IBM, Sun, Microsoft sink differences on VMs • The Register

IBM, Sun, Microsoft sink differences on VMs • The Register: "Language experts from IBM, Microsoft, and others have converged on Sun Microsystems' Santa Clara campus for a three-day workshop to find ways of delivering Java-like performance for Ruby, Python, PHP, and Scala on the VM that drives Sun's platformLanguage experts from IBM, Microsoft, and others have converged on Sun Microsystems' Santa Clara campus for a three-day workshop to find ways of delivering Java-like performance for Ruby, Python, PHP, and Scala on the VM that drives Sun's platformLanguage experts from IBM, Microsoft, and others have converged on Sun Microsystems' Santa Clara campus for a three-day workshop to find ways of delivering Java-like performance for Ruby, Python, PHP, and Scala on the VM that drives Sun's platform"

Articles: The Subprime Lending Industry: An Industry in Crisis

Articles: The Subprime Lending Industry: An Industry in Crisis: "The growth of the subprime industry is largely attributable to the increase in securitization"

Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk: "'It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign,' he told The Guardian.

'Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.'"

Even Heavy-Metal Fans Complain That Today's Music Is Too Loud!!! - WSJ.com

Even Heavy-Metal Fans Complain That Today's Music Is Too Loud!!! - WSJ.com: "'Death Magnetic' has one of the narrowest dynamic ranges ever on an album."

Intel Thread Checker, Meet 20 Million LOC

Intel Thread Checker, Meet 20 Million LOC: "Wondering how threading thrives in the real-world? The enormous and highly threaded code base at SAS is an example of an application that benefits from the spelunking and debugging the Intel Thread Checker and Thread Profiler tools offer."

SAP on Microsoft Windows

SAP on Microsoft Windows: "SAP Supports Virtualized Platforms for Windows New!

SAP supports virtualization on Windows 64-bit. In 2007, VMware ESX 3.x was the first available and supported product for virtualization. As of July 2008, also Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 is available. To find out how to get started with virtualization, see Virtualizing SAP Applications on Windows."

Bloglines | My Feeds (1784) (1)

Bloglines | My Feeds (1784) (1): "If you are managing an IT shop and can't write the code to render 'hello world' in C, html, php, and pull 'hello world' from a MySQL database using a perl script, then YOU are in the wrong job."

SaddleSore 1000/Bun Burner 1500 Rules

SaddleSore 1000/Bun Burner 1500 Rules: "he majority of riders will cover their 1,000 miles in about 18 hours (including all stops). The rides do NOT require you to speed. For every hour you are on a major highway riding, you get approximately 40 minutes 'off' rest time. Use that time wisely!"

TaoSecurity

TaoSecurity: "The four challenges to getting the job done can be summarized thus:



Will problem. The party doesn't want to accomplish the task. This is a motivation problem.

Skill problem. The party doesn't know how to accomplish the task. This is a methods problem.

Bill problem. The party doesn't have the resources to accomplish the task. This is a money problem.

Nil problem. The party doesn't have the authority to accomplish the task. This is a mojo problem"

BBC - Today

BBC - Today: "The most common response in most disasters is not panic, but rather the opposite."

people costs

An inflection on costs has occurred over the last two decades. People cost
dominate.
1995 2000http://www.cra.org/Activities/grand.challenges/goyal.pdf

Apache Geronimo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Apache Geronimo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Geronimo is currently compatible with the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5.0 specification. When compared to other application servers such as JBoss, WebLogic and WebSphere, Geronimo's most distinctive features are its:"

Apache Geronimo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Apache Geronimo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Geronimo is currently compatible with the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5.0 specification. When compared to other application servers such as JBoss, WebLogic and WebSphere, Geronimo's most distinctive features are its:"

John Resig - JavaScript Performance Rundown

John Resig - JavaScript Performance Rundown: "A new JavaScript Engine has hit the pavement running: The new V8 engine (powering the brand-new Google Chrome browser)."

H3RALD : Chrome: Google did it again!

H3RALD : Chrome: Google did it again!: "Google showed us once more that their “innovation” can be summarized with the following:
“Do not invent new things, just make them better”
They didn’t invent Internet search: they just made it better and smarted. The same philosophy applies to Chrome, too. Some examples? Sure:
They didn’t create a new rendering engine, they used an existing one
They analyzed Safari’s neat GUI tricks and implemented something even better.
They added an IE8-like domain highlight in the URL.
They got the Firefox’s AwesomeBar and improved it.
They got Opera’s Speed Dial and improved it.
They got IE8’s one-process-per-tab architecture and improved it.
They didn’t think of a Javascript JIT first, they just made it widely-available first.
They didn’t think about merging the address bar with the search bar, Mozilla announced it first, but Google released it before they did.
Safari 4 allows users to create shortcuts for their favorite web apps, but unfortunately it’s only out for developers…"

Ajaxian » JavaScript JIT: The Dream Gets Closer (in Firefox)

Ajaxian » JavaScript JIT: The Dream Gets Closer (in Firefox): "I’m extremely pleased to announce the launch of TraceMonkey, an evolution of Firefox’s SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine for Firefox 3.1 that uses a new kind of Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler to boost JS performance by an order of magnitude or more. [Emphasis ours.]"

Windows Administration: Taking Your Server's Pulse

Windows Administration: Taking Your Server's Pulse: "There are five major resource areas that can cause bottlenecks and affect server performance: physical disk, memory, process, CPU, and network. If any of these resources are overutilized, your server or application can become noticeably slow or can even crash. I will go through each of these five areas, giving guidance on the counters you should be using and offering suggested thresholds to measure the pulse of your servers"

Windows Administration: Taking Your Server's Pulse

Windows Administration: Taking Your Server's Pulse: "There are five major resource areas that can cause bottlenecks and affect server performance: physical disk, memory, process, CPU, and network. If any of these resources are overutilized, your server or application can become noticeably slow or can even crash. I will go through each of these five areas, giving guidance on the counters you should be using and offering suggested thresholds to measure the pulse of your servers"

InternetNews Realtime IT News - IBM's Got SSD in Its Storage Sights

InternetNews Realtime IT News - IBM's Got SSD in Its Storage Sights: "New research from IBM claims the vendor's solid state disk (SSD) storage efforts are attaining greater performance capabilities than competitor's to the tune of a 250 percent increase in input/output per second in current data-transfer rates, while proving more cost efficient.
IBM's (NYSE: IBM) SSD storage research, code-named 'Project QuickSilver' is an 'ongoing cross-IBM initiative' for developing integrated information infrastructures, according to a press statement"