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All I can say is, it's about time!

http://www-142.ibm.com/software/workplace/products /product5.nsf/wdocs/workplaceoverview

Um, now _this_ is a working link.

Sometimes I can be a little slow. I had the wrong link. This is the right one:

http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/ngm/wp10_ e.htm

Your link is broken.

Here is what you meant.

IBM created a Linux watch *with* Bluetooth now...

http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/ngm/wp10_ e.htm/

If you can pay off one of these as an individual (for personal use) in one shot, then I'd bet you might as well prepare a greeting for them. The evil bit is on by default - these set off red flags just by their own existence in an individuals's possession in the very least (varying on income and quantity purchased).

  Nevermind the Mac Mini (of both types), it's harmless to pay off in one shot. When you buy something made with little regard to quality, why should they bother investigating?

http://www.haifa.ibm.com/projects/systems/cjvm/ind ex.html

Sounds awefully like clustering JVM. One thing I am not sure is that;
1. failover is done by manager node?
2. application distribution over what stack? shared pool doesn't necessarily mean shared memory space.
3. parrallel or distributed processing or session clustering?

The more I think about it, this company sounds like a hype. $100,000 for 40 node pool and $5K per node is a bit of stretch in anyone's pocket in my opinion.

Open Source Champion IBM is the single largest patenter in the WORLD

That's right. If you lack the cluefullness to observe the obvious in your own oxymoronic illustration: that IBM is no "Open Source Champion" but merely an opportunistic leach; you have clearly checked out of the reality department long ago. Software and business method patents do not have a "quality problem", they are fundamentally structurally unsound. Even Bill Gates understands this.

If you've spent any time at all with an IBM sales executive, you would realize that IBM's open source strategy is simply a way to bait people into using software which will hopefully segue into proprietary upgrades.

As RMS has so elequently and accurately stated over and over again: the greatest impediment to software development is not innovation - we have had plenty of that with no help from the USPTO. The greatest impedement to software development is the creation of large scale systems. Because of software patents, any software project of any substance must navigate a legal minefield. That is an impedement to progress, much more so than any threat to the pretensions of petulant greedy developers who think their little brain farts should feed their grandchildren.

There are some pretty fast alternative on-screen input methods. See, for instance:

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/zhai/papers/IwCvol16Z haiAccepted.pdf [PDF]

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/zhai/papers/Kristenss onZhai2004.pdf [PDF]

There are some pretty fast alternative on-screen input methods. See, for instance:

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/zhai/papers/IwCvol16Z haiAccepted.pdf [PDF]

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/zhai/papers/Kristenss onZhai2004.pdf [PDF]

The article says Oracle compares its US$15G/yr revenue to MySQL's US$30M/yr. But as Paul Graham says, it is OK to shrink a US$30G/yr industry to US$30M/yr, if your absolute share of the new US$30M is bigger than the one on US$30G was. Or in other words, MySQL will laugh to the bank on growing from US$30M, while Oracle will strive to keep their US$15G.

Also, IBM, Oracle and Intel did not make Linux. Richard Stallman created GNU, Linus used GNU and complemented it with Linux, and now IBM, Oracle and Intel help Linus with Linux and RMS with GNU.

I wonder how long will IBM and Oracle continue think they can sell proprietary servers on free platforms, without facing significant competition from free servers too. And how long Intel think they can sell proprietary machines to run free software without facing competition from free (think 'open') hardware? Now they are winning, IBM and Oracle using GNU/Linux to face competition from Microsoft, and Intel to crush proprietary RISC (think they ignoring OpenFirmware); but how long before we are running PostgreSQL (or better yet, Rel) on some OpenCores system booting with OpenFirmware or something the like? Not on the short term, for sure, but eventually maybe it is inevitable, unless DRM forces us into a police state.

IBM Has had DC Power in their mainframes for years. The latest ones convert redundant 3-phase power to 480v DC for distribution between the frames. All the details you want can be found here

From a page on IBM Developer Works: "The phrase was coined by Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path ... and is, according to Jesse, not meant to be an acronym." (emphasis in the article).

