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Who wants to win a free t-shirt?  Follow these steps to enter the contest:

• Between 10:00am and 2:00pm PST every weekday from 11/9 to 11/12, the @IntelOpenPort twitter account will announce the daily t-shirt giveaway in a tweet (UPDATE: Contest will end on 11/12, not 11/20)   
• Simply retweet the t-shirt giveaway message within an hour of the original tweet to be entered to win (5 winners per day drawn randomly from those who retweet)
• Intel will publicly announce the winners weekly on the community site and through Twitter
• Intel will contact winners for mailing address
• Limit one t-shirt per person
• We only have 50 Large t-shirts and they are going to go fast!
• And if you haven't seen it, check out Episode 4 of The Website is Down: Sales Demolition.

Official terms:

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Eligibility

The "Website is Down" ("Sweepstakes") is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia and nine (9) provinces of Canada (Quebec excluded) who have reached the age of majority in their state or province of residence at the time of entry.  Employees of Sponsor and its parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, distributors, advertising and promotion agencies and members of the immediate family (defined as spouse, parent, sibling, child and respective spouses regardless of where they reside) and/or those living in the same household of such employees are NOT ELIGIBLE to enter.

How to Enter (Twitter "Website is Down" Contest):

During the period from November, 9, 2009, at 12:01 AM PST through November 20, 2009, at 11:59 PM PST (the "Sweepstakes Period") entrants must retweet the IntelOpenPort tweet signaling that the contest has started to be considered an official entry.

Alternative Entry: To prevent limitations, if entrant is unable to enter via Twitter, he or she can submit a postcard version of his/her entry to 1900 Prairie City Rd, MS: FM4-19, Folsom, CA 95630 during the sweepstakes period.

Limit one entry per person per day. All entries must be received during the Sweepstakes Period to be eligible. Sponsor's clock is the official time clock for the Sweepstakes.

Prizes/Retail Value and Odds of Winning

Odds of winning depend on the total number of tweets received during the contest time period.

Five t-shirts will be given away each business day from November 9^th, 2009 to November 20^th, 2009, for a total of 50 t-shirt prizes.

T-shirts will be shipped to winners between November 16th, 2009 and December 31^st, 2009. These dates are dependent on timely responses from the winners with contact information.

Entries

Entries using macro, robotic, script or other forms of automatic entry will be disqualified.  Entries become the property of the Sponsor and will not be returned.  No mechanically reproduced entries permitted.  Proof of submission does not constitute proof of receipt.  Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, mutilated, misdirected, incomplete, inaccurate or postage due entries.  If there is a dispute as to the identity of an online entrant, the prize will be awarded to the authorized account holder.  The "authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person to whom the email address or Twitter account is assigned by an internet service provider, online service provider or other organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses or accounts for the domain associated with the submitted entry.

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Entrants agree to be bound by the terms of these Official Rules and by the decisions of judges, which are final and binding on all matters pertaining to this Sweepstakes.  Winners may be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release and, where legally permissible, a Publicity Release within 7 days following the date of first attempted notification.  Failure to comply with this deadline may result in forfeiture of the prize and selection of an alternate winner.  Acceptance of the prize constitutes permission for Sponsor and its agencies to use winner's name and/or likeness, biographical material and/or entry (including an altered form of the entry) for advertising and promotional purposes in any media without geographic or time limitation, and without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law.  By participating in the Sweepstakes, entrants agree to hold Sponsor, its advertising and promotion agencies and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, representative agents, successors, assigns, officers, directors, and employees harmless for any injury or damage caused or claimed to be caused by participation in the Sweepstakes and/or acceptance or use of any prize.  Sponsor is not responsible for any printing, typographical, mechanical or other error in the printing of the offer, administration of the Sweepstakes or in the announcement of the prize.  Sponsor may be collecting personal information in accordance with its privacy policy.  See Sponsor's privacy policy for details regarding Sponsor's information collection practices in connection with a Sweepstakes.

