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Baffling!
Microsoft has actually released open-source software.

The CPL was developed by IBM and is OSI approved.

OSI approved
more info

You gotta love articles like this one, where these pundits compare two industries as if one is standing still. As if, open source software becomes dominant in the marketplace, traditional companies won't adapt and find a way to profit and change their business model. Nope. Not according to these guys.

If Linux becomes the standard over Windows, I'm sure domestic commercial software companies will just sit there and scratch their heads. They won't, for example, start bundling services and building new products around open source. Naw, there's no indication that this would happen. These companies will simply stop in their tracks like deer frozen in headlights and die and the entire tech industry will implode and we'll all be speaking Hindi.

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IBM news page estimates that it will have a peak performance of 360 trillion operations per second when completed.

I don't see it holding #1 place for very long (if at all)...

Still a whole year until they have a full machine, but the 512-way prototype reached 1.4 TFlops (LinPack). The complete machine will have 128 times the nodes and 50% higher frequency. So even with pessimistic scalability, this will be more than twice as fast.

Don't tell me, tell these guys:
Bitkeeper
Perforce
Clearcase
(Look at the titles)

Probably want to send and email over to the guys on comp.software.config-mgmt, I'm sure they are going to want to hear they've been using the wrong acronym all this time.

The one that's changing everything. :-)

Even better - check IBM Worldwide Patent Licensing Practices:

For products in the IT field that practice an IBM patent, the royalty rate follows the guideline of one percent of the selling price of that product. If more than one patent is practiced in a product, the maximum rate is five percent of the selling price of that product.

GPL software is generally downloadable for $0, thus $0 royalties. I guess IBM could demand a percentage of the price of boxed software sold in stores. Oooooo, vewy vewy scawy. Real wrath-of-God stuff here guys! Fire and brimstone falling from the sky, dogs and cats living together!

So the good-old Alexis de Tocqueville Institute has declared IBM is about to sue its Linux friends into oblivion. Riiiiiight.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of FUD!

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Any chance of creating a connector for Notes/Domino?

And yes, I know about Lotus Workplace already, just wondering if any alternatives might exist.

It may be interesting for you to note that IBM prides itself on being the head of the intellectual property world.

EXT3 can shrink, but I don't know about the others

I've heard that EXT3 cannot shrink and that ReiserFS is the only one that can. While not a demo of shrinking, here's part 2 of a 3-part series of articles on using ReiserFS with LVM. This segment shows off resizing a partition without even unmounting it!

Things are much better for me more recently though, now I have built X.Org R6.7 and my Radeon Mobility 9700 is all good to go too.

If you don't want to build your own kernels, you needn't do that either. The latest Knoppix includes an option to boot a 2.6 kernel (type "knopix26" at the boot prompt), and I have seen success stories discussed on the Debian Laptop mailing list as well, using the standard Debian 2.6 kernel.

With the Debian kernel you have to add "acpi=on" to the Grub/Lilo command line, but that isn't needed for Knoppix.

In fact you have not one but three ext3's: data=journal, data=writeback, data=ordered (look here for details) with different performance.
So if anyone tries filesystems comparison, please benchmark all three data modes of ext3 or, at least, provide information which one was used in the test.
To add my 0.02 EUR I would also like to see comparison of linux filesystems against *BSD ufs2 on the same machine. I know that the underlying operating system adds additional variables in the equation, but if you are interested in filesystem-oriented tasks the system's performance as a whole counts, not only its filesystem. I have seen something like this done already for RAIDs but I would like to see this for ordinary single drives (like ATA and SATA). Shall I have enough time I will perform such tests end of July, when my new hardware arrives.

Sure, you could buy a Saab Viggen, or you could buy a Saab Viggen.

Or maybe a Kawasaki motorcycle, or a Kawasaki satellite.
How about a Countach, or a tractor

Even software or hardware
Or the other guys

Lots of companies diversify. MS is plenty big enough to both if they choose.

Sure, you could buy a Saab Viggen, or you could buy a Saab Viggen.

Or maybe a Kawasaki motorcycle, or a Kawasaki satellite.
How about a Countach, or a tractor

Even software or hardware
Or the other guys

Lots of companies diversify. MS is plenty big enough to both if they choose.

This BusinessWeek article states that you'll be able to work disconnected, then sync up the next time you connect. So IBM is building replication capabilities into their products. Makes sense; IBM has replication know-how from both their Lotus Notes and their DB2 database products.

unlike pure Web applications...mobile users...can connect, quickly access applications and disconnect to do work offline

So this is not a purely web based application. This is an interesting application. It must utilize something more than HTML because it can obviously persist a session over long periods of time. it also means this is more than a thin client. Would something like this be web service based? interested to hear the actual press release from IBM. Either way, this is a good thing as having another office suite with real corporate backing , not the fake kind, is a good thing.

