Linux.com :: Comparing Linux USB flash disk distros

Linux.com :: Comparing Linux USB flash disk distros: "Some Linux distributions, such as Mandriva Flash, are specially designed to work from flash devices. Some provide installers to get them onto thumb drives, while others can be coerced onto a USB flash drive with some simple modifications. I tested five Linux distributions -- Damn Small Linux (DSL), Puppy Linux, Pendrivelinux, Ubuntu, and Mandriva Flash -- to see how they fare running from a flash disk.

Of the five, only Ubuntu doesn't offer a native method for getting it to run from flash, while Pendrivelinux and Mandriva Flash are designed to run exclusively from flash. The five Linux distributions can be divided into two classes: the small, compact distributions (DSL and Puppy Linux), which are less than 100MB in size, and the full-blown distributions (Mandriva, Pendrivelinux, and Ubuntu)."

Stevey's Blog Rants: Dynamic Languages Strike Back

Stevey's Blog Rants: Dynamic Languages Strike Back: "I like the story about refreshing the title bar 140 times. It's an example of the principle I always tell everyone: your performance bottlenecks are usually something you would never think of in a million years. You absolutely must use performance tools rather than trying to reason from first principles."

Windows Virtualization Team Blog : HYPER-V QUICK MIGRATION & VMWARE LIVE MIGRATION PART 1...

Windows Virtualization Team Blog : HYPER-V QUICK MIGRATION & VMWARE LIVE MIGRATION PART 1...: "HYPER-V QUICK MIGRATION & VMWARE LIVE MIGRATION PART 1.."

Vista T-states

required ACPI processor objects to support ACPI processor linear stop clock throttle states (T‑states)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/0/b/00bba048-35e6-4e5b-a3dc-36da83cbb0d1/ProcPowerMgmt.docx

Sun's CMT goes multi-chip - Allan Packer's Weblog

Sun's CMT goes multi-chip - Allan Packer's Weblog: "Today Sun is announcing new CMT-based systems, hard on the heels of the UltraSPARC T2 systems launched in October 2007 (the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 systems). Whereas previous Sun CMT systems were based around a single-socket UltraSPARC T1 or T2 processor, the new systems incorporate two processors, doubling the number of cores and the number of hardware threads compared to UltraSPARC T2-based systems"

Retro Forward Go!: 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies

Retro Forward Go!: 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies: "According to this film, in year 2001 we would have had manned voyages to Jupiter, a battle of wits with a sentient computer, and a quantum leap in human evolution. Instead we got the Mir Space Station falling from the sky, Windows XP. Apparently the lesson here is that sometimes it's better when the movies get the facts all wrong."

Statically Typed :: Static typing for a static world

Statically Typed :: Static typing for a static world: "EC2 allows you to configure a GNU/Linux environment to your liking and use it almost the same as you would use a dedicated server or VPS. Google’s App Engine allows you to create Google Applications. They’re written in Python (one of Google’s production languages) and need to be written specifically to use things like Google’s Bigtable."

Azul Systems - Cliff Click Jr.’s Blog

Azul Systems - Cliff Click Jr.’s Blog: "But how well do these techniques work as we move from dozens of cores to hundreds (Azul's already there!)? Right now, the Big 3 Application Servers can rarely use more than 50-100 cores before they become choked up on internal locks- and that includes the 20% for GC and using SLE. Maybe we go to individual programs communicating via sockets (SOA?). But isn't this just a very complex version of CSP? Might we be better off just switching to CSP in the first place (or some hopefully more modern version)?"

Paul Edlund (Microsoft): RTO's and RPO's and SPOF's... Oh My!

Paul Edlund (Microsoft): RTO's and RPO's and SPOF's... Oh My!: "Recovery Point Objectives (RPO's) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO's)."

Dial D for Disruption - Forbes.com

Dial D for Disruption - Forbes.com: "Spencer is picking up a few big allies. Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) now makes Asterisk-compatible cards for computers and has tested large deployments. 'Open source is one of the hottest topics in telecom today,' says Intel marketing director Timothy Moynihan."

The Green Grid: Content

The Green Grid: Content: "The Green Grid Data Center Power Efficiency Metrics: PUE and DCiE
The Green Grid is an association of IT professionals seeking to dramatically raise the energy efficiency of data centers through a series of short-term and long-term proposals. This is an update to the very first white paper published by the Green Grid in February 2007 called “Green Grid Metrics: Describing Data Center Power Efficiency” to refine the nomenclature and intent of that paper. In that paper, The Green Grid proposed the use of Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and its reciprocal, Data Center Efficiency (DCE) metrics,"

My Way Finance

My Way Finance: "Intel Corp. chief executive Paul Otellini saw his pay package almost double in 2007, receiving compensation valued at $12.3 million as the chipmaker's business rebounded from a rocky 2006."

My Way Finance

My Way Finance: "Intel Corp. chief executive Paul Otellini saw his pay package almost double in 2007, receiving compensation valued at $12.3 million as the chipmaker's business rebounded from a rocky 2006."

A Man of Action

A Man of Action: "When it comes to discussing the arts, all opinions are completely subjective and thus equally valid, or so the orthodoxy goes. But surely there are limits. To assert that reading one of Furst’s novels is like hearing “Kafka, Dostoevsky and le Carré … talk to each other” (Kirkus Reviews) is just plain wrong, as wrong as any literary judgment can be."

A Bright Shining Lie

A Bright Shining Lie: "He is often called “a writer’s writer,” with the customary implication that this is far better than being a reader’s writer."

A Reader's Manifesto

A Reader's Manifesto: "Maybe this is the effect that Proulx is aiming for; she seems to want to keep us on the surface of the text at all times, as if she were afraid that we might forget her quirky narratorial presence for even a line or two."

Good Math, Bad Math : The Real Murphy's Law

Good Math, Bad Math : The Real Murphy's Law: "The real Murphy's law: If there's more than one way to do something, and one way will result in disaster, then someone will do it that way."

We can transform single thread to multithread: Intel

We can transform single thread to multithread: Intel: "“Our answer is CT: C stands for C++ based MPI and T stands for high throughput. So programmers can run C++ like scalar code, and our CT code will do everything that an experienced programmer will do like parallelisation and vectorisation.”

Intel has already got the technology working on quad and eight core platforms, and says its existing test applications can run on upcoming terascale platforms without modification of any code.

The closing words were amusing: “If you are a programmer, please do not worry about being fired because you cannot do terascale programming, because CT will blast you into the parallel era.”
Speculative parallel threading

The next presentation was also on helping programmers with multithreading. However, with this technology, rather than programmers having to do any recoding, it’s a new compiler that can take single thread apps and make them work in a multithreaded mode.

The way it works is it analyses applications to see whether a part of the application can be selected and made to run parallelly. If it executes successfully, the software knows it can, and it allows an application to be recompiled with the settings in place for that thread to run in parallel.

Intel explained, “It’s different from CT because CT is a new progra"

Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Live to Witness the Singularity

Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Live to Witness the Singularity: "ne day in the 1950s, while talking with his colleague Stanislaw Ulam, von Neumann began discussing the ever-accelerating pace of technological change, which, he said, 'gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs as we know them could not continue.'"

Motorola insider tells all about the fall of a technology icon - Engadget

Motorola insider tells all about the fall of a technology icon - Engadget: "Zander, who seemed to care more about his golf score than running one of America's greatest technology companies, left all of the hard work to Geoffrey; I've always considered it Motorola's dirty little secret that the strategy for their entire profit machine was run by the company's CMO -- not the rest of the company's executives, who are as inept now as they have ever been."