Intel Project Z: So secret designers don't know what it is

Intel Project Z: So secret designers don't know what it is: "HP didn't like the Alpha team's Tukwila design"

In-Stat/MDR - Processor Watch

In-Stat/MDR - Processor Watch: "The facts are these: Moore�s law is a narrow observation of a general manufacturing trend, not a law of physics; it wasn�t clearly defined in the first place; its definition has been significantly changed over the years, both by its author and by trespassers, to make it better fit the actual data; and past performance is no guarantee of future results."

Intel Paxville, Blackford, Dempsey meet Diamond Peak and Sunrise Lake

Intel Paxville, Blackford, Dempsey meet Diamond Peak and Sunrise Lake: "Here are some codenames to match Swinburne's wild west. Dempsey, a dual core server chip, will use the Blackford and Blackford VS chipsets with ESB-2, and as well as Intel Active Server, it will use Diamond Peak technology and Sunrise Lake. These technologies are promised for the first quarter of 2006. That's also the timeline for the Paxville dual core processor, and for the Greencreek chipset using ESB-2 as well. Greencreek will have X16 PCI Express graphics support, and give FBD memory capabilities, and better reliability and management features, quoth Intel.
But before we reach the heights of dual core technology, some earlier technology and price cuts are on the way for 2005.
This isn't high faluting stuff, but have been promised for some time and are now close to release.
Cranford, which uses the Twin Castle chipset, is still slated for the first quarter of 2005, and will likely have 1MB of level two cache and be introduced at 3.66GHz. Intel hasn't quite made up its mind what clock speed the Potomac chip, with 8MB of level three cache will launch at, but that's still slated for the second quarter of next year. As the year progresses, Intel will ramp it up."

Microsoft nears release of 64-bit Windows | CNET News.com

Microsoft nears release of 64-bit Windows | CNET News.com: "The company said it has reached the 'release candidate' stage for Service Pack 1 of Windows Server 2003. Microsoft is also at a similar point with several 64-bit Windows versions that use the same code base, including Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
Microsoft reiterated that all three products are slated for final release in the first half of next year, with a second release candidate in between.
A second update for Windows Server 2003, known as R2, is also planned for next year. Microsoft is shooting for a private beta of that release later this month, with a goal of having about 1,000 testers. The company said it hopes to release a public beta of R2 in the first half of next year, with the final release some time in the second half of the year. "

Itanium inventor bobs to surface as chip's savior? | The Register

Itanium inventor bobs to surface as chip's savior? | The Register: "In its patent applications, Secure64 describes its Itanium-friendly software as a type of 'extensible application environment.' The good, old EAE."

Fujitsu, IBM to team on network standards | CNET News.com

Fujitsu, IBM to team on network standards | CNET News.com: "Web Services Distributed Management Event Format"

Fujitsu, IBM to team on network standards | CNET News.com

Fujitsu, IBM to team on network standards | CNET News.com: "Web Services Distributed Management Event Format"

Omri Gazitt's Weblog

Omri Gazitt's Weblog: " Intel plans on implementing it in their next-gen Baseboard Management Controllers, the piece of hardware that lets you do pre-boot and post-crash system management and diagnostics). While the NIC has power, you can get into the machine using a simple WS protocol and figure out what's wrong or reboot it. Way cool! "

WS-Management's Success Depends on Wide, Deep Vendor Support

WS-Management's Success Depends on Wide, Deep Vendor Support: "Expect little useful standardization focused on managing Web services. Gartner believes the WS-Management initiative will take until at least late 2006 to sort out. "

Goodbye SNMP? Hello, WS-Management! - Search Mage - ???? Ycul Blog - ???????

