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IBM and Yahoo! launch free enterprise search product

IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition
Taking an unexpected jab right at Google's Enterprise Search Appliance, IBM and Yahoo! have teamed up to launch IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition, a free search solution that will index "up to 500,000 documents and over 200 file types in 30 different languages." OmniFind Yahoo! Edition will run on Linux (Red Hat Enterprise and SUSE Enterprise, to be specific), Windows XP, or Windows 2003 Server. The minimum requirements specify 1GB of RAM and 80GB of hard drive space, but the recommended specs call for dual 3Ghz processors, twice the RAM, and 250GB of mirrored disk space. Google's "Mini" search appliance, by contrast, starts out at $1,995 including hardware, and tops out at 300,000 documents for $8,995, and its more full-featured search appliance starts at $30,000.

Yahoo! and IBM tout the OmniFind system's ease of setup, ("Go from installer to searching in minutes"), so for organizations who can gather the hardware and install the software themselves and need to index fewer than half a million documents, Google's appliances' bang to buck ratio suddenly doesn't look very healthy.

[Via CIO]

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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