The paper discusses various aspects of the waved water surface and underwater bottom video representation simulation and also expands on the math models and algorithms of the following related tasks: waved water surface simulation; calculation of reflected and refracted rays directions in 3-D space; underwater caustics (extra illuminated areas) forming; refractive distortion of the bottom view account; reflected skylight addition.

The Microsoft Corporation is in the process of developing the next major version of the C# language. This article contains information regarding four key new features, including generics, iterators, anonymous methods, and partial types.

Trusted Debian has released 1.0 of their distribution. Trusted Debian provides a Linux environment with features like RSBAC for access control and PaX to provide overflow checking. And a demonstration can be found here.

In the past year, Microsoft appears to have done just what it asked a court not to make it do: fragment Windows. Our Take: I believe that this article doesn't have all its facts right and it is just an overreaction. Windows currently has three big families (XP, Server and embedded -- code-wise makes sense to be different as they serve different purposes), but the sub-versions for these families are not all that different, hence there is no real fragmentation, but merely, customization (with compatibility tightly kept firm) in order to have different price ranges and attract more customers.

The YellowTAB guys are in Japan to present Zeta to the Japanese audience, so there are two videos in mpeg4 format to view.

The K42 group is developing a new high performance, open source, general-purpose operating system kernel for cache-coherent multiprocessors. They are targeting next generation servers ranging from small-scale multiprocessors that we expect will become ubiquitous, to very large-scale non-symmetric multiprocessors that are becoming increasingly important in both commercial and technical environments.

SuSE Linux A.G. has beaten enterprise competitor Red Hat Inc. to the draw and on Monday will announce the availability of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for AMD 64, the first enterprise-ready Linux server OS for the new AMD Opteron CPU to be launched at an event in New York Monday.

Steven Garrity, graphics designer at ActsofVolition writes: "I've been conducting a user interface experiment with myself as the subject. A long-time Windows user and armchair graphical user interface critic, I have spent a week working in Mac OS X. What follows is my review of the experience."

The introduction of Windows Server 2003 may well be a watershed for business computing, but uptake may be slow.

Conquest is a new filesystem which uses memory to store all metadata, small files (currently based on a size threshold), executables, and shared libraries, leaving only the content of large files on disk.

Deploying and developing your application on Linux for the IBM pSeries and iSeries POWER platforms is similar to deploying and developing on other Linux systems. In this article the similarities and differences that you need to be aware of for the Linux POWER systems are discussed.

FreeBSD's Robert Watson says that effective today, newfs(8) and sysinstall(8) will create UFS2 file systems by default, unless explicitly specified.

Week 6 of the 'Weekly Questions and Answers' sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology Officer Fleecy Moss is now live at AmigaWorld.net. Also Question 3 & 5 from Week 5 have now been updated.

This article examines the differences between the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (Solaris OE) Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client and the Solaris 9 OE Secured LDAP Client, and explains how to support them on the same directory server. In addition, this article details troubleshooting tips for common implementation problems.