By Paul Thurrott, Windows for Professionals Wednesday, 13 November 2002
Microsoft has confirmed rumours that its next Windows release, code-named Longhorn, will be a desktop OS only, and not a synchronized release including both desktop and server versions as originally planned. advertisement
Likewise, the Windows release following Longhorn, code-named Blackcomb, will be server-only. While the company has not announced an official release date for Longhorn, the time table for its release hasn't changed, Microsoft said. This means Longhorn will arrive in 2004 or 2005, depending on which Microsoft official you believe.
"Customer requirements dictate our release strategies and timing for Windows products," a Microsoft spokesperson said.
"Customers have asked that we map our server releases more closely to how they can consume and implement advances and innovations we deliver. Given the deployment cycles and budgeting that customers work through, and given the significant customer interest in our upcoming release of Windows.NET Server 2003, we have determined that another major release of Windows Server in the Longhorn client timeframe does not meet the needs of most of our customers.
âoeAnother major release of Windows Server will follow Windows.NET Server 2003; it is code named Blackcomb. We do not have a firm release date at this time, [but] Microsoft will determine a release timeframe based on what customers tell us they require."
Though details are still unclear, Longhorn will include a new 3D-based user interface with interactive video, a SQL Server-based file system called Windows Future Storage (WinFS), and a MSN 8-like Start Menu addition called the Sidebar.
I remember back in my childhood (that would to early 80's) there was 2 similar devcies.
Some of the Tandy 1000 series has MS-DOS 3.3 placed in a ROM drive.
Shortly after that a company out in Californa test marketed a bootable ISA card that had Windows 3.1 and a small ramdrive. At the local Sears it was billed as being updatable to Windows 4.0 when it came out[Insert laughter here].
The device was unstable because it didn't use Flash memory. The RAM they did use ate power like you wouldn't believe. Thus the battery life was short and you would have to reinstall your personalized setting.
Here's a related nVidia story about a commercial studio using Linux and nVidia
NVIDIA Quadro4 Professional Graphics Selected as the Standard at Digital Domain
Award-Winning Production Studio Integrates NVIDIA Quadro4 XGL Solutions And NVIDIA Linux Drivers Throughout Its Production Pipeline
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 6/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced that its NVIDIA Quadro(R)4 graphics solutions and Linux drivers are now the standard at Digital Domain. One of the largest digital studios in the world, Digital Domain hosts an integrated production studio that includes divisions for feature film visual effects, commercial production, music videos, location-based entertainment and feature film development. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020613/NVDAL OGO ) "Like Digital Domain, we've founded our company with a mission to create world class visual imagery through the use of technology," said Dan Vivoli, vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. "To consistently produce great work, Digital Domain has to arm the best creative and technical teams with the best tools in the industry. NVIDIA provides them with the complete package -- graphics technology that exemplifies the standard of excellence Digital Domain embodies, and the level of technical and customer support they expect from a strategic technology partner." Digital Domain is transitioning all of its 2D and 3D production workstations to include NVIDIA Quadro4 XGL professional graphics solutions, NVIDIA's Unified Driver Architecture (UDA), and the Linux operating system. The company is also deploying NVIDIA Quadro4 graphics hardware and Linux software drivers in its software development, digital content creation studio and systems administration departments. NVIDIA's graphics solutions will be used to support every phase of commercial and feature film digital content creation-from the creation of 3D animation and effects to 2D compositing, painting and rotoscoping. In fact, NVIDIA Quadro4 graphics solutions are currently being applied to Digital Domain's visual effects work on two feature film projects, The Day After Tomorrow and Daredevil, as well as a multitude of commercials. In addition to standardizing on NVIDIA Quadro4 graphics solutions, Digital Domain and NVIDIA have completed extensive testing of Digital Domain's proprietary NUKE software on NVIDIA Quadro4 graphics hardware. NUKE is Digital Domain's Academy Award(R)-winning compositing software for the Microsoft(R) Windows(R), Linux and IRIX(R) operating systems, and it has been used on every feature film Digital Domain has worked on, including True Lies, Titanic and xXx. Digital Domain's new software subsidiary, D2 Software, Inc., will soon begin making NUKE commercially available, and when it does, the digital artist community can be assured that extensive testing has been done to ensure that it will operate flawlessly with NVIDIA Quadro4 professional graphics solutions. "What has distinguished NVIDIA most for us has been their customer service and their commitment to helping Digital Domain experience a smooth transition to Linux," said Michael Taylor, Vice President of the Digital Studio at Digital Domain. "We're also impressed with the quality of their Linux drivers and the level of cooperation we received to make sure that NUKE runs impeccably with their professional graphics hardware. We don't give praise lightly and we pick our technology partners with great care. NVIDIA has earned our business by providing outstanding graphics hardware, software and support that we can rely on."
