MPAA ( Motion Picture Association of Americ) are now demanding 93 million Swedish kroner (about 15 million dollar) from the torrent tracker The Pirate Bay (TPB) located in Sweden. The demand is about four movies and 13 TV episodes which has been made available on TPB for download. MPAA demands 222,50 Swedish kroner for each download of the movies Syriana, The Pink Panther and Walk the Line. For Harry Potter MPAA demands 261,50 Swedish Kroner and 416 for Season 1 of Prison Break.TPB

Laughs of MPAA Demands

Peter Sunde from TPB is not impressed over the demand from MPAA and commented to Torrent freak that the worst thing with the demand is that he lost 100 Swedish kroner in a bet about how much MPAA would demand from TPB. He also says that its boring that they didnt demand more than Napster and the other companies, “it is cooler to break the record” he says. TPB has a lot of self confidence before the trail because TPB has been sued hundreds of times from the bigger companies around the world and never lost. The reason they never loose is because their site is nothing else than a torrent tracker, they have no illegal materials on their server.

100 Million Swedish Kroner in Demands!

Earlier IFPI made a demand against TPB on a few million dollars for 24 music albums, and a anti pirate agency demands 1 million dollars. In Januar the lawyer Haakan Roswell demanded around 250.000 Dollar from each of the peraons behind TPB.The total sum of the trail is with other words on about 100 million Swedish Kroner. The trail will take place in a few months and we wish both parts the best of luck.

It is difficult to imagine a PC without immediate access to a keyboard and mouse. Yet there is some speculation that heavy in the near future, we will actually see such changes for the user to interact with our computers.

Recently, some have even begun to point the iPhone as a possibility of what to expect and I have to admit, it does nothing for me. I hate touch screens. Working as an advertisement or not, I had enough bad experiences with them that I would have a number of personal problems to be overcome before putting myself in a position where I will start to trust these interfaces.

So what you say? Could you bring to use an iPhone-like interface almost exclusively? No longer relying on the “physical” comments a keyboard and mouse, is it really something that is convenient for the casual user? Or rather, with this idea to fail in epic ways? Hit comments, you be the judge.

Cincinnati Bell is a candidate wishing to adopt virtualization office. This is because it was found that what is good for the inside of Cincinnati Bell is also a potential new service to its customers phone service. The company is southwestern Ohio, in the first phase of its deployment of office-based virtualization VMware Infrastructure 3 and Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA) Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. With nearly 3300 computers using employees, it will convert one fourth of them to virtual machines in the first attempt.

“Over the next two quarters, we will convert users to 750 [Sun Ray] clients, primarily call center, help desk, and clerical service,” said Jeff Harvey, senior business consultant Cincinnati Bell and project leader. In addition, many system administrators in the data centre and staff at the centre of operations of the network will also convert to clients with virtualized desktops. go And some sales staff to laptop-Sun laptop as thin client machine.

Calls which prompted the movement, “says Harvey are users of Windows 2000 on personal computers and the company is moving closer to the” end-of-life Windows 2000. Most of what is used on leased assets. We have no choice “but to move on. Moving to clients is a cost-effective alternative to the modernization of hundreds of PCs.

“Different departments have different needs. Why give them all an office of 9 Go? “Has he said, referring to the power users fond of 10 Gb capacity for network access.

In addition, he will not have to tear the whole infrastructure of Windows 2000. “Most of Cincinnati Bell moved to Windows XP,” he says, but he does not need to force all users to upgrade to XP. Remain About eight users on Windows 2000 or Windows 2003, ageing of the current version of Lotus Notes. Six run Windows XP Professional, rather than the standard XP desktop, and two software quality assurance testers take virtual machines running Vista, so that the company can be assured the new it is producing software will work within the framework of a future Vista upgrade, “he adds. host hardware on which the virtual machine is located is likely to be running Windows XP, and one day, Vista, “he adds.

VMware offers its own virtual office infrastructure, as Kidaro startup, recently bought by Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), and other vendors. Cincinnati Bell turned to Sun for Sun VDI is designed to run on top of VMware Infrastructure 3, Cincinnati Bell, which had already installed. In addition, it carries a wide range of end-user interfaces.

VDI Sun reflects the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol user presentations, including Linux, Solaris x86, Macintosh, the various versions of Windows, and Sun Ray thin client. VMware creates virtual machines on a central server, but Sun Desktop Connector VMware located between the pool and end users. Desktop Connector, a portion of the Sun has recently announced 2.0 VDI, manages connections to end users themselves and the policies governing connections.

“At 8:03, it may be necessary to turn 800 workstations,” said Harvey, and Desktop Connector based on 12 “or pictures” to give each user the correct virtual machine. Users 800 upgrade consists of updating or 12 images and allowing each user to receive updates to the virtual machine, a reduction in administrative costs, he said. Desktop Connector may take Microsoft’s Terminal Services Remote Desktop Protocol Protocol, and to translate it into the various end-user interfaces.

As Cincinnati Bell has experience in the use of virtual offices, he began offering customers the option of receiving virtual office machines, run by Cincinnati Bell. “During the last three quarters of our fiscal year, we acquired a small number of customers,” notes Harvey, saying that they were great.

But for the moment, it seeks to deploy additional phases of virtualization office that includes Windows for desktop computers regular PC and laptop users, and more than thin client users. Cincinnati Bell will try to leave as many choices as possible in the hands of end users on what they prefer, but Harvey agreed with the clients, “their low cost is a factor,” and “Sun has a large customer solution lightweight. ”

2.0 VDI Sun makes available at a price of $ 149 per concurrent user.

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and India-based business conglomerate Tata Sons announced Monday an agreement to work together on research clouds.

Under the agreement, Tata subsidiary Computational Research Laboratories will make available to researchers its supercomputer. EKA called, the system is ranked the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world, Yahoo said.

For its part, Yahoo plans to lend its technical expertise in Hadoop Apache, an open source distributed computing project of the Apache Software Foundation.

Cloud computing refers to the use of giant data centers to run applications that users can access from a PC or mobile device. Companies offering such software on the Internet Web companiesGoogle (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo and Salesforce.com. Microsoft is also launching a program offered as a Web service.

The supercomputer in CSF Yahoo / Tata project includes 14400 processors, 28 TB of memory and 140 TB of disks. The system has a peak performance of 180 trillion calculations per second (teraflops) and a sustained capacity of calculating 120 teraflops. The only supercomputer funded by the private sector, EKA will run the latest version of Yahoo and other Hadoop supported, open source software for distributed computing, such as pig parallel programming language developed by the Yahoo search.

“Launching our cloud computer program with the International LCR is another important milestone in the creation of a global, the work community collaborative research to advance the new science of the Internet,” Ron Brachman, vice president and Chief Yahoo university relations, said in a statement.

Yahoo and Tata made the announcement on the eve of the first summit Hadoop. Sponsored by Yahoo and the Community Computing Consortium, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, the summit should focus Hadoop leaders of the community of developers and users to discuss current projects and future directions of the cloud-environment Computer, Yahoo said.