I only say sun is the fake kind because they are
0wNzEd by microsoft now. ;)

...because you can find all their tech manuals online completely documenting proper assembly/disassembly instructions (step-by-step with pictures) along with all official part order numbers. And the best part is that it's pretty much guaranteed to be correct since it's from the manufacturer, as opposed to being the result of a third party reverse engineering the machine.

Manuals found here

I think you are talking about Sash:

http://sash.alphaworks.ibm.com

Work on it seems to have been discontinued.

I guess the submitter doesn't remember Lotus eSuite.

Last week, IBM announced industry's first POWER5-based server, based on - advanced 64-bit IBM POWER5 (PowerPC) microprocessor technology

According to http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csneal/HPM/alpha.html...

G4 - 33 million
G5 - 52 million

And from IBM...

G3 (750cx) - 22 million

I'm calling bullshit on you.

I hail from the Mighty Binghamton, New York (no 'p'). This is a pretty large area with a major SUNY university, and it's the birthplace of IBM. There are 110,000+ people here, but I can still find gaping holes in FM bandwidth. There are many, many frequencies that could support radio broadcasts.

'Pirate' radio stations don't interfere with 'legitimate' broadcasters. Why would a microbroadcaster broadcast on an already-used frequency? There's no point. You wouldn't have any listeners. It makes far more sense to broadcast on an empty frequency, doesn't it?

Um, they have everything to do with priority inversion. (http://www.us.design-reuse.com/articles/article24 2 5.html)

I would find it an odd design to schedule two threads of different priority on the same critical section, outside of perhaps device drivers and RTOS applications. Mutex protocols are an optional add-in to threading libraries (e.g. on AIX, here), for those instances where you would design such interaction - it's not going to happen by chance. Those interactions wouldn't be likely to happen in more than one or two "hot spots" in an application - and I would surmise those would be on the 'edges'.

Mind you, I don't know what kind of specialized software you write. It sounds like something that approaches needing realtime priority.

I have found NT to have horrible thread scheduling in a real multithreaded app.

For the priority inversion scenario, certainly. Here's an article on how NT deals with priority inversion. In practice, I've found that there's a subtle order-of-operation difference that can make a Linux/Unix-optimized approach go slower (relative to its theoretical performance) on NT, and vice versa. If I recall correctly from some of my porting efforts, NT tends to set up the new thread, continue running on the current thread, and lets the scheduler switch to the new thread later, and Linux tends to fork to the new thread immediately and lets the schedule switch to the old thread later. I was glad of the difference at one point; my thread pool suffered from a race condition I had overlooked - Linux's switching model ran into my bad assumption situation almost every time.

It's available from IBM's website as part of their Multimodal browser thing. Go to the Embedded Devices section near the bottom.

I found that I had to add a few softlinks after I'd installed it, but apart from that it's superb. And it's got built-in speech synthesis.

Such an ironic statement. IBM discontinued their desktop line, Aptiva, years ago.

IBM discontinued their desktops for the home market, but companies can still buy IBM desktops just fine.

There are already Point Of Sale systems for Linux, and with the announcement of the IBM Retail Environment for SuSE Linux, that will give retailers more assurance that it's safe to use Linux.

It would be much better if there were a mechanism by which the libraries could be dynamically loaded into the memory as they are needed, which would reduce the memory footprint of the program and also break the application into smaller parts. It would also allow easy distribution, installation, and upgrading. It just so happens that such a mechanism does exist, namely our dynamically linked libraries (DLLs on Windows, and Shared Objects on Linux). Applications using them are called dynamic executables.

At the IBM PartnerWorld 2004 conference the guys at the Sharp booth had a pre-release version of the Sharp SL-6000 Linux based PDA and they claimed that there was a cell phone card or sleeve available for it. As far as I can tell, this card is not commercially available yet.

As compared to the older Zaurii, this device was much larger, but was also, clearly, designed with some thought towards making it a viable phone. For example, the mic and speaker on the back of the case were positioned so it would be usable as a phone. In addition, the audio jack was a 3.5mm stereo jack suitable for use with stereo output, but was also configured to be able work with an earphone/boom mike combo so it could be used as a phone and PDA at the same time. This sure beats most other PDA's that choose either a sub-mini earbud/mic jack, sacraficing the ability to use the device as an MP3 player or a stereo out only jack. They also designed the SL-6000 so that it could accomodate a sleeve rather than being limited to the small form factor slots, so this would make a cell phone easier to incorporate. The darned thing even has voice recognition technology, though it doesn't seem to be integrated with the phone technology, so you can't ask it to dial the phone via a voice command... yet.

It's possible. IBM has been doing it for some time with the Power4+ chip, as seen here. It's a form of Multi-Chip Module. You can see a picture of one here.

