactured processors, each with up to six processing cores per chip and 16 MB of shared cache memory.

“The arrival of these processors extends Intel’s lead in the high-end server segment,” said Tom Kilroy, Intel VP and GM of the Digital Enterprise Group.

“With new features such as additional cores, large shared caches and advanced virtualisation technologies, the Xeon 7400 series delivers record-breaking performance that will lead enterprises into the next wave of virtualisation deployments.”

Intel said that applications built for virtualised environments and data-demanding workloads, such as databases, business intelligence, enterprise resource planning and server consolidation, could experience “dramatic” performance increases.

“We’ve made some advancements to improve both performance in a virtualised environment, as well as improve the virtualisation capability that you’re able to do for some of the new virtualisation models, like Virtualisation 2.0,” said Shannon Poulin, Enterprise Marketing Director.
“We see the need for virtualised infrastructure growing at a rate that will probably be double or triple in a couple of years.”

Platforms based on these processors can scale up to 16 processor 'sockets' to deliver servers with up to 96 processing cores inside.

The 7400 series has already set new four-socket and eight-socket world records on key industry benchmarks for virtualisation, database, enterprise resource planning and e-commerce.
Intel said that the new range delivered 50 per cent better performance with up to 10 per cent reductions in platform power. Poulin said that developers would snap up this extra performance for better applications.

“As we deliver more performance on the platform, people are going to increasingly creative ways to utilise this performance," Poulin said.

source : itnews.com.au

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Apple releases Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update

Apple on Monday released Mac OS X 10.5.5, a recommended update for all users of Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard that includes over a hundred bug fixes and more than two dozen security enhancements.

As of press time, the 321MB update was only available via the Software Update mechanism located under the Apple menu of your Mac.
In addition to general stability improvements and over two dozen security enhancements, the update addresses issues with Address Book, Disk Utility, iCal, Mail, MobileMe, and Time Machine. A detailed list of those fixes follows:

General

• Includes recent Apple security updates.
• Addresses stability issues with video playback, processor core idling, and remote disc sharing for MacBook Air.
• Addresses an issue in which some Macs could unexpectedly power on at the same time each day.
• Resolves a stability issue in TextEdit that could be found when accessing the color palette.
• Improves Spotlight indexing performance.
• Fixes an issue in which contacts might not sync properly with PalmOS-based devices.
• Improves iPhone sync reliability with iCal and Address Book.
• Includes improvements to Active Directory (see this article for more information).
• Improves Speech Dictionary.
• Fixes Kerberos authentication issues for Mac OS X 10.5 clients that connect to certain Samba servers, such as Mac OS X Server version 10.4.
• Includes extensive graphics enhancements.

More : appleinsider.com

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The Force Unleashed Demo Sets New Record

All the Star Wars fans that also own an Xbox 360 can congratulate themselves for a job well done. Be it through an organized effort or actions driven by their unconscious, they have managed to make the demo for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed the most downloaded one on the console.

The demo has more than 1 million downloads on Xbox Live in less than eight days since launch, beating the previous record, held by Too Human from Silicon Knights, which needed nine days to reach the same number of downloads.

The PlayStation Network version of the game demo did not do too bad either. The two versions combined have more than 2.3 million downloads, which means that at least that many people are genuinely interested in what the game has to offer.

The Force Unleashed promises to put the players in the role of one Sith apprentice, whose lord is Darth Vader. The mission of the apprentice is to find and kill a variety of Jedi and Republic characters while developing ever greater Dark Side Force powers. There should be a twist in there somewhere, as the ending of the game seems to pit you against your Dark master.

The demo was pretty fun when I played it, with Imperial stormtroopers flying around and doors blown open via the awesome power of a Force push. The game looks good and handles well, although the camera is a bit unresponsive. The only big drawback for me was the final fight, which pits you against a chicken walker that needs to be taken out via quick time event.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will be available in North America on September 16 for the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3, the PlayStation 2, the PlayStation Portable, the Nintendo Wii and the DS. Asia will have to wait one day to get the game while European players will be able to get it on September 19.

source : news.softpedia.com

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