Intel to AMD: Gimme 65!

Intel to AMD: Gimme 65!: "AMD will likely be a year behind Intel in rolling out this 65 nm technology and, perhaps, it will take even longer to get to mass production."

Steve Smith is NFL�s most amazing show - NFL - MSNBC.com

Steve Smith is NFL�s most amazing show - NFL - MSNBC.com: "Steve Smith is NFL�s most amazing show"

Joel on Software

Joel on Software: "�Don�t start a business if you can�t explain what pain it solves, for whom, and why your product will eliminate this pain, and how the customer will pay to solve this pain. The other day I went to a presentation of six high tech startups and not one of them had a clear idea for what pain they were proposing to solve.�"

Delete a song from a playlist

Delete a song from a playlist: "When you remove a tune from the Library, iTunes doesn't always offer to delete the song's file from the hard disk. Here's why: iTunes has a default folder for the music it knows about. On the Mac, this folder is in your User directory at Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/, and on Windows, it's located inside My Documents at My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\. Not every song file in iTunes needs to be in this default folder. Any song file can be added to the iTunes Library, no matter what folder it's in. If it's in the default folder, iTunes assumes it owns the file, so it offers to delete the file when you remove it from the Library. If the file is not in the folder, iTunes figures it belongs to somebody else, so it shows good manners by not deleting it."

Help me help iTunes not to be stupid | Ask MetaFilter

Help me help iTunes not to be stupid | Ask MetaFilter: "I forget where I read this - but here's a solution that worked for me (similiar to the initial link posted):

1 - backup the itunes xml and database files
2 - Do a find and replace in the iTunes xml file to update all of the song locations
3 - open the itunes database in a text editor, delete everything, and save. (simply deleting the database file does not work)
4 - open up itunes - it will rebuild the library file from the xml."

POWER to the people

POWER to the people: "Released in 2003: 276 million transistors per processor
Like the POWER3 and POWER4, the POWER5 unifies the POWER and PowerPC architectures. The POWER5 is also based on the 130-nanometer copper/SOI process, and features communications acceleration, chip multiprocessing, a larger L2 cache, a memory controller on the chip, simultaneous multithreading, advanced power management, eFuse (morphing) and hypervisor technology. IBM servers built with the POWER5 feature up to ten LPARs capable of running up to 256 independent operating systems on the higest end. POWER5 processors can be found hanging about in iSeries and pSeries servers, as well as in the first IBM entry-level UNIX/Linux box, the OpenPower? line. IBM introduced the POWER5+? processors, which are built with a 90-nanometer process similar to that used with the Cell Broadband Engine, in 2005. POWER5+ ups the clockspeed significantly -- on a smaller die"

Free Programming and Computer Science Books

Free Programming and Computer Science Books: "Free books on technology subjects"

The Rings of Power: Intel's VT-x Technology and the Secrets of Virtualization

The Rings of Power: Intel's VT-x Technology and the Secrets of Virtualization: "Intel's VT-x Technology and the Secrets of Virtualization"

Visual C++ Developer Center: 64-Bit Programming

Visual C++ Developer Center: 64-Bit Programming: "Program Manager Kang Su Gatlin from the Visual C++ compiler team talks about 64-Bit programming a"

My Way News

My Way News: " U.S. life expectancy has hit another all-time high - 77.6 years - and deaths from heart disease, cancer and stroke continue to drop, the government reported Thursday.
Still, the march of medical progress has taken a worrisome turn: Half of Americans in the 55-to-64 age group - including the oldest of the baby boomers - have high blood pressure, and two in five are obese"

IBM eServer x366

IBM eServer x366: "Up to 64GB DDR II ECC memory"

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered - Intel Focusing On 45 nm Now

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered - Intel Focusing On 45 nm Now: "Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered "

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered - Intel Focusing On 45 nm Now

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered - Intel Focusing On 45 nm Now: "These presentations included a short tour to the top-notch 65 nm production facility Fab D1D "

Sun Looks for a Sparc

Sun Looks for a Sparc: "The servers are based on Sun's UltraSparc T1 processor, formerly code-named Niagara, which the company initially had planned to release in 2006. The first T1-based systems available are the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000, which start at $3,000 and $8,000, respectively. "

