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Open Server Workstation on Sale Next Week

Thom Holwerda 2006-10-29 Morphos 38 Comments

Genesi has announced its Open Server Workstation: "The Open Server Workstation is a six layer board with two 970MP processors, the CPC945 and Broadcom's HT-1000 and 2000 chips. Excepting those parts, the board and component cost is below USD 200. Here is the Business Plan we wrote for the board."

AMD Intros ATI Vista Ready Chips

Thom Holwerda 2006-10-29 AMD 18 Comments

At an event in Mumbai, soon after the completion of the acquisition of ATI, AMD announced a line of latest Vista-ready ATI Radeon graphic processors. According to Chris Jones, corporate vice president - Windows Core OS Division, "Microsoft will deliver a series of graphics innovations with Windows Vista that provide a customer experience that is second to none. We could not have achieved this without our partnership with ATI. From day one, ATI has played a key role in helping us design and validate the new driver model at the heart of Windows Vista, and ATI has since developed robust and performant drivers that highlight the capabilities of our new operating system."

Ubuntu 6.10 Reviews

Submitted by Christian Pfeiffer Jensen 2006-10-29 Ubuntu 28 Comments

For you review freaks out there: "All the Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) reviews you can dream of. So far reviews from Linux.com, Arsgeek, Lunapark6, Element14, mo79online, sencer.de, Manufactured Enviroments, first impressions at Technical Itch and the Ubuntu forums and screenshot tours at TheCodingStudio and several blog entries."

Submitted by gonzo 2006-10-29 General Development 13 Comments

NetBeans 5.5 has been released. "NetBeans IDE 5.5 builds on the success of NetBeans 5.0 and adds support for Java EE 5 and Sun Java System Application Server PE 9. Got Web 2.0? Of course! NetBeans 5.5 generates JAX-WS 2.0 artifacts for Java SE 6 and Java EE 5 projects. We included Java Persistence support and support for Enterprise Java Beans 3. Additionally, there is the new Subversion support module and an updated module for the GUI builder, both available on the 5.5 Update Center." A new preview build of NetBeans 6 has also been released.

Report: OpenSUSE 10.2 Beta 1

Thom Holwerda 2006-10-29 SuSE, openSUSE 10 Comments

"As you know OpenSUSE released the first beta in the 10.2 dev cycle on the 26th and Tuxmachines has been checking it out in preparation for our report. This feature and version freeze release came with quite a few annoying bugs, but most didn't apply to my testing. I did encounter a coupla problems of my own and little or no new eye candy was found. But how did the system perform overall?"

Submitted by poohgee 2006-10-29 Red Hat 81 Comments

"Oracle's offer of free support for Red Hat Linux was designed to inflict maximum pain on Red Hat. So it did. One day after the announcement, Red Hat shares lost 24 percent of their value. After watching his stock take a tumble, Red Hat's CEO Matthew Szulik is in a bind. He has just absorbed the equivalent of a cyber-kick in the groin from a bigger, badder bully."

Submitted by falko 2006-10-29 Ubuntu 7 Comments

"This is a detailed description about how to set up a Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc."

Java EE Isolation Levels with the Spring Framework

Submitted by anonymous 2006-10-29 Java No Comments

The Spring framework allows you to design web and enterprise applications that use custom isolation levels in global transactions. This article shows you how you can use Spring to specify custom isolation levels in global transactions. The article walks you through the process in seven detailed steps.

DirectX 10 Preview

Eugenia Loli 2006-10-29 3D 53 Comments

"Microsoft's DirectX application programming interface (API) was first introduced in 1995. DirectX was designed to make life easier for software developers by providing a standard platform developers could use to easily make multimedia software and game programming for the Windows Platform." More here.

Fedora Core 6 (Zod) in Parallels

Eugenia Loli 2006-10-29 Fedora Core 2 Comments

"I got to install Fedora Core 6 twice yesterday, in very different contexts, and I'm so far rather pleased with the outcome of my stay in Zod-land. This, despite minor setbacks which were very much due to my requirements, and some not truly Fedora related." More here.

The Solaris UFS File System

Eugenia Loli 2006-10-29 Solaris 1 Comment

The UFS file system is the general-purpose, disk-based file system that is shipped with Solaris today and has been the default file system since early versions of SunOS 4.x. This sample chapter covers its history, architecture, and some basic administrative concepts.

