Shai Agassi on his way out of SAP - Haaretz - Israel News

Shai Agassi on his way out of SAP - Haaretz - Israel News: "Agassi, 38, who had been named by Time Magazine one of the 100 most influential people, is leaving by mutual agreement to pursue interests in environmental policy and alternative energy sources. "

Intel Begins Shipping Classmate PC - Computing News - Digital Trends

Intel Begins Shipping Classmate PC - Computing News - Digital Trends: "Now, Intel as re-asserted itself, surprising many industry watchers by announcing it is shipping its Classmate PC in volume to Mexico and Brazil, apparently beating the celebrated OLPC out the door."

Intel’s “SuiteTwo” Web 2.0 play - the Good, Bad, and Ugly » TinyScreenfuls.com

Intel’s “SuiteTwo” Web 2.0 play - the Good, Bad, and Ugly » TinyScreenfuls.com: " SuiteTwo is a collection of blog, wiki, and RSS tools and companies that Intel Capital is investing in. It’s targeted at “small and medium sized” businesses, and it’s basically a bundle of products from SocialText (wiki), SixApart (Moveable Type blogs), NewsGator (enterprise aggregation), and SimpleFeed (feed publishing). A company called SpikeSource will be somehow sewing all of these disparate packages into one."

Oracle Sues SAP

Oracle Sues SAP: "On March 22, 2007, Oracle filed a lawsuit in U.S. Federal District Court in the Northern District of California against SAP. Among the claims made against SAP are violations of the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, Unfair Competition, Intentional and Negligent Interference with Prospective Economic Advantage and Civil Conspiracy.
"

Techdirt: An Economic Explanation For Why DRM Cannot Open Up New Business Model Opportunities

Techdirt: An Economic Explanation For Why DRM Cannot Open Up New Business Model Opportunities: "DRM is fundamentally opposed to this concept. It is not increasing value for the consumer in any way, but about limiting it. It takes the non-scarce goods, the very thing that helps increase value, and constrains them. Those non-scarce goods are what increase the pie and open up new opportunities for those who know where to capture the monetary rewards of that value (within other limited resources). DRM, on the other hand, holds back that value and prevents it from being realized. It shrinks the pie -- and no successful business models come out of providing less value and shrinking the overall pie. Fundamentally, DRM cannot create a successful new business model. It can only contain one. "

Web Server tuning (MSFT)

Link: Balancing threads against overall performance as measured by connections and requests can be difficult. Any time you tune threads, follow-up with overall performance monitoring to see if performance increases or decreases. To determine if you should adjust the thread count, compare the number of threads and the processor time for each thread in the process to the total processor time. If the threads are constantly busy, but are not fully using the processor time, performance may benefit from creating more threads. However, if all the threads are busy and the processors are close to their maximum capacity, you are better off distributing the load across more servers rather than increasing the number of threads

A peek inside Google's war chest

A peek inside Google's war chest: "Google's cost of sales for 2006 was 8 percent. By way of comparison, Microsoft cost of sales stood at 22 percent for fiscal year 2006, Yahoo at 20 percent, and Apple at 13 percent."

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . The $7 TV Network | PBS

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . The $7 TV Network | PBS: "but today they are, the trick being to somehow enable an efficient multicast-type experience without turning on multicast support in the routers, where multicasting remains switched off.

Enter Neokast, the brainchild of a PhD candidate from Northwestern University, Stefan Birrer. Neokast uses peer-to-peer technology to effectively emulate a multicast experience."

Advertising Age - AUDIO: Bob Garfield vs. Bill Gates

Advertising Age - AUDIO: Bob Garfield vs. Bill Gates: "GARFIELD: Tell me about your work with AT&T to develop IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) -- basically internet TV. What effect will that have on our consumer habits and what effect will that have on the broadcast industry?

