NewsForge | Linux to the rescue: A review of three system rescue CDs

NewsForge | Linux to the rescue: A review of three system rescue CDs: "System Rescue CD is the largest download at 110MB. It includes:
Linux-kernel-2.4.27-xfs
GNU-Parted-1.6.11 -- This reliable text-based partition editor is the best Linux partition tool.
QtParted and PartGui are regarded as the best free PartitionMagic clones for Linux, and you can use these two graphical partition tools without XFree86. They work with QtEmbedded and allow you to see a chart of your hard disk, create, format, delete, and modify partitions.
Partimage-0.6.4 is a Ghost/DriveImage clone for Linux.
GRUB-0.94 / LILO-22.5 -- These tools are the most common bootloaders used with Linux. You can restore your bootloader from this System Rescue CD. For example, if Windows removed GRUB, you can run GRUB from this CD and reinstall the bootloader.
File system tools
Evms 2.3 is a powerful logical volume manager.
Archiving tools tar/gzip/bzip2 are provided for Unix users. Zip/unzip, while rar/unrar/unace are provided for Windows users. "

Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas

Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas: "If you want to learn what people want, read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. [8] When a friend recommended this book, I couldn't believe he was serious. But he insisted it was good, so I read it, and he was right. It deals with the most difficult problem in human experience: how to see things from other people's point of view, instead of thinking only of yourself.

Most smart people don't do that very well. But adding this ability to raw brainpower is like adding tin to copper. The result is bronze, which is so much harder that it seems a different metal."

Microsoft's message for AMD | Perspectives | CNET News.com

Microsoft's message for AMD | Perspectives | CNET News.com: "AMD's unit share of the worldwide x86 CPU market was more than 20 percent in 2001. Last year, it fell to less than 16 percent--and this despite its tech leadership over Intel."

Will SAP sample hosted recipe? | CNET News.com

Will SAP sample hosted recipe? | CNET News.com: "Salesforce has grown rapidly in recent years--it reported just more than $176 million in revenue for fiscal 2005--and it has become nearly synonymous with on-demand business applications"

ANA publications

ANA publications: "Rethinking the design of the Internet"

Visual Studio: Competitive Reports and Evidence: Comparing .NET to J2EE

Visual Studio: Competitive Reports and Evidence: Comparing .NET to J2EE: "Competitive Reports and Evidence: Comparing .NET to J2EE"

FireWire vs Hi-Speed USB

FireWire vs Hi-Speed USB: "Look for an ENHANCED USB Host Controller - this indicates you have USB 2.0. "

Trying Oracle on Linux in the Enterprise | Linux Journal

Trying Oracle on Linux in the Enterprise | Linux Journal

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says: " And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent."

Enterprise software | News.blog | CNET News.com

Enterprise software | News.blog | CNET News.com: "Convention wisdom among many pundits is that BEA Systems will ultimately be marginalized by the industry heavy-weights with more resources, market clout and broader product lines"

Xen getting multiprocessor support | CNET News.com

Xen getting multiprocessor support | CNET News.com: "Xen is a 'hypervisor'--a thin layer of software that governs how different operating systems get access to computer resources such as processors and memory. But the current version is hobbled by the fact that each operating system can use only one processor"

Food for Thought: Calories May Not Count in Life Extension, Science News Online, June 11, 2005

Food for Thought: Calories May Not Count in Life Extension, Science News Online, June 11, 2005: "Partridge's team made a surprising finding. Although flies eating the new diets took in about as much food as a group eating regular chow did, those on the reduced-protein diet lived about 24 days longer than the average fruit fly's life span of 40 days. "

Open: AMD64 Opteron NUMA and IA-32 Xeon SMP Benchmarks

Open: AMD64 Opteron NUMA and IA-32 Xeon SMP Benchmarks

Intel ships 64-bit, 1MB L2 Pentium 4s | The Register

Intel ships 64-bit, 1MB L2 Pentium 4s | The Register: "The 521, 531, 541, 551, 561 and 571 P4s all bring Intel's 64-bit technology, EM64T, to its line of 1MB L2 cache-enabled processors. The new chips are clocked at up to 3.8GHz, just like the existing 5x0 P4s, and are similarly fabbed at 90nm. They too use the LGA-775 interface, and support a frontside bus clocked to 800MHz."