Need more horsepower... the Opteron 4-way boxes (HP 4-way), crush the Intel Xeon's (as do the two ways) in most web and DB benchmarks. Oh yeah, they are usually priced comparably or cheaper than the Intels as well.

And this is where your fud blows up in your face. For the base price of a MS OS (98+) you get an online KB for free, windows update for free, support from hundreds of vendors and there KB's for free. What do you get from Red Hat, a single point of contact for support or RTFM from people in the community? If I were to purchase a desktop OS purely on the idea of support MS products would be top of my list due to the fact they actually might be around for awhile.

It was the IBM eServer BladeCenter

Hook up a storage network on each side, and you will, without that much problem be able to get that to/from disk. Ever done some math on clustered raid? Just get enough disk servers on a fast enough, dedicated network. Then have a look at weird file systems. IBM GPFS anyone? Has been run at several GB/s already.

I introduce this document as reference.

According to this, a PowerPC 970FX (the G5's being used in Apple's Xserves and the chip that will be in Apple's desktops this year) uses ~24.5W at 2.0ghz. So two of these are still only using half the wattage of a single Prescott chip, and obviously they can perform, too.

So yes, many of the chips he mentioned are not performance oriented, but the PowerPC 970FX certainly is, and it's safe to say it has made huge headway in power efficiency.

On Solaris, if you're using Sun's compiler/debugger, load up your program in dbx and before you enter the 'check -all' command, then run your program just like before.

Also on Solaris, you can use the "watchmalloc" library: set the LD_PRELOAD (or LD_PRELOAD_32/LD_PRELOAD_64) envval to "libwatchmalloc.so" and see what happens (see the man page for watchmalloc for details.

Failing that, as most of us do, the next best practice is to program defensively: anticipate where problems might occur in your code and include assertion checking and logging (yes, print statements) to illuminate those problem spots. Generally, I include debugging flags on the command line that allow me to control the level of assertion checking and logging (0=no logging, except for errors (the default), 1=log all branches, 2=log branches and variable values, 4=log everything).

This defensive debugging strategy works quite well. First, it forces the programmer to think harder about both the algorithms they are using, and their implementation. I catch about a quarter of my programming errors just in the process of adding assertions. Second, the program will tend to abort as soon as a problem is detected, rather than running on for a couple billion instructions, dumping crap into the output file or database and then either aborting mysteriously on some marginally related condition, or, worse, completing without any reported errors! Finally, when errors are detected, the debugging can usually be done simply by inspecting the soure and following actual execution from the log file.

All debugging comes down to one, fairly simple, idea: show me the program status at crucial points in the flow of control (generally at every branch and return). A few other tools are of some use under special circumstances: Purify, Electric Fence or Valgrind for detecting problems with dynamically allocated memory, or something like ddd for examining linked structures (though I prefer to just write a validation function for my data structures, see my AVL-tree code for an example). Defensive programming works because it answers the important question that usually forces you into using the debugger: what the hell just happened?!? Defensive programming gives you a way to examine program states without invoking an outside tool.

The only class of bugs that doesn't succumb well to this approach is race conditions. Unfortunately, anything that changes the timing of the program (such as stepping instruction-by-instruction in a debugger, or writting log messages out to a disk file) will change the behavior of the race condition. I'd be really interested in tools or techniques that could address this class of bugs.

The IBM Toronto Lab employs nearly 10% of the total worldwide IBM software developer population. Considering how small Canada's population is, this means that the average Canadian developer is more valuable than the average American developer.

Perhaps you are used to poor quality, heavy laptops.
From IBM's ThinkPad Page you can see the weights of each of their series of laptops. The T Series (IBM's thin and light full featured laptop) weighs in at 4.5 lbs. Their R Series is 5.6 lbs, and their desktop replacement G Series is only 7.7 lbs. So, I think that 6.5 lbs (44% heavier than the T Series) does not count as light. And yes, these IBM weights are with battery.

That would be Advanced Interactive eXecutive link

If you're going to expand a TLA (Three Letter Acronym), at least get it right

But not zero. And the commercial support is two-fold:

• development of the Apache code base,
• installation, customization and maintenance for users.

Sure, customers love high performing, reliable, more secure software such as Apache. And, if they have someone with some expertise with a few hours to spare once in a while, then they can maintain their own web sites cost effectively without ever cutting a check to anyone outside the company. And the effort required to support Apache may be lower than the competition in many situations. But it's still not zero. While the company can download and run Apache without ever contributing any code tot he project, code still had to be written and still needs to be maintained.

The Apache Foundation includes members of several commercial concerns. That commercial support of the open source project has probably helped immeasureably in making Apache better.

Also, for businesses and other users that would like to contract out Apache support there are vendors (eg, Covalent, IBM, HP, Red Hat, Novell/SuSE, ...) that will provide it.

