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Submission + - Ballmer repeats threats against Linux

Submitted by

ErrorBase

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @05:57AM

ErrorBase writes: "CNet Informs us about a Resent repeat of threats to linux users. More or less 'use SUsE or pony up to MicroSoft'. Will people actually fall for more FUD? MicroSoft must have scared itself silly by making deals with open-source purveyors and with that stepping past the third stage of Mohandas Gandhi's list."

Submission + - Why Microsoft always overrates itself?

Submitted by

M Alani

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @05:52AM

M Alani writes: "Microsoft earlier this month have announced a new certification exam; "Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Hosted Environments, Configuring and Managing". Nancy Phillips, chief operating officer and co-founder, ViaWest and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, said "As a participant in the development stages of the Windows Server 2003 Hosted Environments, Configuring and Managing certification, we are confident this certification will not only strengthen ViaWest customer offerings but strengthen the hosting industry as a whole." I think this is way overrating this certification. This certification might improve Microsoft's stand in the hosting market, as I have mentioned earlier, but I do not believe that its will strengthen the hosting industry. It is nice to be enthusiastic about what you do, but it is nicer to be realistic. The full article here: http://www.certificationist.com/content/view/66/43 /"

Submission + - Building and Running Debian User-Mode-Linux

Submitted by on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @05:06AM

An anonymous reader writes: Patrick McFarland, the famous Free Software Magazine author, has written a short guide on how to build a Debian User-Mode-Linux image from inside Debian, and also how to connect it to your LAN and the Internet securely. Now, all we need is a beowulf cluster of UML virtual machines.

Submission + - NTFS-3G Version 1.0 Released

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @04:28AM

An anonymous reader writes: NTFS-3G is a free open source NTFS read/write driver. It's already available for over 60 Linux distributions and systems like FreeBSD, BeOS, Haiku and Mac OS X, to big-endian and 64-bit computer architectures, and to new CPU's like AMD64, ARM and MIPS.

Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong 330

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @09:34PM from the mean-time dept.

modapi writes "Google's wasn't the best storage paper at FAST '07. Another, more provocative paper looking at real-world results from 100,000 disk drives got the 'Best Paper' award. Bianca Schroeder, of CMU's Parallel Data Lab, submitted Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you? The paper crushes a number of (what we now know to be) myths about disks such as vendor MTBF validity, 'consumer' vs. 'enterprise' drive reliability (spoiler: no difference), and RAID 5 assumptions. StorageMojo has a good summary of the paper's key points."

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