Internet

Sponsor is not responsible for electronic transmission errors resulting in omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions or limitations of any kind, or inaccurate transmissions of or failure to receive entry information by Sponsor or presenter on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web site or any combination thereof.  If for any reason the Internet portion of the program is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Sweepstakes, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Sweepstakes.  Sponsor reserves the right to select winners from eligible entries received as of the termination date.  Sponsors further reserve the right to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process.  Sponsor may prohibit an entrant from participating in the Sweepstakes if it determines that said entrant is attempting to undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes by cheating, hacking, deception or other unfair playing practices or intending to abuse, threaten or harass other entrants.

Caution: Any attempt by a participant to deliberately damage any Web site or undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such participant to the fullest extent of the law.

Disputes/Choice Of Law

Except where prohibited, each entrant agrees that: (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by state or federal courts situated in Santa Clara, CA, (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, but in no event attorneys' fees; and (3) no punitive, incidental, special, consequential or other damages, including without limitation lost profits may be awarded (collectively, "Special Damages"), and (4) entrant hereby waives all rights to claim Special Damages and all rights to have such damages multiplied or increased.  Delaware law governs the Sweepstakes and all aspects related thereto.

Sponsor

The Sponsor of this Sweepstakes is Intel Corporation.

Winners List

The winners list may be obtained by contacting:
Mike Armstrong
1900 Prairie City Rd

MS: FM4-18

Folsom, CA

95630

With all these "bailouts" and such, you hear the words bailout, billions, and trillions, and people act like it's no big deal. Have you ever seen a trillion dollars? Well, it IS a big deal...

The full post is much better, it shows you what all different amounts of money looks like from $10,000 to $100 million. Also, if you look closely at the picture you will notice a little red dot at the bottom left corner, it's not a dot though, it's a human being and each square is a full pallet of $100 bills.

You can join the discussion on reddit here and here is the source of this post.

If you haven't noticed things look different on this site.  The core site has a name change. We are now Intel Communities.  Open Port and all the personas and content is still here, we've just expanded the role of community on this site.

So please join and participate with thought leaders in the technology industry. Join discussions and ask questions of our engineers.  Even better yet, make your own experience by creating your own groups, blogs and discussions.

I hope you enjoy the site. And please let us know what we can do to improve the experience.

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Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have added to their air fleet.

They are nw the proud owners of a fighter jet. They purchased a Dornier Alpha Jet like the one pictured. They are storing it in a hangar at Moffett Field in Mountain View.

Our news helicopter flew over the hangar and found a closed door, but the control tower confirmed the jet was inside. The New York Times says the plane is outfitted with scientific instruments to help out with NASA missions. The Google founders also own several other jets including a Boeing 757.

All of the planes have landing rights at Moffett, which is within a few miles of the Google campus.

Brin and Page are not the only Silicon Valley moguls to buy a military plane. Oracle's Larry Ellison owns several aircraft, including fighter jets. If you click on the video link above you can see raw video of Ellison flying his MiG 29.

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Hi all,

We in the vPro Expert Center are looking for folks that would like to do an internship with Intel over the fall session. We have posted a job @ www.intel.com/jobs Search for requisition # 559370.

Here's the brief description:

The internship is based in Folsom, CA or Hillsboro, OR, and would be focused on social media related to the Intel social media sites on http://communities.intel.com/. In this position, you will primarily focus around the following areas blog radio show, the Emerging Compute Model Forum, the vPro Expert Center, and the Server Room. A successful internship would involve regular participate in the community blog sites, creating content and collateral for the various communities, and deeply engaged with the radio show. We would expect a successful intern to be able to grasp the details of where Intel is going with the technologies covered by the community sites, and communicate the direction to the outside world.

If you have questions email me, blog me, twitter me, etc..

Picture this: I'm hard at work in my home office, dilligently pounding away on my laptop as I crank out my latest blog post when I hear these abhorred and frequently uttered words exclaimed in a shrill, grating voice, "That's not fair, he got more than me!" I wince. I choke. I try to ignore it but the din continues as does the decibel level of what has now evolved into a full-fledged altercation.

Freeze.

Imagine now that I do not rise from my comfy office chair to insert myself inbetween these battling six-year olds but instead click a button on my special "remote parental virtual manageability machine" and the children's issues miraculously melt away without the parental interjection I was dreading. How cool would that be?

