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ANA publications: "Rethinking the design of the Internet"

Visual Studio: Competitive Reports and Evidence: Comparing .NET to J2EE

Visual Studio: Competitive Reports and Evidence: Comparing .NET to J2EE: "Competitive Reports and Evidence: Comparing .NET to J2EE"

FireWire vs Hi-Speed USB

FireWire vs Hi-Speed USB: "Look for an ENHANCED USB Host Controller - this indicates you have USB 2.0. "

Trying Oracle on Linux in the Enterprise | Linux Journal

Trying Oracle on Linux in the Enterprise | Linux Journal

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says: " And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent."

Enterprise software | News.blog | CNET News.com

Enterprise software | News.blog | CNET News.com: "Convention wisdom among many pundits is that BEA Systems will ultimately be marginalized by the industry heavy-weights with more resources, market clout and broader product lines"

Xen getting multiprocessor support | CNET News.com

Xen getting multiprocessor support | CNET News.com: "Xen is a 'hypervisor'--a thin layer of software that governs how different operating systems get access to computer resources such as processors and memory. But the current version is hobbled by the fact that each operating system can use only one processor"

Food for Thought: Calories May Not Count in Life Extension, Science News Online, June 11, 2005

Food for Thought: Calories May Not Count in Life Extension, Science News Online, June 11, 2005: "Partridge's team made a surprising finding. Although flies eating the new diets took in about as much food as a group eating regular chow did, those on the reduced-protein diet lived about 24 days longer than the average fruit fly's life span of 40 days. "

Open: AMD64 Opteron NUMA and IA-32 Xeon SMP Benchmarks

Open: AMD64 Opteron NUMA and IA-32 Xeon SMP Benchmarks

Intel ships 64-bit, 1MB L2 Pentium 4s | The Register

Intel ships 64-bit, 1MB L2 Pentium 4s | The Register: "The 521, 531, 541, 551, 561 and 571 P4s all bring Intel's 64-bit technology, EM64T, to its line of 1MB L2 cache-enabled processors. The new chips are clocked at up to 3.8GHz, just like the existing 5x0 P4s, and are similarly fabbed at 90nm. They too use the LGA-775 interface, and support a frontside bus clocked to 800MHz."

The brains behind Apple's Rosetta: Transitive | CNET News.com

The brains behind Apple's Rosetta: Transitive | CNET News.com: "With more computationally intense tasks, the performance of translated software is between 60 percent and 80 percent of native software, Wiederhold said.
Another skeptic is Nathan Brookwood of Insight 64. 'Everybody always has said 50 (percent) or 60 percent and delivered 30 (percent) or 40 percent,' he said. Among those who have tried: Digital Equipment Corp.'s FX!32 to run x86 Windows programs on computers with Alpha chips; Hewlett-Packard's Aries software to run HP-UX software for PA- RISC chips on Itanium; and Intel's IA32-EL software to run software for x86 chips on Itanium."

Microsoft 'hypervisor' plan takes shape | CNET News.com

Microsoft 'hypervisor' plan takes shape | CNET News.com: "Muglia, senior vice president in the Windows Server Division, said at Microsoft's Tech Ed conference here that the software will be 'built directly in Windows and will allow companies to virtualize multiple operating systems.'"

Intel neuters Montvale, Itanic screams in alarm

Intel neuters Montvale, Itanic screams in alarm: "Soon after that, it is in such miserable shape, no one cares if you pull the plug. That is what Intel is doing to Itanium."

Apple to Switch Macs to Intel Chips

Apple to Switch Macs to Intel Chips: "Jobs said Apple will begin offering Macs with Intel processors by June 2006 and will switch its entire product line by the end of 2007."

Pricing Gap Between Online Home Sellers and Buyers Exceeds $82,000 in June

Pricing Gap Between Online Home Sellers and Buyers Exceeds $82,000 in June: " In June, the average home seller at HomeGain expected to choose an agent
and list their property within the next 54 days, unchanged from May.
When it comes to housing bang for the buck, these cities in June
registered the lowest price per square foot (based on lower than average price
expectation and higher than average square footage per home):


-- Orlando - $66;
-- Houston - $70;
-- Atlanta - $75;
-- Austin - $77;
-- (tie) Nashville, Tampa - $82;
-- (tie) Dallas, Minneapolis - $83;
-- Baltimore - $89;
-- Las Vegas - $97.

By contrast, cities with the priciest real estate by the square foot in
June were:

-- San Francisco Bay Area - $237 per square foot;
-- Orange County - $172;
-- San Diego - $160;
-- Los Angeles - $146;
-- New York City - $137;
-- Boston - $132;
-- Sacramento - $129;
-- (tie) Portland, Seattle - $125;
-- Denver - $123."

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: " The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 11,000 maps online"

WindowsDevCenter.com: Using Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool

WindowsDevCenter.com: Using Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool: "Malicious, malcontent, maladapted, maladjusted, malaprop, maleficent, malodorous, malevolent ... they're all bad things. So is malware"

Intel spills beans on Yonah, the next notebook chip | CNET News.com

Intel spills beans on Yonah, the next notebook chip | CNET News.com: "Yonah will also contain more transistors--151.6 million--than the current Pentium M, which has about 140 million transistors. Still, because it will be produced on the more advanced 65-nanometer process"

My Way News

My Way News: "who bought versions of the digital music player through May 2004."