Goodbye SNMP? Hello, WS-Management! - Search Mage - ???? Ycul Blog - ???????: "WS-DM is designed to track the performance of Web services applications, noted Jason Bloomberg, an analyst at research firm ZapThink. WS-Management is meant to manage devices using other Web services protocols under development, notably WS-Eventing and WS-Notification, he said"

New spec uses Web services to manage remote data center connections

New spec uses Web services to manage remote data center connections: "heavily on the WS-* architecture as a common language for devices to communicate with management data. WS-* is a core set of Web services specifications (WS-Policy, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation and WS-Federation) that cover security"

PAPI

PAPI: "consistent interface and methodology for use of the performance counter hardware found in most major microprocessors"

IBM offers peek at Cell, PS3

IBM offers peek at Cell, PS3: "Sony, IBM, and Toshiba are set to fully unveil the details of the Cell processor at the upcoming International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in early February."

ONLamp.com: Open Source Licenses Are Not All the Same

ONLamp.com: Open Source Licenses Are Not All the Same: "If a license contains a strong copyleft provision, anyone who modifies the source code and distributes it to the public must license the modifications back to the public under the same terms as the original software."

Sun's Niagara falls neatly into multithreaded place

Sun's Niagara falls neatly into multithreaded place: "Niagara from Sun Microsystems is a family of CPUs that blurs the lines between chip, CPU and thread"

EducationGuardian.co.uk | Higher | X = not a whole lot

EducationGuardian.co.uk | Higher | X = not a whole lot: "The people have spoken, but what did they say? John Allen Paulos finds it difficult to draw statistical conclusions from Bush 's victory in the US election "

Tom's Hardware Guide: Tom's Hard News

Tom's Hardware Guide: Tom's Hard News: "The Xbox2, code-named 'Xenon', will include a IBM PowerPC processor, with a frequency of at least 3.5 GHz. The CPU consists of three independent cores; each of them will be able to issue two instructions per clock cycle. This allows games to use six symmetric hardware threads. At peak performance the CPU is expected to reach 21 billion instructions per second, according to the document. SiS will deliver the I/O hardware. "

UCLiK: Unconstrained Checkpointing in the Linux Kernel

UCLiK: Unconstrained Checkpointing in the Linux Kernel: "Unconstrained Checkpointing "

Election result maps

Election result maps: "Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results"

Linked from - Madville.com - Dell close to adopting AMD chips

Linked from - Madville.com - Dell close to adopting AMD chips

Eyeing the next wave in RISC computing | Perspectives | CNET News.com

Eyeing the next wave in RISC computing | Perspectives | CNET News.com: "Today, CISC processors such as the Pentium 4 and Opteron translate their complex instructions into sequences of simple RISC-style instructions, then rely on a powerful 'under the hood' RISC-style engine to execute the resulting 'micro-ops.'"

Linux IA64 Archives: Re: 32 bit application on IA-64 Linux

Linux IA64 Archives: Re: 32 bit application on IA-64 Linux: "AFAIK, only HPUX supports a 32-bit ia64 environment with
the HPUX compiler/toolchain."

Linked from - Madville.com - Deer seasons opens in Indiana and Deer are off to a quick 1-0 lead.

Linked from - Madville.com - Deer seasons opens in Indiana and Deer are off to a quick 1-0 lead.: " A 69-year-old bowhunter was treated for injuries he said he suffered during a wrestling match with an angry deer.
Jim Mick, of North Vernon, said the deer attacked him Monday while he was hunting alone in rural Decatur County in south-central Indiana.
'He came out of the tall grass and briars,' Mick, assessor of Center Township in Jennings County, told The Republic of Columbus. 'When I realized it, he was on me already.'"

Paying a price to be No. 1 | Newsmakers | CNET News.com

Paying a price to be No. 1 | Newsmakers | CNET News.com: "Life is competitive. If you have the highest standard of living in the world, the only way you justify it is by having the most productive society in the world. The only way to be the most productive society in the world is to lead in new areas of technology, new areas of value-added. The only way to do that is to invest in R&D"

Designer puts 96 cores on single chip | Tech News on ZDNet

Designer puts 96 cores on single chip | Tech News on ZDNet: "Chip designer ClearSpeed has put 96 computing cores onto a single semiconductor"

Intel to debut new Itaniums Nov. 8 | CNET News.com

Intel to debut new Itaniums Nov. 8 | CNET News.com: "Next on Intel's agenda is a successor called Montecito due by the end of 2005 and built with a 90-nanometer process that lets more circuitry fit on a single chip. Montecito has dual processing engines, called cores, and each core can run two instruction sequences, called threads. "