About Digital Domain With its cutting-edge production pipeline, Digital Domain has established a world-class reputation for innovation and artistry, having received two Academy Awards(R) for What Dreams May Come and Titanic (the highest-grossing film in motion picture history), as well as two Technical Achievement Academy Awards(R) for proprietary software. Over the last nine years, the company's feature film division has produced visual effects for films that have generated over $4 billion dollars in worldwide box office receipts. In addition, the company's commercial division is widely considered the premiere visual effects studio in the advertising industry and has been awarded fourteen CLIO Awards, including a "Hall Of Fame" Award in 2001 for its Jeep Snow Covered spot. The company has also been honored with BAFTA Awards, numerous Gold Lions and a Grand Prix award from the Cannes International Advertising Festival, MTV Music Video Awards and a Grammy for Best Music Video.
About NVIDIA NVIDIA Corporation is a market leader in visual computing technology dedicated to creating products that enhance the interactive experience on consumer and professional computing platforms. Its graphics and communications processors have broad market reach and are incorporated into a wide variety of computing platforms, including consumer digital-media PCs, enterprise PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems, notebook PCs, military navigation systems and video games consoles. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and employs more than 1,400 people worldwide. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.nvidia.com.
Certain statements in this press release, including the statements relating to the Company's performance expectations for NVIDIA's family of products and expectations of continued revenue growth, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, manufacturing and other delays relating to new products, difficulties in the fabrication process and dependence of the Company on third-party manufacturers, general industry trends including cyclical trends in the PC and semiconductor industries, the impact of competitive products and pricing alternatives, market acceptance of the Company's new products, and the Company's dependence on third-party developers and publishers. Investors are advised to read the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly those sections entitled "Certain Business Risks," for a fuller discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties.
NOTE: All company and/or product names may be trade names, trademarks and/or registered trademarks of the respective owners with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability, and specifications are subject to change without notice.
GNU HURD is a slimmer re-write of the UNIX kernel that is completely OOP.
Here's a cut and paste from the homepage: The Hurd is not the most advanced kernel known to the planet (yet), but it does have a number of enticing features:
it's free software
Anybody can use, modify, and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). it's compatible
The Hurd provides a familiar programming and user environment. For all intents and purposes, the Hurd is a modern Unix-like kernel. The Hurd uses the GNU C Library, whose development closely tracks standards such as ANSI/ISO, BSD, POSIX, Single Unix, SVID, and X/Open. it's built to survive
Unlike other popular kernel software, the Hurd has an object-oriented structure that allows it to evolve without compromising its design. This structure will help the Hurd undergo major redesign and modifications without having to be entirely rewritten. it's scalable
The Hurd implementation is aggressively multithreaded so that it runs efficiently on both single processors and symmetric multiprocessors. The Hurd interfaces are designed to allow transparent network clusters (collectives), although this feature has not yet been implemented. it's extensible
The Hurd is an attractive platform for learning how to become a kernel hacker or for implementing new ideas in kernel technology. Every part of the system is designed to be modified and extended. it's stable
It is possible to develop and test new Hurd kernel components without rebooting the machine (not even accidentally). Running your own kernel components doesn't interfere with other users, and so no special system privileges are required. The mechanism for kernel extensions is secure by design: it is impossible to impose your changes upon other users unless they authorize them or you are the system administrator. it exists
The Hurd is real software that works Right Now. It is not a research project or a proposal. You don't have to wait at all before you can start using and developing it.
This is Push technology, so you could do any kind of push you do with channels now you can do with this. Here a couple of idea's I had:
Song Titles - How about ID tags so you can actually see the exact title of the song your listening to? You can keep a 10 song list like caller ID. You can see the last few songs you listened to. For advertisers you would keep one text line scrolling on the display.
Second Audio Channel - A secondary program at AM quality on an FM station. Kinda like how HDTV can have up to 6 lower quality channels.
Radio for the Death - Close Captioning of radio lyrics. 'Nuff said.