The brains behind Apple's Rosetta: Transitive | CNET News.com

The brains behind Apple's Rosetta: Transitive | CNET News.com: "With more computationally intense tasks, the performance of translated software is between 60 percent and 80 percent of native software, Wiederhold said.
Another skeptic is Nathan Brookwood of Insight 64. 'Everybody always has said 50 (percent) or 60 percent and delivered 30 (percent) or 40 percent,' he said. Among those who have tried: Digital Equipment Corp.'s FX!32 to run x86 Windows programs on computers with Alpha chips; Hewlett-Packard's Aries software to run HP-UX software for PA- RISC chips on Itanium; and Intel's IA32-EL software to run software for x86 chips on Itanium."

Microsoft 'hypervisor' plan takes shape | CNET News.com

Microsoft 'hypervisor' plan takes shape | CNET News.com: "Muglia, senior vice president in the Windows Server Division, said at Microsoft's Tech Ed conference here that the software will be 'built directly in Windows and will allow companies to virtualize multiple operating systems.'"

Intel neuters Montvale, Itanic screams in alarm

Intel neuters Montvale, Itanic screams in alarm: "Soon after that, it is in such miserable shape, no one cares if you pull the plug. That is what Intel is doing to Itanium."

Apple to Switch Macs to Intel Chips

Apple to Switch Macs to Intel Chips: "Jobs said Apple will begin offering Macs with Intel processors by June 2006 and will switch its entire product line by the end of 2007."

Pricing Gap Between Online Home Sellers and Buyers Exceeds $82,000 in June

Pricing Gap Between Online Home Sellers and Buyers Exceeds $82,000 in June: " In June, the average home seller at HomeGain expected to choose an agent
and list their property within the next 54 days, unchanged from May.
When it comes to housing bang for the buck, these cities in June
registered the lowest price per square foot (based on lower than average price
expectation and higher than average square footage per home):


-- Orlando - $66;
-- Houston - $70;
-- Atlanta - $75;
-- Austin - $77;
-- (tie) Nashville, Tampa - $82;
-- (tie) Dallas, Minneapolis - $83;
-- Baltimore - $89;
-- Las Vegas - $97.

By contrast, cities with the priciest real estate by the square foot in
June were:

-- San Francisco Bay Area - $237 per square foot;
-- Orange County - $172;
-- San Diego - $160;
-- Los Angeles - $146;
-- New York City - $137;
-- Boston - $132;
-- Sacramento - $129;
-- (tie) Portland, Seattle - $125;
-- Denver - $123."

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: " The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 11,000 maps online"

WindowsDevCenter.com: Using Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool

WindowsDevCenter.com: Using Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool: "Malicious, malcontent, maladapted, maladjusted, malaprop, maleficent, malodorous, malevolent ... they're all bad things. So is malware"

Intel spills beans on Yonah, the next notebook chip | CNET News.com

Intel spills beans on Yonah, the next notebook chip | CNET News.com: "Yonah will also contain more transistors--151.6 million--than the current Pentium M, which has about 140 million transistors. Still, because it will be produced on the more advanced 65-nanometer process"

My Way News

My Way News: "who bought versions of the digital music player through May 2004."

Opinion: Linux May Be the Main Life Support for Intel's Itanium @ XMLJ

Opinion: Linux May Be the Main Life Support for Intel's Itanium @ XMLJ: "Intel's plans were for the Itanium. Paul Otellini said it was a RISC replacement processor, typically running Linux. There are a number of companies who run SAP on Windows where the Itanium fits into the infrastructure nicely. Intel wasn't walking away from the Itanium, he said.�"

JDA Software and Intel Corp. Announce Strategic Relationship

JDA Software and Intel Corp. Announce Strategic Relationship: " JDA and Intel intend to work cooperatively to ensure that PortfolioEnabled solutions are operationally optimized using advanced, 64-bit computing space with Intel Xeon, Extended Memory 64-bit Technology(TM) and Intel Itanium(TM) processor family-based servers"

Bloglines | My Feeds

Bloglines | My Feeds: "Brain Randell explains the advantages and disadvantages of Virtual PC and Virtual Server"

Linux lab lays off programmers | CNET News.com

Linux lab lays off programmers | CNET News.com: "The Open Source Development Labs, the organization that employs Linux leader Linus Torvalds, has laid off nearly a sixth of its staff as part of a shift to new priorities.
The group cut nine of its 57 staff and contractor positions, Chief Executive Stuart Cohen confirmed Monday. The cuts affected several programmers who worked on the open-source operating system as well as staff in sales, marketing, business development and internal computer operations. "

Report: Oracle pulls into tie with IBM in databases | CNET News.com

Report: Oracle pulls into tie with IBM in databases | CNET News.com: "Oracle claimed 34.1 percent of the overall market for relational database software, with IBM lording over 33.7 percent--a finish the report considered a dead heat. According to Gartner analysts, the difference between the two vendors was less than $30 million. Microsoft came in third, with a 20 percent share"

My Way Finance

My Way Finance: "Sandra Morris, 50, "

Internet News Article | Reuters.co.uk

Internet News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "Apple's pricing, which has often been higher than rivals, could become more competitive if Intel were to provide the kind of marketing subsidies it has given to other computer makers, the newspaper said."

