IBM’s 320,000 Bloggers Coming Soon

IBM 19 Comments
IBM is planning to introduce what could be the largest corporate blogging initiative so far, in a bid to encourage its 320,000 staff to become more active in online tech communities. While other companies are frantically trying to prevent their employees from maintaining blogs, IBM seems to have realized the potential benefit that thousands of in-house bloggers could bring to promoting its products and services.
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MSN Desktop Search Toolbar out of Beta

  Submitted by Ryan Windows 26 Comments
Microsoft's desktop search toolbar has moved out of beta and is available for download. The competition for the desktop search market is heating up. Google and Yahoo already have a head start, but Microsoft has offering some interesting features. You can read the story here.
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Zeta R1 Screenshots

  Submitted by DaaT Zeta 45 Comments
ICO brings the new look at the upcoming Zeta R1 via new screenshots (pronounced "zeeta"). In them you can see the new Network preferences panel, Printer panel using CUPS and the Theme manager.
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OpenMosix 2.6 Patches Update

  Submitted by MrEcho Linux 10 Comments
Most of you might already know the cluster project OpenMosix. OpenMosix has been around for awhile now and has worked with many vendors to create a “patch” for the 2.4 Kernel tree. It also makes userland utilities for this cluster patch. But what a lot of people don't know is that they have started to work on a patch for the 2.6 Kernel tree. For a lot of users that now use the 2.6 Kernel this gives them the opportunity to run cluster at home or at work without having to buy very expensive equipment. There is one site that now makes it easy to patch your kernel now for the 2.6 Kernel tree. What would be nice is to see this in the main line tree, if anything in the 2.7 tree.
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Xgrid and Cross Platform Grid Computing

Internet 17 Comments
This paper will provide an overview of grid computing including its history, current development, terminology, and use. The scope of this project is geared towards the implementation of Apple's Xgrid technology in a university environment, or in a home environment for power users such as architects. Later in this paper we will implement an Xgrid, and will demonstrate its cross platform abilities, while exploring its revolutionary take on grid computing. Benchmarks of this grid will be done using light ray tracing software called Pov-Ray in combination with Architectural CAD software called Sketchup, and will produce a series of complex graphical scenes. Each computer on the grid will be responsible for rendering at least one scene, and rendering times will be recorded.
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BSD Binary updates

  Submitted by Andrea BSD & Darwin 29 Comments
BSD Updates provides online security and operating system upgrades for BSD systems in binary format. No messy source patches. No waiting for system rebuilds. Just an easy to navigate web interface which securely applies the latest patches in just minutes. Read More.
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OSes suffer serious security hole through CPUs

Privacy, Security 32 Comments
Colin Percival, a FreeBSD committer and security team member, has found a local exploit against the current implementation of Intel's Hyper-Threading Technology. "Hyper-Threading, as currently implemented on Intel Pentium Extreme Edition, Pentium 4, Mobile Pentium 4, and Xeon processors, suffers from a serious security flaw," Colin explains. "This flaw permits local information disclosure, including allowing an unprivileged user to steal an RSA private key being used on the same machine. Administrators of multi-user systems are strongly advised to take action to disable Hyper-Threading immediately."
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