The Future of CPUs: What’s After Multi-Core?

Eugenia Loli 2006-10-29 Hardware 18 Comments

As Moore's Law continues to hold, IC designers are finding that they have more and more silicon real estate to play with. David Chisnall hazards some guesses as to what they might do with it.

Dot-Com Bubble: Why It’s So Hard to Value Social Networking Sites

Eugenia Loli 2006-10-29 Internet 11 Comments

Less than three years after emerging from nowhere, the hot social networking website MySpace is on pace to be worth a whopping $15 billion in just three more years. Or is it? And is the much smaller Facebook really worth the $900 million or more Yahoo is reported to have offered for it? The problem, say Wharton experts, is a dearth of information -- including data on expected revenue generation and cost structure -- to plug into the standard valuation models.

.NET Internationalization: Using Custom Cultures

Eugenia Loli 2006-10-29 .NET No Comments

In this chapter, learn how to create, register/unregister, and deploy custom .NET cultures.

The Cell Phone Costs USD 1275 – In Love Yet?

Thom Holwerda 2006-10-28 Wireless 36 Comments

The Web has been rife with bogus rumors of an Apple cell phone since 2004, and each ridiculous 'leak' or faked 'photo' sets off a torrent of fruitless discussion, speculation and hysteria. What does that say about current cell phones? That they're claustrophobic and oppressively complex. That the world craves a phone that conveys, like Apple's iPod, a feeling of beauty, elegance and instantaneous mastery. This week, a cell phone matching that description has finally arrived - but it's not from Apple. Its design comes from Bang & Olufsen, maker of expensive, hyperstylish stereos and cordless phones, and its guts come from Samsung.

NASDAQ Gives Apple De-listing Reprieve

Thom Holwerda 2006-10-28 Apple 4 Comments

The NASDAQ stock exchange will not de-list Apple, as long as the company files its overdue quarterly report with the U.S. SEC, Apple said in another filing Friday. Apple - which had appealed NASDAQ's previous de-listing notice - said the exchange will allow its shares of stock to continue trading on condition that Apple files its tardy 10Q within two months. "On October 24, 2006, Apple received a written notification from the staff of The Nasdaq Stock Market stating that the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel has granted the Company's request for continued listing on The Nasdaq Stock Market, subject to the condition that the Company shall file its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 1, 2006, and any required restatements, by December 29, 2006," Apple said in Friday's SEC filing.

Submitted by Tyr. 2006-10-28 Windows 103 Comments

"Leading PC manufacturer Acer has accused Microsoft of ratcheting up the cost of Windows by effectively forcing consumers to opt for the Premium version of Vista. Acer claims that the Vista Home Basic - the new entry-level Windows - is so poorly featured that consumers will simply reject it. "The new experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel it at all," said Jim Wong, senior corporate vice president at Acer. "There's no graphics, no Media Center, no remote control."

Configuring the .NET Framework 2.0 Using IIS 6.0

Submitted by esther schindler 2006-10-28 .NET No Comments

"Most developers care about application performance. Even if speed isn't the most important attribute of their software, they certainly don't want the application to be slow. But streamlining code may seem too complex, and require skills that you don't have. Relax. While code optimization certainly is the best way to improve your application's performance, you may be overlooking another option: adjusting the settings on the .NET Framework."

Submitted by twickline 2006-10-28 Office 42 Comments

If you don't like the mandatory antipiracy checks that Microsoft now enforces for Windows, brace yourself. The Microsoft Office productivity and collaboration suite is about to get a similar program. The company's Office Genuine Advantage program will require mandatory validation of Office software starting October 27, the software vendor quietly disclosed today.

Hatch Python Eggs with Setuptools

Submitted by IdaAshley 2006-10-28 General Development No Comments

Setuptools framework, a side project of PEAK, provides easier package management and distribution than distutils. Setuptools lets you package your libraries in a single-file archive called an 'egg', similar to Java JAR file, but for Python. Like the Perl CPAN and Ruby Gems tools, the ez_setup tool bootstraps the rest of setuptools. The ez_install tool that comes with it does the same thing in conjunction with 'Cheeseshop' (PyPI).