The Real Story about Sun's Niagara

The Real Story about Sun's Niagara: "The Real Story about Sun's Niagara"

Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too FarThose keys have security permissions that only allow the Local System account to modify them, so I relaunched Regedit in the Local System account using PsExec: psexec ?s ?i ?d regedit.exe

Top 20 geek novels -- the results! from Guardian Unlimited: Technology

Top 20 geek novels -- the results! from Guardian Unlimited: Technology
1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams 85% (102)
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell 79% (92)
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley 69% (77)
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick 64% (67)
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson 59% (66)
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert 53% (54)
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov 52% (54)
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov 47% (47)
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett 46% (46)
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland 43% (44)
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson 37% (37)
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 38% (37)
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson 36% (36)
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks 34% (35)
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein 33% (33)
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick 34% (32)
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman 31% (29)
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson 27% (27)
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 23% (21)
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham 21% (19)

AnandTech: Inside Microsoft's Xbox 360

AnandTech: Inside Microsoft's Xbox 360: "The CPU itself features three of these PowerPC cores and is currently manufactured on a 90nm process, however Microsoft will most likely be transitioning to 65nm as soon as possible in order to reduce the die size and thus manufacturing costs. "

IBM Holds Servers

IBM Holds Servers: " revenue decline by 7.6%, and lost its third-place standing to Dell "

Mac Rumors: Intel forms 'Apple' Group

Mac Rumors: Intel forms 'Apple' Group: "that Intel Corp. has formed an internal 'Apple group'."

Intel Faces Increased Risk From Flash-Memory Venture - Forbes.com

Intel Faces Increased Risk From Flash-Memory Venture - Forbes.com: "We believe Micron gross margins for its NAND business were roughly 20% in its most recent quarter, well below Intel's gross margins of 61%.' "

Improving Database Performance on Simultaneous

Read two biometrics, get worse results - how it works | The Register

Read two biometrics, get worse results - how it works | The Register: "Daugman produces the calculations governing the use of two hypothetical biometrics, one with both false accept and false reject rates of one in 100, and the second with the two rates at one in 1,000. On its own, biometric one would produce 2,000 errors in 100,000 tests, while biometric two would produce 200. You can treat the use of two biometrics in one of two ways - the subject must be required to pass both (the 'AND' rule) or the subject need only pass one (the 'OR' rule). Daugman finds that under either rule there would be 1,100 errors, i.e. 5.5 times more errors than if the stronger test were used alone.
He concludes that a stronger biometric is therefore better used alone than in combination, but only when both are operating at their crossover points. If the false accept rate (when using the 'OR' rule) or the false reject rate (when using the 'AND' rule) is brought down sufficiently (to 'smaller than twice the crossover error rate of the stronger test', says Daugman) then use of two can improve results. If we recklessly attempt to put a non-mathemetical gloss on that, we could think of the subject having to pass two tests (in the case of the 'AND') rule of, say, facial and iris. Dropping the false reject rate of the facial test (i.e. letting more people through) in line with Daugman's calculations would produce a better result than using iris alone, but if the facial system rejects fewer people wrongly, then it will presumably be accepting more people wrongly."

Hyperthreading hurts server performance, say developers - ZDNet UK News

Hyperthreading hurts server performance, say developers - ZDNet UK News: "Hyperthreading hurts server performance"

My Way News

My Way News: "The UltraSparc T1 processor, code-named Niagara, has eight computing engines on a single chip, "

Intel Dempsey reviewed, challenges Opterons

Intel Dempsey reviewed, challenges Opterons: "Intel Dempsey reviewed, challenges Opterons "

Xen has tricks up its virtual sleeves

Xen has tricks up its virtual sleeves: "There is a new version of Xen, Xen 3.0 that bring a lot of tricks to the mix. The first one is multi-CPU support, in this case 32-way "

GamePC - Intel �Paxville� Dual Core Xeon and the Asus PVL-D Intel E7520

GamePC - Intel �Paxville� Dual Core Xeon and the Asus PVL-D Intel E7520: "most people seem (rightly) skeptical "

Highly Efficient Synchronization Based on Active Memory Operations

Array-based Queuing Locks

Performance Characterization of a Quad Pentium Pro SMP Using OLTP
Workloads

Windows 2000 Performance Guide: Chapter 5: Multiprocessing

Windows 2000 Performance Guide: Chapter 5: Multiprocessing: "Windows 2000 Performance Guide"