Yeah, its for air flow.
See the large ppt presentation here:
http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/briefing_day. html
Power, Packaging and Cooling, slide 20, I think.
Basically, the ducts are larger where the airflow is greater.

http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/index.html

Here are the specs:

http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/deepcomputing/bluege ne_glance.html

Yes, it runs Linux!

http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/index.html

Here are the specs:

http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/deepcomputing/bluege ne_glance.html

Yes, it runs Linux!

LOL. That's a nice troll, but anybody who wants can look at the Thinkpad website and the iBook website and see that the prices are about the same. Sure, the SHITTIEST Stinkpad costs "$750" but it weighs a pound more and has half the RAM! And, the VERY FIRST upgrade to it puts you over $1200. Nice!

Because you think Thinkpads are cheap? What world do you live in?

Cheapest Thinkpad: $750
Cheapest Powerbook: $1750

That's $1000. Go away.

I guess Oracle appears to know what you are talking about:

"Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is an entry-level, small-footprint database based on the Oracle Database 10g Release 2 code base that's free to develop, deploy, and distribute; fast to download; and simple to administer."

And Microsoft too, kinda:

"We originally announced pricing of Visual Studio Express at US$49. We are now offering Visual Studio Express for free, as a limited-in-time promotional offer, until November 6, 2006. Note that we are also offering SQL Server 2005 Express Edition as a free download, and that this offer is not limited to the same promotional pricing period as Visual Studio Express."

I guess "Express" is some kind of magic phrase:

"With DB2 Express-C, faculty and students have direct access to an easy to learn and easy to use database for relational and XML data at no charge."

I don't think it's in these vendors' best interests to have such high bars to entry for the worker either.

The first link (http://www.interfax.cn/showfeature.asp?aid=10411& slug=INTERNET-POLICY-MII-DOMAIN%20NAME-DNS) says the new TLDs are in Chinese characters which translate to .com, .net and .china. Which is legal in IDNA architecture. If the root servers in US map the ASCII equivalents to correct IP addresses then there is no interoperability problem. The second link claims that China is building a new internet system. I think the author does not understand the internet architecture. Examples of .com in Chinese being converted to IDN http://www-950.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/ demo/domain?t=%E7%90%86%E5%AE%B9%E3%83%8A%E3%82%AB %E3%83%A0%E3%83%A9.%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD&x=20&y=18 You can input the other domain names and test for yourself. As I understand, in China the users input .com and the browsers (or the lookup mechanism.. not sure which) first try to map .co.cn to an IP address, if that fails they try .com. This was creating a problem, but a minor one.

Virtualization facilitates a read only, tamper proof OS, and this comes in handy when you want a "trusted" system that supports DRM. I expect this is why Intel and Microsoft are contributing so much money to the open source Xen project.

http://www.research.ibm.com/secure_systems_departm ent/projects/hypervisor/

It's ironic that an open source project is helping make closed systems more closed.

Actually, I think it's the "IBM" name Lenovo gets to use for 5 years. The Thinkpad name is Lenovo's to keep. See question #9 here http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/customerqa.html/.

Find out if there are any professors at your school who also work in your industry, then take their classes and make yourself known to them. This can open doors to internships and real jobs.

Getting an internship after freshman year could be tough. I got one based on my connections and work from high school, but if you're starting now it may be too late. (I already hired my interns for this summer.) As other posters said, maybe start working on some personal projects that will make your resume stand out in later summers.

Also check out IBM Extreme Blue; it's a lot of fun. (You can guess where I work...)

IIRC IBM Lotus already does this.

There is extensive linking between the email system, calendars, databases, Smart Suite, etc.

Maybe this is Microsoft innovating again....

It has been my own experience that SWT doesn't play so well on non-windows platforms. Even the original article implies this...

I guess that I assumed you already recognized this. After all, why would you (from your original post) say...

...if true platform neutrality was a reality in your recommendation of SWT? If the issue truly is only one of...

...then all you have to do make your swing app have the windows look and feel is to use the com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel pluggable LookAndFeel class.

lenovo doesn't mention linux as an option when selecting a laptop/pc, but after using the search function one finds the overview with checked distributions per system: http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-48 NT8D.html?sitestyle=lenovo

enjoy... :)

Nah, it's there. Download it, if you want ;)

why not use the best of both opensource and commercial ? IBM's UIMA looks interesting - see http://www.research.ibm.com/UIMA/

I find the separation of content and presentation the most important aspect of a framework. Then comes simplicity; I don't want to spend months to learn the framework. And last, I don't want anything that hides the foundation underneath. With these three requirements in mind, I rolled my own framework: Hamlets. You find it here:

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/hamlets

Rene

Sammy, I believe that simplicity is the hallmark of professional software. Have a look at:

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/hamlets

Hamlets are easy-to-understand and easy-to-use.