Intel plans to introduce five south-bridge chips for Smithfield

Intel plans to introduce five south-bridge chips for Smithfield: "Intel plans to introduce five versions of its ICH7 south-bridge chip for its Smithfield dual-core platform"

Intel plans to introduce five south-bridge chips for Smithfield

Intel plans to introduce five south-bridge chips for Smithfield: "Intel plans to introduce five versions of its ICH7 south-bridge chip for its Smithfield dual-core platform"

Intel's dual-core Xeon due in 2006 | CNET News.com

Intel's dual-core Xeon due in 2006 | CNET News.com

CET Cincinnati | Zinzinnati Reflections

CET Cincinnati | Zinzinnati Reflections: "Until World War I, most telephone operators in Cincinnati were bilingual, often speaking in German more often than English"

Living - The Cincinnati Post

Living - The Cincinnati Post: "There were 32 operating breweries in Over-the-Rhine in the late 19th century."

German American Studies

German American Studies: "More than four Ohioans in 10 report German ancestry and Ohio has the third largest number of people claiming German ancestry, according to the 1980 U.S. Census, but a higher percentage can be found in Cincinnati, where 50% of the population claims German ancestry!"

Travel America: Step up to the plate in Cincinnati: this ever-changing Ohio River city brims with major league fun - City Of The Month

Travel America: Step up to the plate in Cincinnati: this ever-changing Ohio River city brims with major league fun - City Of The Month: "We feasted on German food across the street at the new Hofbrauhaus, the first American outpost of the famed beer hall restaurant in Munich, Germany"

Start-up banks on Java hardware boost | CNET News.com

Start-up banks on Java hardware boost | CNET News.com: "Azul's systems plug into existing application servers, which need a minor configuration change to direct Java programs to the Azul JVM rather than the application server's regular version."

Cory Doctorow: Microsoft Research DRM talk

Cory Doctorow: Microsoft Research DRM talk: "Here are the two most important things to know about computers and the Internet:
A computer is a machine for rearranging bits
The Internet is a machine for moving bits from one place to another very cheaply and quickly "

Sun looks to chip performance to bring brighter days | CNET News.com

Sun looks to chip performance to bring brighter days | CNET News.com: "UltraSparc IV and its descendant, the UltraSparc IV+, due next year, will be the first in the series of new processor offerings, which Sun plans to deliver over the next four years. The company will first boost the clock speed of the UltraSparc IV before moving to a new 90-nanometer design for UltraSparc IV+ next year. The collective improvements are expected to double the chip's performance, Ingram said. Then, during 2006, Sun will bring out two new processors, another dual-core, dubbed Olympus, and a multicore chip capable of handling 32-threads, called Niagara. Rock, designed to be a high-end chip for speeding up applications such as databases, will arrive in 2008, Ingram said. "

AMD to demonstrate dual-core chips | CNET News.com

AMD to demonstrate dual-core chips | CNET News.com

The software side of Intel | CNET News.com

The software side of Intel | CNET News.com: "Best known for processors that have been at the heart of the PC industry for more than 20 years, Intel has quietly amassed an army of more than 8,000 software engineers, according to sources familiar with the company. "

Ars Technica: The Future of Prescott - Page 1 - (6/2004)

Ars Technica: The Future of Prescott - Page 1 - (6/2004): "IBM's POWER5 uses hyperthreading, and it certainly doesn't have the outrageous 31-stage pipeline length of Prescott. In fact, the POWER5's 16-stage pipeline isn't much longer than the Pentium M's speculated pipeline length of 12 to 14 stages. I say this only to illustrate the point that there's nothing in the lower number of pipeline stages that somehow magically makes the Pentium M a poor candidate for hyperthreading."

