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Chatting with Ken Coar
A reader writes: " It appears that Ken Coar will be doing an IRC chat on Slashnet today. Ken's an Apache core developer and director, as well as author of The Apache Cookbook." It's worth noting that DevChannel is part of the sinister keiretsu. As pointed out, it'll be in #forum, at 2:00 PM EST today. -
Chatting with Ken Coar
A reader writes: " It appears that Ken Coar will be doing an IRC chat on Slashnet today. Ken's an Apache core developer and director, as well as author of The Apache Cookbook." It's worth noting that DevChannel is part of the sinister keiretsu. As pointed out, it'll be in #forum, at 2:00 PM EST today. -
Interview Apache's Ken Coar On IRC
An anonymous reader writes "Robin 'Roblimo' Miller will be hosting an IRC interview with Ken Coar tomorrow. Registration for the discussion is required. This is your chance to interview Ken Coar directly." Coar sits on the Apache Foundation's board, and has written a few books on Apache besides. You might want to check out the Apache website to catch up on recent developments before taking part, too. -
SCSI vs. IDE In The Real World
An anonymous reader writes "Gerard Beekmans has a really good comparison of the speeds of IDE and SCSI drives up over on devchannel.org. Should help put an end to the myth of IDE erasing SCSI's speed advantage." Note that Beekmans' test handicaps the SCSI disk a bit, with interesting results. (DevChannel, like Slashdot, is part of OSDN.) -
Philosophical Split Hurts Web Services Adoption
Avidwriter writes "'There is a serious split in Web services implementation philosophy that is threatening to stall the benefits of the technology to businesses and consumers,' says this Devchannel story. 'The WSDL 1.1 specification allows programmers to choose between remote procedure call (RPC) style and document-style Web services. The decision is not an arbitrary one, as it has ramifications for both message structure and more importantly the interoperability of Web services...'" -
San Mehat On Web Services & .Net
A reader writes: "There's an interview with San Mehat in regards to .Net & Webservices. He has some interesting comments about what will work and what won't work, and where things are going." San is well known for his Netwinder work, as well as being a good DJ. And, in the interest of full disclosure, San does work for VA Software, the parent company of OSDN, as is DevChannel. -
MySQL Creator Contemplates RAM-only Databases
Aavidwriter writes "Peter Wayner asks Michael 'Monty' Widenius of MySQL, 'When will RAM prices make disk drives obsolete for database developers?' From Monty's answers, it sounds like hard drives may be nothing but backups before long." From experience, I'd wager that RAM failure rates are less than hard drive failure rates, so it might also mean more stability from that perspective. -
Researching The Open Source Way
A reader writes: "Eugene Eric Kim, who also writes on the webservices channel on DevChannel.org, has posted a research report on open source communities. The two projects/communities studied were Touchgraph and Squirrelmail, examining how they work together." Looking at it, I think the research report was sponsored by The Omidyar Foundation, who are the EBay founders; and the report is also licensed under the Creative Commons license. -
Hyper-Threading Speeds Linux
developerWorks writes "The Intel Xeon processor introduces a new technology called Hyper-Threading (HT) that makes a single processor behave like two logical processors. The technology allows the processor to execute multiple threads simultaneously, which can yield significant performance improvement. But, exactly how much improvement can you expect to see? This article gives the results the investigation into the effects of Hyper-Threading (HT) on the Linux SMP kernel. It compares the performance of a Linux SMP kernel that was aware of Hyper-Threading to one that was not." Ah, the joys of high performance. -
New Intel Compiler Released
swsnyder writes "A new toy to play with: new Intel compiler (v7.0) available for download at Intel's site. The Windows version is a time limited eval version, but the Linux version is free for non-commercial use. This version is claimed to be even more GCC-compatible that the last version, though I haven't verified this yet." -
SGI NUMAflex Linux System On Display @ SC2002
jarrod.smith writes " According to SGI will unveil its Intel® Itanium® 2 NUMAflex shared-memory supercomputer architecture (which runs Linux as its OS) at Supercomputing 2002 which runs this week in Baltimore, MD. The link at SGI says the system will be on display at the show. The exhibit floor opens this evening. Unfortunately I did not go this year. Can those lucky enough to be at the meeting scope it out and post comments?"