Emergency Broadcast Technolgy - Give both a readable text warning and GPS cordinates of pending danger.
Exact Station Date and Time - Isn't that what you really want half the time you turn on the radio anyway.
Weather and News Broadcasts - Get the local or national news in an instant.
Automatic Request line # - Never have to listen for those damn # to call while your driving.
Possible interactivity - Broadcast a survey to a cellphone, you log your answers, and then you transmit your results.
How about left channel English, right channel Japanesse.
Close captioning can take care of the subtitling.
Never happen, but it would be fun.
BTW: This is not an original idea. When X-Men the Animated Series(Fox's version, not WB's version) was first shown in Japan the did exactly that. Left channel in Japanesse, right channel in English, and close captioning for translations.
Overall: a massive win for Microsoft, who can restrict the release of its APIs to major commercial companies only.
So what bone do you think they will through us? What I mean is will they give some out-dated API set for IE integration and say that they are going over and above the antitrust agreement or what?
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It's a pity that Microsoft's Beth Goza, who we teased here last week, has taken down her weblog. Far from wanting to see it disappear, it ought be preserved in a time capsule.
But not only has Beth's blog gone underground - so has the parody which inspired our story. It's disappeared from no less than five mirror sites.
Even more extraordinary, a witch-hunt is on to find the perpetrator. One member of the PocketPC community says legal action is being threatened against the author, whose identity remains a mystery.
"The phrase 'it will soon be out of our hands' was used by one figure close to Beth," we're told.
It would be remarkable if Microsoft's expensive legal and public relations machinery were deployed in what is essentially a private matter.
And highly unlikely, too, as parodies are protected under the First Amendment.
Microsoft's approach to the press is singularly enlightened, when compared to say an Apple. The company takes barbs in good grace, and doesn't deploy feudal divide and rule tactics. It's never, to our knowledge, sued a journalist. Of course it has its favorite hacks, but in general the philosophy is - they're always going to be mean to us, they'll always be around: meanwhile, we have a message to convey, and stuff to sell.
Evil and elitist? So were we being evil and elitist, as some of you suggested?
As I replied to Jonathan at StretchingThoughts.com, it's onlyelitist if you think that blogs are folks' only form of expression.
The king of webloggers Jorn Borger - he was the first to use the term and it's still the best - used to use a quote by Tolstoy in his Usenet sig:- "In human stupidity, when it is not malicious, there is something very touching, even beautiful... There always is." And there is something bewitching about Beth's ruminations such as " just for the record i like it when my foods touch" a line worth of Ralph Wiggum.
No, what's strange is when an attack on one blogger is perceived as an attack on blogging in general. That implies that there can't possibly be a quality threshold in blogdom, and confirms John Dvorak's worst fearsabout groupthink. This is an unnecessarily defensive reaction and quite wrong. If blogs are writing, there's good and bad writing.
Of course, John was being satirical, and he wasn't decrying blogdom: only the mentality that blogging is in of itself revolutionary and no criticism can be voiced, and no quality threshold can be drawn; that we must not differentiate between good and bad, because it's all somehow equally valid.
The parody itself was pretty mean and spiteful. But it's a parody. We hope that groupthink doesn't extinguish parodies, as they help us see that the Emperor has no clothes.
Please let us know if you've been contacted in relation to this investigation. And in the meantime, enjoy some other fine online journals by Microsoft staff:- which might be low on cheap laughs, but high on content:- min jeschwad, Inkblog, and more highlighted in this Kuro5hin thread.®
We usually try to avoid "Site X Hacked!" stories, but since this affects so many people - and, heh-heh, they don't have anywhere else to talk about it - here you go.
IBM has chosen the open source Linux operating system to run on one of its largest, most powerful supercomputing projects, dubbed "Blue Gene."
The petaflop computer, which can calculate 1 quadrillion operations per second, is 100 times more powerful than the fastest computers available, according to IBM.
ZDNet UK Linux will power IBM supercomputer project The upcoming family of 'Blue Gene' supercomputers will run on an extended form of Linux, a major endorsement for the open source operating system
Linux will be the main operating system for IBM's upcoming family of "Blue Gene" supercomputers -- a major endorsement for the operating system and the open-source computing model it represents.