Yes, you know I am a geek when I fantasize about using features in Intel technology (specifically the new Centrino 2 Technology) to solve my parenting problems. But I couldn't help it! All this talk about "remote isolation" and "managing, diagnosing, and repairing issues from afar" had me daydreaming of the day when technology might really allow me to manage my own problems from the next room or, even better, several states away.

A girl can dream, can't she?

So let me ask you...if you could remotely manage anythinganything at allwhat would it be? Would you "isolate and repair" that solicitor who is ringing your doorbell right in the middle of Survivor? Or perhaps you'd like to "diagnose and power down" your neighbor's dog when he barks at 3:00 in the morning.

Join Hank & I talking about the Great Debate in a few minutes @ http://www.blogtalkradio.com/openport/2008/06/13/Intel-Great-Debates-Eco-Technology-Post-Debate-Wrap-Up

There's nothing like a little criticism to spark reflection and introspection. Well, usually after a hefty dose of denial and defensiveness first. But we're all about community self actualization here so I thought I'd take this opportunity to open up the dialogue and invite your feedbackpositive or constructiveon this site and our efforts in various new media forums across the web. Here goes.

Holding up the mirror

As a background, recently Open Port and our community managers received some criticism from the community-at-large that the site, and our technical experts, were too focused on marketing objectives. IT Blogger rodtrent on his myITForum.com blog complains that when he attempted to find vPro information on Open Port, he noticed in a discussion that the community was "inundated with responses from vendors about how their management product was the best." Additionally, in an Intel-sponsored forum on popular IT fansite Ars Technica a community member laments how he is tired of hearing the product name vPro in the forum.

So these criticisms are valid. We want you to know we hear you. And we wanted to ask more of you to join this conversation. What do you think? Are we "doing it right?" And by "it" I mean does Open Port enable tech enthusiasts and IT professionals like yourselves the opportunity to engage in technical discussions and connect with others who have similar interests in Intel technology?

The Nacho Analogy

In the spirit of engaged dialogue, I wanted to propose an analogy that might help frame the discussion. My colleague Bob Duffy came up with a brilliant one I thought I'd share with you. It has to do with nachos. He noticed that nearly every restaurant you visit includes nachos on their menu. And let's face it, some nachos are better than others, depending on the restaurant. So what makes a good nacho, you ask? Bob says it is the "cheese to chip ratio." The best nachos, Bob claims, have a well balanced ratio between cheese to chip. Too much cheese can drown the chip. And too much chip can be dry and difficult to swallow.

The same holds true, he argues, for commercial information in community conversations. Since this site is on Intel.com, there is going to be some element of cheese (aka marketing). But the chip (aka non-commercial information) is the foundation of the information that is shared among the community and should be the crux of the community conversations. So what is a good community chip-to-cheese ratio? Is it 20% commercial information (or marketing) and 80% technical data?

You decide. And while you're at it, can someone please figure out how to make the real cheese as liquidy and gooey as the fake cheese product they put on nachos?

As I sat through the marathon keynote sessions in this morning's kickoff of the Intel Developer Forum, I tried to Twitter to provide you all some colorful realtime observations from the dark auditorium. About halfway through my Blackberry lost the ability to access the internet and thus...my voice was silenced, albeit briefly.

As I powered my way through my local grocery store last weekwhich I often do to grab the week's meal supplies, each time trying to beat my previous record (so far I'm still trying to beat my record in-and-out time of 7 minutes)I realized I had forgotten to write down the ingredients I needed to make one of my succulent meals. Stomping my feet in disgust, I pined for some quick and easy way to jump on the internet right there in the produce aisle to look up the recipe and ensure I brought home all the requisite ingredients.

Both of these scenerios demonstrate my own personal longing for immediate and uncomplicated access to the internet; anytime, anywhere. And I don't think I'm alone in this desire. As I learned at IDF today, I'm happy to report that Intel is on it!

The three opening keynotes, delivered by Pat Gelsinger, Dadi Perlmutter, and Anand Chandrasekher respectively, all talked of innovative breakthroughs in technology and visions on how the future was going to be overwhelmingly different. But the topic on most everyone's lips was the exciting new mobile internet devices (MIDs) finally coming to market in the next several months.

