Friday, June 27, 2003

On the Plains, Wily Buffalo Outfox Indians. A herd of 32 bison, let loose in Oregon by a rancher in trouble with the law, is frustrating efforts to trap them. By Sarah Kershaw. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 10:27:00 AM

IBM: Power5 four times faster than Power4. Big Blue Boasts as chip runs in lab servers [The Register] 10:26:38 AM

2 PC Makers Given Credit and Blame in Recycling. Dell and Hewlett-Packard handle recycling of the waste from computer products in different ways, according to a report by environmentalists. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology] It commended Hewlett-Packard for using "state of the art" practices in partnership with an expanding commercial recycling industry, while criticizing Dell for using low-cost prison labor in association with Unicor, an industrial prison system within the Justice Department. 10:11:10 AM