My Way News - Apple's iTunes Appears Back on Track

My Way News - Apple's iTunes Appears Back on Track: "Apple commands about 75 percent of the market for downloaded music,"

List & CD with free windows s/w

Windows

* 7-Zip
* Ant Renamer
* Audacity
* Blender
* BZFlag
* Celestia
* ClamWin
* DeepBurner Free
* Dia
* Enigma
* Eraser
* Exact Audio Copy
* FileZilla
* Firefox
* Freeciv
* Gaim
* GIMPShop
* GLtron
* GNU Chess
* Icebreaker
* Inkscape
* Juice Receiver
* KeePass
* MozBackup
* NVU
* OpenOffice.org
* Paint.NET
* PDFCreator
* Portable Apps
* POV-Ray
* PuTTY
* SolarWolf
* Spybot S&D
* Stellarium
* SuperTux
* The GIMP Toolkit
* Thunderbird
* Tortoise SVN
* Tux Paint
* Tux Racer
* Tux Typing 2
* VLC
* WinDirStat
* Wink
* winLAME
* WinSCP
* XAMPP
* µTorrent

Integrate software into your Win install CD - Neowin Forums

Integrate software into your Win install CD - Neowin Forums: "Integrate software into your Win install CD, with nLite"

SAP Fills Out 2007 Agenda

SAP Fills Out 2007 Agenda: "Zia Yusuf, head of SAP's Platform Ecosystem Group, said the company's list of independent developers and contributors is growing rapidly. SAP has over 1,500 ISVs working on products and numerous online forums."

Download details: SyncToy v1.4

Download details: SyncToy v1.4

"In the Beginning Was The Command Line" - by Neal Stephenson | Mirror Site

"In the Beginning Was The Command Line" - by Neal Stephenson | Mirror Site: "In the Beginning was the Command Line
by Neal Stephenson"

My Way News - IBM to Open Islands in Virtual World

My Way News - IBM to Open Islands in Virtual World: "IBM Corp. is launching an ambitious marketing campaign in the hip virtual world 'Second Life.'
Big Blue has developed 12 'virtual islands,' and most will be open to anyone with a Second Life account starting next week. Other areas will remain private haunts for about 800 IBM employees - including the CEO - who have cyber alter-egos."

David Dagastine's Weblog

David Dagastine's Weblog: "Java 6 is finally here. Its our fastest, most reliable release and specifically targets out-of-box performance"

Mid-Price software the best...

Beware of mid-priced software :

With most kinds of merchandise, the middle of the price range is the best deal. For half the maximum price, or less, you get more than half the maximum quality. Here's my subjective impression of how it works for computers (where the $500 Wal-Mart special is awfully close to the $2000 custom system), cars, and precision optical instruments (which are labor-intensive):

But several recent experiences have convinced me software doesn't work that way.

"First, software is all design, not manufacturing. Once you've made one copy, almost no labor is needed to make a million just like it. So everything depends on the work done by one person or a small team. "

Techdirt: Can We Have Some Metrics On How Effective Metrics Are?

Techdirt: Can We Have Some Metrics On How Effective Metrics Are?: "In other words, in focusing so much on the 'page views' metric, the incentives encourage bad design. The companies that win the metrics game are the ones who are designed in ways that upset users, rather than those that make their service better, faster and more efficient. Normally, that would be a clear indication that the metrics are all wrong -- but very few people seem to care. They just continue focusing who is ahead of whom on the list -- and plenty of bad decisions continue to get made because of this blind allegiance to metrics."

Brief: SAP Charts Plan To Triple Its Customer Base - News by InformationWeek

Brief: SAP Charts Plan To Triple Its Customer Base - News by InformationWeek: "SAP, with 35,000 customers, wants to hit 100,000 by 2010, getting to where nearly half its revenue comes from companies with less than $1 billion in revenue. It plans to woo them next year with an upcoming version of its midmarket ERP suite, All-In-One, that's more customizable yet easier to implement. While big ERP projects can take several years to complete, Shai Agassi, president of SAP's product and technology group, talked last week about being able to set up ERP for a midsize company within seven days."

Memory chip breakthrough for electronic devices - Yahoo! News

Memory chip breakthrough for electronic devices - Yahoo! News: "Many expect flash memory to encounter significant scaling limitations in the near future. Today we unveil a new phase-change memory material that has high performance even in an extremely small volume.'
The new material was a complex semiconductor alloy that resulted from collaborative research at IBM's Almaden Research Center in the Silicon Valley city of San Jose, California."

SAP Hones the Oracle Dagger

SAP Hones the Oracle Dagger: "IBM, however, has recently formed a relationship with Ants Software, an in-memory database provider based in Burlingame, Calif. (Ants also has a relationship with SAP, but both Sikka and Ants CEO Boyd Pearce declined to comment on it.) "

DMTF - DMTF Releases SMASH 1.0 Specifications

DMTF - DMTF Releases SMASH 1.0 Specifications: "of interoperable management initiatives and standards, today announced the public release of its Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) Implementation Requirements Specification and the SMASH Server Management (SM) CLP-to-CIM Mapping Specification,"

IBM Sues Maker Of Intel-Based Mainframe Clones - News by InformationWeek

IBM Sues Maker Of Intel-Based Mainframe Clones - News by InformationWeek: "On its Web site, Platform Solutions claims that it offers a 'new generation of compatible mainframe computers designed to meet the rapidly changing business needs of today's enterprise.' The company says its Intel 64-bit Itanium-based systems are fully compatible with z/OS and OS/390. IBM typically offers those operating systems for sale only with IBM mainframes running more expensive dedicated processors of its own manufacture. "

Swivel - Home

Swivel - Home: "Swivel is a place where curious people explore all kinds of data. "

Windows Tips - Internet Explorer - mredkj.com

Windows Tips - Internet Explorer - mredkj.com: "If there is a shortcut to Notepad on the desktop, delete or rename it to something other than Notepad.
JR wrote how to reproduce the problem, then solve it:
Open IE, go to any page, view source, works fine.
Now go to Start menu and navigate to 'Programs\Accessories', and right-click
on Notepad, drag it to the desktop, selecting 'Copy Here' when you let go.
You should now have a shortcut file named 'Notepad' on your desktop.
Go back to IE, view source, and nothing happens.
Go back to desktop and delete or rename the Notepad shortcut.
Go back to IE, view source, and it works again"

It's not always malware: How to fix the top 10 Internet Explorer issues

It's not always malware: How to fix the top 10 Internet Explorer issues

Recent Processor Architects

Recent Processor Architects: "But Olsen had doubts about Alpha. His unshakable faith in the VAX computer, which had turned Digital into IBM's most formidable competitor in the 1980s, made him reluctant to phase it out too soon in favor of Alpha. Olsen asked a team of Digital's top engineers to extend the computer's design for another generation--and he rejected Sculley's proposal.
A few months later, Apple announced that its new Macs would run on the PowerPC chip"

Sifry's Alerts

Sifry's Alerts

KCDX-FM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

KCDX-FM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Intel to add prestandard 802.11n to Centrino in '07

Intel to add prestandard 802.11n to Centrino in '07: "Following Crouch on stage was David Leeper, senior principal engineer for UWB at Intel, who continued to talk about UWB's benefits and uses. 'It is a compelling technology, because you can do video streaming at very low power,' Leeper said.
Leeper estimated a full-length feature movie could be downloaded in 80 seconds using UWB. "

XML.com: Hacking iTunes

XML.com: Hacking iTunes

Good Morning Silicon Valley

Good Morning Silicon Valley: "we have recently reached a consumer price on processing power of a penny per MIPS (million instructions per second). Intel's Core Duo running at 2.13 GHz costs around $200 at retail and can perform about 20,000 MIPS."
...
• In 1977, Digital Equipment’s Vax 11/780 was a 1 MIPS minicomputer, and the Cray-1 supercomputer delivered blindingly fast execution at 150 MIPS.
• A 1999 era Pentium III/500 delivered 800 MIPS of processing power.
• A year later, in 2000, the Playstation 2 pumped out an astounding 6000 MIPS.
• Current embedded processors (like the PXA900 in [the] Blackberry Pearl, or the ARM 1136 in the Nokia N93 ...) are capable of 2000-era desktop processor speeds — in the range of 1000 MIPS, depending on battery consumption.

...
It’s 2006 now." Saunders writes. "If the current trend holds true, and we can each carry 20,000 MIPS of processing power in the palms of our hands by 2012, what will we do with that power?"

Cooktop: The free XML editor for Windows

Cooktop:  The free XML editor for Windows

LinuxDevCenter.com -- Virtualization and the POWER5 Architecture

LinuxDevCenter.com -- Virtualization and the POWER5 Architecture: "POWER5 technology is micro-partitioning "

Free WebSphere wins over Java developers | The Register

Free WebSphere wins over Java developers | The Register: "It also plays against commercial software, including IBM's original WebSphere app server and BEA WebLogic.
'We see an emerging opportunity for people who want open source application servers - often that's small and medium businesses. It's a 'light functionality' option,' Jollans said. He added that IBM aims to generate revenue from WAS CE by selling support contracts, as it does for Linux.
WAS Community Edition is based on software which IBM acquired by buying Gluecode Software last year. Free to download and use, it takes the Apache software and adds components, such as web services, security, authentication, messaging and web tier clustering.
Jollans acknowledged that the commercial and community editions of WAS are not as similar as their names might suggest.
'They are different code bases - but they both implement J2EE,'"

Multivariate normal distribution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Multivariate normal distribution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia contains a reference to my paper..

Tree’s Blog » Why I’m Not Using LISP

Tree’s Blog » Why I’m Not Using LISP: "Only two open-source LISP implementations support Unicode: CLISP and SBCL. Both are good implementations, but neither work well on my Mac OS X machine. In particular, the FFI in the latest Clisp is busted, and neither seem to work with SLIME. However, OpenMCL does work out of the box on my G5. It works with the latest released SLIME. But it does not have Unicode support. Allegro supports Unicode, but I can’t afford that."

David Dice's Weblog : Weblog

David Dice's Weblog : Weblog: "The biased locking scheme in HotSpot arose from the following paper authored by myself, Mark Moir, and Bill Scherer. "

David Dice's Weblog : Weblog

David Dice's Weblog : Weblog: "The LoadLocked and StoreConditional primitives, commonly referred to as LL-SC, provide for optimistic concurrency control. "

BM Seer : Weblog Benchmarks: Facts & Questions from an Anonymous Source. High performance on UltraSPARC and Opteron desktops and servers

BM Seer : Weblog Benchmarks: Facts & Questions from an Anonymous Source. High performance on UltraSPARC and Opteron desktops and servers: "The Sunfire T1000 (1RU) has a SPECweb2005 of 10466 - that beats the 2 Dual-core Woodcrest-xeon Dell 1950 by 7% in performance. The Sun Fire T1000 draws only 188 watts during the benchmark run: www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t1000/benchmarks.jsp#m
Why doesn't show their actual power consumption data - like they used to? A glimpse of Dell power consumption can be found in Dell's power configurator. "

Alexa Web Search

Alexa Web Search: "The most popular site on the Web, Yahoo.com gets whopping 28% of all Web visitors"

25 Greatest Science Books of All-Time - Discover Magazine - science news articles online technology magazine articles 25 Greatest Science Books of All-Time

25 Greatest Science Books of All-Time - Discover Magazine - science news articles online technology magazine articles 25 Greatest Science Books of All-Time: " 'There is grandeur in this view of life,' he wrote, that 'from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.'"

Bill Clementson's Blog: We'll always have Emacs

Bill Clementson's Blog: We'll always have Emacs: "Many lispers pine for the days of the LispM's and miss the unique development environment that they provided (and which, sadly, is still not equaled on any 'modern' OS today"

Five Tips for Smarter Playlists » davidgagne.net

Five Tips for Smarter Playlists » davidgagne.net: "Daily Listening
This one’s pretty simple. Give me everything where the genre isn’t Holiday, Speech (to avoid hearing JFK’s Inaugural Address in the middle of the afternoon), or Country. Make sure it’s not a video or a podcast and that it doesn’t have one or two stars. Of course don’t include anything in the “Slow Songs” playlist, and limit it to the 25 items that I’ve heard least recently. "

PRESS RELEASE Cray XT4 Supercomputer Debuts With Petascale Capability and Significant Backlog of Large Orders

PRESS RELEASE Cray XT4 Supercomputer Debuts With Petascale Capability and Significant Backlog of Large Orders: "The Cray XT4 supercomputer uses up to 30,000 AMD Opteron dual-core processors running a highly scalable operating system and interfaced to the Cray SeaStar2™ interconnect chip to provide unsurpassed scalability and performance. Unlike typical cluster architectures, in which many microprocessors share one communications interface, each AMD Opteron processor in the Cray XT4 system is coupled with its own interconnect chip. Providing six links in three dimensions, the unique Cray SeaStar2 chip uses its embedded routing capability to take advantage of HyperTransport™ technology and significantly accelerate communications among the processors"

PRESS RELEASE Cray XT4 Supercomputer Debuts With Petascale Capability and Significant Backlog of Large Orders

PRESS RELEASE Cray XT4 Supercomputer Debuts With Petascale Capability and Significant Backlog of Large Orders: "The Cray XT4 supercomputer uses up to 30,000 AMD Opteron dual-core processors running a highly scalable operating system and interfaced to the Cray SeaStar2™ interconnect chip to provide unsurpassed scalability and performance. Unlike typical cluster architectures, in which many microprocessors share one communications interface, each AMD Opteron processor in the Cray XT4 system is coupled with its own interconnect chip. Providing six links in three dimensions, the unique Cray SeaStar2 chip uses its embedded routing capability to take advantage of HyperTransport™ technology and significantly accelerate communications among the processors"

Intel Vault Program

Intel Vault Program

How to be a genius

How to be a genius: "Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 052184097X).
The book essentially tells us to forget the notion that 'genius', 'talent' or any other innate qualities create the greats we call geniuses. Instead, as the American inventor Thomas Edison said, genius is 99 per cent perspiration - or, to be truer to the data, perhaps 1 per cent inspiration, 29 per cent good instruction and encouragement, and 70 per cent perspiration. Examine closely even the most extreme examples - Mozart, Newton, Einstein, Stravinsky - and you find more hard-won mastery than gift. Geniuses are made, not born."

Techworld.com - Moore's Law is dead, says Gordon Moore

Techworld.com - Moore's Law is dead, says Gordon Moore: "his law, which states that transistor density on integrated circuits doubles about every two years, Moore said this morning: 'It can't continue forever. The nature of exponentials is that you push them out and eventually disaster happens.
'In terms of size [of transistor] you can see that we're approaching the size of atoms which is a fundamental barrier, but it'll be two or three generations before we get that far - but that's as far out as we've ever been able to see. We have another 10 to 20 years before we reach a fundamental limit. By then they'll be able to make bigger chips and have transistor budgets in the billions.' "

Speed test for virtualization under way | CNET News.com

Speed test for virtualization under way | CNET News.com: "The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has launched a subgroup to come up with a benchmark to see how well computers handle a variety of tasks running on a virtualization foundation. Virtualization lets a single computer run separate operating systems in different compartments called virtual machines"

Does XML Suck?

Does XML Suck?: "Why XML is Technologically Terrible"

CESARI MARA VINO DI RIPASSO vintage 2001

Have the 2003 at $16 a bottle..

While the affection for Amarone has slipped because of one nation’s foreign policy, it remains one of the world’s greatest wines. There are bottles available of straight Amarone, a slew of Ripasso (the second-tier Amarone-style wines) and indeed great white Veneto wines from Soave, all at improving prices for the consumer.

Amarone della Valpolicella is a wine so expensive and time-consuming to make that it is difficult to find a bad example of it.

Ripasso Della Valpolicella

AMARONE

Masi, Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Costesera 2001 (90), €40

Zenato, Amarone della Valpolicella Classico 2001 (90), €36

Zenato, Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva 2000 (92), €60

Monte del Fra, Amarone Della Valpolicella 2000 (90), €40

Sergeo Alighieri, Vaio Armaron, Amarone Della Valpolicella 2000 (94), €65

VALPOLICELLA

Sergeo Alighieri, Valpolicella dell’ Anniversario 2001 (91), €36

Sagramoso, Valpolicella Ripasso 2003 (88), €18

Zenato, Valpolicella Ripasso 2003 (89), €20

Tommasi Valpolicella Ripasso 2003 (88), €18

Technology Review: The Trouble with Multi-Core Computers

Technology Review: The Trouble with Multi-Core Computers: "The method that the MIT researchers use relies on a combination of software and hardware to make transactional memory better, says Microsoft's Larus, and there have been numerous designs that rely on software or hardware to varying degrees. 'It's not clear yet where the right line is' between using hardware and software to solve the problem, he says, but the researchers "

Double-checked locking: Clever, but broken - Java World

Double-checked locking: Clever, but broken - Java World

Java theory and practice: Urban performance legends, revisited

Java theory and practice: Urban performance legends, revisited: "The Java™ language is the target of a lot of abuse for performanceThe Java™ language is the target of a lot of abuse for performance"

Update...

Slight mod to template..

Calibration of Microprocessor Performance Models

Calibration of Microprocessor Performance Models: "Calibration of Microprocessor Performance Models "

Good Math, Bad Math : The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy

Good Math, Bad Math : The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy: "There's a good reason that Fortran is still the language of choice for real, intense scientific applications that require the absolute best performance that can be drawn out of our machines - applications like computational fluid dynamics."

Specialist servers prove their worth - IT Week

Specialist servers prove their worth - IT Week: "However, Azul servers are not cheap. Current Azul systems, based on the earlier 24-core version of the processor start at around $100,000 (£57,000) and can cost more than half a million."

The Four Hundred--Azul's Network-Attached Processing to Shake Up Server Market

The Four Hundred--Azul's Network-Attached Processing to Shake Up Server Market: "Moreover, these architectures do not scale very linearly, and the best anyone could do is to make a big 32- or 64-way SMP box like the current high-end server vendors already do. When Azul was talking about big, cache-coherent SMP scalability, it had a much larger box in mind. And that's why Azul decided to take the hard road and build a custom processor to do only those functions it would need, like garbage collection or running object-oriented programming routines, to support VMs and their application workloads. "

Dr. Dobb's | Multi-core & Multi-threaded: A New Era in Computing | May 10, 2006

Dr. Dobb's | Multi-core & Multi-threaded: A New Era in Computing | May 10, 2006: "Speculative threads enable the compiler to try all kinds of unsafe, aggressive, optimistic optimizations when generating the precomputation slice"

Shahin's Blog

Shahin's Blog: "For the record, the Azul design is a true SMP."

Azul to go 48-core with Vega 2

Azul to go 48-core with Vega 2: "The first-generation Vega processor it designed has 24 cores but the firm expects to double that level of integration in systems generally available next year with the Vega 2, built on TSMC’s 90nm process and squeezing in 812 million transistors. The progress means that Azul’s Compute Appliances will offer up to 768-way symmetric multiprocessing"

Multicore Systems @ SOA WEB SERVICES JOURNAL

Multicore Systems @ SOA WEB SERVICES JOURNAL: " On the Azul platform, such shenanigans are unnecessary because of our Pauseless Garbage Collection (PGC) technology that "

Wintellog

Wintellog: "reseaching new Windows Vista features that affect threading such as I/O cancellation, wait chain traversal, logical processor information, I/O priorities, transactional file system and registry, and more. "

SAP's Agassi Confirms Oracle Killer Plans, Dishes on SOA

SAP's Agassi Confirms Oracle Killer Plans, Dishes on SOA: "plans with in memory"

Sun Is Setting: Fool by Numbers - Yahoo! News

Sun Is Setting: Fool by Numbers - Yahoo! News: "The cash balance has certainly improved, but not by positive cash flows from operations. Over the past year, Sun has converted $4.2 billion of its long-term investments to cash, leaving only $700 million on that line. At least the company hasn't resorted to large secondary offerings."

Nintendo | Playing a different game | Economist.com

Nintendo | Playing a different game | Economist.com: "IF TALK of synergistic processing elements, parallel floating-point shader pipelines, vector units and 1080p high-definition video sets your pulse racing, you are probably looking forward to the launch of the PlayStation 3 (PS3), Sony's new video-game console, which goes on sale in Japan and America next month.
Most people find such technical trivia baffling, however. As a result, the video-games industry's relentless pursuit of ever more computing power and graphical detail might ultimately prove counterproductive. "

Press Releases

Press Releases: "AMD plans to create a new class of x86 processor that integrates the central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) at the silicon level with a broad set of design initiatives collectively codenamed “Fusion.” AMD intends to design Fusion processors to provide step-function increases in performance-per-watt relative to today’s CPU-only architectures, and to provide the best customer experience in a world increasingly reliant upon 3D graphics, digital media and high-performance computing. With Fusion processors, AMD will continue to promote an open platform and encourage companies throughout the ecosystem to create innovative new co-processing solutions aimed at further optimizing specific workloads. AMD-powered Fusion platforms will continue to fully support high-end discrete graphics, physics accelerators, and other PCI Express-based solutions to meet the ever-increasing needs of the most demanding enthusiast end-users.

“With the anticipated launch of Windows Vista, robust 3D graphics, digital media and device convergence are driving the need for greater performance, graphics capabilities, and battery life,” said Phil Hester, AMD senior vice president and chief technology officer. “In this increasingly diverse x86 computing environment, simply adding more CPU cores to a baseline architecture will not be enough. As x86 scales from palmtops to petaFLOPS, modular processor designs leveraging both CPU and GPU compute capabilities will be essential in meeting the requirements of computing in 2008 and beyond.” "

Outlook Series | Kirk Skaugen: Intel Opens Up Server Acceleration Technology

Outlook Series | Kirk Skaugen: Intel Opens Up Server Acceleration Technology: "“Intel QuickData Technology is a platform solution that addresses the computing overhead and system level bottlenecks associated with TCP/IP based communication as opposed to TCP Offload Engines which only address part of the problem,” said Michael Kagan, vice president of architecture, Mellanox Technologies. “Mellanox is embracing Intel QuickData Technology and will implement support for the technology in our adapters that will seamlessly fit into the total platform solution to accelerate TCP/IP communication.”"

Sun begins work on Niagara 3 chip | CNET News.com

Sun begins work on Niagara 3 chip | CNET News.com: "Niagara 2 doubles the total number of threads from 32 to 64 by supporting eight threads in each of its eight cores. "

: "perfmon2 interface for Linux"

redhat.com | Red Hat speaks

redhat.com | Red Hat speaks: "There are several other performance monitoring tools (Oprofile, valgrind, perfmon, strace, etc.) that are being worked on by Red Hat. Oprofile is one tool that required considerable work to function properly on all of the different architectures. This tool helps identify performance problems such as TLB misses, stalls, memory references, etc. One of the goals of the SystemTap project is to provide an integrated performance platform where all of these projects and future ones can be integrated. "

Cray, Sun, IBM support AMD's Torrenza platform | TG Daily

Cray, Sun, IBM support AMD's Torrenza platform | TG Daily: "Torrenza will provide direct access to an AMD64-based processor via a Hypertransport link. According to AMD, the technology will allow third party hardware developer to integrate their own silicon into a spare socket on a Torrenza motherboard and combine their technology with an AMD Opteron or Athlon CPU. Conceivably, this socket could house co-processors - so-called 'accelerators' - that focus on specialized applications such as physics, floating-point calculations, storage or graphics"

AMD's Winning Ways Underappreciated [Fool.com: Motley Fool Take] October 19, 2006

AMD's Winning Ways Underappreciated [Fool.com: Motley Fool Take] October 19, 2006: "And while we're on the subject of margins, AMD is installing more 300-mm wafer facilities to replace the old 200-mm tools, which should increase output and lower manufacturing costs significantly. In addition, the move from 90-nm to 65-nm technology is underway, with the first 65-nm products shipping this quarter, both from its own factories and from manufacturing partner Chartered Semiconductor. Smaller chip traces mean more chips per wafer -- again increasing manufacturing efficiencies -- as well as cooler, lower-power operation. These attributes are proving more attractive than raw processing power these days, especially to corporate customers who need to power and cool data centers that house thousands of processors."

Official Linden Blog

Official Linden Blog: "So, here’s what’s different under the hood: we’ve been all-AMD for years, but are moving from the Opteron 270 to the Intel Xeon 5148 - a low-power version of Intel’s new Core 2 Duo based server CPUs. This gives us better performance for fewer watts, while supporting our standard 64-bit OS image. We’ve also doubled the RAM per machine from 2GB to 4GB and moved to a faster SATA disk, which usually won’t make much of a difference, but should reduce the stalls sometimes seen by heavy regions during autosaves. Finally, there are fewer, bigger system fans, and power supply efficiency goes from 67% to 84%; power usage while running the sim process is about 175 watts, vs. 230 for a Class 4."

BM Seer : Weblog Benchmarks: Facts & Questions from an Anonymous Source. High performance on UltraSPARC and Opteron desktops and servers

BM Seer : Weblog Benchmarks: Facts & Questions from an Anonymous Source. High performance on UltraSPARC and Opteron desktops and servers: "Solaris zones have virtually no overhead. Sun ran has audited results on the SAP-SD benchmark using Solaris 10 on the Sun Fire T2000. "

The Clingan Zone

The Clingan Zone: " implementation is neither like VMWare/VirtualPC nor IBM Mainframes. VMWare/Virtual PC emulate hardware. IBM's LPAR abstract out the hardware but you are running essentially in a virtual machine. Zones are lighter weight, much more scalable and are a good choice for application consolidation. Both of the above virtual machine models require a running operating system per virtual machine. This is quite a bit of overhead. Solaris zones do not run a seperate instance of an operating system. From a developer (and to a lesser degree administrator) perspective it feels like its own seperate Solaris instance, but there is really only one instance of Solaris running."

James Gosling: on the Java Road

James Gosling: on the Java Road: "To get the best CPU utilization the apps have to be written to be multithreaded on a cluster node, and use MPI between nodes. This is the worst of both worlds because you have to architect for threading and clustering at the same time. This is pretty straightforward in the Java world because we have great threading facilities, but folks with bags of Fortran code have trouble (auto-parallelizing matrix code doesn't help nearly enough).
This is (almost) a non-issue for folks writing enterprise applications using the JavaEE frameworks because the containers deal with both threading and clustering"

/~colmmacc/ � Blog Archive � Niagara vs ftp.heanet.ie Showdown

/~colmmacc/ � Blog Archive � Niagara vs ftp.heanet.ie Showdown: "Sun�s own benchmarks have quoted up to 2500 requests per second, which we didn�t find particularly impressive. Our current box - merely a dual Itanium - can do 2700 requests per-second without much trouble. "

Sun Unveils the Future of Virtualized Datacenters - Project Blackbox: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Sun Unveils the Future of Virtualized Datacenters - Project Blackbox: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance: "Project Blackbox starts from the world's most broadly adopted industry standard, the shipping container, and asks -- how can we most efficiently create modular, lights-out datacenters from this base? The answer? With one-hundredth of the initial cost, one-fifth the cost per square foot, and with 20 percent more power efficiency, we can deliver an immense multiple of capacity and capability -- anywhere on earth.'"
Sun Link

Sun Microsystems Revamps 'Galaxy' Line of Sun Fire(Tm) Servers: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Sun Microsystems Revamps 'Galaxy' Line of Sun Fire(Tm) Servers: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance: "Sun Fire X4000 Server Family Powered by Next-Generation AMD Opteron(TM) Processors Are Fastest, Most Scalable and Energy-Efficient Enterprise x64 Systems on the Market "

Google projected to earn 25% of annual online ad revenue - Oct. 17, 2006

Google projected to earn 25% of annual online ad revenue - Oct. 17, 2006: "The online ad giant is projected to take home $4 billion of the expected $16 billion US market, according to eMarketer, an online marketing research company."

ASPCA: ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center Issues Nationwide Update: Raisins and Grapes Can Be Toxic To Dogs

ASPCA: ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center Issues Nationwide Update: Raisins and Grapes Can Be Toxic To Dogs: "ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center Issues Nationwide Update: Raisins and Grapes Can Be Toxic To Dogs"

Steve’s Q3’2006 Sabbatical

Completed a 15 day paddle trip "down canyon" – taking small paddle boats on the Colorado River thru the Grand Canyon from Lee's Ferry to Diamond Creek – for a total of 225 miles. Used the outfitter CanyonX, who I highly recommend.


Figure 1: Our little rafts at a camp … boats were about 14 feet long and has 6 paddlers & one guide who does the steering from the rear..

SAP's Agassi Confirms Oracle Killer Plans, Dishes on SOA

SAP's Agassi Confirms Oracle Killer Plans, Dishes on SOA: "SAP's Agassi Confirms Oracle Killer Plans, Dishes on SOA "

IBM JRD 49-4/5 | POWER5 system microarchitecture

IBM JRD 49-4/5 | POWER5 system microarchitecture: " POWER5 chip, corresponding to an increase from 184 million transistors to 276 million transistors."