Rene

You will understand Hamlets in 10 minutes. You have my word.
Rene

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/hamlets

I couldn't agree more. I looked at JSF before I invented Hamlets. In 10 minutes you are up and running!
You can get it here.

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/hamlets

I wrote this small-footprint servlet-based content creation framework for an internal project at IBM Research. The framework is easy-to-understand and easy-to-use. You can download the library from

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/hamlets

Articles can be found on IBM developerWorks:

Introducing Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-hamlets/
Programming Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/wa-dw-wa -hamletprg-i.html
Implementing Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-hamlets3/

I wrote this small-footprint servlet-based content creation framework for an internal project at IBM Research. The framework is easy-to-understand and easy-to-use. You can download the library from

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/hamlets

Articles can be found on IBM developerWorks:

Introducing Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-hamlets/
Programming Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/wa-dw-wa -hamletprg-i.html
Implementing Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-hamlets3/

I wrote this small-footprint servlet-based content creation framework for an internal project at IBM Research. The framework is easy-to-understand and easy-to-use. You can download the library from

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/hamlets

Articles can be found on IBM developerWorks:

Introducing Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-hamlets/
Programming Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/wa-dw-wa -hamletprg-i.html
Implementing Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-hamlets3/

I wrote this small-footprint servlet-based content creation framework for an internal project at IBM Research. The framework is easy-to-understand and easy-to-use. You can download the library from

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/hamlets

Articles can be found on IBM developerWorks:

Introducing Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-hamlets/
Programming Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/wa-dw-wa -hamletprg-i.html
Implementing Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-hamlets3/

I wrote this small-footprint servlet-based content creation framework for an internal project at IBM Research. The framework is easy-to-understand and easy-to-use. You can download the library from

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/hamlets

Articles can be found on IBM developerWorks:

Introducing Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-hamlets/
Programming Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/wa-dw-wa -hamletprg-i.html
Implementing Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-hamlets3/

I wrote this small-footprint servlet-based content creation framework for an internal project at IBM Research. The framework is easy-to-understand and easy-to-use. You can download the library from

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/hamlets

Articles can be found on IBM developerWorks:

Introducing Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-hamlets/
Programming Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/wa-dw-wa -hamletprg-i.html
Implementing Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-hamlets3/

I wrote this small-footprint servlet-based content creation framework for an internal project at IBM Research. The framework is easy-to-understand and easy-to-use. You can download the library from

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/hamlets

Articles can be found on IBM developerWorks:

Introducing Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-hamlets/
Programming Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/wa-dw-wa -hamletprg-i.html
Implementing Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-hamlets3/

I wrote this small-footprint servlet-based content creation framework for an internal project at IBM Research. The framework is easy-to-understand and easy-to-use. You can download the library from

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/hamlets

Articles can be found on IBM developerWorks:

Introducing Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-hamlets/
Programming Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/wa-dw-wa -hamletprg-i.html
Implementing Hamlets: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-hamlets3/

Not that I disbelieve you, you understand, but the people that argue with me don't.

Burning a lump of coal produces more nuclear waste than using a lump of uranium? Who woulda thought?

Do we have to worry about coal-burrning countries creating nuclear-coal enrichment facilities and building nuclear "soot" bombs?

I'm for nuclear power, and such, but could you be a bit less vague about quantities, level of radioactivity?

There is radioactivity that comes both out of the earth and that which comes through the atmosphere (cosmic rays _can_ corrupt memory!).