LinuxDevCenter.com: Tales of Optimization and Troubleshooting [Jun. 03, 2004]

LinuxDevCenter.com: Tales of Optimization and Troubleshooting [Jun. 03, 2004]: "Tales of Optimization and Troubleshooting"

NewsForge | Analysis: New Fujitsu deal looks like smart long-term move for Sun

NewsForge | Analysis: New Fujitsu deal looks like smart long-term move for Sun: "The key point regarding Tuesday's news is that Sun and Fujitsu also have collaborated for years on the design and production of the carrier-grade UltraSPARC chip architecture they each use in their enterprise servers. This is part of the technology foundation they will use to create the new product line, which could boost the fortunes of Sun in a big way. McNealy said the APLs will provide 10 to 20 times the throughput and storage capacity of the older servers.
Sun needs to offload this new work because it wants to focus more resources on a couple of even more advanced enterprise projects: the new multithreaded Rock and Niagara chips, which are expected to be introduced in 2006. "

Dell nears Sun in IBM-led server race | CNET News.com

Dell nears Sun in IBM-led server race | CNET News.com

Intel MFG

Intel Will Not Enable 64-Bits in Existing Prescott Cores: "By 3Q 2004, we'll see chip volume from Intel's 90nm process technology surpassing the 130nm technology volume. Regarding Intel's 300mm wafer production, Barrett says Intel is 10 times ahead of the competition in CPU manufacturing and fab capability, yielding sizable cost reductions and competitive advantages. The 130nm process generation will still be manufacturing in declining volume through early 2005, and by mid-2005 we'll see the 65nm technology emerge in products. Using a ballpoint pen tip that's about 1 square millimeter in size, Barrett said a 65nm static ram cell is about 10000 times smaller, or about one half a square micron, and Intel can put about 10M transistors in a square millimeter, or 1B transistors per square centimeter if building SRAM alone, though packing densities would be quite so high for a full microprocessor design. Intel has developed 75 Mbit SRAMs on 65nm technology in their labs. At the 65nm process level, the gate length is about 30nm. "

IBM eServer - Linux on POWER - Analyst Watch: Linux on POWER in top 64-bit racing form

IBM eServer - Linux on POWER - Analyst Watch: Linux on POWER in top 64-bit racing form

AnandTech: AMD Touts World's First Purpose-Built 64-Bit X86 300 mm Production

AnandTech: AMD Touts World's First Purpose-Built 64-Bit X86 300 mm Production: "'Less than six months after we broke ground for AMD Fab 36, the first significant phase of our 300 mm wafer fab project has been completed successfully, and we are well on our way to meeting our overall project schedule,' said Hans Deppe, vice president and general manager for AMD Saxony. 'We have now begun to install the necessary infrastructure that will allow us to be ready for equipment towards the end of the year in preparation for our planned first production shipments in the first half of 2006.'"

CoolTechZone-HP inserts two Itanium 2 chips in one socket

CoolTechZone-HP inserts two Itanium 2 chips in one socket: "HP released a new module for the company's high-end servers that will allow business consumers to insert two Itanium 2 processors into one socket. HP plans to increase the performance while being cost-effective to it's enterprise level consumers."

DevChannel | File alteration monitoring techniques under Linux

DevChannel | File alteration monitoring techniques under Linux: "

File alteration monitoring techniques under Linux"

ONJava.com: Performance Analysis of J2EE Applications Using AOP Techniques [May. 12, 2004]

ONJava.com: Performance Analysis of J2EE Applications Using AOP Techniques [May. 12, 2004]: "Performance Analysis of J2EE Applications Using AOP Techniques"

Microsoft, SAP get closer on Web services | CNET News.com

Microsoft, SAP get closer on Web services | CNET News.com: "The nitty gritty
Specifically, the deal calls for SAP and Microsoft to do the following:
� This summer, begin testing tools that will let developers use Microsoft's Visual Studio.Net tools to build SAP Web portal applications.
� Offer through SAP a new version of SAP.Net Connector, a tool for linking SAP applications to Microsoft.Net.
� Incorporate what Microsoft calls advanced Web services protocols to handle transactions into SAP's NetWeaver. Microsoft, along with IBM, introduced those advanced Web services concepts last year.
� Make available sample code and a software development kit for integrating Office applications, such as Excel, into SAP's applications. The support extends to Longhorn, as the next version of Windows, expected in 2006.
� Integrate SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft Exchange and Windows SharePoint Services software. Microsoft said it will deliver software to integrate those products later this year.
In addition, the companies will jointly staff a collaboration technology support center in Walldorf, Germany, where SAP is based. SAP and Microsoft will collaborate on marketing and sales calls, publishing technical papers, and funding of marketing development."

