IBM, AMD To Deepen Opteron Ties

  Submitted by Phil Wilbour AMD 4 Comments
IBM and AMD are expected to announce an alliance that will lead to mainstream IBM servers based on the Opteron processor. A deeper partnership between IBM and AMD could take several forms, ranging from joint technology development to work on mainstream dual-processor servers. It might even cover the creation of more-powerful multiprocessor machines that could rival IBM's current Intel-based 32-processor, the System x3950. Update: AMD also posted its quarterly results.
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Microsoft Meets Analysts’ Expectations, Plans Stock Buyback

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Microsoft on Thursday reported earnings that were just ahead of analysts' expectations, as the company announced a plan to buy back as much as an extra USD 40 billion worth of its stock. The software maker said it would buy back USD 20 billion through a tender offer set to be completed on Aug. 17. The company said that its board of directors has also authorized the company to buy back up to USD 20 billion worth of stock through June 2011. The company said it has completed the USD 30 billion stock buyback announced two years ago.
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Review: Alienware Aurora 7500

  Submitted by anonymous Hardware 17 Comments
XYZComputing reviews the Alienware Aurora 7500. They find that "Alienware delivered what they promised they would, an all-out gaming computer which would be perfect for computer building novices and experts alike. The system's build quality, component choices, and performance were all up to our expectations. While Alienware was able to build a great computer, it was an expensive acquisition. At over USD 3200 dollars, one would expect a very capable gaming computer with a lot of extras. The Aurora ended up not only being very quiet for a system at its performance level, but also one which was easy to work with and fun to use.
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Symantec Report: Vista Code Contains Security Loopholes

  Submitted by JCooper Privacy, Security 66 Comments
A new report from Symantec security researchers contends that Microsoft's much-awaited Vista operating system could harbor a range of vulnerabilities that will make it less secure than previous iterations of Windows. According to research published July 18 by Symantec, a number of Vista's software components, specifically a handful of protocols related to its redesigned networking technologies, could become security loopholes if Microsoft does not fix the problems or ensure that the product is configured appropriately to hide the glitches when it is shipped.
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New Fedora Test Lead Begins Work

  Submitted by lh8 Fedora Core 29 Comments
Will Woods, the new test lead for the Fedora Project, has only been in his position a few weeks, but already he has a clear goal in mind. Whenever Fedora is mentioned on Slashdot, he notes, "There's always someone who will comment that Fedora is just Red Hat's beta test for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It's not true, and I want no one to have cause to say that ever again."
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Intel Quad-Core Chips Arriving in 2006

  Submitted by anvil88 Intel 17 Comments
Intel quad-core server and desktop processors will arrive this year instead of next, Chief Executive Paul Otellini said Wednesday, firing a new competitive volley against rival AMD. "We notified customers we're pulling in both the desktop and server (launch) of the first quad-core processors into the fourth quarter of this year from the first half of 2007," Otellini said.
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Configure FTP Servers for IPv6

  Submitted by IdaAshley Internet 10 Comments
"The next-generation protocol, Internet Protocol version 6, is becoming widely accepted as the future of the Internet and networking world. This acceptance has encouraged various IT companies to develop applications that support and talk with each other through the IPv6 address format. In this article, learn to configure the File Transfer Protocol server for IPv6, and to communicate with FTP servers through a simple Java program that uses the IPv6 address."
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Apple Posts USD 472M Profit on Revenues of USD 4.37B

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Apple on Wednesday announced financial results for its fiscal 2006 third quarter ended July 1, 2006, posting revenue of USD 4.37 billion and a net quarterly profit of USD 472 million, or USD 0.54 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of USD 3.52 billion and a net profit of USD 320 million, or USD 0.37 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Apple shipped 1327000 Macintosh computers and 8111000 iPods during the quarter, representing 12 percent growth in Macs and 32 percent growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter.
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‘Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop Linux Champ’

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"Canonical's Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is an excellent Linux-based operating system - so excellent, in fact, that it not only earned eWEEK Labs' Analyst's Choice designation but has also become our clear favorite among Linux desktop distributions. This latest Ubuntu release, which became available in June, has won our ardor with a tight focus on desktop usability; an extremely active, helpful and organized user community; and a software installation and management framework that's unsurpassed on any OS platform."
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Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System

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Plan 9 is an operating system designed by the same people who created the original UNIX. Its development began in the late 1980's and it was a research project intended to address a variety of system scalability issues that the UNIX and LINUX kernels don't do particularly well, namely, distributed computing, distributed name spaces, and distributed file systems. Plan 9 is open source and its current and fourth major release was in 2002. It is available as an install or LiveCD and it can be downloaded here. Note: This is an entry to our Alternative OS Contest.
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Why Reiser4 Is Not in the Linux Kernel

  Submitted by misha Linux 39 Comments
'Why Reiser4 is not merged' is a widespread question around forums, Slashdot, OSNews, and wherever else Linux-related new appears on the web. The flame-wars on this topic have gotten to the 'mine is bigger than yours' level. Hence, it's not easy to see where the real problem lies. This document tries to make clear the 'official' point of view of Linux developers on this matter.
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Firefox 2 Beta 1, IE7 Beta 3, Opera 9 Compared

  Submitted by mikemuch Internet 29 Comments
"Right at this moment, big changes have or are about to occur in three well-known browsers: Internet Explorer is finally being updated, with version 7 in its third beta and almost ready to roll out the door; Firefox is also ripening an upgrade beta for its Version 2.0 - it's in beta 1; and finally Opera, which has a devoted but smaller following, has recently come out with Version 9.0. So, three new browsers in the same year, after no action for a half decade. How do they stack up?"
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E17 Quickstart Guide; Enlightenment 0.16.8.2 Released

  Submitted by falko Desktop environments 22 Comments
Enlightenment 0.16.8.2 has been released, and it includes some bugfixes and speed improvements. Remember that E16 is the 'old' Enlightenment; E17 is the new one, and there's a short article on HowtoForge explaining how to set it up: "Enlightenment 17 or E17 as it is generally called, is a cool Window Manager for X. The latest stable version of Enlightenment is E16 (0.16.8.2). In this article we will talk about the latest CVS build available (0.16.999.023)."
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Haskell Programming Equals Coding Without Side Effects

  Submitted by anonymous General Development 30 Comments
Object-oriented programming with imperative languages like C, C++ and Java has been the norm over the years. But some visionaries argue that other paradigms are more productive. In imperative languages, any method that can possibly return different values, given the same input, has side effects. This article explores the basics of functional programming using Haskell. You to can come to appreciate the raw productivity and power that a functional language can provide and how it eliminates programming side effects.
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AmigaOS 4.0 New Memory System Revisited

  Submitted by Raffaele Amiga & AROS 50 Comments
"In a previous item, we described how the AmigaOS4.0 memory system works in terms of managing memory allocations from the top. However, there is more to allocating memory than that. The object caches of course work on memory that has already been mapped into the virtual memory space. But both the virtual address ranges, as well as the physical memory has to come from a source, too."
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