The latency of user-to-user, kernel-to-kernel and
interrupt-to-interrupt level communication

AMD Inaugurates New Factory in Germany: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

AMD Inaugurates New Factory in Germany: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance: "share of the market for PC processors from 20 percent to 30 percent, c"

The IDC Competitive Market Map clearly shows the breadth and depth of SAS'
offerings for business analytics. Overall, SAS has demonstrated consistent, steady
growth in all the major areas of business analytics - not just predictive analytics but
also reporting, multidimensional analysis, analytic applications, and data warehousing
technologies. SAS is the only player that has significant market presence in a majority
of these areas, while maintaining high momentum and focus on BA software.

SAS Achieves Leadership Status in META Group�s Evaluation of Data Mining Tools

SAS Achieves Leadership Status in META Group�s Evaluation of Data Mining Tools: "ranked as a market leader in META Group�s METAspectrumSM report for data mining tools."

SAS�9 raises the bar for predictive analytics

SAS�9 raises the bar for predictive analytics: "Enhanced analytics in SAS�9 include a comprehensive set of capabilities like predictive and descriptive modeling, forecasting, simulation, optimization, and design of experiments"

SAS�9 solutions pack powerful punch

SAS�9 solutions pack powerful punch: "SAS plans to deliver seven software solutions "

SAS sees Grids stopping 'paralysis' | The Register

SAS sees Grids stopping 'paralysis' | The Register: "For example, companies like Cognos and Business Objects are, according to Goodnight, only providing business reporting tools rather than business intelligence, because they do not have the analytical capabilities of SAS. "

Recognition, Mining and Synthesis Moves Computers to the Era of Tera

Recognition, Mining and Synthesis Moves Computers to the Era of Tera: "Recognition, Mining and Synthesis Moves Computers to the Era of Tera"

My Way News

My Way News: "AMD has managed to make inroads in servers, which are used for Web sites, applications and storage. Its market share jumped from 7.4 percent in the first quarter to 11.2 percent "

Transactional Memory Bibliography

Transactional Memory Bibliography: "Transactional Memory Categories"

PRESS RELEASE IBM Introduces Record Breaking Power5+ Computing Systems

PRESS RELEASE IBM Introduces Record Breaking Power5+ Computing Systems: "The new 4-way IBM System p5 550 with 1.9Ghz POWER5+ technology delivers world-record 4-processor SAP SD 2-tier performance on the Linux OS"

IBM rebuilds Unix servers with Power5+ chip | CNET News.com

IBM rebuilds Unix servers with Power5+ chip | CNET News.com: "the new chip will run at a speed of 1.9GHz and will be showing up only in the lower end of IBM System p5+ models, a new name for what had been the pSeries and eServer p5. Those machines run either Linux or, more often, IBM's AIX version "

My Way News

My Way News: "The new hires will join a payroll that already has nearly tripled in the past two years to 4,200 employees.
For all its growth, Google remains a relative midget alongside Microsoft, which employs 61,000 workers and holds nearly $38 billion in cash."

Intel's Montecito, Montvale beset by very hard times

Intel's Montecito, Montvale beset by very hard times: "Intel's Montecito, Montvale beset by very hard times "

My Way Finance

My Way Finance: "'We believe digital health imaging margins will remain under pressure as doctors shift from printing X-rays to viewing on screen,' said Cross Research analyst Shannon Cross in a research note to clients"

steudten.com - Ihr professioneller Partner im Bereich ICT- und Elektronik - ALPHA LINUX Performance Tipps

steudten.com - Ihr professioneller Partner im Bereich ICT- und Elektronik - ALPHA LINUX Performance Tipps: " table describing the mapping from virtual to physical pages for each process"

BEA feeling open source heat? | Channel Register

BEA feeling open source heat? | Channel Register: "Gluecode was bought by BEA's great application server rival IBM this summer, in a deal that provides IBM a low-cost"

Geek.com Geek News - Dual-core Itanium delayed until 2005

Geek.com Geek News - Dual-core Itanium delayed until 2005: "Intel has confirmed that the dual-core Itanium is delayed until 2005. The dual-core 'Montecito' chip was originally supposed to be released next year (2004), but Intel will instead launch a faster than 1.5GHz Madison core with 9 MB of on-chip cache"

freshmeat.net: Project details for Performance Application Programming Interface

freshmeat.net: Project details for Performance Application Programming Interface: "PAPI aims to provide the tool designer and application engineer with a consistent interface and methodology for use of the performance counter hardware found in most major microprocessors."