Forbes.com: AMD Sells Without Dells

Forbes.com: AMD Sells Without Dells: "According to data from Current Analysis, a research firm based in La Jolla, Calif., AMD accounted for 52% of all retail desktop-PC sales for the week ended April 24, compared with Intel's 47%. "

First IBM Power5 server to debut Monday | CNET News.com

First IBM Power5 server to debut Monday | CNET News.com

Taking the stupidity out of 'Stupid Patent Tricks'

Taking the stupidity out of 'Stupid Patent Tricks': "'You can tell the system isn't working,' he says, 'when engineers don't respect it. And they don't. They see patents being awarded to people they consider not as smart as they are for work they think is mediocre, and they think it's a game. It should be an honour to be granted a patent. We should raise the bar.' "

NewsForge | CARP your way to high availability

NewsForge | CARP your way to high availability: "CARP your way to high availability"

HP takes on Fujitsu Siemens, Dell, IBM

HP takes on Fujitsu Siemens, Dell, IBM: "THE SERVER DIVISION of HP is saying that its Proliant ML370 G3 has set a record for the highest performing and lowest price performance results for 1P and 2P servers.
It said that two way TPC-C performance and price performance amopunted to 60,364 transactions per minute while having a 'bang for the buck' of $3.51. Meanwhile, a one way system gave 35,030 tpmC at a price performance of $1.88/tpmC"

Sun Community Source Licensing (SCSL) - Principles

Sun Community Source Licensing (SCSL) - Principles: "With a Research Use license, a developer may take any approach to using the source code in order to determine whether the technology can be of use; in fact, the developer can do all the work leading up to deployment with such a license. "

NewsForge | Gosling defends Sun's new partnership with Microsoft

NewsForge | Gosling defends Sun's new partnership with Microsoft: "'How can Sun show us that it still has the strength, vision, and leadership to deserve our support and loyalty? The way they should do it, in my opinion, is by ensuring that a significant portion of the settlement proceeds will be used to benefit Java developers and strengthen independent, standards-based efforts to advance Java.' "

NewsForge | Gosling defends Sun's new partnership with Microsoft

NewsForge | Gosling defends Sun's new partnership with Microsoft: "'How can Sun show us that it still has the strength, vision, and leadership to deserve our support and loyalty? The way they should do it, in my opinion, is by ensuring that a significant portion of the settlement proceeds will be used to benefit Java developers and strengthen independent, standards-based efforts to advance Java.' "

Free but shackled: The Java trap

NewsForge | Free but shackled: The Java trap: "Sun's implementation of Java is non-free. Blackdown is also non-free; it is an adaptation of Sun's proprietary code. The standard Java libraries are non-free also. We do have free implementations of Java, such as the GNU Java Compiler "

Techworld.com - Linux goes zoom zoom zoom with kernel upgrade

Techworld.com - Linux goes zoom zoom zoom with kernel upgrade: "Claims of speed hikes of up to 1,000 per cent are being made by developers Linus Torvalds "

IBM dedicates module to Java on mainframes

IBM dedicates module to Java on mainframes | CNET News.com: "he zSeries Application Assist Processor (zAAP) is essentially a dedicated processor for Java applications. Java runs on IBM mainframes now but has not had dedicated hardware. The zAAP costs $125,000 per microprocessor. "

ITworld.com - Sun, Microsoft pact draws mixed reactions

ITworld.com - Sun, Microsoft pact draws mixed reactions: "'We are very close to pulling off one of the great repositionings of the post-Internet bubble,' said Scott McNealy, Sun's chairman and chief executive officer,"

The Sun - Microsoft Settlement (washingtonpost.com)

The Sun - Microsoft Settlement (washingtonpost.com): "Years ago, Sun was #1 in high-performance workstations, then Microsoft came along with cheap PC's which decimated Sun's business. Sun then moved in high-performance servers, then Dell and Linux came to wipe out most of their current business model."