Perhaps more important to /.er's: how likely is the radioactivity from coal to cause memory bit failures compared to the measured value for
cosmic rays? :-)
-l

You are referring to the infamous Po-210 issue that IBM had. It actually originated from a faulty bottle-washing machine for one of the acids used in the fab process. The machine was using Po-210 to ionize a jet of air and there was a busted seal that was leaking Po-210 into the empty bottles. It took them years and millions of dollars to figure out what was going wrong. All chips have problems with soft errors, but when there is a problem in your fab and you put a highly radioactive isotope directly into the packaging... well soft errors become a nightmare. If contaminants are well controlled, then the primary soft error source is cosmic high energy neutrons. It's a bigger deal at higher elevations, and even worse in aircraft. If you find such things interesting, check out the references at the end of my thesis: http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/papers/softecc:ddopson -meng/softecc_ddopson-meng.pdf Especially IBM's summary of their soft-error experience from 78-94 http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/401/tocpdf. html

http://www-142.ibm.com/software/workplace/products /product5.nsf/wdocs/whitepaperseries

Thanks, AC.

Well, there's my answer: it's called the IBM Workplace, and the client software is the Workplace Managed Client (they don't waste a lot of effort on their names, do they).

When I saw "White Paper Series" my first reaction was "vaporware!" But it does seem to actually exist. In fact there is some sort of demo which you can download here, although proceed at your own risk, I didn't try it. There is some sort of registration required.

I can't tell whether the client actually does anything without the server half, but if anyone wants to play with it and report back, I'm curious. Supposedly runs on AIX, Linux, Solaris, and Windows, from what I can tell.

http://www-142.ibm.com/software/workplace/products /product5.nsf/wdocs/whitepaperseries

Thanks, AC.

Well, there's my answer: it's called the IBM Workplace, and the client software is the Workplace Managed Client (they don't waste a lot of effort on their names, do they).

When I saw "White Paper Series" my first reaction was "vaporware!" But it does seem to actually exist. In fact there is some sort of demo which you can download here, although proceed at your own risk, I didn't try it. There is some sort of registration required.

I can't tell whether the client actually does anything without the server half, but if anyone wants to play with it and report back, I'm curious. Supposedly runs on AIX, Linux, Solaris, and Windows, from what I can tell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia_Axemen

The Acadia Advantage is an academic programme unique in Canada whereby each of the undergraduate (and many of the graduate) students receive laptop computers to use from September to May. Honours students may use their computers in the summer before their last year. Other students have the option to rent their laptops over the summer months. From 1996-2004, the university had a contract with IBM; the 2004-2005 year saw a shift to the Dell Lattitude D600 computers.

Throughout the entirety of the Acadia Advantage program, the following laptops have been employed, each for a two year "turnover" (lease) period:

*snip*

Currently, an insurance policy is available through the USC (User Support Centre), the university's first and only point of contact for hardware and software technical support. This insurance policy, a "total care package" will cover most all accidental damage to the laptops. This is a boon to the student body, as the fast pace of university life, coupled with general lack of regard towards the laptops, results in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage each year.

Students come to Acadia with different computer backgrounds, but almost every student leaves with some highly developed computer skills. Students have access to resources like the User Support Centre, and faculty receive a lot of support from the Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology.

Most of the classrooms at Acadia are equipped with ergonomic chairs, acoustic tile, data projectors, and network drops or wireless network access. There are over 7,000 data connections on the campus, and many areas support wireless internet access including the Student Union Building (Acadia Students' Union), the Vaughan Memorial Library, the Acadia Divinity College, and the KC Irving Centre (named for K.C. Irving).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia_Axemen

The Acadia Advantage is an academic programme unique in Canada whereby each of the undergraduate (and many of the graduate) students receive laptop computers to use from September to May. Honours students may use their computers in the summer before their last year. Other students have the option to rent their laptops over the summer months. From 1996-2004, the university had a contract with IBM; the 2004-2005 year saw a shift to the Dell Lattitude D600 computers.

Throughout the entirety of the Acadia Advantage program, the following laptops have been employed, each for a two year "turnover" (lease) period:

*snip*

Currently, an insurance policy is available through the USC (User Support Centre), the university's first and only point of contact for hardware and software technical support. This insurance policy, a "total care package" will cover most all accidental damage to the laptops. This is a boon to the student body, as the fast pace of university life, coupled with general lack of regard towards the laptops, results in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage each year.

Students come to Acadia with different computer backgrounds, but almost every student leaves with some highly developed computer skills. Students have access to resources like the User Support Centre, and faculty receive a lot of support from the Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology.

