Linked from - Madville.com - 100 percent undetectable Malware

Linked from - Madville.com - 100 percent undetectable Malware: "She said that the only way her rootkit can be detected is if AMD's Pacifica technology is flawed."

Computerworld Singapore - Dell servers to power Google Search Appliance

Computerworld Singapore - Dell servers to power Google Search Appliance: "Google has been cagey about the hardware that runs its Search Appliance but this week said it will start using Dell servers to power the product later this year. "

Unisys Announces Next-Generation Server Architecture to Target Growing Market for Scalable Enterprise Computing - MarketWatch

Unisys Announces Next-Generation Server Architecture to Target Growing Market for Scalable Enterprise Computing - MarketWatch: "Going forward, market research firm IDC expects the combined midrange and high-end segments of the worldwide server market hosting Windows and Linux environments to show robust growth in terms of customer revenue spent for new systems. Windows servers in the midrange and high-end segments, when combined, are expected to show a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.3 percent, according to IDC's forecast, while Linux servers in those segments, when combined, are expected to have a CAGR of 18.5 percent."

Intel announces Core 2 Xeons, talks optimization

Intel announces Core 2 Xeons, talks optimization: "shipping the new Core 2-based Xeon 5100 series, codenamed Woodcrest"

Net neutrality

Net neutrality is this:

If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that level.

Computerworld Singapore - Dell servers to power Google Search Appliance

Computerworld Singapore - Dell servers to power Google Search Appliance: "While revenue from Google's enterprise group are relatively small compared to advertising revenue, as of April, Google had 3,000 customers using the Search Appliance. 'They've outstripped most of the enterprise search vendors out there,' said Creese. He said most other search vendors are proud to say they've attracted 500 users"

The Universe of Discourse : The envelope paradox

The Universe of Discourse : The envelope paradox: "But this is the paradox: there is a strategy you can use that does better than breaking even. "

Aftermarket Pipes: this api can break

Aftermarket Pipes: this api can break

Technical leadership

17 items,

Becoming A Technical Leader - G. M. Weinberg, Dorset House, 1986
Facts And Fallacies of Software Engineering - Robert L. Glass, Addison-Wesley, 2003

VMware: New ESX rocks the datacenter

VMware ESX Server 3.0, which adds new virtual SMP capabilities for as many as four virtual CPUs and 16GB of memory for each virtual machine

LWN: [discuss] 4level page tables merged into mainline

LWN: [discuss] 4level page tables merged into mainline: "The new layout gives 47bit (=128TB) virtual address space to each process."

64-bit computing in theory and practice - The Tech Report - Page 2

64-bit computing in theory and practice - The Tech Report - Page 2: "Current AMD64 processors allow up to 40 bits of physical address space, or one terabyte, and up to 48 bits of virtual address space, or 256TB. Initial versions of WinXP x64 will support as much as 128GB of physical RAM and up to 16 terabytes of virtual memory. "

My Way News - Internet2 Network Aims to Boost Capacity

My Way News - Internet2 Network Aims to Boost Capacity: "In the new network, Internet2 will have the cables all to itself. Operators will initially be able to transmit data using 10 colors, or wavelengths, of light over a single cable, giving the network a capacity of 100 Gbps. Eventually, Internet2 hopes to transmit on 80 wavelengths"

CMP vs. SMP on Intel's Platform: Comparing Low-Level Memory Characteristics in RightMark Memory Analyzer

CMP vs. SMP on Intel's Platform: Comparing Low-Level Memory Characteristics in RightMark Memory Analyzer: "The real read and write memory bandwidth was tested in two modes � with enabled hardware prefetch, which is a normal processor mode, and with disabled hardware prefetch on the one hand"

CMP vs. SMP on Intel's Platform: Comparing Low-Level Memory Characteristics in RightMark Memory Analyzer

CMP vs. SMP on Intel's Platform: Comparing Low-Level Memory Characteristics in RightMark Memory Analyzer: "The real read and write memory bandwidth was tested in two modes � with enabled hardware prefetch, which is a normal processor mode, and with disabled hardware prefetch on the one hand"

Articles and Links

Articles and Links: "Calpont has implemented what would otherwise be the database via 'SQL on a chip' and all data is held in memory"

How to Get Up Right Away When Your Alarm Goes Off

How to Get Up Right Away When Your Alarm Goes Off: "you can�t trust yourself to make intelligent, conscious decisions the moment you first wake up"

APA Press Release: Groups Perform Better Than The Best Individuals At Solving Complex Problems

APA Press Release: Groups Perform Better Than The Best Individuals At Solving Complex Problems: "'We found that groups of size three, four, and five outperformed the best individuals and attribute this performance to the ability of people to work together to generate and adopt correct responses, reject erroneous responses, and effectively process information,' "

B2 Report: Sun's Hail Mary pass - Apr. 24, 2006

B2 Report: Sun's Hail Mary pass - Apr. 24, 2006: "Sun needs to cut 10,000 to 12,000 jobs � 27 percent of its workforce of 39,000 � to get its costs in line with the rest of the industry"

McNealy--an engineer's witty patron | CNET News.com

McNealy--an engineer's witty patron CNET News.com: "Scott McNealy, one of the longest-serving and best-known CEOs of Silicon Valley, announced Monday that he was stepping down as chief executive of Sun Microsystems. "