OS Opinion IBM Chooses Linux for 'Blue Gene' Supercomputer Another supercomputer in the same family, Blue Gene/L, is also set to run Linux. IBM has said Blue Gene/L will be at least 15 times faster than today's fastest supercomputers. See Complete Story
The Blue Gene project, first announced in late 1999, was designed to model the folding of human proteins, allowing researchers to better understand diseases and their cures. At the time, IBM said Blue Gene would be 1,000 times more powerful than "Deep Blue," the computer that beat chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.
Here's the Yahoo article after the Fish did it's work and I use my limited German skills to clean it up:
Wednesday 23 October 2002, 18:59 o'clock
The USA on the Index For Press Freedom ranks only at 17th place(AFP). The United States stand at 17th place on a world-wide index by the journalist organization "Reporter Without Borders" for the attention of the press freedom only. "Serious restrictions of the press" were registered however on each continent, communicated the protection of interests on Wednesday in Berlin. Under the 20 countries that have the "worst offences" also include the European countries Russia and White Russia are beside African, Asiatic and Latin American states. As a worst European country candidate on the list is Italy and landed at the rank of 40. Germany fares with severe rank quite well. [European Union Beitrittsaspirant] Turkey occupies according to the data in the 99th Place.
Sharp is showing off an LCD with a built-in CPU, and plans to use it in a new breed of mobile display devices by 2005.
Sharp and its partner Semiconductor Energy Laboratory unveiled Tuesday what the companies claim to be a world-first prototype of an LCD with an 8-bit CPU on its glass substrate.
Japan's leading liquid crystal display maker Sharp Corp said yesterday it had made an "epoch-making" step toward making ultra-flat "sheet computers" after it succeeded in running a computer on a tiny piece of glass.
The prototype it unveiled was a functioning tiny circuit board - from a Sharp central processing unit (CPU) originally made in 1977 - imprinted on a piece of glass some 15 millimetres square and one millimetre thick.
Japan's leading liquid crystal display maker Sharp Corp. said on Tuesday it had made an "epoch-making" step toward making ultra-flat "sheet computers" after it succeeded in running a computer on a tiny piece of glass.
The prototype it unveiled was a functioning tiny circuit board - from a Sharp central processing unit (CPU) originally made in 1977 - imprinted on a piece of glass some 15 millimeters (0.6 inches) square and one millimeter thick.
Several international teams of astronomers have joined together to create a "virtual telescope" roughly the size of Earth and the most powerful in the world, researchers have announced.
The new array can detect features 3000 times smaller than the finest detail observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The virtual telescope was created earlier this year by linking signals from radio telescopes on several continents. Scientists have subsequently found radio signals from galaxies over three billion light years away.
AP has a story published Oct. 21st about how local station(already has a huge market share) can now broadcast digital radio. Why buy a subscription for a satellite radio signal instead of catching a free local stream?
Another thing, most people listen to the radio for local weather and traffic conditions. Satellite radio doesn't supple that need.
Here's the AP story: Digital Radio May Give Shot In Arm To AM, FM Some Stations Will Broadcast With CD-Quality Sound
A few months from now you'll be able to hear AM and FM broadcasts like you've never heard them before.
Some stations will broadcast digital signals with CD-quality sound.
Dennis Wharton with the industry trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters, said stations are already buying the equipment needed to transmit these signals.
He said it'll mean local radio won't become a second-class communications service. Wharton said digital radio will allow stations to compete on an equal footing with cable and satellite-delivered radio services.
In order to hear digital AM and FM broadcasts, you'll need a special radio. But you'll still be able to hear analog broadcasts on the radios you have now.
Someone posted a Japanese article that the fish translated. The first generation applications will be for displays like PDA, watches, and portable TV's that will utilize a proprietary 8-bit processor. 8-bit is not exactly a processing giant. Lower processor power, lower heat output.
Slashdot Mirror
Um, they could be running in clusters.
How does Film Gimp compare the other big open source video editor Virtual Dub?
Microsoft puts Longhorn on the desktop, Blackcomb on the server
.NET Server 2003, we have determined that another major release of Windows Server in the Longhorn client timeframe does not meet the needs of most of our customers.
.NET Server 2003; it is code named Blackcomb. We do not have a firm release date at this time, [but] Microsoft will determine a release timeframe based on what customers tell us they require."
By Paul Thurrott, Windows for Professionals
Wednesday, 13 November 2002
Microsoft has confirmed rumours that its next Windows release, code-named Longhorn, will be a desktop OS only, and not a synchronized release including both desktop and server versions as originally planned.