GATES: Well, what we call IPTV is enabled by the fact that the internet has enough bandwidth to carry even high-definition video signals. So instead of getting just a broadcast signal that goes the same thing to every household, there's data over the internet that's targeted specifically at that TV set. And so if you're watching a news segment, the areas of great interest to you are made longer and the ones of less interest to you are made shorter. The sports you want are more in-depth, the weather you care about. Likewise, the ads are based on what would be interesting to you. So not everyone who's watching the news show is seeing the same ads. "

Alexa Web Search - Top 500

Alexa Web Search - Top 500: "Top Sites "

Alexa Web Search - Help

Alexa Web Search - Help: "lexa computes traffic rankings by analyzing the Web usage of millions of Alexa Toolbar users. The information is sorted, sifted, anonymized, counted, and computed, until, finally, we get the traffic rankings shown in the Alexa service. The process is relatively complex, but if you have a need to know, please read on."

Living People do NOT Outnumber the Dead

Article he estimated that slightly over 106 billion people had ever been born. Of those, people alive today comprise only 6 percent, nowhere near 75 percent. "[It is] almost surely true people alive today are some small fraction of [all] people"

What’s So Funny? Well, Maybe Nothing

Link: the brain has ancient wiring to produce laughter so that young animals learn to play with one another. The laughter stimulates euphoria circuits in the brain and also reassures the other animals that they’re playing, not fighting.

i-Technology Viewpoint: Those Who Can, Code; Those Who Can't, Architect @ JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL

i-Technology Viewpoint: : "Those Who Can, Code; Those Who Can't, Architect"

Coding Horror: Dude, Where's My 4 Gigabytes of RAM?

Coding Horror: Dude, Where's My 4 Gigabytes of RAM?: "Don't get too excited, though. The user-mode virtual address space in 64-bit Windows is a mere 8 terabytes. "

My Way News - AMD Finds Itself in Financial Peril

My Way News - AMD Finds Itself in Financial Peril: "n 2006, AMD siphoned about 5 percent of the server market from Intel, but leveled out at 22 percent share during the second half, according to Mercury Research."

Top 1000 Web Servers Survey: Which Web Server Is "Winning"? :: Port80 Software

Top 1000 Web Servers Survey: Which Web Server Is "Winning"? :: Port80 Software: " Port80 Software's Top 1000 Corporations Web Server Survey focuses exclusively on the corporate sites of Fortune 1000 companies. Technically, the two surveys are very similar -- each uses a header check to determine which software is being used to serve a particular hostname, and are therefore surveys of domains rather than of actual servers"

Survey: Microsoft IIS 6 Ahead of Apache

Survey: Microsoft IIS 6 Ahead of Apache: "Port80 Software said IIS 4, 5, and 6 deployments combine for a 54.9 percent share of all Fortune 1000 corporate sites versus Apache's 23.3 percent share.
'The rapid adoption of IIS 6 among Fortune 1000 companies underscores Microsoft's leadership in the corporate market,' Joseph Lima, director of product development at San Diego-based Port80 Software, said in a statement. "

The Port80 survey also showed that Microsoft ASP.Net application server environments are used on 48.4 percent of Fortune 1000 sites.

Other platforms, including Java application server environments like IBM's WebSphere, BEA Systems's WebLogic, Sun Microsystems' JSP (JavaServer Pages), the open-source Tomcat platform, and technologies such as PHP and ColdFusion all combined to account for only 21.2 percent of Fortune 1000 site deployments, the survey said.

See also: http://www.port80software.com/surveys/

LAMP paper on IBM Power

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/whitepapers/lamp.html

Web server consolidation

handbook_chapter1.pdf (application/pdf Object)

handbook_chapter1.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Improving Web Site Performance
Arun Iyengar, Erich Nahum, Anees Shaikh, Renu Tewari
IBM Research

IIS 7.0: Explore The Web Server For Windows Vista And Beyond -- MSDN Magazine, March 2007

IIS 7.0: Explore The Web Server For Windows Vista And Beyond -- MSDN Magazine, March 2007: "The IIS 7.0 release in Windows Vista aims to provide the best architectural foundation for the next-generation Web application platform"

Interview with Valgrind Author Julian Seward

Interview with Valgrind Author Julian Seward: "Think of running your program on Valgrind as if you were running it on a special, magical computer, which can collect all manner of useful information that no real machine can get for you.

