Looking (Way) Ahead to Longhorn Server
There won't be just one Longhorn Server. Instead, there will be nearly a dozen customizable variants, partners say.
Monthly Archive:: November 2004
Interview with Vintela’s President
Have you partaken in the conspiracy theories about Microsoft's recent investment in Vintela, a Unix-Windows integration software company? Vintela's association with SCO, and Microsoft's apparent interest in keeping SCO's legal battle against IBM afloat in order to undermine Linux, certainly provide plenty of kindling to keep the home fires burning at conspiracy central. But let's try to get the story straight first. OSNews interviewed Vintela President Dave Wilson.
Python 2.4 Released
The python final release of Python 2.4 was just released. Python 2.4 is the result of almost 18 month's worth of work on top of Python 2.3. New features are, but not limited to, function decorators, generator expressions, a number of new module and more.
Linux goes Live on Gentoo CD release
The Linux distro is due to release a version of its operating system that can be run directly off a CD-ROM, so that people can try Gentoo without installing it.
GeexBox: linux powered multimedia
A quick look at the GeekBox Linux minimal disribution: 6 MB ISO to power your home-made dvd and divx player.
Old VMS Databases Never Die
Datamation ran an article about databases running on OpenVMS that never die or quit. These databases have uptimes longer than the existance of Linux and definitely longer that Microsoft product lifetimes. Here's the article.
NetBSD pkgsrc will freeze for preparation of stable branch
Alistair Crooks announced today that the NetBSD Packages Team will start a freeze on the pkgsrc tree in order to prepare for the release of the fourth stable branch, pkgsrc-2004Q4. The freeze will begin on December 6th
2004, and will last for a maximum of 2 weeks, during which the developers will bring down the PR count and fix problems shown by the bulk builds. Update: LiveCD/ISO instructions.
MikeB’s Guide for WinUAE: Updated
I have updated my guide for WinUAE at AmigaWorld. Check in for more info.
Setting Up an HP-UX CSE Serviceguard Cluster
Charles Keenan provides specific tasks for setting up a Serviceguard high availability cluster on HP-UX/Linux, including example commands to help illustrate key points.
Effective C#: Implement the Standard Dispose Pattern
Learn how to write your own resource-management code when you create types that contain resources other than memory, particularly for disposing of nonmemory resources.
C Data Types: An Understandable Guide for Beginners
This sample book chapter details the ways in which C programs deal with data, and how you mess with text and numeric data.
Regarding High Level Computing
The IT sector today is a complete mess. The end-users rarely understand this, but most insiders reach a point when they realize that things should be different. The problems are numerous but they all reduce to a basic principle. IT and consumer electronics companies are interested more about money than helping people solve their problems. Of course companies need to make a profit and nobody denies that. They should however make money by helping people and not by creating more problems for them.
Torvalds: GPL Needs Minor Work
The GNU General Public License, which is the most widely used free-software license and is used to license the open-source Linux kernel, is set for its first revision in 13 years. Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, last week weighed in on the upcoming challenges facing GPL Version 3.
MySQL prepares for version 5.0; PostgreSQL 8.0-b5 Available
Open source database vendor MySQL AB will release version 5.0 of its eponymous database management system in the first quarter of 2005, a year after it first went in to alpha testing. Also, after 4 weeks of work, involving a lot of bug fixes, and documentation improvements to the source tree, PostgreSQL.org have released the 5th Beta of 8.0.0.
Gnome 2.8 – what’s new and cool
Karl Fischer takes a walk through the latest version of Gnome, version 2.8 (screenshots), to illustrate a few of the best new features of this very popular desktop environment.
Sun, Microsoft to flesh out pact
Microsoft and Sun Microsystems on Wednesday plan to provide details about their six-month-old alliance for the first time.
Java Desktop for X
XDE guide for Visual Studio .NET developers
Web services and service-oriented architectures continue to move into the mainstream. With IBM Rational XDE Developer v2003 — .NET Edition and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 to support you, there really aren't any excuses left to avoid exploring Web services. Start using them quickly and effectively through hands-on exercises. You'll be happy to see how easy it is to model and generate .NET XML Web services.
The solution to many logins and passwords
Remembering all the logins and passwords to all the services and systems you've got access to is pretty hard to do nowadays. Many people use the same login and password for multiple sites and systems. That won't improve security. One of the IT buzzwords is SSO (Single Sign-on). Most SSO systems are hard to setup and will only provide SSO to the systems of one company. It is possible to easily provide worldwide single sing-on.
Gnumeric 1.4.0 Released; AbiWord 2.2.0 Almost Here
Gnumeric is intended to be a drop in replacement for proprietary spreadsheets. It imports your existing Excel, 1-2-3, Applix, Sylk, XBase Quattro Pro, Dif, Plan Perfect, and Oleo files among others. The latest version 1.4.0 brings some major new features including: