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"