Most of the classrooms at Acadia are equipped with ergonomic chairs, acoustic tile, data projectors, and network drops or wireless network access. There are over 7,000 data connections on the campus, and many areas support wireless internet access including the Student Union Building (Acadia Students' Union), the Vaughan Memorial Library, the Acadia Divinity College, and the KC Irving Centre (named for K.C. Irving).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia_Axemen

The Acadia Advantage is an academic programme unique in Canada whereby each of the undergraduate (and many of the graduate) students receive laptop computers to use from September to May. Honours students may use their computers in the summer before their last year. Other students have the option to rent their laptops over the summer months. From 1996-2004, the university had a contract with IBM; the 2004-2005 year saw a shift to the Dell Lattitude D600 computers.

Throughout the entirety of the Acadia Advantage program, the following laptops have been employed, each for a two year "turnover" (lease) period:

*snip*

Currently, an insurance policy is available through the USC (User Support Centre), the university's first and only point of contact for hardware and software technical support. This insurance policy, a "total care package" will cover most all accidental damage to the laptops. This is a boon to the student body, as the fast pace of university life, coupled with general lack of regard towards the laptops, results in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage each year.

Students come to Acadia with different computer backgrounds, but almost every student leaves with some highly developed computer skills. Students have access to resources like the User Support Centre, and faculty receive a lot of support from the Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology.

Most of the classrooms at Acadia are equipped with ergonomic chairs, acoustic tile, data projectors, and network drops or wireless network access. There are over 7,000 data connections on the campus, and many areas support wireless internet access including the Student Union Building (Acadia Students' Union), the Vaughan Memorial Library, the Acadia Divinity College, and the KC Irving Centre (named for K.C. Irving).

http://www-142.ibm.com/software/workplace/products /product5.nsf/wdocs/whitepaperseries

Why must you keep this argument going when you KNOW YOU ARE W R O N G?

Gateway Limited Warranty Statement"1. Technical Support. During the Limited Warranty Period, Gateway will provide product technical support..." options in this section include telephone or online support for the life of the warranty.
IBM (lenovo) Limited Warranty Statement and contact tech support page "An initial
diagnosis of your problem can be made either by a technician over the telephone or electronically by access to a support website." Options for warranty support include online and telephone. "If you are not in warranty, you may be billed for the call."

Why is it such a problem for you to understand this? You obviously have absolutely NO experience in supporting, buying, or using non-apple computers. You have no clue that the industry wide standard is more than what Apple offers.. You have no clue that Apple is the exception to the rule by offering 90 days. They are THE ONLY MAJOR COMPANY IN THIS INDUSTRY WHICH DOES NOT OFFER BUILT IN TELEPHONE SUPPORT FOR THE LIFE OF THE WARRANTY.

Read that again: Apple is THE ONLY MAJOR COMPANY IN THIS INDUSTRY WHICH DOES NOT OFFER BUILT IN TELEPHONE SUPPORT FOR THE LIFE OF THE WARRANTY.

Do you want me to repeat it again? Apple is THE ONLY MAJOR COMPANY IN THIS INDUSTRY WHICH DOES NOT OFFER BUILT IN TELEPHONE SUPPORT FOR THE LIFE OF THE WARRANTY.

When are you going to realize that your entire argument from the beginig of this thread was based on this FALSE ASSUMPTION? How are you going to say things like:

Well, they prove to me that you don't care whether you're right or not.

Gateway does not mention it -- and guess what, they don't offer Dial-A-Geek at all, unless you pay for it.

And, if you're really that paranoid about needing a human voice for the life of your warranty, drop two bills and buy some AppleCare.
And this is any different from dropping MAYBE ONE bill on an extended or premium plan with any other brand?

Apple customers get complimentary phone support from Apple for 90 days for all hardware.
ROFL. Complementary support. That is like saying you get complementary electricity for 90 minutes each day when you rent a hotel room. Give me a break.

Every single one of your posts in this thread are rooted on baseless accusations. No evidence. Complete lack of respect, and total rejection, for the truth. Since you don't know what this means at the end of the day I will tell you: It means you are a hypocrite. It could also mean you are a liar, or ignorant. Or ou are inexperienced. Or you are a Troll.

But I will give you the benefit of the doubt because you claim your aren't a troll. You claim you have experience in the industry (dropping your fake resume). You claim you aren't a liar. So I will believe you and just chalk it up to plain old every day hypocrisy.