Intel Pumps Itanium

Intel Pumps Itanium: "It's the only processor with over a billion transistors; 1.72 billion "

Intel finds itself on the front lines in Israel - Yahoo! News

Intel finds itself on the front lines in Israel - Yahoo! News: "Intel has a total of 5,400 employees at several locations in Israel. Qiryat Gat, in southern Israel, is home to a US$1.6 billion manufacturing plant, Fab 18. The Intel design team in Haifa, on Israel�s northern coast, produced the Pentium M chip and is responsible for the design of the company�s next-generation mobile processors"

Living in a hidden-fee economy

Laibson and Gabaix aren't conspiracy theorists. Their explanation for the persistence of hidden prices, laid out in "Shrouded Attributes, Consumer Myopia, and Information Suppression in Competitive Markets," describes a complex balancing act, in which companies must weigh the costs of educating consumers against the benefits of duping them. And their work relies on the insight, now common in what's called behavioral economics, that many consumers are far less rational than economists used to think.

Training..

least reinforcing syndrome (L. R. S.). When a dolphin does something wrong, the trainer doesn't respond in any way. He stands still for a few beats, careful not to look at the dolphin, and then returns to work. The idea is that any response, positive or negative, fuels a behavior. If a behavior provokes no response, it typically dies away.
Amy Sutherland is the author of "Kicked, Bitten and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers" (Viking, June 2006).

Intel's Core 2 Duo lives up to hype | CNET News.com

Intel's Core 2 Duo lives up to hype CNET News.com: "Intel's Core 2 Duo lives up to hype"

10 things you need to know about Intel's Core 2 Duo (aka "Conroe")

10 things you need to know about Intel's Core 2 Duo (aka "Conroe"): "About the lame code-naming convention: Conroe, Merom, and Woodcrest don't exactly call to mind 'speed' or 'kickin' performance.' Intel's desktop and workstation CPU design offices are in Oregon, California, and Texas, so it makes sense that the towns of Conroe (Texas) and Woodcrest (California) are represented in Intel's code names. And Merom? That's an ancient lake in Israel, so two guesses where the laptop chips are engineered. "

NewsForge | IBM unveils Lotus Notes on Linux

NewsForge IBM unveils Lotus Notes on Linux: "Lotus Notes on Linux was designed using the Eclipse framework, an open source application development tool. The upcoming 'Hannover' release, slated for 2007, was also designed using Eclipse technology. IBM says that same technology will be used for all future releases of Lotus Notes in order to provide multi-platform functionality."

Strange statues around the world | haha.nu - interesting findings over the net

Strange statues around the world haha.nu - interesting findings over the net: "Strange statues around the world"

Christos Kozyrakis' Web Page

Christos Kozyrakis' Web Page: "'The Common Case Transactional Behavior of Multithreaded Programs,' JaeWoong Chung, Hassan Chafi, Austen McDonald, Chi Cao Minh, Brian D. Carlstrom, Christos Kozyrakis, and Kunle Olukotun, Proceedings of the 12th Intl. Conference on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2006. http://csl.stanford.edu/~christos/publications/2006.commontm.hpca.pdfslides]"

Memory Wall -- McCalpin

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~mccalpin/MemoryWall2004-02-20.ppt

Inflection

“...a strategic inflection point is a time in the life ofa business when its fundamentals are about tochange. ... Let's not mince words: A strategicinflection point can be deadly when unattended to.Companies that begin a decline as a result of itschanges rarely recover their previous greatness.”– Only the Paranoid Survive, Andrew S. Grove, 1996

Multicore Systems @ SOA WEB SERVICES JOURNAL

http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/175384.htm: "Multicore Systems
Ready or not, here they come
By: Bob Pasker"

DataAllegro WDC benchmarks

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DBMS2 � DataBase Management System Services�Blog Archive � DATallegro�s technical strategy

DBMS2 � DataBase Management System Services�Blog Archive � DATallegro�s technical strategy: "Like Netezza, DATallegro�s basic strategy is to stream data on and off disk very quickly, sequentially rather than randomly, resolving queries with full table scans. Unlike Netezza, which actually has chip-level optimizations, DATallegro�s most direct I/O acceleration lies in protocol software for talking to Infiniband storage systems"

DBTA 5 Minute Briefing: Data Integration - May 16, 2006

DBTA 5 Minute Briefing: Data Integration - May 16, 2006: "SAP Taps DB2 Viper as Preferred Database
SAP AG and IBM announced that the next version of the industry-leading DB2 data server--code named 'Viper'--will be the preferred and highly recommended database for mid-market SAP applications. DB2 Viper is the second in a series of DB2 releases optimized for SAP solutions. It represents the next milestone in a joint roadmap designed to help customers ease configuration, enhance performance and increase availability of their SAP applications running on DB2. Customers using the new DB2 offering will benefit from embedded capabilities like self-tuned memory, new compression technology, built-in high availability and advanced autonomic capabilities. 'SAP remains committed to working very closely with IBM to deliver tighter integration of SAP applications on DB2 so that our customers, regardless of size, can achieve greater application performance at the lowest license and maintenance cost on the market today,' said L�o Apotheker, a member of the executive board, SAP. 'We also look forward to having our mid-market customers benefit from one year of free maintenance if they select SAP's recommended and preferred database of choice.' For more information, go here"

Linked from - Madville.com - 100 percent undetectable Malware

Linked from - Madville.com - 100 percent undetectable Malware: "She said that the only way her rootkit can be detected is if AMD's Pacifica technology is flawed."

Computerworld Singapore - Dell servers to power Google Search Appliance

Computerworld Singapore - Dell servers to power Google Search Appliance: "Google has been cagey about the hardware that runs its Search Appliance but this week said it will start using Dell servers to power the product later this year. "

Unisys Announces Next-Generation Server Architecture to Target Growing Market for Scalable Enterprise Computing - MarketWatch

Unisys Announces Next-Generation Server Architecture to Target Growing Market for Scalable Enterprise Computing - MarketWatch: "Going forward, market research firm IDC expects the combined midrange and high-end segments of the worldwide server market hosting Windows and Linux environments to show robust growth in terms of customer revenue spent for new systems. Windows servers in the midrange and high-end segments, when combined, are expected to show a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.3 percent, according to IDC's forecast, while Linux servers in those segments, when combined, are expected to have a CAGR of 18.5 percent."

Intel announces Core 2 Xeons, talks optimization

Intel announces Core 2 Xeons, talks optimization: "shipping the new Core 2-based Xeon 5100 series, codenamed Woodcrest"

Net neutrality

Net neutrality is this:

If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that level.

Computerworld Singapore - Dell servers to power Google Search Appliance

Computerworld Singapore - Dell servers to power Google Search Appliance: "While revenue from Google's enterprise group are relatively small compared to advertising revenue, as of April, Google had 3,000 customers using the Search Appliance. 'They've outstripped most of the enterprise search vendors out there,' said Creese. He said most other search vendors are proud to say they've attracted 500 users"

The Universe of Discourse : The envelope paradox

The Universe of Discourse : The envelope paradox: "But this is the paradox: there is a strategy you can use that does better than breaking even. "

Aftermarket Pipes: this api can break

Aftermarket Pipes: this api can break

Technical leadership

17 items,

Becoming A Technical Leader - G. M. Weinberg, Dorset House, 1986
Facts And Fallacies of Software Engineering - Robert L. Glass, Addison-Wesley, 2003

VMware: New ESX rocks the datacenter

VMware ESX Server 3.0, which adds new virtual SMP capabilities for as many as four virtual CPUs and 16GB of memory for each virtual machine

LWN: [discuss] 4level page tables merged into mainline

LWN: [discuss] 4level page tables merged into mainline: "The new layout gives 47bit (=128TB) virtual address space to each process."

64-bit computing in theory and practice - The Tech Report - Page 2

64-bit computing in theory and practice - The Tech Report - Page 2: "Current AMD64 processors allow up to 40 bits of physical address space, or one terabyte, and up to 48 bits of virtual address space, or 256TB. Initial versions of WinXP x64 will support as much as 128GB of physical RAM and up to 16 terabytes of virtual memory. "

My Way News - Internet2 Network Aims to Boost Capacity

My Way News - Internet2 Network Aims to Boost Capacity: "In the new network, Internet2 will have the cables all to itself. Operators will initially be able to transmit data using 10 colors, or wavelengths, of light over a single cable, giving the network a capacity of 100 Gbps. Eventually, Internet2 hopes to transmit on 80 wavelengths"

CMP vs. SMP on Intel's Platform: Comparing Low-Level Memory Characteristics in RightMark Memory Analyzer

CMP vs. SMP on Intel's Platform: Comparing Low-Level Memory Characteristics in RightMark Memory Analyzer: "The real read and write memory bandwidth was tested in two modes � with enabled hardware prefetch, which is a normal processor mode, and with disabled hardware prefetch on the one hand"

CMP vs. SMP on Intel's Platform: Comparing Low-Level Memory Characteristics in RightMark Memory Analyzer

CMP vs. SMP on Intel's Platform: Comparing Low-Level Memory Characteristics in RightMark Memory Analyzer: "The real read and write memory bandwidth was tested in two modes � with enabled hardware prefetch, which is a normal processor mode, and with disabled hardware prefetch on the one hand"

Articles and Links

Articles and Links: "Calpont has implemented what would otherwise be the database via 'SQL on a chip' and all data is held in memory"

How to Get Up Right Away When Your Alarm Goes Off

How to Get Up Right Away When Your Alarm Goes Off: "you can�t trust yourself to make intelligent, conscious decisions the moment you first wake up"

APA Press Release: Groups Perform Better Than The Best Individuals At Solving Complex Problems

APA Press Release: Groups Perform Better Than The Best Individuals At Solving Complex Problems: "'We found that groups of size three, four, and five outperformed the best individuals and attribute this performance to the ability of people to work together to generate and adopt correct responses, reject erroneous responses, and effectively process information,' "

B2 Report: Sun's Hail Mary pass - Apr. 24, 2006

B2 Report: Sun's Hail Mary pass - Apr. 24, 2006: "Sun needs to cut 10,000 to 12,000 jobs � 27 percent of its workforce of 39,000 � to get its costs in line with the rest of the industry"

McNealy--an engineer's witty patron | CNET News.com

McNealy--an engineer's witty patron CNET News.com: "Scott McNealy, one of the longest-serving and best-known CEOs of Silicon Valley, announced Monday that he was stepping down as chief executive of Sun Microsystems. "

Say what? A look back at McNealy zingers | CNET News.com

Say what? A look back at McNealy zingers CNET News.com: "'Technology has the shelf life of a banana.' "

Andy on Enterprise Software: January 2006

Andy on Enterprise Software: January 2006: "SAP MDME will prove as problematic as the original SAP MDM, which is down pushing up the daisies in a software cemetery near Walldorf. A2i was a poor choice as a platform for a general purpose MDM tool that SAP needs, and this realization will start to sink in when customers start to try it out."