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Likewise, the Windows release following Longhorn, code-named Blackcomb, will be server-only. While the company has not announced an official release date for Longhorn, the time table for its release hasn't changed, Microsoft said. This means Longhorn will arrive in 2004 or 2005, depending on which Microsoft official you believe.
"Customer requirements dictate our release strategies and timing for Windows products," a Microsoft spokesperson said.
"Customers have asked that we map our server releases more closely to how they can consume and implement advances and innovations we deliver. Given the deployment cycles and budgeting that customers work through, and given the significant customer interest in our upcoming release of Windows
âoeAnother major release of Windows Server will follow Windows
Though details are still unclear, Longhorn will include a new 3D-based user interface with interactive video, a SQL Server-based file system called Windows Future Storage (WinFS), and a MSN 8-like Start Menu addition called the Sidebar.
Dude, why ya posting to a topic that has been dead for like a week? Are you a karma hog or what?
I wouldn't have know about your post unless I was monitoring this article.
I tried to go there with latest nightly build of Mozilla and got this lovely message:
'* You need Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher - Upgrade Now'
Food for thought.
I remember back in my childhood (that would to early 80's) there was 2 similar devcies.
Some of the Tandy 1000 series has MS-DOS 3.3 placed in a ROM drive.
Shortly after that a company out in Californa test marketed a bootable ISA card that had Windows 3.1 and a small ramdrive. At the local Sears it was billed as being updatable to Windows 4.0 when it came out[Insert laughter here].
The device was unstable because it didn't use Flash memory. The RAM they did use ate power like you wouldn't believe. Thus the battery life was short and you would have to reinstall your personalized setting.
Here's a related nVidia story about a commercial studio using Linux and nVidia
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced that its NVIDIA Quadro(R)4 graphics solutions and Linux drivers are now the standard at Digital Domain. One of the largest digital studios in the world, Digital Domain hosts an integrated production studio that includes divisions for feature film visual effects, commercial production, music videos, location-based entertainment and feature film development. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020613/NVDAL OGO ) "Like Digital Domain, we've founded our company with a mission to create world class visual imagery through the use of technology," said Dan Vivoli, vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. "To consistently produce great work, Digital Domain has to arm the best creative and technical teams with the best tools in the industry. NVIDIA provides them with the complete package -- graphics technology that exemplifies the standard of excellence Digital Domain embodies, and the level of technical and customer support they expect from a strategic technology partner." Digital Domain is transitioning all of its 2D and 3D production workstations to include NVIDIA Quadro4 XGL professional graphics solutions, NVIDIA's Unified Driver Architecture (UDA), and the Linux operating system. The company is also deploying NVIDIA Quadro4 graphics hardware and Linux software drivers in its software development, digital content creation studio and systems administration departments. NVIDIA's graphics solutions will be used to support every phase of commercial and feature film digital content creation-from the creation of 3D animation and effects to 2D compositing, painting and rotoscoping. In fact, NVIDIA Quadro4 graphics solutions are currently being applied to Digital Domain's visual effects work on two feature film projects, The Day After Tomorrow and Daredevil, as well as a multitude of commercials. In addition to standardizing on NVIDIA Quadro4 graphics solutions, Digital Domain and NVIDIA have completed extensive testing of Digital Domain's proprietary NUKE software on NVIDIA Quadro4 graphics hardware. NUKE is Digital Domain's Academy Award(R)-winning compositing software for the Microsoft(R) Windows(R), Linux and IRIX(R) operating systems, and it has been used on every feature film Digital Domain has worked on, including True Lies, Titanic and xXx. Digital Domain's new software subsidiary, D2 Software, Inc., will soon begin making NUKE commercially available, and when it does, the digital artist community can be assured that extensive testing has been done to ensure that it will operate flawlessly with NVIDIA Quadro4 professional graphics solutions. "What has distinguished NVIDIA most for us has been their customer service and their commitment to helping Digital Domain experience a smooth transition to Linux," said Michael Taylor, Vice President of the Digital Studio at Digital Domain. "We're also impressed with the quality of their Linux drivers and the level of cooperation we received to make sure that NUKE runs impeccably with their professional graphics hardware. We don't give praise lightly and we pick our technology partners with great care. NVIDIA has earned our business by providing outstanding graphics hardware, software and support that we can rely on."