Linux does (can) do this: see tmpfs.

This is NOT excellent. It is a TRUSTED COMPUTING system.

If you check IBM's Tivoli whitepaper, the top page states right off the bat that it is an "identity management system". Page 7 states that is is based on "tamper-resistant, non-bypassable trusted computing bases (TCBs)".

If we look at Cisco's BUSINESS READY DATA CENTER Security Overview and head down to the Trust and Identity Management section we see Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) ... relegates noncompliant and potentially vulnerable systems to environments with limited or no network access. Noncompliant endpoints can be denied access, placed in quarantine, or given restricted access. The main NAC page explains that NAC only permits connections to "compliant and trusted endpoint devices". Trusted Computing devices running approved software.

Cisco's Business Ready Data Center Initiative press release says:
Cisco is collaborating with industry-leading technology, system integration and support partners including EDS, HP, IBM, Intel and Microsoft, to enable integrated solutions to be offered to joint customers. Collaboration efforts will include sharing of best practices, alignment of architectures

Alignment of architectures - that would be the new Trusted Computing architecture.

And they are working with EDS, HP, IBM, Intel and Microsoft. HP, IBM, Intel and Microsoft were four of the five Trusted Computing Group's founding members. But who the hell is EDS? Why they have been selected To Operate Root Key Certificate Authority for Trusted Computing. That's a press release from Wave Systems, another member of the Trusted Computing Group. Teir EMBASSY system was the Trusted Computing system before it was named Trusted Computing.

The initial Trusted Computing deployment will look like a GoodThing. Its security features will be used for the benefit of companies deploying it, and there is no infrastructure in place yet to abuse the system. But fundamentally Trusted Computing is designed to be secure against the owner. Once a signifigant number of desktop computers include Trust chips that anti-owner "security" is going to turn into a nightmare. If you computer is not "compliant and trusted" and running approved software then these Business Ready Data Centers may deny you access. Websites will start refusing you access. New software will refuse to instal. And in about 4 or 5 years, ISPs may start installing Cisco's Network Admission Control routers. At that point you will be denied internet access unless you have a "compliant and trusted" system. Then Trusted Computing is no longer "optional". You can't switch it off and opt out. Then you no longer own your computer.

Oh, and if anyone doubts that ISPs would ever instal such routers that deny you internet access, may I point you to another slashdot story Cisco Working to Block Viruses at the Router. Even Slashdot missed the story that these are Trusted Computing routers. They are being pitched as a GODD THING. They don't actually block virues. What they do is make sure you have a Trusted Computer, then they can use the Trust system to ensure that you are running (or not running) any software they want to require you to run (or that they forbid you to run). In particular they could check that you operating system has the latest patches and that you are running an approved virus scanner, thus the claim that they fight viruses.

To top it off, Bush's cybersecurity advisor gave a speech at a computer convention where he called

From here:
"[M]y new machine wasn't very stable.
Obviously my first reaction was to go back down to 2x366Mhz. But now I experienced an even stranger problem. As long as my machine kept the CPUs chugging away, the machine didn't lock up. But if I left the machine idle overnight, there was a good probability that the system would lock up completely. Yes, an idle bug -- argh!"

And thus Gentoo was born: as a way to prevent idle bugs by keeping the CPU active 24/7!

Not necessarily. At some point, they're going to start using tamper resistant hardware. Good luck mod-chipping that. The only hole you can actually count on, is digital-to-analogue-to-digital conversion, to get data out of your "trusted" box and into an ordinary computer. That might be fine for ebook pirates, but it's going to be one hell of a PITA for daily life.

Rather than planning to spend tens or hundreds of hours on work-arounds when this happens, it would make sense to donate tens or hundreds of hours of your wages to the EFF or similar organisations which are working to prevent this problem from prevailing in the first place.

Why, write it in Assembler, of course!

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About Lunix
Lunix is an operating system. An operating system is the basic set of programs and utilities that make your computer run

Is that a valid complaint? What distro slaps a big sticker with "GPL INSIDE!!" on their covers? I just searched Suse's main product page. No mention of GPL there. You can find it on their Support page though, but it is obvious that the license is NOT a major selling point in Suse's eyes.

Why should Sun be any different?

On Redhat's page for RHEL Features and Benefits there is no mention of the GPL. Again, Redhat does not see fit to aggressively market the GPL.

Why should Sun be any different?

On IBM's Linux page, again, no overt mention of the GPL.

Why should Sun be any different?

As a side note, I'll say the IBM developerWorks articles on OpenSSH Key Management by Daniel Robbins (I don't know how much they paid him for these) are well-written and a useful introduction to any newbie wondering WTF is going on with ssh.

I'm hoping that the inspiring leadership of Daniel Robbins and his ability to get volunteers worldwide to work together on Gentoo will continue even if he isn't personally at the helm.