Product Review: A2i xCat 4.0

Product Review: A2i xCat 4.0: "A2i comes from a background of supporting large industrial catalogs that may have hundreds of thousands of items. The xCat is a high-performance, highly scalable product.
xCat combines several functions, including a front end to a SQL database, a data mining and presentation tool, a table creation and formatting tool, media management and consolidation tools, and a catalog creation tool. It takes data from one or more sources, including SQL databases, documents stored on a server, media files stored on a server, and data presented through Web services or XML. Print, Web, and CD-ROM catalogs can be created easily. The data can be sorted by a wide variety of categories to create specialized catalogs. Graphics can be standardized for the type of catalog, and searches can be preconfigured for the end-user.
A few of xCat's tools perform their specialized functions so well that they would be noteworthy as separate products. The data mining tool quickly and easily refines databases with over 500,000 entries, narrowing a very large multivendor product database to allow users to find specific items in less than a second."

SAP - Press Release

SAP - Press Release: "Founded in 1993 and based in Los Angeles, California, A2i, Inc. develops and markets xCat�, the industry-leading platform for enterprise-wide product content management and cross-media catalog publishing. As a result of the transaction, SAP acquires an experienced team with deep domain expertise and a world-class solution with proven success in a wide range of verticals including industrial goods, manufacturing, automotive, medical and retail. True to the strategy of SAP NetWeaver as one unified platform, the A2i xCat solution will become a fully integrated part of the SAP NetWeaver stack, eliminating the need for customers to engage in technology integration projects."

Reuters Business Channel | Reuters.com

Reuters Business Channel Reuters.com: "Chief Executive Paul Otellini said in a statement that 'PC growth rates have moderated over the course of the past few quarters"

Hmm, what lies are Non-Dr. Paul telling today...

PC Shipments Rise 13 Pct. in 1st Quarter - Yahoo! News

PC Shipments Rise 13 Pct. in 1st Quarter - Yahoo! News: "Computer shipments rose at a faster-than-expected 13 percent worldwide in the first quarte"

Microsoft extends Visual Studio handout program | The Register

Microsoft extends Visual Studio handout program The Register: "The worldwide population of non-professional developers is estimated to number some 18m individuals, compared to 14m professional programmers."

Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation : HBS Working Knowledge

Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation : HBS Working Knowledge: "Most companies have it all wrong. They don't have to motivate their employees. They have to stop demotivating them."

SAP steals BEA's thunder | The Register

SAP steals BEA's thunder | The Register: "'increasingly common' for customers and ISV partners of BEA to dump WebLogic and adopt SAP's NetWeaver Application Server - previously known as In-Q-My."

SAP launches customer-partner program | CNET News.com

SAP launches customer-partner program CNET News.com: "That was reiterated by Zia Yusuf, the recently named executive vice president of the NetWeaver platform ecosystem. "

Interview: Andrey Savochkin

Interview: Andrey Savochkin: "Andrey Savochkin leads the development of the kernel portion of OpenVZ, an operating system-level server virtualization solution. In this interview, "

Bouyancy Control

Bouyancy Control: "Ideally, inflating the BC should only be necessary on the surface (for flotation), for wet suit compensation, and for emergency ascents. However, because wet suit compression will alter buoyancy at depth, it is often necessary to add a little air to compensate and re-establish neutral buoyancy. From that point of the dive, buoyancy should be controlled mainly by breathing. (It will also be necessary at the end of the dive to dump out any air added to the BC, in order to prevent too rapid an ascent.)"

Bouyancy Control

Bouyancy Control: "A typical 80 cu. ft. aluminum scuba tank filled with air is negatively buoyant by 2-3 lbs., but when near empty the same tank will be 2-3 lbs. positively buoyant. (80 cu. ft. or air weighs about 6 lbs.)"

Scuba Diving Pattaya - Dive Thailand | PADI Courses | PADI Open Water Course Details

Scuba Diving Pattaya - Dive Thailand PADI Courses PADI Open Water Course Details: "Open Water Dive One "

Practical Buoyancy Control

Practical Buoyancy Control

Torpedo Tours

Torpedo Tours: "Torpedo Tours
Hear the latest about what's happening in the ocean off the Kona Coast of the Island of Hawaii"

JDL : Referral Certifications

JDL : Referral Certifications: Make sure you bring your completed paperwork and medical forms when you come to Kona.
COSTS: $275.00 plus tax

Completed Referral Paperwork
Completed Medical Form (Dr's signature required in some cases) For a copy of the Medical Form e-mail or call us with your fax number or click here for the pdffile to print
Log Book
2 passport size photos
Own mask, snorkel, fins and timing device(Rental gear is available

Customize a New XP Installation

Customize a New XP Installation: "How can I customize a new Windows XP installation?"

Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Files

Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Files: "Locate, and then click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches"

The lies told by corporations who practice enterprise architecture

The lies told by corporations who practice enterprise architecture: " If you are interested in enterprise architecture, you would want to accomplish the following:



Facilitate change management by linking strategic requirements to systems that support them and by linking the business architecture to application architecture

Enable strategic information to be consistently and accurately derived from operational data

Promote data sharing in hopes of reducing data redundancy and maintenance costs

Improve productivity through component and service development, management and reuse

Reduce software development cycle time by providing tools, models, catalogs of services, etc

Rigorous and standardized way to evaluate commercial products and services

Construct the extended enterprise where customers and business partners interact electronically

Unify regulatory and legal compliance efforts

Gain discipline around common IT security practices"

� Your pedestal is showing : Pensieri di un lunatico minore

� Your pedestal is showing : Pensieri di un lunatico minore: "Not all problems are knowable. Until you accept this perspective, you will continually pursue the perfect to the deficit of the good. I have watched hundreds of projects implode with the obsession over �scaling� and other enterprisey distractions when often they were irrelevant to the task at hand. Something today that works will always be better than a gold-plated Cadillac tomorrow."

Journal of Pervasive 64bit Computing

Journal of Pervasive 64bit Computing: "CEO Hector Ruiz was asked about Intel's next generation product line, Dr. Ruiz responded: 'It will be interesting to see the things we are going to do later, which again will continue to force them (Intel) to react and figure out what to do next... We don't intend to in any way, shape or form, give any leeway in our leadership relative in product and technology'.

On a similar question, Dirk Meyer, former lead architect of DEC Alpha, AMD Athlon, AMD Opteron, now AMD's President & COO, stated that AMD will introduce 'high capability' products later this year.

AMD plans to reveal more of its technology roadmap on June 1, 2006."

IDC - Press Release

IDC - Press Release: "The rapid transformation of the x86 marketplace into a segment that is 64-bit enabled continued with x86-64 based systems accounting for 78.8% of all x86 server spending, with factory revenue for x86-64 systems more than doubling year over year.
'The number of AMD and Intel-powered dual core systems each grew by more than double on a quarter-over-quarter basis,' said Jed Scaramella, research analyst, Worldwide Server research. 'Given customers' intense focus on performance as well as power, heat, and cooling issues in their datacenters, the move to incorporating dual core processors is a natural move as users look to lower costs and increase computing capacity.' "

Customize a New XP Installation

Customize a New XP Installation: "ISO Recorder PowerToy "

IBM says Kilocore technology will outrun today's mobile processors | TG Daily

IBM says Kilocore technology will outrun today's mobile processors TG Daily: " Kilocore1025 at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose. The blueprint showed a central PowerPC that was complemented by 1024 (that is one thousand and twenty four) 8-bit 'processing elements' on a single and - according to IBM - low-cost die."

SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards

SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards

The Eggcorn Database

The Eggcorn Database: "This site collects unusual spellings of a particular kind, which have come to be called eggcorns. Typical examples include free reign (instead of free rein) or hone in on (instead of home in on), and many more or less common reshapings of words and expressions: a word or part of a word is semantically reanalyzed, and the spelling reflects the new interpretation. "

Science of Pickles: What Is Pickling?

Science of Pickles: What Is Pickling?: "Pickling is a global culinary art. If you were to go on an international food-tasting tour, you�d find pickled foods just about everywhere. You might sample kosher cucumber pickles in New York City, chutneys in India, kimchi in Korea, miso pickles in Japan, salted duck eggs in China, pickled herring in Scandinavia, corned beef in Ireland, salsas in Mexico, pickled pigs feet in the southern United States, and much, much more. "

BetaNews | Microsoft Makes Gains in Server Share

BetaNews Microsoft Makes Gains in Server Share: "With more than 80 million Web sites on the Internet, Microsoft now claims a 25.2 percent share, up 4.7 percent from March. Apache still leads by a wide margin, however it was down close to 6 percent to 62.7 percent. Sun remained a distant third, down slightly to 2.36 percent."