PCWorld.com - 20 Things They Don't Want You to Know

PCWorld.com - 20 Things They Don't Want You to Know: "Finally, if the password you've forgotten is your Windows XP administrator password"

O'Reilly Network: Enterprise-Wide Network Management with OpenNMS

O'Reilly Network: Enterprise-Wide Network Management with OpenNMS: "Enter OpenNMS, a platform that allows users to add network management features over time. "

Introduction to the Xen Virtual Machine | Linux Journal

Introduction to the Xen Virtual Machine | Linux Journal: "In August 2005, XenSource, a commercial company that develops virtualization solutions based on Xen, announced in Intel Developer Forum (IDF) that it has used Intel VT-Enabled Platforms with Xen to virtualize both Linux and Microsoft Windows XP SP2.
Xen with Intel VT or Xen with AMD Pacifica would be competitive with if not superior to other virtualization methods, as well as to native operation.
In the same arena, VMware is a commercial company that develops the ESX server, a virtualization solution not based on Xen. VMware announced in early August 2005 that it will be providing its partners with access to VMware ESX Server source code and interfaces under a new program called VMware Community Source."

Groove Networks

Groove Networks: "Groove Networks was founded by Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie. The company's flagship product, Groove 1.0, is a groupware application (the company likes to refer to it as 'peerware') that enables groups of collaborators to form in a decentralized ad-hoc fashion. Groove enables group members to interact in highly secure shared spaces to support collaborative editing in real time. All of a group's documents, messages and applications are stored and replicated across user machines so that all of a group's members can access the materials online or off."

IBM Software

IBM Software: "IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 7 now available"

A Comparison of Linux Performance Tuning Books | Linux Journal

A Comparison of Linux Performance Tuning Books | Linux Journal: "A Comparison of Linux Performance Tuning Books"

O'Reilly Network: What Is Skype

O'Reilly Network: What Is Skype: "Two major computer-based phone products that do follow standards, SIPphone and FreeWorldDialup, have tiny market share compared to Skype but have the weight of internet standards on their side. Their limited market share will not threaten to overwhelm Skype but may grow large enough to push Skype to involvement with the standards community. That probably won't happen until at least 2008, and will likely depend on how Microsoft implements Voice over IP support in Windows Vista, which will hit the streets in 2007.
Skype may not take over the world. However, Skype makes the world's highest-quality phone connections available for the world's lowest price: free"

Intel Ramping Low-Power, Dual-Core

Intel Ramping Low-Power, Dual-Core: "Intel is planning beyond dual-core with its multicore 'Reidland' and 'Whitefield' chipsets, which aren't slated to appear until 2007 and will also be in the 7000 series. The 5000 series, designed for high-volume dual processor servers, are based on dual-core Xeon processors and are due in the first quarter of 2006. The dual-core Pentium D is part of the newly christened 3000 Series. "

Service-Oriented, Distributed, High-Performance Computing

Service-Oriented, Distributed, High-Performance Computing

My Way News

My Way News: "John Mitchell and Dan Boneh will unveil Pwdhash, software that scrambles passwords typed into Web sites,"

Bring Java's System.currentTimeMillis() Back into the Fold for Transaction Monitoring

Bring Java's System.currentTimeMillis() Back into the Fold for Transaction Monitoring: "System.currentTimeMillis() "

The New York Review of Books: The Tragic Tale of a Genius

The New York Review of Books: The Tragic Tale of a Genius: "The Bell system became operational and the Wiener-Bigelow system never saw combat. In the end, the choice of the Bell system probably had little effect on the course of the war. The big breakthrough in antiaircraft technology was the invention of the proximity fuse, a radar-controlled fuse that enabled a shell to explode and destroy an airplane nearby without directly hitting it. Without proximity fuses, neither the Bell system nor the Wiener-Bigelow system was accurate enough to shoot down airplanes reliably. After proximity fuses became available in 1944, the Bell system was good enough. "