Valgrind now provides a suite of different tools built around a common core. The most important tools are Memcheck, Cachegrind, Massif and Callgrind."

CIO Blogs - Oracle's Unbreakable Linux Unleashed on an Uncaring World |

CIO Blogs - : "Oracle's Unbreakable Linux Unleashed on an Uncaring World"

Nice use of "Un" :-)

Browser Statistics

Browser Statistics: "Web Statistics and Trends

Statistics are important information. What you can read from the statistics below is that Internet Explorer 6 is the most common browser, XP is the most dominating operating system, and most users are using a display with 1024x768 pixels or more, with a color depth of at least 65K colors.
Browser Statistics Month by Month
2007 IE7 IE6 IE5 Fx Moz S O
February 16.4% 39.8% 2.5% 31.2% 1.4% 1.7% 1.5%
January 13.3% 42.3% 3.0% 31.0% 1.5% 1.7% 1.5%
"

Hitwise US - Top 20 Websites - February, 2007

Hitwise US - Top 20 Websites - February, 2007: "itwise US - Top 20 Websites - February, 2007

This list features the most popular websites based on US Internet usage for February, 2007, ranked by market share of visits across all Hitwise industries.

Rank Website Market Share
1. www.myspace.com 5.93% iis
2. www.google.com 4.47% google
3. www.yahoo.com 4.16% freebsd
4. mail.yahoo.com 4.1% freebsd
5. mail.myspace.com 3.86% iis
6. www.hotmail.com 1.98% iis
7. www.msn.com 1.81% iis
8. www.ebay.com 1.55% iis
9. search.yahoo.com 1.42% freebsd
10. search.msn.com 0.81% iis
11. www.facebook.com 0.76% apache
12. www.youtube.com 0.61% apache
13. images.google.com 0.53% google
14. blog.myspace.com 0.44% iis
15. www.wikipedia.org 0.39% apache
16. music.myspace.com 0.38% iis
17. www.aol.com 0.33% aol
18. my.yahoo.com 0.33% freebsd
19. address.yahoo.com 0.31% freebsd
20. www.ebaymotors.com 0.29% iis

Source - Hitwise - February, 2007 - based on market share of visits."

Used the netcraft toolbar , eg http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://mail.myspace.com to get site report..

Note: total percent of top 20 is only 34% -- very long tail apparently...

about 17% are iis, 2% apache, & the rest are "special": yahoo, google & aol
IF you eliminate MSFT sites from mix, then we would take 5% off the iss share, 12% vs. 2 %for apache...

MySpace Pulls Ahead In Page View Race, Social-Networking Site Tops List, Beating Out Yahoo And Google — For Now - CBS News

MySpace Pulls Ahead In Page View Race, Social-Networking Site Tops List, Beating Out Yahoo And Google — For Now - CBS News: "Social networking asserted its hit-getting dominance last week as MySpace knocked e-mail giant Yahoo out of the No. 1 ranking for most page views, as tabulated by top Internet tracker Hitwise.

MySpace, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., garnered 4.46 percent of all U.S. Internet visits for the first week in July 2006, for the first time earning the No. 1 spot on the hit list for its homepage. MySpace topped Yahoo Mail, Yahoo, Google and MSN.
"

Visualizing Global Web Performance with Akamai

Visualizing Global Web Performance with Akamai: "20% of the world's Internet traffic is delivered over the Akamai platform. We combine this global scope with constant data collection to construct an accurate and comprehensive picture of what's happening on the Internet. Bookmark this page to check the world's online behavior at any given moment "

Detailed overall statistics for the hosting industry /// HostCount

Detailed overall statistics for the hosting industry /// HostCount: "Statistics
Additional details for the week of 4/15/2006.

Overall statistics
Data for the week of: 4/15/2006
Number of hosting companies: ~6,000
Host growth: +0.72%
Current market size: ~2,500,000
Market growth: -2.86%"

Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.

Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.

