Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Platform Monetization is a Two Way Street: Lessons from Facebook and Sun Microsystems

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Platform Monetization is a Two Way Street: Lessons from Facebook and Sun Microsystems: "It is interesting to note that after a decade of investment in the Java platform, it is hard to point to what concrete benefits Sun has gotten from being the originator and steward of the Java platform and programming language. Definitely another example of a platform that may have benefited applications built on it yet which didn't really benefit the platform vendor as expected."

transistors per person

In fifty years, the world has gone from the invention of the first transistor to a
$150B industry which produces on the order of 10,000 transistors per day for every
human being on earth.

InternetNews Realtime IT News - Big Shifts for EMC Into Server Management

InternetNews Realtime IT News - Big Shifts for EMC Into Server Management: "EMC 'is piecing together automation and control for the infrastructure overall, in which storage is another part,"

PDC 2008 thoughts so far

PDC 2008 thoughts so far: "The crux of the Azure announcement really comes down to Microsoft going into web hosting, and while the cloud provisioning model is qualitatively different to your classic rackspace offering, it doesn’t demo any differently. The point of Azure is to make scaling transparent; transparency doesn’t demo well."

Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing - O'Reilly Radar

Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing - O'Reilly Radar: "f cloud computing is a commodity business, then the outsize profits that Hugh envisioned are not going to be there. This is a business that will be huge, but it may be more similar to the web hosting and ISP markets, which are also huge, but not hugely profitable"

LessWatts.org - Saving Power on Intel systems with Linux

LessWatts.org - Saving Power on Intel systems with Linux: "It's generally better to run as fast as you can so that you can be idle longer."

My Way News - Sun Microsystems swings to big quarterly loss

My Way News - Sun Microsystems swings to big quarterly loss: "Sun also plans to write down the value of its business, a sign of the company's deteriorating competitive position and vulnerability to the economic meltdown. Shares fell more than 8 percent in after-hours trading."

The Progressive Puppy: Ouch! That's Gotta Smart: Newspapers Crucify Palin

The Progressive Puppy: Ouch! That's Gotta Smart: Newspapers Crucify Palin: "'Out of nowhere, and without proper vetting, the impetuous McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. She quickly proved grievously under-equipped to step into the presidency should McCain, at 72 and with a history of health problems, die in office. More than any single factor, McCain's bad judgment in choosing the inarticulate, insular and ethically challenged Palin disqualifies him for the presidency.'

Oh my... that's kind of harsh, wouldn't you say? Must be that nasty, liberal, elite, latte-sipping, argula-munching, East Coast, not pro-America media, right?

The New York Times, perhaps? Maybe, Rolling Stone? Vanity Fair? The Nation? Nope. Not even close. That quote was part of the endorsement of Barack Obama from the Salt Lake Tribune. As in Utah. As in the reddest state in the country. Obama has now earned the endorsements of almost 65 newspapers around the country, including some of the most conservative."

Intel SSDs RAID 0, A Case Study In Speed, Take 2 - HotHardware

Intel SSDs RAID 0, A Case Study In Speed, Take 2 - HotHardware: "ere was no question Intel's SSD flat out smoked the competition in the cost-effective, consumer grade MLC (Multi-Level Cell) SSD market"

IBM profit gains on software, services - MarketWatch

IBM profit gains on software, services - MarketWatch: "IBM noted strong growth in its software division. Revenue for the unit grew 8% from the previous year -- once adjusted for currency fluctuations -- to $5.2 billion. A majority of the business came from its middleware products, which includes brands such as WebSphere, Information Management and Lotus. This unit accounted for $4.1 billion in revenue."

CAP ... Palin's Non-Answer Strategy A Hit With Teens

CAP ... Palin's Non-Answer Strategy A Hit With Teens: "Pulling A Palin, or refusing to answer direct questions by stating one does not wish to talk about that topic and then offering an opinion on a totally different and often unrelated topic, is the new 'thing to do' among America's teens."