Car Crashes . . . Criminals . . . Cancer . . . Black Swans? AAAAAIIIEEEH! - Popular Science

Car Crashes . . . Criminals . . . Cancer . . . Black Swans? AAAAAIIIEEEH! - Popular Science: "Traveling a mile by bike is almost 14 times as likely to be fatal as a mile by car.5"

ONJava.com: Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming

ONJava.com: Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming: "Before we delve too deeply into AOP, let's introduce some standard terminology to help us understand the concepts.
Cross-cutting concerns: Even though most classes in an OO model will perform a single, specific function, they often share common, secondary requirements with other classes. For example, we may want to add logging to classes within the data-access layer and also to classes in the UI layer whenever a thread enters or exits a method. Even though the primary functionality of each class is very different, the code needed to perform the secondary functionality is often identical.
Advice: This is the additional code that you want to apply to your existing model. In our example, this is the logging code that we want to apply whenever the thread enters or exits a method.
Point-cut: This is the term given to the point of execution in the application at which cross-cutting concern needs to be applied. In our example, a point-cut is reached when the thread enters a method, and another point-cut is reached when the thread exits the method.
Aspect: The combination of the point-cut and the advice is termed an aspect. In the example below, we add a logging aspect to our application by defining a point-cut and giving the correct advice. "

ONJava.com: Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming

ONJava.com: Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming: "Before we delve too deeply into AOP, let's introduce some standard terminology to help us understand the concepts.
Cross-cutting concerns: Even though most classes in an OO model will perform a single, specific function, they often share common, secondary requirements with other classes. For example, we may want to add logging to classes within the data-access layer and also to classes in the UI layer whenever a thread enters or exits a method. Even though the primary functionality of each class is very different, the code needed to perform the secondary functionality is often identical.
Advice: This is the additional code that you want to apply to your existing model. In our example, this is the logging code that we want to apply whenever the thread enters or exits a method.
Point-cut: This is the term given to the point of execution in the application at which cross-cutting concern needs to be applied. In our example, a point-cut is reached when the thread enters a method, and another point-cut is reached when the thread exits the method.
Aspect: The combination of the point-cut and the advice is termed an aspect. In the example below, we add a logging aspect to our application by defining a point-cut and giving the correct advice. "

SOC

SOC: "Tenets of SOA by Rich Turner
Service Boundaries are Explicit: Services are expressed at their boundary and there is only ONE way to access the information and/or functionality held within a service - through capabilities exposed at the Service Boundary. Also, assume that calling methods on a Service may take time and may be unreliable.
Services are Autonomous: A service should not have hard-dependencies on other services. You should design your Services to be isolated, independent and interchangeable otherwise you'll end up with a closely coupled system that is fragile and overly complex. Services should maintain all the information needed to operate in isolation so that should one or more supporting services become unavailable, your service will not fail.
Services expose Schema and Contract, not Class and Type: Services should expose their interfaces and shared information interchange structures through well understood schema, rather than a particular language or platform's representation of class or type. By adopting standards based schema can we hope to build truly interoperable systems.
Services negotiate using Policy: This is quite possibly the most valuable, most differentiating tenet. Services must comply with one another's policy requirements in order to interoperate. If you offer a secure, reliable, transacted service, a caller must also support the necessary protocols etc. This protocol negotiation should be performed dynamically which will help ensure that systems do not take hard-dependencies upon one another, and will allow Service designers to largely abstract away the actual �hook-up� mechanisms between systems focussing instead on the functional semantics of their service. "

SOC

SOC: "Tenets of SOA by Rich Turner
Service Boundaries are Explicit: Services are expressed at their boundary and there is only ONE way to access the information and/or functionality held within a service - through capabilities exposed at the Service Boundary. Also, assume that calling methods on a Service may take time and may be unreliable.
Services are Autonomous: A service should not have hard-dependencies on other services. You should design your Services to be isolated, independent and interchangeable otherwise you'll end up with a closely coupled system that is fragile and overly complex. Services should maintain all the information needed to operate in isolation so that should one or more supporting services become unavailable, your service will not fail.
Services expose Schema and Contract, not Class and Type: Services should expose their interfaces and shared information interchange structures through well understood schema, rather than a particular language or platform's representation of class or type. By adopting standards based schema can we hope to build truly interoperable systems.
Services negotiate using Policy: This is quite possibly the most valuable, most differentiating tenet. Services must comply with one another's policy requirements in order to interoperate. If you offer a secure, reliable, transacted service, a caller must also support the necessary protocols etc. This protocol negotiation should be performed dynamically which will help ensure that systems do not take hard-dependencies upon one another, and will allow Service designers to largely abstract away the actual �hook-up� mechanisms between systems focussing instead on the functional semantics of their service. "