10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed

10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed: "Paper contracts are still important, especially when dealing with larger corporations where people come and go. But don�t make the mistake of assuming that the contract is the deal. The contract is only the deal�s shadow. The real deal is the relationship"

Wait until June before you buy your Macinteltosh

Wait until June before you buy your Macinteltosh: "Macinteltosh ": The next one -- Itanic etc.

The Blogging of the President

The Blogging of the President: "Median 2005 pay among chief executives running most of the nation's 100 largest companies soared 25% to $17.9 million, dwarfing the 3.1% average gain by typical American workers, USA TODAY found in its annual analysis of CEO pay."

CPI analysis on POWER5, Part 1: Tools for measuring performance

CPI analysis on POWER5, Part 1: Tools for measuring performance: "Cycles per instruction (CPI) is the measurement for analyzing the performance of a workload."

Introduction: Why Lisp?

Introduction: Why Lisp?: "If you think the greatest pleasure in programming comes from getting a lot done with code that simply and clearly expresses your intention, then programming in Common Lisp is likely to be about the most fun you can have with a computer. You'll get more done, faster, using it than you would using pretty much any other language"

Neowin.net - IBM offering $20,000 for Exchange users to switch - IBM offering $20,000 for Exchange users to switch

Neowin.net - IBM offering $20,000 for Exchange users to switch - IBM offering $20,000 for Exchange users to switch: "IBM is offering $20,000 to customers to switch from Microsoft Exchange to IBM's Lotus Notes and Domino platform, part of a new 'Migrate to the Penguin' program, which is part of IBM's 'Move2Lotus' program."

OK, I'll switch. Send me my 20K now...

Red Hat, Intel plan 17 development centers | CNET News.com

Red Hat, Intel plan 17 development centers CNET News.com: "Intel and Red Hat announced plans Tuesday to open more than a dozen centers where customers and business partners can make sure their software works well on Linux and the latest hardware. "

My Way News - Apple Unveils Software to Run Windows XP

My Way News - Apple Unveils Software to Run Windows XP: "Shares in Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL) surged Wednesday after the computer maker unveiled software to help owners of its new Intel-based Macs run not only its own operating system but also Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s rival Windows XP system."

Stelath Bomber in Google Maps - Plant 42 in Palmdale, California

Google Local - Plant 42 in Palmdale, California

Bad hardware

Bad hardware: "In 2008, global market for PC will be some 300M pieces. Currently, Intel produces some 200M and AMD close to 50M each year. My question is the following: Can Intel double its sell until 2008?. No, of course not even their CEO would fly cannon ball at each IDF. Except people will buy more than one PC for their home. Can AMD double its sell until 2008? Yes, it can.
After second source fab at Chartered and two existing fabs, AMD could produce and sell 100M PC processors alone in 2008. So what? Intel share of PC market will fell from current 80% to some 65% in the year 2008 and AMD's could rise to 33%"

Below Expectation rating for Paul Otellini of Intel

Intel's latest annual SEC filing http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50863/000095013406005369/f12968prpre14a.htm#113 provides a big surprise in the summary of total compentation for Intel corporate officers:
Paul Otellini (PSO) gets a 79% increase in total compensation and 35% increase in salary!!

Wow, he must be doing really well, and must have gotten a great rating (Outstanding, Exceeds Expectations, ?) in whatever counts as the Focal process for upper-managment at Intel. (After all if the focal process works to weed out undesirables in the common ranks, we better be using it on our executive staff too, right?)

But a 35% increase in salary is very large. You can't even that with an Outstanding rating, so he must have gotten a really good target market adjustment!

Lets examine this a bit.

What about a target market adjustment? In 2004, the average CEO of a major company received $9.84 million in total compensation http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/paywatch/. Ok, Intel likes to pay near the average, so this makes sense, Intel needs to get PSO a pay bump up a bit so he doesn't feel bad when he talks to his fellow CEOs on the golf course.

But Intel does not care about pay with respect to market average, in general, but only pay at companies it compete with. After all, Paul can't really go off and run any old company, just ones in market segments he has some knowledge about. So, we should look at averages over Intel competitors, not over the whole market.

Whose is Intel's chief competitor? AMD of course. So, what about AMD? Dr. Hector de J Ruiz has been CEO of Advanced Micro (AMD) for 3 years, Total Compensation in 2004: $2.3 mil

So AMD has an experienced CEO (3 years vs. Otellini 9+ months) who is expanding his company's market segment share, with products that beat Intel products in most common performance benchmarks. And that CEO is making far less than Otellini. Gee, maybe Intel should hire Ruiz! They could offer to double Dr. Ruiz's total compenstation & it would still cost Intel less than keeping Non-Dr. Paul.

Hmm, lets examine Paul's Exceeds Expectations message a bit. First what are his recent responsibilities for Intel?

1998-2002: VP of Intel Archiecture Group
Jan 2002: Promoted from VP in charge of the microprocessor division to President and COO
May 2005: Took charge of Intel as CEO

How has Intel done while Non-Dr. Paul was in charge? First, what about that basic indicator, stock price? Lets see:

Today: $19.64
May 2005: $25.93
Jan 2002: $34.48

Looks like a steady drop since PSO got more and more responsibility.

So what did Intel get while non-Dr. Paul was head of architecture group? Itanium, or as the industry knows it , Itanic, an architecture failing to gain any significant market share while Intel continues to pour money into it. Intel behind AMD to a x86 product with 64bits, Intel behind on launch of Dual Core processors, Intel behind AMD to on-chip memory contollers (and under our current roadmap, continuing to be behind on this key technology initiative by years, something non-Dr. Paul is still too uneducated enough to fix, even with his increased power at CEO).

And what do we get once he becomes CEO:

Jan 18th 2006: Intel executives said Tuesday that they expected to lose about one point of market share to AMD during a disappointing fourth quarter. http://news.com.com/AMD+market+share+soars+in+PCs/2100-1003_3-6028349.html

Otellini's nine-month tenure as CEO has been marked by missed projections, product delays and customer defections. Intel will probably slice prices by as much as 50 percent to regain sales, according to analysts. (http://worcester.pressdemocrat.com/businesswire/html/BusinessAtNoon20060303.html)

Hmm, clearly a Below Expectation message, certianly not an Exceeds Expectation message.

So, how does Intel justify the raises to PSO when clearly he is BE or IR and his total compenstation already exceeds the compenstation of the CEO of Intel's chief competitior?

AMD Bulks Up

AMD Bulks Up: " Intel began shipping microprocessors with 65-nanometer circuitry at the end of 2005, something AMD says it will begin doing at Fab 36 later this year."

Former Oracle president: Software landscape has changed - Yahoo! News

Former Oracle president: Software landscape has changed - Yahoo! News: "Currently, 85 percent of revenues are concentrated among 15 companies, with three companies making most of the profit. And one company, Microsoft, generates most of that profit"

AMD producing 65 nano chips at Fab 36

AMD producing 65 nano chips at Fab 36: "on track to begin shipping 65 nanometre CPUs in the second half of 2006, with the whole fab converted to the shrink by the middle of next year"

Eugene's Blog - What programmers do

Eugene's Blog - What programmers do: "Those guys forgot that they deal with complex systems. Do not spend your time polishing a detailed design � it will be wrong anyway. No, I don't believe in 'do not design' mantra of some gurus. If you go to a battle, you have to have a strategy, but you have to have some smarts and experience to go tactical when you started coding."

MilkenInstitute.Org > Publications > Best Performing Cities 2005: Where America's Jobs Are Created and Sustained

MilkenInstitute.Org > Publications > Best Performing Cities 2005: Where America's Jobs Are Created and Sustained: "The 2005 winners have similar characteristics: strong and growing service sectors, a robust recovery in tourism, growing populations and an increase in the number of retirees. As evidence, six metros in the top 20 come from the Southwest, including three in California (Riverside, Santa Barbara and Santa Ana) and two in Arizona (Tucson and Phoenix). The other is Las Vegas. "

IGDA - Articles - Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work: 6 Lessons

IGDA - Articles - Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work: 6 Lessons: "It comes down to productivity. Workers can maintain productivity more or less indefinitely at 40 hours per five-day workweek. When working longer hours, productivity begins to decline."

Build Your Own Web 2.0 Application Using Fluff and Hot Air [Other Promotions]

Build Your Own Web 2.0 Application Using Fluff and Hot Air [Other Promotions]: "Be Agile in your Company Vision
In fact, there's no need to even have a vision. If you've executed your promotion strategy correctly, people won't care what your application does -- they'll be so dazzled by the flashy site and use of cutting-edge technologies that they'll forget that they've never actually used the thing.
Not having a vision makes you more adaptable. If you want to take your application in a different direction, you'll find it much easier to do so if you haven't committed yourself to any particular path."

Sandals and ponytail set cramp Linux: ZDNet Australia: News: Software

Sandals and ponytail set cramp Linux: ZDNet Australia: News: Software: "The lax dress code of the open-source community is one of the reasons behind the software's slow uptake in commercial environments"

nanocolo iPod Linux colocation

nanocolo iPod Linux colocation: " low-heat, low-wattage computing platform wrapped around a high-density storage system (the iPod), "

Amazon.com: What Customers Want: Using Outcome-Driven Innovation to Create Breakthrough Products and Services: Books: Anthony Ulwick,Anthony Ulwick

Amazon.com: What Customers Want: Using Outcome-Driven Innovation to Create Breakthrough Products and Services: Books: Anthony Ulwick,Anthony Ulwick: " focus on the 'metrics that customers use to measure success when executing the jobs, tasks or activities they are trying to get done.' Using these customer desired outcomes as inputs into the innovation process eliminates much of the chaos and variability that typically derails innovation initiatives."