My Way Finance

My Way Finance: "Intel, SAP and Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), for instance, have linked up to
develop advanced query functions to improve access to information generated by
SAP and other systems."

My Way Finance

My Way Finance: " will license
the German company's enterprise services architecture, or ESA, to use in their
products."

The Tail does not Wag the Dog: A Cautionary Tale for Contract First Development Highlights - WebServices.Org

The Tail does not Wag the Dog: A Cautionary Tale for Contract First Development Highlights - WebServices.Org: "highlights the key difference between WSDL and most of the SSDL protocol framework plugins, namely that SSDL supports rich choreographical metadata."

IBM outfits blade servers with cheap middleware for the masses | The Register

IBM outfits blade servers with cheap middleware for the masses | The Register: "to run on its HS20 Xeon-based server"

NewsForge | Researchers speed, optimize code with new open source tools

NewsForge | Researchers speed, optimize code with new open source tools: "He said the open source SPIRAL software, released under the BSD license, addresses the time it takes software developers to fine-tune and update digital signaling processing (DSP) algorithms and libraries according to hardware advancements from Intel, IBM, and other hardware companies. "

Linked from - Madville.com - Dead Link

Linked from - Madville.com - Dead Link: "'He was glued to his computer 24/7,' she said tearfully. 'He was so afraid he was going to miss an opportunity to contribute a comment or start a discussion, that he just stopped eating.' "

Repairs under way for server speed tests | CNET News.com

Repairs under way for server speed tests | CNET News.com: " 'The most widely referenced result in RFPs'--the requests for proposals by which customers solicit bids--'is TPC-C,' Buggert said. One reason it's useful compared with alternatives such as SAP's SD test is that it not only measures performance, but also provides a ratio of price to performance."

NewsFactor Network - Enterprise - No Renegade Group Behind Linux

NewsFactor Network - Enterprise - No Renegade Group Behind Linux: "Looking at the top 25 contributors to the Linux kernel today, you'll discover that more than 90% of them are on the corporate payroll full-time for companies "

Intel Q1 earnings get surprise tax boost

Intel Q1 earnings get surprise tax boost: "SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp. (NasdaqNM:INTC - News) reduced its tax bill by $24 million in the first quarter, boosting net income by a penny per share above the level it reported on April 19, the world's largest chip maker said on Wednesday.
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'Subsequent to our earnings release on April 19, 2005, we recorded a tax adjustment that reduced the tax provision by $24 million,' the company said in a quarterly filing with U.S. securities regulators. "

Distributed Shared-Memory Architectures

Distributed Shared-Memory Architectures: "Directory-based Cache Coherence Protocols"

Real World Technologies - x86 Servers Brace for a Hurricane

Real World Technologies - x86 Servers Brace for a Hurricane: "The X3 strikes a compromise between these two methods and uses a hybrid directory/broadcast mechanism and virtual L4 caches for inter-node traffic, and a snoop filter for intra-node traffic"

My Way News

My Way News: "offshoring required more management effort than they had originally thought"

Tom's Hardware Guide Business Reports: Pat Gelsinger: A Shot at Running Intel - Andy And Bill

Tom's Hardware Guide Business Reports: Pat Gelsinger: A Shot at Running Intel - Andy And Bill: "'Those are lousy answers. Be in my office in a week with better ones."

ACM Queue - A Call to Arms - Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at hand.

ACM Queue - A Call to Arms - Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at hand.: "radically restructured database architectures "

David Kirkpatrick - Execs Tell Software Makers: 'Some of You Are Doomed' - FORTUNE

David Kirkpatrick - Execs Tell Software Makers: 'Some of You Are Doomed' - FORTUNE: "but rather about getting software delivered as a service."