Intel's Irwindale is a 2MB Nocona - but standard Nocona slips a quarter

Intel's Irwindale is a 2MB Nocona - but standard Nocona slips a quarter: "Irwindale will, apparently be the processor brand name for a Nocona processor that has 2MB of level two cache. "

Microsoft pays Sun over $1.6 billion to settle differences

Microsoft pays Sun over $1.6 billion to settle differences: "Sun has licensed the Windows desktop operating system communications from Microsoft. Microsoft will carry on creating support for the Java virtual engine.
Both Sun and Microsoft will cooperate on Java and .NET. Each have said they won't sue each other over anything that has happened in the past."

Yahoo! News - Sun Microsystems sees loss of 750-810 million dollars, cuts 3,300 jobs

Yahoo! News - Sun Microsystems sees loss of 750-810 million dollars, cuts 3,300 jobs: "Sun Microsystems announced it expects to see a third-quarter 2003-04 loss between 750-810 million dollars, a per-share drop of 23-25 cents. "

Common Lisp ALMA Benchmark

Google Search:: "ALMABENCH 1.0.1
;;;; Common Lisp version

;;; A number-crunching benchmark designed for cross-language and vendor
;;; comparisons."

Forbes.com: Barrett: Intel CEO's Bonus Jumped 41%

Forbes.com: Barrett: Intel CEO's Bonus Jumped 41%

Kill Internet Ads with HOSTS and PAC Files [Mar. 30, 2004]

WindowsDevCenter.com: Kill Internet Ads with HOSTS and PAC Files [Mar. 30, 2004]

Intel to reunite notebook, desktop chip architectures | CNET News.com

Intel to reunite notebook, desktop chip architectures | CNET News.com: "The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip giant will adopt a common processor core, code-named Merom, for its notebook and desktop lines of chips in 2007, "

NewsForge | Constraints against the adoption and use of FOSS in developing countries

NewsForge | Constraints against the adoption and use of FOSS in developing countries: "Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) "

NewsForge | Constraints against the adoption and use of FOSS in developing countries

NewsForge | Constraints against the adoption and use of FOSS in developing countries: "Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) "

McNealy: No Open Source Java :: Linux & Open Source News :: News.OSDir.com :: Linux & Open Source News from Across the Community

McNealy: No Open Source Java :: Linux & Open Source News :: News.OSDir.com :: Linux & Open Source News from Across the Community: "Well, I believe it is time to move to Python"

Top 10 chipmakers hang onto high rankings

Top 10 : "The rankings of the top 10 semiconductor manufacturers hardly changed at all in 2003, according to a report from Semico Research. Intel once again was the top producer, accounting for 16.2 percent of all semiconductors manufactured during the year. Samsung, again No. 2, accounted for 5.8 percent of overall semiconductor output due to strong sales of its flash memory."

Download details: SQLIO Disk Subsystem Benchmark Tool

Download details: SQLIO Disk Subsystem Benchmark Tool

Download details: SQLIO Disk Subsystem Benchmark Tool

Download details: SQLIO Disk Subsystem Benchmark Tool

SuperFoods

Fourteen Foods : "Beans � Blueberries � Broccoli � Oats �
Oranges � Pumpkin � Salmon � Soy � Spinach �
Tea -- green or black � Tomatoes � Turkey � Walnuts � Yogurt "

NewSID

NewSID Allows changing windows SID after cloning..

NewSID

NewSID Allows changing windows SID after cloning..