Wired News: Steve Jobs' Best Quotes Ever

Wired News: Steve Jobs' Best Quotes Ever: "If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.'
-- Fortune, Feb. 19, 1996"

Are Software Patents Evil?

Are Software Patents Evil?: "When we were working on Viaweb, a bigger company in the e-commerce business was granted a patent on online ordering, or something like that. I got a call from a VP there asking if we'd like to license it. I replied that I thought the patent was completely bogus, and would never hold up in court. 'Ok,' he replied. 'So, are you guys hiring?'"

AMD grabs Itanic survivors | The Register

AMD grabs Itanic survivors | The Register: "AMD spokesman confirmed that the company has hired 'some Itanium guys,' including former Intel fellow and director of Itanium circuits and technology Sam Naffziger"

Toward a Global "Internet of Things"

Toward a Global "Internet of Things": "The use of RFID in industry appears to be reaching critical mass. In addition to Wal-Mart's planned implementation of RFID by 2005, Gillette has reportedly purchased 500,000 RFID tags. With them, they hope to reduce out-of-stock items, cut labor costs, and reduce theft and counterfeiting. Proctor & Gamble's CIO, Steve David, has stated that the company expects to save $1.5 billion annually in supply-chain costs through the use of Auto-ID. Michelin, which manufactures 800,000 tires a day, is considering putting RFID tags in each of its tires. Delta Airlines is testing RFID on certain flights, tagging 40,000 customer bags to reduce loss and make routing more efficient. The U.S. military has placed tags on 270,000 cargo containers and trucks, tracking shipments through 40 countries. And just this month, the United States Acting Under-Secretary of Defense, Michael W. Wynne, spelled out an ambitious plan (a la Wal-Mart) to require its suppliers to use RFID tags on all shipments to the military by January, 2005. Visa is exploring putting RFID tags in smart cards, so people can conduct transactions without even having to open their wallets. The European Central Bank is even considering embedding RFID tags in individual Euro notes, to help combat counterfeiting and money laundering. With such tags in place, banks could count large amounts of money in a matter of seconds. But it doesn't take a civil libertarian to recognize the potential downside of such tag placement. Not only would the last bastion of anonymous commerce fall by the wayside, but a criminal with the proper technology could conceivably detect how much money a person was carrying."

ONLamp.com -- Apple's High-Water Mark?

ONLamp.com -- Apple's High-Water Mark?: "Apple now finds itself with approximately 2.5 percent of the personal computer market"

Optimization: Your worst enemy

Optimization: Your worst enemy: "Optimization matters only when it matters. When it matters, it matters a lot, but until you know that it matters, don't waste a lot of time doing it. Even if you know it matters, you need to know where it matters. Without performance data, you won't know what to optimize, and you'll probably optimize the wrong thing. "

davidbau.com: Vista and the Altair

davidbau.com: Vista and the Altair: "The home computer. The personal computer. That's Microsoft's DNA. "

IT-Director.com: QlikTech raises questions

IT-Director.com: QlikTech raises questions: "The product works by parsing input data (which may be from multiple sources) and extracting the metadata that describes the relationships between the various data elements to be analysed. This is stored in its own file. The data itself is stored in an associative database in memory. This strips out the redundant data from the original data source and is highly compressed, resulting in a memory requirement that is a third to a quarter of the size of the original data source."

Patently Ridiculous - New York Times

Patently Ridiculous - New York Times: "Now the pendulum has swung so far in the direction of the patent holder that many experts say we are not only restricting competition, but discouraging research and innovation as well. More patents are slipping through that are not new, like the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or that should be obvious, like the migration of a simple business practice onto the Internet or a mobile device"

Novell's premium Linux taking Xen plunge | CNET News.com

Novell's premium Linux taking Xen plunge | CNET News.com: "Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 will include the Xen virtualization software to permit the multi-OS ability, said Justin Steinman, who's in charge of data center marketing. The move, while not a surprise, has particular importance for Novell since Xen ultimately will allow both Linux and the company's other operating system, NetWare, to run at the same time on some computers.
Novell showed a beta version of SLES 10 at its Brainshare conference this week in Utah; the final version is scheduled to ship 'mid-summer,' Steinman said. Novell's top rival, Red Hat, is incorporating Xen into its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, due by the end of the year."

Welcome to HP's third Superdome | CNET News.com

Welcome to HP's third Superdome | CNET News.com: "HP's sx2000 'Arches' chipset. Arches boosts performance about 30 percent over the prior sx1000 'Pinnacles'-based servers"

Intel acknowledges Itanium flubs, predicts strong future | CNET News.com

Intel acknowledges Itanium flubs, predicts strong future | CNET News.com: "But at the same time, Itanium server sales are more than half of Sun Sparc server sales and a third of IBM Power server sales"

Tarari Earns Coveted Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status

Tarari Earns Coveted Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status: "Tarari Content Processors enable extreme acceleration for a variety of applications, including Anti-Virus and XML content processing and High Performance Computing. Tarari Content Processor are dynamically reconfigurable and snap into application servers, appliances, networking devices, cluster nodes and embedded processors servers. They perform the toughest portions of compute-intensive algorithms, enabling both the inspection of complete messages and XML-rich data as well as computational acceleration at much greater rates than previously possible"

Innovation Happens Elsewhere

Innovation Happens Elsewhere: "Innovation Happens Elsewhere
Innovation happens everywhere, but there is simply more elsewhere than here. Silly as it sounds, this is the brutal truth: Regardless of how smart, creative, and innovative you believe your organization is, there are more smart, creative, and innovative people outside your organization than inside."

haiku error messages

haiku error messages: "There is a chasm
of carbon and silicon
the software can't bridge "

vogon poetry: ETech 2006 Session: Scaling Fast and Cheap

vogon poetry: ETech 2006 Session: Scaling Fast and Cheap: "a scalable enterprize web application "

tony morgan | one of the simply strategic guys: 10 Easy Ways to Know You're Not a Leader

tony morgan | one of the simply strategic guys: 10 Easy Ways to Know You're Not a Leader: "10 Easy Ways to Know You're Not a Leader
You're waiting on a bigger staff and more money to accomplish your vision.
You think you need to be in charge to have influence.
You're content.
You tend to foster division instead of generating a helpful dialogue.
You think you need to say something to be heard.
You find it easier to blame others for your circumstances than to take responsibility for solutions.
It's been some time since you said, 'I messed up.'
You're driven by the task instead of the relationships and the vision.
Your dreams are so small, people think they can be achieved.
No one is following you."

Rakkar�s Blog � Blog Archive � How to fix the patent system in 10 easy steps

Rakkar�s Blog � Blog Archive � How to fix the patent system in 10 easy steps: "1. Software cannot be patented. If there is any doubt as to whether a patent is a software patent, it is."

This Essay Breaks the Law - New York Times

This Essay Breaks the Law - New York Times: "If you invent a new test, you may patent it and sell it for as much as you can, if that's your goal. Companies can certainly own a test they have invented. But they should not own the disease itself, or the gene that causes the disease, or essential underlying facts about the disease. The distinction is not difficult, even though patent lawyers attempt to blur it."

Intel continues semiconductor market dominance

Intel continues semiconductor market dominance: "Tables below supplied courtesy of iSuppli. Dollar amounts represent millions.
2004 Rank2005 RankCompany 2005 Revenue 2004 RevenuePercent ChangePercent of TotalCumulative Percentage
11Intel$35,466$31,39613.0%15.0%15.0%
22Samsung $17,210$15,7599.2%7.3%22.2%
33Texas Instruments$10,745$10,2255.1%4.5%26.7%
74Toshiba$9,077$8,7523.7%3.8%30.6%
65STMicroelectronics$8,881$8,7601.4%3.7%34.3%
46Infineon $8,297$9,180-9.6%3.5%37.8%
57Renesas $8,266$9,000-8.2%3.5%41.3%
88NEC Electronics$5,710$6,503-12.2%2.4%43.7%
99Philips Semi$5,646$5,692-0.8%2.4%46.1%
1010Freescale Semi$5,598$5,5191.4%2.4%48.5%
1411Hynix$5,560$4,60620.7%2.3%50.8%
1312Micron Technology$4,775$4,6492.7%2.0%52.8%
1513Sony$4,574$4,2996.4%1.9%54.7%
1214Matsushita Electric$4,131$4,669-11.5%1.7%56.5%
1115AMD$3,917$5,108-23.3%1.7%58.1%
1716Qualcomm$3,457$3,2117.7%1.5%59.6%
1617Sharp Electronics$3,266$3,488-6.4%1.4%61.0%
1818Rohm$2,909$2,8492.1%1.2%62.2%
2019IBM Micro$2,792$2,50311.5%1.2%63.4%
2220Broadcom$2,671$2,40011.3%1.1%64.5%
Other Companies$84,191$80,2414.9%35.5%100.0%
Total Revenue$237,139$228,8093.6%100.0%"

Apple's share price an in-joke for Intelites | News.blog | CNET News.com

Apple's share price an in-joke for Intelites | News.blog | CNET News.com: "In a bit of unintended humor, Wall Street closed Apple's stock Tuesday, the day the company unveiled its first Intel processor-based computers at Macworld, at $80.86. "

How the IT industry really works - Membox.com

How the IT industry really works - Membox.com: "How the IT industry really works "

Publishing Hacks � The Stealth Mode Fallacy

Publishing Hacks � The Stealth Mode Fallacy: "there is no shortage of brilliant ideas in the world. There is, however, a shortage of people that can execute on those ideas and turn them into successes."