It is easy to see why there is all this fuss about MIDs when:

• 60% of internet users in China play online games

• 3 billion minutes are spent everyday on social networking worldwide

• 88% of Japanese phone customers are dissatisfied with their access to the internet from their phones

Combine all this data with the recent announcement of the Intel Atom processor and you have one perfect storm of mind-blowing proportion. And with all the awesome different MIDs that were on display today at IDF, I can easily see this anticipation grow into a consumer-covetous frenzy.

Ok, perhaps I'm a bit too hyped up on caffeine to stave off my jetlag. But this is exciting stuff! And I for one am thrilled Intel and our partners are working hard to, as Mr. Chandrasekher so eloquently put it, "unleash the internet."

So stay tuned for more of my observations from IDF. As long as the coffee keeps coming, I'll keep writing (I LOVE the coffee here!).

Do not attempt to adjust your screen. And since April Fool's Day is over, this is not a silly prank to see if you are paying attention. No, this is a real and true report coming to you straight from the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, China, where today Intel announced it would begin offering software testing and validation services to members of the Intel Software Partner Program.

Did I say services? From a hardware company? What's up with that?

Well, Intel has entered into a key partnership with SpikeSource, a software validation solution provider. The deal is that software companies, many of whom are medium in size or who develop open source solutions, can now receive Intel certification that ensures their solutions meet "rigorous standards for security, interoperability and maintainability, and are optimized for Intel technologies." (I took that directly from the press release).

I sat down for a brief conversation with SpikeSource CEO Kim Polese to get her perspective on this new service and how it will benefit both the software community and the end customers who rely on software in their everyday jobs and lives. (You all remember Kim, right? Think Java.).

Wow, maybe it's the coffee here (I've made it no secret how I feel about it) but once again I'm a little giddy with the important implications of this announcement. Intel's partner program reaches over 8,000 independent software vendors (ISVs) and I can see this service being a major benefit to developers so they can focus what they do best: developing cool software.

"Soon, you will see the Intel Centrino Atom brand on handheld devices that can bring an amazing internet experience in a device that fits in your pocket. You’ll see the Intel Atom processor powering a growing category of devices aimed at delivering affordable, Internet-centric uses."

We went to the street during the The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and we asked people to respond to something we showed them. Check out the interesting responses.

The buzz has started on the Intel's X38 Express chipset, making use of the next-gen PCI Express 2.0 connectivity.

Geoff Gasior from The Tech Report takes a look at how the X38 chipset stacks up.

"...the X38 takes a major step beyond the P35 with its 32 PCI Express 2.0 lanes, which make the X38 the first chipset to offer second-generation PCI Express, ensuring plenty of bandwidth for future graphics cards. The X38's full 32 lanes also make it the first Intel chipset capable of supporting dual-x16 CrossFire configurations.

The X38 has other perks, too, such as support for DDR3 speeds up to 1333MHz. DDR3 memory modules have quickly scaled to 1333MHz and beyond, making support for faster memory an attractive feature. However, DDR3 still carries a hefty premium, and we suspect most enthusiasts will prefer to stick with DDR2-based X38 implementations for now. "

Tech Report puts together an impressive report running a number of test on the first X38 boards from Asus (Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi-AP @n) and Gigabyte(Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6). Check out the full report and let us know what you think.

Do you love an application and want to share it with the world? Well then go to Cool Software and give it... well a "Digg" to borrow a term from another site.

Cool software, from the ISN guys, allows the online community to post information about software applications they think are awesome. The more people who vote for an application, the cooler the application is. What a great idea... wish I thought of it!

For the week so far the top vote go to

• GoogleEarth 32 votes (Got to agree, pretty neat, I used GoogleEarth to virtually remodel my Family Room)

• deliGoo 20 votes (Delicious Search Engine)

• We+ 19 votes (social media platform)

So if you're a Visio nut, love your NeoPets screensaver or are simply addicted to vampire biting friends on Facebook, head over to coolsw.intel.com to make it cool. Hmmm maybe they can add an uncool feature?