Longhorn Developer Center Home: Programming Indigo: The Programming Model

Longhorn Developer Center Home: Programming Indigo: The Programming Model: "Programming Indigo: The Programming Model"

Paul Fallon's Blog - SO and SOA

Paul Fallon's Blog - SO and SOA: "Peter Deustch�s �The 7 Fallacies of Distributed Computing� , probably cause it gets used more in the Java world than in the DCOM/.NET world. For those that are unfamilar with the notions that Peter Deustch proposed so long ago (in internet time terms) back in the 90�s (I think), they are the following:-
1. The network is reliable
2. Latency is zero
3. Bandwidth is infinite
4. The network is secure
5. Topology doesn�t change
6. There is one administrator
7. Transport cost is zero"

15 Seconds : Indigo Programming Model

15 Seconds : Indigo Programming Model: "Indigo is the latest Microsoft implementation of service oriented architecture. Indigo provides a rich set of technologies for 'creating, consuming, processing and transmitting messages'. "

The State of Standards @ WSJ

The State of Standards @ WSJ: "One of the most important concepts to understand about the WSF is that it is not a distributed object system. Web services communicate by exchanging messages - it's more like JMS than RMI. The WSF doesn't support remote references, remote object garbage collection, or any of the other distributed object features developers have come to rely upon in RMI, CORBA, or DCOM"

Grid Services Extend Web Services @ WSJ

Grid Services Extend Web Services @ WSJ: "Distributed systems research has a rich literature where virtualization of resources and objects is a common solution to many problems. This virtualization results in a 'transparency.' Nine of these show up again and again. They are used with respect to accessing a remote service or object. Usually the intent is that the programmer/user need not know or deal with something, but can if they want to. The transparencies are:

Access: The mechanism used for a local procedure call is the same as for a remote call. Many have argued that this is a special case on location transparency.
Location: The caller need not know where the object is located, California or Virginia - it makes no difference.
Failure: If the object fails the caller is unaware. Somehow the requested service or function is performed, the object is restarted, or whatever is needed happens.
Heterogeneity: Architecture and OS boundaries are invisible. However, objects cannot migrate without limitation. At a bare minimum communication with objects on other architectures requires no data coercion.
Migration: The caller need not know whether an object has moved since they last communicated with it.
Replication: Is there one object or many objects behind the name? The caller need not know or deal with coherence issues.
Concurrency: Are there other concurrent users of an object? The caller need not be aware of them.
Scaling: An increase or decrease in the number of servers requires no change in the software. Naturally, performance may vary.
Behavioral: Is it live or not? Whether an actual object or a simulation of the object is used is irrelevant. For example, am I talking to a host object, or a virtual host objec"

Grid Services Extend Web Services @ WSJ

Grid Services Extend Web Services @ WSJ: " mechanically, the differences between Grid services (as defined in the Open Grid Services Infrastructure [OGSI] V.1.0 specification) and Web services are few: a Grid service is simply a Web service that conforms to a particular set of conventions"

Message Passing Interface

Message Passing Interface: "MPI is a library specification for message-passing"

SOA Pipeline | Well on Our Way to SOA? Still Much To Do

SOA Pipeline | Well on Our Way to SOA? Still Much To Do: "SAP's Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA) � SAP's own brand of service-oriented architecture (SOA). SAP claimed that ESA lets you change your processes and create new composite applications not by coding but through model-based design and configuration"

SOA Pipeline | Well on Our Way to SOA? Still Much To Do

SOA Pipeline | Well on Our Way to SOA? Still Much To Do: "SAP's Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA) � SAP's own brand of service-oriented architecture (SOA). SAP claimed that ESA lets you change your processes and create new composite applications not by coding but through model-based design and configuration"

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."