You're ice cold at a hot spot: 7 reasons why - page 2 | CNET News.com

You're ice cold at a hot spot: 7 reasons why - page 2 | CNET News.com: " if you have joined a closed network, you'll see an IP address beginning with 169.254"

U.S. military security defeated by copy and paste | CNET News.com

U.S. military security defeated by copy and paste | CNET News.com: "According to a report by the Associated Press, a representative of Adobe Systems, owner of the PDF format, has suggested that whoever attempted to censor the report did so by placing black rectangles over the text in question, rather than deleting the text.)
The technique used would indeed have protected the data if the document were being read online or printed. However, by an attacker selecting the blacked-out text and using the copy and paste functions, he or she could easily reproduce the document in its entirety on any word-processing application."

Software as a Service Seen Sprouting Legs

Software as a Service Seen Sprouting Legs: "software as a service (SaaS), in which applications are piped over the Internet at a customer's behest, has snowballed in popularity. "

Intel's "Intel Around Us" Strategy [Fool.com: Commentary] May 2, 2005

Intel's "Intel Around Us" Strategy [Fool.com: Commentary] May 2, 2005: "Intel could now see a path down to the 5-nanometer range."

Inside Sun Labs - the best and the 'bots | The Register

Inside Sun Labs - the best and the 'bots | The Register: "Inside Sun Labs "

Bloglines | My Feeds

Bloglines | My Feeds: "Here's an example. The first thing that FogBugz Setup does when you run it is to test that all kinds of prerequisites are installed, like IIS and MDAC and VBScript. In order to develop and test that code, I need virtual machines that are missing the prerequisites, so I can test all the code paths."

It's Show-Me Time for Siebel

It's Show-Me Time for Siebel: "It's Show-Me Time for Siebel
While the software maker pledged to revive slumping profits, increasingly restless investors heard few specifics about how this would occur "

New Scientist Whatever happened to machines that think? - Features

New Scientist Whatever happened to machines that think? - Features: "In the next few months, after being patiently nurtured for 22 years, an artificial brain called Cyc (pronounced 'psych') will be put online for the world to interact with"

New Sun priorities could speed Niagara servers | CNET News.com

New Sun priorities could speed Niagara servers | CNET News.com: "Niagara has been due to arrive in systems in 2006, but Ingram said customers have prototype systems today and an earlier shipment date is possible. 'The latest will be early 2006 that we introduce the products,' he said. 'It's coming in better than any other processor we've ever produced.' "

SAP - SAP and Microsoft Announce First Joint Product Designed to Revolutionize How Information Workers Access Enterprise Applications

SAP - SAP and Microsoft Announce First Joint Product Designed to Revolutionize How Information Workers Access Enterprise Applications: "As part of this expanded partnership, SAP and Microsoft have agreed to each resell the complete solution, meaning SAP will resell Microsoft Office and Microsoft will resell licenses to SAP�s business process platform, which will deliver ready-to-run business processes accessible as enterprise services. Available in 2006, the business process platform will serve as the foundation for the creation and deployment of composite applications such as �Mendocino.�"

SAP readies new business-monitoring programs | CNET News.com

SAP readies new business-monitoring programs | CNET News.com: "The programs, called SAP Analytics, will monitor activities as diverse as tax collection, factory utilization and retail staffing,"

My Way News

My Way News: "Mendocino' is designed to integrate SAP processes, such as time management, budget monitoring, travel and expense management, directly into Microsoft Office."

Pacifica is similar enough to virtualization efforts by Intel, dubbed Vanderpool, that software developers should be able to create applications that work with both companies' technologies, instead of crafting separate versions

Microsoft Raises the Speed Limit With the Availability of 64-Bit Editions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional

Microsoft Raises the Speed Limit With the Availability of 64-Bit Editions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional: "Early adopters of Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions have seen stronger, faster results for database and data-intensive server applications. The x64 version of Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services, for example, can accommodate up to 170 percent more users per server than its 32-bit predecessor.* "

Techworld.com - IBM's X366 Xeon server has no L3 cache but is faster. How come?

Techworld.com - IBM's X366 Xeon server has no L3 cache but is faster. How come?: "At design time, there was a maniacal focus on latency reduction. When you can cut the time it takes it gets from one point to the next you can increase performance, so chipset latency has been cut by two and half times -- down from 265 nanoseconds to 108 nanoseconds"

Wired News: Linux Distribution Tames Chaos

Wired News: Linux Distribution Tames Chaos: "Chaos, a Linux distribution developed by Australian Ian Latter, harnesses the unused processing power of networked PCs, creating a distributed supercomputer that can crack passwords at lightning speed"

Technology@Intel Magazine - Intel� I/O Acceleration Technology

Technology@Intel Magazine - Intel� I/O Acceleration Technology: "Intel� I/O Acceleration Technology Improves Network Performance, Reliability and Efficiently"

Randomly Generated research paper!

