Comment: Two words (Score 1) 249
Panasonic Toughbook.
They have a range from "Business rugged" all the way through to various MILSPEC certified models. All made in Japan (really!) and built unlike most products today. Made to last.
Sockets on Steroids
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pieterh writes "LWN.net has an article on 0MQ, an open source messaging product that "extends the socket API, eliminating the learning curve and allowing a network programmer to master it in a couple of hours. The wire protocols are simplistic, even trivial. Performance matches and often exceeds that of raw sockets." Does it make sense to use BSD sockets as an API for low-latency messaging?"
Comment: What is the big deal with tethering in the US? (Score 1) 555
Could someone please explain to me what is the big deal with tethering in the US? I live in Europe, specifically in Slovakia, and here we have data plans as cheap as 6 EUR/month for an essentially unlimited (AFAIK technically 4GB/month FUP) amount of data. Mobile operators here couldn't care less about tethering and they certainly don't go out of their way to prevent it! I find it hard to understand why it's such a big deal in the states and why I keep seeing headlines about XYZ limited/disabled/outrageously expensive tethering.
In defense of software patents->
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pieterh writes "Patent advocates, large successful businesses, and politicians are so enthusiastic about the patenting of software that it's hard to accept arguments from people like the FFII who claim that the software industry simply does not need software patents and would be far better off without them. In this new article I explain why software patents are necessary, and in the sake of fairness I'll look at the other side of each argument. Here is the Defense of Software Patents. I report, you decide."
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Free software at the heart of the global business
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pieterh writes "In the past, free software may have had the reputation in the past of being weak, rough, or built by hackers for their own fun. Today's release of OpenAMQ, a messaging product we at iMatix have been working on for almost three years, and which has been in testing for eighteen solid months before this release, should shatter that myth forever. OpenAMQ — which we published under the GPL today — runs a global trading system at JPMorganChase bank, carrying 100M messages a day. It does clustering, comes with loads of tools and APIs, and implements AMQP, the new messaging protocol that promises to revolutionise the boring but essential business of getting applications to talk to each other. And it's only one of three interoperable free or open source AMQP projects."