Number of Hosts advertised in the DNS

           |     Survey    Adjusted     Replied
    Date  | Host Count  Host Count    To Ping*
  --------+-----------------------------------
  Jan 2007|433,193,199                  -

Netcraft: March 2007 Web Server Survey

Netcraft: March 2007 Web Server Survey
Apache has about 60% of the web server market & MSFT 30%.

Resource-oriented vs. activity-oriented Web services

Resource-oriented vs. activity-oriented Web services: "discussion of Representational State Transfer (REST) versus Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Web services. Contrary to what some might believe; however, these distinct Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) design patterns are not mutually exclusive."

REST web services

Building Web Services the REST Way: "REST is a term coined by Roy Fielding in his Ph.D. dissertation [1] to describe an architecture style of networked systems. REST is an acronym standing for Representational State Transfer. "

Tracks

Tracks: "The eBay Architecture – Striking a balance between site stability, feature velocity, performance and cost
Dan Pritchett, Technical Fellow, eBay, Inc.
Location: St James's Suite "

ebay technical picture

pdf file
According to Chuck Geiger, Vice President of
Architecture and Technology Strategy at eBay, eBay decided that .Java [technology] had finally matured
with J2EE [technology] to the point to which large-scale velocity could be considered..

Analysis: Vista's Ready Boost is no match for RAM | TG Daily

Analysis: Vista's Ready Boost is no match for RAM TG Daily: "Although no USB 2.0 device offers the throughput of a fast hard drive (20-25 MB/s max for USB 2.0 Flash devices vs. 60-90 MB/s for hard drives), "

Web 2.0 Summit a tech schmoozefest: Google comment

Comment: "I'm thrilled that Google is there, because they are the heat shield," Chizen said.
Bruce Chizen, chief executive officer of Adobe Systems, the San Jose softwaremaker, talked about the encroaching ambitions of Microsoft in various fields of software, a development that he called flattering. He then thanked Google for releasing products that compete with Microsoft's software business, such as calendars and a word processor, because, he said, Microsoft is distracted by it.

Mark Lam's Blog: When is Software faster than Hardware?

Mark Lam's Blog: When is Software faster than Hardware?: "we have come to generalize this success to think that all hardware acceleration will beat software solutions. In the case of Java processors in comparison to JITs, this generalization turns out to be untrue. "

My Way News - Tech Researchers Calculate Digital Info

My Way News - Tech Researchers Calculate Digital Info: "IDC determined that the world generated 161 billion gigabytes - 161 exabytes - of digital information last year."

Text Technologies»Blog Archive » SAP’s “search” strategy isn’t about search

Text Technologies»Blog Archive » SAP’s “search” strategy isn’t about search: "Rather, SAP’s focus seems to be on:

A. Finding business objects.

B. Helping users do things with them."

Scientists dubious of quantum computer claims - CNN.com

Scientists dubious of quantum computer claims - CNN.com: "He said all the evidence the company has indicates that the device is performing quantum computations, but he acknowledged there is some uncertainty."

Misc - 25 Things...

Misc - 25 Things...: "# If you're too open-minded, your brains will fall out.
# Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often.
# Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
# It ain't the jeans that make your butt look fat.
# Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
# My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
# Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
# It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
# For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
# If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
# Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
# A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.
# Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.
# Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.
# No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.
# A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
# Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
# Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
# Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
# There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
# Experience is a wonderf"

Evolution and Religion - Darwin’s God - Robin Marantz Henig - New York Times

Evolution and Religion - Darwin’s God - Robin Marantz Henig - New York Times: "religious belief is an outgrowth of brain architecture that evolved during early human history. What they disagree about is why a tendency to believe evolved, whether it was because belief itself was adaptive or because it was just an evolutionary byproduct, a mere consequence of some other adaptation in the evolution of the human brain."

Oddities of English

Oddities of English: "1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?"

12 Quick Tips To Search Google Like An Expert

12 Quick Tips To Search Google Like An Expert: "Example: phonebook:"

How to Get Started Dog Mushing - WikiHow

How to Get Started Dog Mushing - WikiHow: "While having them pull the drag, tell them GEE (pronounced like the letter G) when you turn right and HAW when you turn left."