Tuning xseries for performance

Memory Hiearchy

Queing in Networks of Computers

PJD's Publications on Computing Science

PJD's Publications on Computing Science: "Operational Analysis of Queueing Network Models"

Quantitative System Performance: Computer System Analysis Using Queueing Network Models

Quantitative System Performance: Computer System Analysis Using Queueing Network Models: "Quantitative System Performance
Computer System Analysis Using Queueing Network Models"

AMD Dual-Core Opteron to Debut in NY

AMD Dual-Core Opteron to Debut in NY: "first quarter of 2006. That is when the company is expected to have its dual-core lineup in full production including its dual-core Xeon, Code named Dempsey, along with its dual-core Pentium 4, code named Smithfield, and its Pentium M dual-core mobile processor, code named Yonah. "

Torvalds: Put Linux to the test | CNET News.com

Torvalds: Put Linux to the test | CNET News.com: "The issue was raised when Intel employee Kenneth Chen announced some performance figures for various versions of the 2.6 kernel. The tests found that versions 2.6.11, 2.6.9, 2.6.8 and 2.6.2 of the kernel performed 13, 6, 23 and 1 percent slower respectively than the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 baseline--which runs on version 2.4 of the kernel, with some added features from version 2.6. "

Linux-Kernel Archive: measure time less than 1 jiffie?

Linux-Kernel Archive: measure time less than 1 jiffie?: "because 1 jiffie is 10ms"

Intel� Developer Services - Counting Physical and Logical Processors in 32-bit Multi-Core Systems

Intel� Developer Services - Counting Physical and Logical Processors in 32-bit Multi-Core Systems

Intel� Developer Services - Counting Physical and Logical Processors in 32-bit Multi-Core Systems

Intel� Developer Services - Counting Physical and Logical Processors in 32-bit Multi-Core Systems

Intel desktop crib sheet guide arrives

Intel desktop crib sheet guide arrives: "Intel desktop crib sheet guide arrives "

adaptive path � ajax: a new approach to web applications

adaptive path � ajax: a new approach to web applications: "Google Suggest and Google Maps are two examples of a new approach to web applications that we at Adaptive Path have been calling Ajax. The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what�s possible on the Web."

State of ACPI in Linux Kernel

Multicore computing, multithreaded programming, and gaming

Multicore computing, multithreaded programming, and gaming: "'implementing a multithreaded system requires two to three times the development and testing effort of implementing a comparable non-multithreaded system.' "

Windows System Resource Manager�Frequently Asked Questions

Windows System Resource Manager�Frequently Asked Questions: "Windows System Resource Manager"

Detecting Hyper-Threading Technology and Counting Processors in Multicore Systems

Detecting Hyper-Threading Technology and Counting Processors in Multicore Systems: "Detecting Hyper-Threading Technology and Counting Processors in Multicore Systems"

Cooking with Lisp

Cooking with Lisp: "Robert W. Floyd's 1978 Turing Award Lecture, hosted by Markus Fix here, and he has a great quote about Lisp:
I have seen numerous examples of the programming power which Lisp programmers obtain from having a single data structure, which is also used as a uniform syntactic structure for all the functions and operations which appear in programs, with the capability to manipulate programs as data. Although my own previous enthusiasm has been for syntactically rich languages like the Algol family, I now see clearly and concretely the force of Minsky's 1970 Turing lecture, in which he argued that Lisp's uniformity of structure and power of self reference gave the programmer capabilities whose content was well worth the sacrifice of visual form. "

Supported System Configurations

Supported System Configurations: "J2SE 5.0 does not provide support for Itanium 2 -- Itanium 2 support may be added in subsequent update releases"

Myrinet Overview

Myrinet Overview: "Messages can be sent and received without system calls, resulting in measured message latencies at the MPI level with the 'E card' and 'F card' NICs of ~2.7�s with MX, and ~6.5�s with GM. Message latencies using the popular, low-cost, 'D card' NICs are ~0.8�s higher. Thanks to the OS-pass mode of operation and to protocol processing being offloaded to the firmware, the host-CPU overhead is minimal, ~0.15�s per message for sending or receiving.
For either GM or MX, and with single-port NICs, measured, user-level, one-way, data rates are ~1.98 Gb/s (248 MBytes/s), and two-way (summed bidirectional) data rates are ~3.92 Gb/s (490 MBytes/s). With the high-end, dual-port NICs, the firmware takes care of distributing and reassembling packet data across the two ports. The measured, user-level, one-way data rate of ~3.9 Gb/s (~490 GBytes/s) approaches the capacity of the two links. On hosts with good PCI-X throughput, the two-way (summed bidirectional) data rate approaches 6.4 Gb/s (800 MBytes/s)."