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NVIDIA Quadro4 Professional Graphics Selected as the Standard at Digital Domain
Award-Winning Production Studio Integrates NVIDIA Quadro4 XGL Solutions And NVIDIA Linux Drivers Throughout Its Production Pipeline
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 6
About Digital Domain With its cutting-edge production pipeline, Digital Domain has established a world-class reputation for innovation and artistry, having received two Academy Awards(R) for What Dreams May Come and Titanic (the highest-grossing film in motion picture history), as well as two Technical Achievement Academy Awards(R) for proprietary software. Over the last nine years, the company's feature film division has produced visual effects for films that have generated over $4 billion dollars in worldwide box office receipts. In addition, the company's commercial division is widely considered the premiere visual effects studio in the advertising industry and has been awarded fourteen CLIO Awards, including a "Hall Of Fame" Award in 2001 for its Jeep Snow Covered spot. The company has also been honored with BAFTA Awards, numerous Gold Lions and a Grand Prix award from the Cannes International Advertising Festival, MTV Music Video Awards and a Grammy for Best Music Video.
About NVIDIA NVIDIA Corporation is a market leader in visual computing technology dedicated to creating products that enhance the interactive experience on consumer and professional computing platforms. Its graphics and communications processors have broad market reach and are incorporated into a wide variety of computing platforms, including consumer digital-media PCs, enterprise PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems, notebook PCs, military navigation systems and video games consoles. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and employs more than 1,400 people worldwide. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.nvidia.com
Certain statements in this press release, including the statements relating to the Company's performance expectations for NVIDIA's family of products and expectations of continued revenue growth, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, manufacturing and other delays relating to new products, difficulties in the fabrication process and dependence of the Company on third-party manufacturers, general industry trends including cyclical trends in the PC and semiconductor industries, the impact of competitive products and pricing alternatives, market acceptance of the Company's new products, and the Company's dependence on third-party developers and publishers. Investors are advised to read the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly those sections entitled "Certain Business Risks," for a fuller discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties.
NOTE: All company and/or product names may be trade names, trademarks and/or registered trademarks of the respective owners with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability, and specifications are subject to change without notice.
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http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
GNU HURD is a slimmer re-write of the UNIX kernel that is completely OOP.
Here's a cut and paste from the homepage:
The Hurd is not the most advanced kernel known to the planet (yet), but it does have a number of enticing features:
it's free software
Anybody can use, modify, and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
it's compatible
The Hurd provides a familiar programming and user environment. For all intents and purposes, the Hurd is a modern Unix-like kernel. The Hurd uses the GNU C Library, whose development closely tracks standards such as ANSI/ISO, BSD, POSIX, Single Unix, SVID, and X/Open.
it's built to survive
Unlike other popular kernel software, the Hurd has an object-oriented structure that allows it to evolve without compromising its design. This structure will help the Hurd undergo major redesign and modifications without having to be entirely rewritten.
it's scalable
The Hurd implementation is aggressively multithreaded so that it runs efficiently on both single processors and symmetric multiprocessors. The Hurd interfaces are designed to allow transparent network clusters (collectives), although this feature has not yet been implemented.
it's extensible
The Hurd is an attractive platform for learning how to become a kernel hacker or for implementing new ideas in kernel technology. Every part of the system is designed to be modified and extended.
it's stable
It is possible to develop and test new Hurd kernel components without rebooting the machine (not even accidentally). Running your own kernel components doesn't interfere with other users, and so no special system privileges are required. The mechanism for kernel extensions is secure by design: it is impossible to impose your changes upon other users unless they authorize them or you are the system administrator.
it exists
The Hurd is real software that works Right Now. It is not a research project or a proposal. You don't have to wait at all before you can start using and developing it.
This is Push technology, so you could do any kind of push you do with channels now you can do with this. Here a couple of idea's I had:
Song Titles - How about ID tags so you can actually see the exact title of the song your listening to? You can keep a 10 song list like caller ID. You can see the last few songs you listened to. For advertisers you would keep one text line scrolling on the display.
Second Audio Channel - A secondary program at AM quality on an FM station. Kinda like how HDTV can have up to 6 lower quality channels.
Radio for the Death - Close Captioning of radio lyrics. 'Nuff said.
Emergency Broadcast Technolgy - Give both a readable text warning and GPS cordinates of pending danger.
Exact Station Date and Time - Isn't that what you really want half the time you turn on the radio anyway.
Weather and News Broadcasts - Get the local or national news in an instant.
Automatic Request line # - Never have to listen for those damn # to call while your driving.
Possible interactivity - Broadcast a survey to a cellphone, you log your answers, and then you transmit your results.
Two channels?
How about left channel English, right channel Japanesse.
Close captioning can take care of the subtitling.
Never happen, but it would be fun.
BTW: This is not an original idea. When X-Men the Animated Series(Fox's version, not WB's version) was first shown in Japan the did exactly that. Left channel in Japanesse, right channel in English, and close captioning for translations.
An interface that is completely independant from the underlying OS?
HTML? VRML? PDF? XML? JAVA?
These all seem to be what this guy is calling for.
Um, they're talking about Active DIRECTORY, not Active Desktop.
Totally different animal, until IE 7 comes out with Windows Longhorn.
I submitted this article Friday afternoon.
2002-11-01 20:48:41 First International Space Station turns 2 (articles,space) (rejected)
Overall: a massive win for Microsoft, who can restrict the release of its APIs to major commercial companies only.
So what bone do you think they will through us? What I mean is will they give some out-dated API set for IE integration and say that they are going over and above the antitrust agreement or what?
Thanks, I try my best, or worst as it were :)
It's Friday, laugh!
MS in blog parody takedownl
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/27774.htm
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
It's a pity that Microsoft's Beth Goza, who we teased here last week, has taken down her weblog. Far from wanting to see it disappear, it ought be preserved in a time capsule.
But not only has Beth's blog gone underground - so has the parody which inspired our story. It's disappeared from no less than five mirror sites.
Even more extraordinary, a witch-hunt is on to find the perpetrator. One member of the PocketPC community says legal action is being threatened against the author, whose identity remains a mystery.
"The phrase 'it will soon be out of our hands' was used by one figure close to Beth," we're told.
It would be remarkable if Microsoft's expensive legal and public relations machinery were deployed in what is essentially a private matter.
And highly unlikely, too, as parodies are protected under the First Amendment.
Microsoft's approach to the press is singularly enlightened, when compared to say an Apple. The company takes barbs in good grace, and doesn't deploy feudal divide and rule tactics. It's never, to our knowledge, sued a journalist. Of course it has its favorite hacks, but in general the philosophy is - they're always going to be mean to us, they'll always be around: meanwhile, we have a message to convey, and stuff to sell.
Evil and elitist?
So were we being evil and elitist, as some of you suggested?
As I replied to Jonathan at StretchingThoughts.com, it's onlyelitist if you think that blogs are folks' only form of expression.
The king of webloggers Jorn Borger - he was the first to use the term and it's still the best - used to use a quote by Tolstoy in his Usenet sig:- "In human stupidity, when it is not malicious, there is something very touching, even beautiful... There always is." And there is something bewitching about Beth's ruminations such as " just for the record i like it when my foods touch" a line worth of Ralph Wiggum.
No, what's strange is when an attack on one blogger is perceived as an attack on blogging in general. That implies that there can't possibly be a quality threshold in blogdom, and confirms John Dvorak's worst fearsabout groupthink. This is an unnecessarily defensive reaction and quite wrong. If blogs are writing, there's good and bad writing.
Of course, John was being satirical, and he wasn't decrying blogdom: only the mentality that blogging is in of itself revolutionary and no criticism can be voiced, and no quality threshold can be drawn; that we must not differentiate between good and bad, because it's all somehow equally valid.
The parody itself was pretty mean and spiteful. But it's a parody. We hope that groupthink doesn't extinguish parodies, as they help us see that the Emperor has no clothes.
Please let us know if you've been contacted in relation to this investigation. And in the meantime, enjoy some other fine online journals by Microsoft staff:- which might be low on cheap laughs, but high on content:- min jeschwad, Inkblog, and more highlighted in this Kuro5hin thread.®
We usually try to avoid "Site X Hacked!" stories, but since this affects so many people - and, heh-heh, they don't have anywhere else to talk about it - here you go.
Yeah, we can post them in our blo... nevermind.
Yahoo! News Version
IBM Chooses Linux for 'Blue Gene' Supercomputer
IBM has chosen the open source Linux operating system to run on one of its largest, most powerful supercomputing projects, dubbed "Blue Gene."
The petaflop computer, which can calculate 1 quadrillion operations per second, is 100 times more powerful than the fastest computers available, according to IBM.
ZDNet UK
Linux will power IBM supercomputer project
The upcoming family of 'Blue Gene' supercomputers will run on an extended form of Linux, a major endorsement for the open source operating system
Linux will be the main operating system for IBM's upcoming family of "Blue Gene" supercomputers -- a major endorsement for the operating system and the open-source computing model it represents.
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IBM Chooses Linux for 'Blue Gene' Supercomputer
Another supercomputer in the same family, Blue Gene/L, is also set to run Linux. IBM has said Blue Gene/L will be at least 15 times faster than today's fastest supercomputers.
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The Blue Gene project, first announced in late 1999, was designed to model the folding of human proteins, allowing researchers to better understand diseases and their cures. At the time, IBM said Blue Gene would be 1,000 times more powerful than "Deep Blue," the computer that beat chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.
Here's the Yahoo article after the Fish did it's work and I use my limited German skills to clean it up:
Wednesday 23 October 2002, 18:59 o'clock
The USA on the Index For Press Freedom ranks only at 17th place(AFP). The United States stand at 17th place on a world-wide index by the journalist organization "Reporter Without Borders" for the attention of the press freedom only. "Serious restrictions of the press" were registered however on each continent, communicated the protection of interests on Wednesday in Berlin. Under the 20 countries that have the "worst offences" also include the European countries Russia and White Russia are beside African, Asiatic and Latin American states. As a worst European country candidate on the list is Italy and landed at the rank of 40. Germany fares with severe rank quite well. [European Union Beitrittsaspirant] Turkey occupies according to the data in the 99th Place.
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http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,106247,
Sharp is showing off an LCD with a built-in CPU, and plans to use it in a new breed of mobile display devices by 2005.
Sharp and its partner Semiconductor Energy Laboratory unveiled Tuesday what the companies claim to be a world-first prototype of an LCD with an 8-bit CPU on its glass substrate.
Sharp runs computer on piece of glass
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/22/1034561
Japan's leading liquid crystal display maker Sharp Corp said yesterday it had made an "epoch-making" step toward making ultra-flat "sheet computers" after it succeeded in running a computer on a tiny piece of glass.
The prototype it unveiled was a functioning tiny circuit board - from a Sharp central processing unit (CPU) originally made in 1977 - imprinted on a piece of glass some 15 millimetres square and one millimetre thick.
Running a PC on a piece of glass
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/178311.htm
Japan's leading liquid crystal display maker Sharp Corp. said on Tuesday it had made an "epoch-making" step toward making ultra-flat "sheet computers" after it succeeded in running a computer on a tiny piece of glass.
The prototype it unveiled was a functioning tiny circuit board - from a Sharp central processing unit (CPU) originally made in 1977 - imprinted on a piece of glass some 15 millimeters (0.6 inches) square and one millimeter thick.
Screw virtual super computers. Make the equivalant of a beowolf cluster of telescopes!
'Virtual telescope' is world's best
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/167248.htm
Several international teams of astronomers have joined together to create a "virtual telescope" roughly the size of Earth and the most powerful in the world, researchers have announced.
The new array can detect features 3000 times smaller than the finest detail observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The virtual telescope was created earlier this year by linking signals from radio telescopes on several continents. Scientists have subsequently found radio signals from galaxies over three billion light years away.
AP has a story published Oct. 21st about how local station(already has a huge market share) can now broadcast digital radio. Why buy a subscription for a satellite radio signal instead of catching a free local stream?
Another thing, most people listen to the radio for local weather and traffic conditions. Satellite radio doesn't supple that need.
Here's the AP story:
Digital Radio May Give Shot In Arm To AM, FM
Some Stations Will Broadcast With CD-Quality Sound
A few months from now you'll be able to hear AM and FM broadcasts like you've never heard them before.
Some stations will broadcast digital signals with CD-quality sound.
Dennis Wharton with the industry trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters, said stations are already buying the equipment needed to transmit these signals.
He said it'll mean local radio won't become a second-class communications service. Wharton said digital radio will allow stations to compete on an equal footing with cable and satellite-delivered radio services.
In order to hear digital AM and FM broadcasts, you'll need a special radio. But you'll still be able to hear analog broadcasts on the radios you have now.
Someone posted a Japanese article that the fish translated. The first generation applications will be for displays like PDA, watches, and portable TV's that will utilize a proprietary 8-bit processor. 8-bit is not exactly a processing giant. Lower processor power, lower heat output.
People who use glass computer shouldn't throw stones.
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Sorry, just had to day it
Okay, we have 1.