A comparison of virtualization features of HP-UX, Solaris, and AIX

A comparison of virtualization features of HP-UX, Solaris, and AIX: "A comparison of virtualization features of HP-UX, Solaris, and AIX"

Hoax Post: Bush's Comments

Hoax Post: Bush's Comments: "Said during an informal meeting with journalists in Rome, Italy, July 22, 2001:

'I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe - I believe what I believe is right.'"

Finding Lisp

Finding Lisp: "my own personal preference is SBCL on Linux and CLISP on Windows"

Who writes Linux: Corporate America | Computerworld Blogs

Who writes Linux: Corporate America | Computerworld Blogs: "Breaking it down farther, in the 2.6.24 kernel, it appears 13.9% of Linux had been written by people without a corporate backer. In the case of 12.9% of the contributors, the Linux Foundation was unable to pin point exactly who the programmers were working for. The rest, 74.2% was written by paid developers.
The top ten looks like this: Red Hat, 11.2%; Novell, 8.9%; IBM, 8.3%; Intel, 4.1%; Linux Foundation, 2.6%; independent Linux consultants, 2.5%; SGI, 2.0% MIPS Technology, 1.6%; Oracle, 1.3% and MontaVista, 1.2%. Just underneath the top ten, you'll find Google at 1.1%."

Stay on Target: Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs

Stay on Target: Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs: "Writing to random locations in system memory isn't generally a wise design practice."

Terry Pratchett: I'm slipping away a bit at a time... and all I can do is watch it happen | Mail Online

Terry Pratchett: I'm slipping away a bit at a time... and all I can do is watch it happen | Mail Online: "That’s the gift or the curse of our little variant. We have problems handling the physical world but can come pretty close to talking our way out of it so you don’t notice. We might have our shirts done up wrong, but might be able to convince you it’s a new style."

Linus' blog

Linus' blog: "The kernel summit was two weeks ago, and at the end of that I got one of the new 80GB solid state disks from Intel. Since then, I've been wanting to talk to people about it because I'm so impressed with it, but at the same time I don't much like using the kernel mailing list as some kind of odd public publishing place that isn't really kernel-related, so since I'm testing this whole blogging thing, I might as well vent about it here.

That thing absolutely rocks."

My Way News - SAP says business turmoil hurting its revenue

My Way News - SAP says business turmoil hurting its revenue: "SAP said it expects software and software-related service revenues for the July-September period to come in between 1.97 billion and 1.98 billion euros, or $2.66 billion to $2.67 billion. That is up about 13 percent from the third quarter of 2007, but SAP said in July it expected the figure to increase between 24 percent and 27 percent for the year"

My Way News - AMD to spin off factories in bid to save money

My Way News - AMD to spin off factories in bid to save money: "chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) (AMD) said Tuesday it will spin off its factories into a new joint venture with investors in the Persian Gulf state of Abu Dhabi.
The deal should shore up AMD's finances and let it focus on the design and development of computer chips. The new venture, to be based in the U.S. and called Foundry Co., will absorb AMD's manufacturing plants, including two in Dresden, Germany.
In conjunction with the spin off, Abu Dhabi's investment arm, Mubadala Development Co., will invest $314 million to more than double its current stake in AMD to 19.3 percent from 8.1 percent."

Table Top

Table Top: "Table Top Mountain, at 4,373 feet, is the highest peak in the area and its flat-topped summit is a familiar landmark."

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Data Debasement | PBS

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Data Debasement | PBS: "traditional database-centric software industry just in time for it to be declared obsolete."

Storage Startups Turn Cache Into Cash - GigaOM

Storage Startups Turn Cache Into Cash - GigaOM: "companies building out large-scale computing systems to deliver software as a service, and even computing clouds, are far more interested in better storage features than tweaks for servers"

Read me first: Taking your laptop into the US? Be sure to hide all your data first | Technology | The Guardian

Read me first: Taking your laptop into the US? Be sure to hide all your data first | Technology | The Guardian: "Encrypting your entire hard drive, something you should certainly do for security in case your computer is lost or stolen, won't work here. The border agent is likely to start this whole process with a 'please type in your password'. Of course you can refuse, but the agent can search you further, detain you longer, refuse you entry into the country and otherwise ruin your day"