281679 - You Cannot Open New Internet Explorer Window or Nothing Happens After You Click a Link

281679 - You Cannot Open New Internet Explorer Window or Nothing Happens After You Click a Link

Three Internet Explorer Problems

Three Internet Explorer Problems: "regsvr32 urlmon.dll�"

IBM releases first 'autonomic' SDK

SDK IBM said the Autonomic Computing Toolkit, which is being added to the Eclipse suite of open source tools, is the first integrated collection of assets, tools, and support to assist developers to design and test autonomic applications and to include them in their current projects.

Slashdot | Debugging

Slashdot | Debugging: "Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems "

Linksys: Support Pages

Linksys: Support Pages: "Configuring WEP encryption can be confusing, especially when using multiple WLAN products f"

WRAPI Documentation

Documentation: "Disabling Wireless Zero COnfiguration"

Munich's switch to Linux facing a bumpy road

As the article points out, the city elected to spend approximately US$12 million above the costs of the proposed Microsoft solution"

Programmers = Songwriters

GROKLAW: "I do not buy it, not at all.

Songwriters are not 'tainted' because they've listened to the radio,
gone to concerts, or even, downloaded songs from the internet.

Novelists are not 'tainted' because they've read books, visited
libraries, or even looked over someone else's shoulder while they were writing.

Tell me again what makes programming fundamentally different from those
professions? And how does that jibe with 'equal protection' doctrine?"

Copyright

GROKLAW: "Copyright, however, poses a different problem. Every transfer of the code on the internet, and indeed every use of a computer to look at the code, involves making a technical 'copy.' Courts have fairly uniformly held that such technical copying - made necessary by digital technology - infringes Microsoft's exclusive right to reproduce the work in question (here, the Windows source code, a literary work). Absent fair use, anyone who causes his or her computer to put the code onto the screen (or to print out the whole version) is subject to all of the draconian remedies of copyright.
On the other hand, it is still not yet an infringement of copyright simply to read an infringing copy of a work (unless perhaps you break through a technological measure designed to control access to it, which would invoke the DMCA). "

Windows Code for the Taking

Wired News: : "Security officials said the compressed files amounted to a CD-ROM's worth of data and represented less than 5 percent of Windows code."

A Refactoring Example [Oct. 09, 2003]

perl.com:]: "A Refactoring Example": The code was reading records in from a text file and then doing a series of queries based on that information.

Eric Raymond says "Release Java"

Release Java code
Eric S. Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative, said in an open letter Thursday that Sun needs to choose between controlling Java and seeing it spread as widely as possible.

Sun caches in with processor plans

Sun's dual-core UltraSparc IV can handle two simultaneous threads. Another chip, code-named Niagara, will be able to handle 32 simultaneous threads using eight cores that can each handle four threads, but it won't be able to execute a single thread at maximum speed. "

Generics in C#, Java, and C++

Article : interview of Anders Hejlsberg: " Java's generics implementation relies on erasure of the type parameter, when you get to runtime, you don't actually have a faithful representation of what you had at compile time. When you apply reflection to a generic List in Java, you can't tell what the List is a List of. It's just a List. Because you've lost the type information, any type of dynamic code-generation scenario, or reflection-based scenario, simply doesn't work. If there's one trend that's pretty clear to me, it's that there's more and more of that. And it just doesn't work, because you've lost the type information. Whereas in our implementation, all of that information is available. You can use reflection to get the System.Type for object List. You cannot actually create an instance of it yet, because you don't know what T is. But then you can use reflection to get the System.Type for int. You can then ask reflection to please put these two together and create a List, and you get another System.Type for List. So representationally, anything you can do at compile time you can also do at runtime. "

HP to unveil new Itanium, Unix servers

"The mx2 technology, code-named Hondo"

Sun 'explains' open source at EclipseCon

NewsForge | Sun 'explains' open source at EclipseCon: "why doesn't Sun open source Java and why Sun doesn't join Eclipse. His answer to the first was that he believes Sun has open sourced Java. To the second, he replied that it was because Sun and IBM are competing in that space. "

SAP looks into Web services revamp

"Project Vienna "headed by Zenke

Intel's Prescott, Intel's Extreme Edition, and AMD's Athlon 64 3400+

LinuxHardware.org benchmarks

Silicon 101

How do you get from beach sand to microprocessors?

