Institutional stock holder/Hedge Fund Elliot Associates wants to buy Novell and take it private. Sean Michael Kerner thinks this is a good idea, and a good deal for Novell.
<b>LWN.net:</b> "Color management is sometimes unfairly characterized as a topic of interest only to print shops and video editors, but as Cruz explained at the top of his talk, anyone who shares digital content wants it to look correct, and everyone who uses more than one device knows how tricky that can be."
Windows 7 brings a new level of maturity to Windows Search, and by taking advantage of new MFC functionality first publicly unveiled with the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2010, writing a Search filter handler for a MFC application can be easily accomplished.
<b>Thoughts on Technology:</b> "All I have to say is: Man was I blown away. What proceeded to run on my computer was quite possibly the most seamless non-distro specific package installation I have ever experienced."
<b>Technology & Life Integration:</b> "Nevertheless there are a great many windows programs which run quite well, sometimes better, using the WINE developed libraries. Yet I sometimes wonder if it is too little too late."
<b>Christofoo Review: </b>"Right now, Lenny (5.0) is the stable release, and Squeeze (6.0) is in testing. Sometime "soon" Squeeze will get frozen, which means the regular flow of package migration will stop, and from then on it will only get bug and security fixes through a method of back-porting."
MySQL Replication can be made quite reliable and robust if the right tools are used to keep it running smoothly--but what if enormous loads on the primary server are overloading the slave server. Are there ways to speed up performance, so the slave can keep up?
With more and more computers using a multi-core processor, the free lunch of increased clock speeds and the inherent performance gains are over. Software developers must instead make sure their applications take use of all the cores available in an efficient manner. New features in .NET 4.0 mean that managed code developers too can join the party.
<b>Linux.com:</b> "Qi Hardware is now shipping its first "copyleft hardware" device, the ultra-portable Ben NanoNote. The palm-sized notebook is designed to be a hackable hardware platform for Linux developers, akin to what the Arduino board is for electronics projects."
<b>Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris:</b> "Schema bellow modifying content of mentioned src.rpm allows to build set of RPMS upgrading Xen Hypersor 4.0 matching current tip CS of http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg,"
<b>Network Worldh:</b> "The Linux KVM hypervisor is gaining steam in the cloud computing market, with two major vendors using the virtualization software to create cloud platforms to compete against Amazon's popular EC2 service."
<b>Silicon Alley Insider: </b>"The following series of stories detail some of what happened in 2003 and 2004 after then Harvard-sophomore Mark Zuckerberg launched a site called theFacebook.com."
<b>Michael Geist:</b> "It is nearly two years since C-61 was introduced and nearly a year since the national copyright consultation, yet discouragingly some things have not changed."
<b>Phoronix:</b> "VIA had joined the open-source driver bandwagon after having abandoned previous open-source attempts. However, for the past two years, this has largely been a media bluff."
<b>The-Source.com:</b> "If Microsoft warms up to open source, why not share some plaudits? And even when it gets things wrong, surely it’s better to politely critique rather than spew invectives?"
Cloud computing can help optimize a company's capital investments by reducing its costs for hardware, software and real estate, resulting in a much lower total cost of ownership and, ultimately, a whole new way of looking at the economics of operational IT.
Storage and IT professionals have a lot more to worry about than just the economy. Automation and the demand for broader IT experience are other issues threatening job security.
Cloud is here, it's real and it's rapidly maturing to the point where the benefits are starting to appeal to those looking to solve enterprise risk and economic issues.
Cloud is here, it's real and it's rapidly maturing to the point where the benefits are starting to appeal to those looking to solve enterprise risk and economic issues.
Unsolicited e-mails most often target executives responsible for foreign trade and defense policies pertaining to Asian countries, according to Symantec.
<b>Linux For You:</b> "Uptake of Fedora 12 has been very good overall. There have been a number of very visible improvements in free video drivers for ATI and Intel that make for a better experience out of the box. Those improvements allow users to make use of 3D effects on the desktop..."