This article describes how to integrate grid computing with Globus Toolkit software for a site using Sun N1 Grid Engine software (formerly Sun Grid Engine) as a local resource manager.
Learn how to deal with objects: creating them, reading their values and changing them, and calling their methods. Also learn how to cast objects from one class to another, cast to and from primitive data types and classes, and take advantage of automatic conversions through autoboxing and unboxing.
The European Commission has temporarily suspended an order requiring Microsoft to sell a version of Windows without media player software, just before it would have taken effect, a source familiar with the situation said Sunday.
Peter Johansson, a compsci student at the Chalmers University in Sweden has written an article about the differences of corporations and the Open Source community in today's software world.
MacRumors claims to have found some screenshots from the upcoming OSX Tiger showing some new features and the ability to "disable" the UI of the parent window if a focused/modal window is on top. They also include a PDF file with installation instructions, in which OSX requires a DVD drive to get installed. Please note that the MacRumors information is unconfirmed and not official by any means. Update: This is most probably fake, read the comments for more opinions on this.
"Based on Open Source Technology" is used by more than one proprietary software company as a marketing boast. Even Microsoft, everybody's favorite symbol of software proprietarism, now boasts about releasing software under an open source license. Obviously, the phrase "Open Source" is now considered a plus when trying to sell software. Will this lead to more open source contributions by companies trying to associate themselves with this "movement" or will it lead to the death of open source as we know it?
Sun has launched an all out offensive today against Red Hat Linux, putting Solaris x86 at the tip of its bayonet. "We are a big supporter of the open source movement and have been forever," said Larry Singer, SVP of global market strategies at Sun, in an interview. "We think Linux is a huge movement that is pretty good for the industry and that for some implementations Linux makes sense. We also think there are a lot of people that consider Red Hat for the wrong reasons."
Is a PowerPC G5 notebook at hand? An IBM chip designer details forthcoming power-saving PowerTune technology that will let the processor work in mobile and server platforms.
Gambas is a Visual Basic-like programming framework for Unix and Linux. It compiles to byte-code, and executes programs with an interpreter. Currently, Gambas GUI programs rely on the Qt toolkit, but GTK+ 2.x bindings are in the works, as seen in this Gnomefiles page.
Red Hat has begun selling new software for creating a communal storage system that spans many devices in a network--part of its effort to expand beyond its core operating system business.
Web surfers are no longer playing Russian roulette each time they visit a Web site, security researchers say, now that a far-reaching Internet attack has been disarmed.
"As someone who uses a Mac to do my daily work, I was pleasantly surprised by how far Windows has come when I sat down to compare the latest server OS software from Apple and Microsoft. My comparison focused on several common tasks, including adding users, managing services, and setting up Web and e-mail accounts and configurations. I used the latest server hardware from Apple, a very sexy-looking G5 Xserve rackmounted server, and compared it with an HP desktop running Microsoft's Windows Server 2003." Read the rest of the report here. Editor's Note: On second examination, this isn't a very good article, so don't bother unless you're bored.