"Open Source Java"

2002 article saying Sun J2EE 1.4 would be open sourced.

XBox Next

MercuryXbox: "Three IBM-designed 64-bit microprocessors"

Linux v2.6 scales the enterprise:

InfoWorld: Linux v2.6 scales the enterprise: January 30, 2004: By Paul Venezia: Platforms

An open letter to Eclipse membership from Sun

Article: Good explaination of situation: Sun would like to reflect on what we hope the future has in store for Java technology-based tools and the enduring Java platform.

High-End CPU�s from AMD and Intel Compared

GamePC
As you can see from the past few pages of benchmarks, AMD's Opteron looks to be the clear winner in terms of webserver and file server performance. If given the choice between these two CPU's to go into our servers, we would certainly choose the Opteron. The combination of the Opteron's memory controller, dedicated memory busses, and high-bandwidth HyperTransport system board links appears to propel the Opteron in to the lead over the Xeon. Frankly, the Apache benchmarks were the kicker for us, as when we first recognized how much more efficient the Opteron was processing data in compared to the Xeon. The difference was quite noticeable, and certainly cemented the Opteron as a very potent server CPU in our minds.

Intel shifts 64-bit emphasis

CT If they put all the effort into Xeon they put into Itanium, it could be a very impressive thing

'CtrlAltDelete'

'CtrlAltDelete' Inventor Restarts Career: "'I didn't know it was going to be a cultural icon,' Bradley said. 'I did a lot of other things than CtrlAltDelete, but I'm famous for that one.' "

Semi Stock Prices

He says that as of right now, that group trades at about six times sales, about 40 times next year's earnings, and four times the sales multiple of the S&P 500.
In 1995, when the sector was arguably at its strongest ever, the same group traded at about three times sales, 20 times next year's earnings, and a little more than two times the sales multiple of the S&P 500."

IBM POWER4

IBM POWER4 Good set of technical reports

Review of Itanium benchmark in teh Register

The Register shows a very different view of IA64 benchmarks

NewsForge | MySQL's MaxDB: A work in progress

MaxDB "MySQL, but fewer are familiar with MaxDB, MySQL's enterprise-class brother. The current MaxDB release is basically a rebranded release of SAP DB with a number of incremental improvements"

LinuxHardware.org | Customers and ISVs Flocking to IBM Linux on POWER

Customers and ISVs Flocking to IBM Linux on POWERSAP Embraces Linux

SAP AG is one of the world's leading providers of business software solutions, and through mySAP(tm) Business Suite, has been delivering Linux-based solutions since 1999 through the efforts of the SAP Linux Lab. IBM, which is a founding member of the SAP Linux Lab, has a long-standing relationship with SAP AG. Supported by SAP's 28 industry-specific solution portfolios, more than 21,600 customers in over 120 countries run more than 69,700 installations of SAP� software. 'SAP considers Linux as a strategic platform to be considered equally with other operating systems,' said Frank Witte, product manager of Open Source Strategy, SAP AG. 'Open standards are key to the solution integration and openness demanded by SAP's customers. SAP welcomes 64-bit technology by IBM and our other partners as Linux opens the door for highly scalable enterprise applications"

Jazz Radio from my youth

Eclectic Stop-Sign

Exporting messages from Outlook Express

Link: "Outlook Express' drag and drop functionality can be used to do a bulk export! "

AnandTech: Consumer Electronics Show 2004 Day 1: Motherboards at CES

"There is also excitement in the Intel camp at CES. The next generation Intel chipsets called Grantsdale and Alderwood were on display. Grantsdale roughty assumes the role of 865PE (Springdale), while Alderwood is the high performance replacement for 875P (Canterwood). "

Ars Technica - CPU and Chipset Guide

Good look at various things (64bit, moore's law, etc.)

HyperThreading article @ 2cpu.com

Hyper-threading Performance

Get the Facts on Windows and Linux

Link to MSFT info..

812248 - Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Files

812248 - Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Files Gives registry key to remove: VolumeCaches under HLLM\SW\MS\Win\CV\Explorer..