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

Sun Microsystems Contrarian Minds: Guy Steele

Sun Microsystems Contrarian Minds: Guy Steele: "Called Fortress, the new language is part of a larger Sun Labs effort to come up with a design for the supercomputer of the future, an effort funded in part by DARPA, t"

Peeking Into Google

Peeking Into Google: "Google replicates the Web pages it caches by splitting them up into pieces it calls 'shards.' The shards are small enough that several can fit on one machine. And they're replicated on several machines, so that if one breaks, another can serve up the information. The master index is also split up among several servers, and that set also is replicated several times. The engineers call these 'chunk servers.'
As a search query comes into the system, it hits a Web server, then is split into chunks of service. One set of index servers contains the index; one set of machines contains one full index. To actually answer a query, Google has to use one complete set of servers. Since that set is replicated as a fail-safe, it also increases throughput, because if one set is busy, a new query can be routed to the next set, which drives down search time per box. "

Using PerfCounters

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/MonitorServicePerformance.asp

good description

http://www.gwyncole.com/blogfiles/gwync/wmx/tw04072_winhec2004.ppt#7

IPMI..

http://developer.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/

FTPOnline - MEC 2002 - Instrument Your .NET Apps With WMI

FTPOnline - MEC 2002 - Instrument Your .NET Apps With WMI: "Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) technology provides a common interface for exposing and monitoring the health of an application environment by leveraging the Desktop Management Task Force's (DMTF) Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative and the DMTF Common Information Model (CIM)."

AnandTech: IDF Spring 2005 Day 1 - Gelsinger Speaks, nForce4 Intel and more

AnandTech: IDF Spring 2005 Day 1 - Gelsinger Speaks, nForce4 Intel and more: "slide below talks about some of the performance gains they�ve seen internally due to 64-bit support (thanks to the added registers and greater memory addressability):"

AnandTech: IDF Spring 2005 - Day 2: The Yonah Scoop

AnandTech: IDF Spring 2005 - Day 2: The Yonah Scoop: "Yonah is far from two Dothans stuck together"

An In-Depth Look at WMI and Instrumentation, Part I

An In-Depth Look at WMI and Instrumentation, Part I: "WMI is Microsoft's implementation of WEBM (Web-Based Enterprise Management)"

Fast Company | The 6 Myths Of Creativity

Fast Company | The 6 Myths Of Creativity: "My 30 years of research and these 12,000 journal entries suggest that when people are doing work that they love and they're allowed to deeply engage in it -- and when the work itself is valued and recognized -- then creativity will flourish"

Fast Company | The 6 Myths Of Creativity

Fast Company | The 6 Myths Of Creativity: "the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored."

Intel to ship dual-core Xeon MP in Q1 06 | The Register

Intel to ship dual-core Xeon MP in Q1 06 | The Register: " Intel will ship one further 90nm Xeon MP processor, codenamed 'Paxville', before moving the family to 65nm.
Paxville will, however, mark the Xeon MP line's shift to a dual-core design, set to take place during the first quarter of next year, Intel digital enterprise group VP Stephen Smith said today. It will ship in the same timeframe as 'Dempsey', the first dual-core Xeon DP chip"

Yahoo! News - VMware, Intel get real on virtualization

Yahoo! News - VMware, Intel get real on virtualization: "VMware deepened its relationship with Intel on Tuesday, announcing plans to work with the chip maker on optimizing its VMware server product with Intel's future chip-level virtualization technologies and working to broaden the market's awareness about the advantages of virtualization."

AnandTech News: AMD Announces Specification For Open Platform Management Architecture

AnandTech News: AMD Announces Specification For Open Platform Management Architecture: "OPMA feature cards contain BMC firmware that communicates with software such as BIOS, drivers, manageability software suites, system management frameworks "

SAP shuffles management chores | CNET News.com

SAP shuffles management chores | CNET News.com: "Under the restructuring, Agassi is now responsible for all software, services and related development of existing SAP products, and for integrating them into a technology platform. "