Why Grammar is the First Casualty of War

Why Grammar is the First Casualty of War: "WHAT really alarms me about President Bush's 'war on terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? It's rather like bombing murder.
Imagine if Bush had said: 'We're going to bomb murder wherever it lurks. We are going to seek out the murderers and the would-be murderers, and bomb any government that harbors murderers.'
The other thing that worries me about Bush and Blair's 'war on terrorism' is: how will they know when they've won it? With most wars, you can say you've won when the other side is either all dead or surrenders. But how is terrorism going to surrender?
It's hard for abstract nouns to surrender"

Ari Paparo Dot Com: Getting it Right

Ari Paparo Dot Com: Getting it Right: "We added a 'find similar' button to the Blink interface, and the results were often quite good. The problem was that we were once again asking the user to go out and do things. The vision was that the similar sites would just be there, the same way Amazon presents you with the related products. But the servers couldn�t handle it. They could barely handle it when the users actually clicked to see results, let alone on every pageview.
I suggested a compromise. Instead of the algorithm, how about just using the text of the folder name as the key. Show the top 10 sites in all folders with the same name, across all users. I was basically suggesting a rudimentary tagging system"

A Recording Engineer's Guide to the Secrets of iTunes and iPod

A Recording Engineer's Guide to the Secrets of iTunes and iPod: "CHECK THE 'USE ERROR CORRECTION' BOX under PREFERENCES > ADVANCED > IMPORTING. Once I did I've never had a problem"

Who Can Name the Bigger Number?

Who Can Name the Bigger Number?: "The sequence of Busy Beaver numbers, BB(1), BB(2), and so on, grows faster than any computable sequence"

Sun's Rock goes 16 cores and arrives with multi-core friends | The Register

Sun's Rock goes 16 cores and arrives with multi-core friends | The Register: "Rock will cater to a broader audience than today's UltraSPARC T1 processor that supports 32 threads and the second rev of that product that supports 64 threads. Each of the Rock processing cores will have a higher clock speed than the UltraSPARC T1cores "

Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - Vista not to support EFI

Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - Vista not to support EFI: "EFI support will not be seen until Longhorn Server is released in early 2007"

IBM breaks speed records with new version of file system

IBM breaks speed records with new version of file system: "new speed record of over 102 gigabytes per second of sustained read/write performance to a single file."

Supermicro stuns with four-socket, 1U Opteron bad boy | The Register

Supermicro stuns with four-socket, 1U Opteron bad boy | The Register: "This is an OEM-only product, which is probably good because it's not for the faint of hear. Supermicro demands a 1,000 watt power supply to get this bad boy humming"

IBM breaks speed records with new version of file system

IBM breaks speed records with new version of file system: "new speed record of over 102 gigabytes per second of sustained read/write performance to a single file."

AnandTech: Spring IDF 2006: Introducing Intel's new Core processors

AnandTech: Spring IDF 2006: Introducing Intel's new Core processors: "Woodcrest sees an 80% increase in performance and a 35% decrease in power compared to a Xeon 2.8GHz with two 2MB caches"

AnandTech: Spring IDF 2006 Conroe Preview: Intel Regains the Performance Crown

AnandTech: Spring IDF 2006 Conroe Preview: Intel Regains the Performance Crown

IBM - News: eServer xSeries Benchmarks

IBM - News: eServer xSeries Benchmarks: "x460 server achieves 15 percent better performance than HP ProLiant DL585-G1"

technology exclusive to IBM: an integrated snoop
filter that minimizes front-side bus (FSB) congestion and maximizes CPU performance, a key
ingredient for higher performance on the new dual front-side bus architecture.

Intel's new chip family: Core Microarchitecture | CNET News.com

Intel's new chip family: Core Microarchitecture | CNET News.com: "Core Microarchitecture features
Rattner touted a list of improvements coming with the new chip design.
� Intel Wide Dynamic Execution, which lets as many as four instructions be executed in a single tick of a chip's clock. In addition, a feature called macrofusion automatically combines two high-level chip instructions, in some cases into a single instruction.
� The Digital Media Boost means all 'SSE' instructions can execute in a single clock tick. SSE stands for streaming SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) extensions and speeds several operations such as video decoding or digital photo processing.
� Intel Advanced Smart Cache improves how high-speed cache memory is shared by multiple processor cores. For example, it lets one core control the whole cache when the other core is idle, and for other times, it governs how the same data can be shared by both cores, Rattner said.
� Intel Smart Memory Access is an improved set of algorithms that can predict what data should be 'prefetched' from main memory into faster cache memory so it's at hand when the processor needs it, he said.
� And Intel Intelligent Power Capability 'lets us shut down portions of the chip that aren't needed at a particular time to support instruction execution,' Rattner said. "

AMD gives Opteron lineup a speed bump

AMD gives Opteron lineup a speed bump: "All three dual-core CPUs top out at 2.6GHz, a 200MHz increase from the previous top-of-the-line Opterons. "

Virtualization in Xen 3.0 | Linux Journal

Virtualization in Xen 3.0 | Linux Journal: "Virtualization in Xen 3.0"

My Way News

My Way News: "One model, designed by White Lake, is made from 14-carat gold and features not one but five diamonds built-in for a touch of flash. It is expected to retail for euro2,950, or around $3,545, and comes in storage sizes of 128 megabytes to one gigabyte"

Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog

Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog: "if you write a blog that fairly assesses the machine's performance (positively or negatively), send us a pointer, we're likely to let you keep the machine"

Linked from - Madville.com - How to Spot a Pet Emergency, or When to Call 911 on Spot.

Linked from - Madville.com - How to Spot a Pet Emergency, or When to Call 911 on Spot.

New Scientist Breaking News - Mathematical proofs getting harder to verify

New Scientist Breaking News - Mathematical proofs getting harder to verify: " the large statements of mathematics are so complex that we may never know for sure whether they're true or false"

2005 Linux Symposium --

2005 Linux Symposium --: "Linux Virtualization on Virtual Iron VFe
Alex Vasilevsky "

EBN - The Future Of Linux: A Virtual Success

EBN - The Future Of Linux: A Virtual Success: "While VMware and Xen are busy about the job of carving up single servers for many guest OSs, Virtual Iron aims to move beyond the single server environment into what we might normally think of as a clustered environment. With Virtual Iron's VFe 1.0, a single OS image can run on a fraction of a processor, as is typically done with VMware and Xen. In the other extreme, it can also run on as many as 16 CPUs simultaneously. To make this magic happen with commodity hardware, Virtual Iron requires that a Topspin Communications InfiniBand switch connect all systems participating in the virtual system"

Ken Novak's Weblog

Ken Novak's Weblog: "turn a host of Linux servers into a single virtual server"

2 workers have chips embedded into them

2 workers have chips embedded into them

The Pros and Cons of Virtual Machines in the Datacenter

The Pros and Cons of Virtual Machines in the Datacenter: "The Pros and Cons of Virtual Machines in the Datacenter"

Techworld.com - Q&A: Power chip inventor speaks out

Techworld.com - Q&A: Power chip inventor speaks out: "High volumes are extremely important if you want to stay in the processor business"

DailyTech - AMD To Show Quad Core Running on Current Platforms

DailyTech - AMD To Show Quad Core Running on Current Platforms: "AMD has updated its statement and now says that quad-core processors will only be compatible with Socket-F platforms. While Socket-F does support single-core and dual-core processors, it will be the only 'current' socket to support quad-core. Unfortunately, Socket-F platforms are not currently shipping to consumers. AMD clarifies that it meant no user who uses a Socket-F platform with a single-core or dual-core processor will have to change boards in order to use upcoming quad-core processors."

SI.com - Writers - John Rolfe: Steve Smith experiences payback - Tuesday January 24, 2006 2:49PM

SI.com - Writers - John Rolfe: Steve Smith experiences payback - Tuesday January 24, 2006 2:49PM: "While watching Steve Smith fuss, fume and sit stone-faced through "

Put Up Or Shut Up - Brian's Brain - Blog on EDN - 400000040

Put Up Or Shut Up - Brian's Brain - Blog on EDN - 400000040: "Here's the fine print on that retail market share data:
a) It's US-only
b) It doesn't include the bulk of the business market, which is largely Intel-loyal
c) It only includes desktop PCs....hot-selling and fast-ramping laptops aren't comprehended, and
d) It doesn't include direct sales....i.e. Dell."

Intel to AMD: Gimme 65!

Intel to AMD: Gimme 65!: "AMD will likely be a year behind Intel in rolling out this 65 nm technology and, perhaps, it will take even longer to get to mass production."

Steve Smith is NFL�s most amazing show - NFL - MSNBC.com

Steve Smith is NFL�s most amazing show - NFL - MSNBC.com: "Steve Smith is NFL�s most amazing show"

Joel on Software

Joel on Software: "�Don�t start a business if you can�t explain what pain it solves, for whom, and why your product will eliminate this pain, and how the customer will pay to solve this pain. The other day I went to a presentation of six high tech startups and not one of them had a clear idea for what pain they were proposing to solve.�"

Delete a song from a playlist

Delete a song from a playlist: "When you remove a tune from the Library, iTunes doesn't always offer to delete the song's file from the hard disk. Here's why: iTunes has a default folder for the music it knows about. On the Mac, this folder is in your User directory at Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/, and on Windows, it's located inside My Documents at My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\. Not every song file in iTunes needs to be in this default folder. Any song file can be added to the iTunes Library, no matter what folder it's in. If it's in the default folder, iTunes assumes it owns the file, so it offers to delete the file when you remove it from the Library. If the file is not in the folder, iTunes figures it belongs to somebody else, so it shows good manners by not deleting it."

Help me help iTunes not to be stupid | Ask MetaFilter

Help me help iTunes not to be stupid | Ask MetaFilter: "I forget where I read this - but here's a solution that worked for me (similiar to the initial link posted):

1 - backup the itunes xml and database files
2 - Do a find and replace in the iTunes xml file to update all of the song locations
3 - open the itunes database in a text editor, delete everything, and save. (simply deleting the database file does not work)
4 - open up itunes - it will rebuild the library file from the xml."