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Vulcan Nomad

Vulcan Nomad: "It was a perfect day for a hike and a ride so I did both. It took the usual three and a half hours to ride up, four and a half to hike in and out of Indian Gardens and another three and a half to get back home. A full day and was it beautiful!"

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The challenge of programming
multi-core processors is real, but it is not a technical
challenge. It is a purely sociological challenge.
Technically, we have known since the 1980s how to
program multi-core processors (in the guise of sharedmemory
multiprocessors) and how to write programs for
them (in terms of parallel algorithms). There is a
simple, natural, and powerful approach for
programming these machines: dataflow programming.
Many languages and systems implement this approach
(see, e.g., Wikipedia for a long list). They are
descendants of the venerable Id, Id Nouveau, SISAL,
and other early dataflow languages. Google's wellpublicized
MapReduce is one of the most popular new
tools that takes advantage of dataflow ideas [1], but
these ideas are not new. In fact, they date from the
1970s [2]. A good exposition is given in chapter 4 of
[3]. The basic insight is that there exists a form of
concurrent programming, deterministic concurrency,
that has no race conditions, is as easy to program as
sequential programs, and can exploit parallel processors
as a bonus. Deterministic concurrency is enjoying a
renaissance thanks to clusters and multi-core processors.

My Way News - Credit scores hit by card limits

My Way News - Credit scores hit by card limits: "For instance, someone taking out a $25,000 36-month auto loan would see an interest rate of about 6.4 percent and a monthly payment of $765 if they were in the highest range of FICO scores of 720 to 850, according to Fair Isaac's Web site myFICO.com.

That then jumps to an interest rate of 7.3 percent and a monthly payment of $776 for those with a score of 690 to 719 and as much as 15 percent or $866 a month for those with the lowest FICO range of 500 to 589."

Many degrees of multi-tenancy | Software as Services | ZDNet.com

Many degrees of multi-tenancy Software as Services ZDNet.com: "multi-tenancy — the architectural model that allows them to serve multiple customers from a single shared instance of the application — is an article of faith, the one thing that marks them as a tribe apart from traditional software vendors."

The new geek sheik: Data centers | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com

The new geek sheik: Data centers Outside the Lines - CNET News.com: "Forget about flashy Web 2.0 applications. The real, geeky coolness of the Web is the growing acreage of data centers that deliver bits to billions of devices. At GigaOM's Structure 08 conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, infrastructure--'clouds' of servers, storage and networks--was the headliner"

My Way News - World now has 10 million millionaires, report says

My Way News - World now has 10 million millionaires, report says: "Ten million may seem like a big number for such an elite club, but it still represents less than one-fifth of 1 percent of the world's 6.7 billion people.
The rarefied group of the superrich - those with at least $30 million in assets - got richer, too. There were 103,000 of them around the world last year, 9 percent more than the year before, and their wealth grew by nearly 15 percent."

InternetNews Realtime IT News - Improving Virtual IT Management

InternetNews Realtime IT News - Improving Virtual IT Management: "That sort of deeper understanding ties into what Forrester analyst Evelyn Hubbert calls business service management (BSM).
Ultimately, the goal of BSM is to correlate the performance of an application or IT service to the expectations of the business"

Linux Graphics Essay - The Linux Foundation

Linux Graphics Essay - The Linux Foundation: "Around 2005, Intel took the decision to dominate the Linux graphics market using the Open Source philosophy. It formed a team within its Open Source Technology centre to work with the community to produce and distribute drivers for all of its graphics chips which were released to the world in 2006. This strategy has been resoundingly successful in that today the best way to get a laptop that will work with Linux involves the simple question 'does it have an Intel graphics chip' rather than having to get the graphics specs before purchase and check a variety of sources to see what the support is (or indeed whether it is likely to work at all)."

Intel Denies Rumors of SSD Market Exit

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-ssd-drive,5735.html

Samsung for example recently announced SATA 2 SSD drives that delivery very fast performance. According to Samsung, its new drives deliver a read speed of 200MB/sec. and 160MB/sec. write speeds

Rackable Systems Unveils High-density Servers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080623/tc_pcworld/147418
The high-density servers pack two motherboards into a 2U unit with a single power supply, increasing the available processing power while consuming less energy, the company said

Red Hat Partners With Amazon.com On SaaS | MSPmentor

Red Hat Partners With Amazon.com On SaaS MSPmentor: "At Red Hat Summit in Boston, the open source company disclosed that JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is now available within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Red Hat claims JBoss is the first cloud-based application server."

Linux.com :: A virtual appliance primer

Linux.com :: A virtual appliance primer: "So, for example, Bugzilla, the popular bug tracking app, is available as a 2.4MB download tarball from Mozilla, as well as a 150MB appliance from appliance vendor Jumpbox So, for example, Bugzilla, the popular bug tracking app, is available as a 2.4MB download tarball from Mozilla, as well as a 150MB appliance from appliance vendor Jumpbox"

WikiAnswers - If one has precancerous polyp cut out is this considered a history of cancer

WikiAnswers - If one has precancerous polyp cut out is this considered a history of cancer: "Adenomas are quite common -- approximately 40% of men over the age of 55 will have at least one. Only one in every 200 adenomas will turn into cancer, but we don't know which ones those will be. On the other hand, all colorectal cancers arise from an adenoma."

Welcome to XtreemOS! — XtreemOS : A Linux-based Operating System to support Virtual Organizations for next generation Grids

Welcome to XtreemOS! — XtreemOS : A Linux-based Operating System to support Virtual Organizations for next generation Grids

Big fat lie - Telegraph

Big fat lie - Telegraph: "'The natural question is, 'What regulates fat accumulation?'' he begins, swivelling gently in his office chair. 'That was actually worked out 50 years ago. We know that the hormone insulin is what puts fat in fat tissue. Raise insulin levels and you accumulate fat; lower insulin levels and you lose fat. And we secrete insulin as a response to carbohydrates in the diet."

David Mandelin\’s blog » Blog Archive » SquirrelFish

David Mandelin\’s blog » Blog Archive » SquirrelFish: "The basic idea is to keep a table of relative offsets to the cases, and then jump using that offset."