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Ep0xi writes:
"There is a lack of true enterprise support for the Linux operating system which has slowed the adoption of Linux," he said.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/41536,gartner-urges- users-to-test-oracles-linux-support.aspx
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Ep0xi writes:
Instead, he said that the disruption "was triggered by a massive restart of our users' computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update," Arak wrote.
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tetrahedrassface writes:
According to Chron.com recent advances in the scientific world have pushed researchers to join philosphers and futurists in searching for what defines life. Some thinkers like futurist Ray Kurzweil believe that anything with feelings is alive while most scientists belieive that the answers will never be easily found. As technology marches forward and the rise of self replicating machines and artificial intelligence are further developed the questions may become even more complicated. Religious beliefs may become strained and the oft quoted "playing god" may become a reality. As genetic material and indeed completely novel fabricated life forms become the patented assets of corporations, machines gain the ability to replicate and computers evolve to think and possibly feel, the question may become even more important. From the article: '"We are doing things which were thought to be the province, in some quarters, of God _ like making new forms of life,". "Life is very powerful, and if we can get it to do what we want ... there are all kinds of good things that can be done. "Playing God is a good thing to do as long as you're doing it responsibly.
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Ep0xi writes:
The agreement announced today is an extension of IBM's existing support for the Solaris OS on select IBM BladeCenter servers, and exemplifies IBM's commitment to offering clients the widest choice of operating systems available in the industry, as well as Sun's commitment to offer customers a wider choice of systems for the Solaris platform. IBM and Sun's support of interoperability via open standards also means that customers will be able to extend their infrastructure by connecting new platforms easily, while preserving their initial investments.
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-08/sunflash.20 070816.1.xml
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Ep0xi writes:
Amnesty International researchers, recently returned from Nigeria, have expressed shock at the prison conditions they witnessed and the protracted delays in Nigeria's justice system.
"The circumstances under which the Nigerian government locks up its inmates are appalling. Many inmates are left for years awaiting trial in filthy overcrowded cells with children and adults often held together," said Aster van Kregten, Nigeria researcher for Amnesty International. "Some prisoners are called 'forgotten inmates' as they never go to court and nobody knows how much longer their detention will last, simply because their case files are lost."
http://allafrica.com/stories/200708150367.html
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devonbowen writes:
I'm doing the IT specifications for a project that's being outsourced. The goal is to completely rewrite some software that already exists in-house so that it follows some common standards (modern programming language, framework, browser support, etc). These things are pretty easy to define and it's also reasonably easy to test that the resulting product complies. But how can I specify software quality?
My concern is with maintainability. Is there anything we can write into the specs that will nudge them toward writing code that we'll consider readable and maintainable? Most "coding standards" documents tell you where to put curly braces but leave the bigger issues to be worked out within your corporate culture. And, of course, when outsourcing you are working across two different corporate cultures. One idea that has come up is to have code reviews early to help create some common understanding of code quality between us. Defining the frameworks and libraries should also help to some degree. But I was hoping for something more concrete.
Yes, I know that this problem could be avoided by simply not outsourcing the project. But that simply isn't an option here for political reasons. So given that it's necessary, how would you encourage quality in an outsourcing spec?
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Ep0xi writes:
Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. He had little to bite
and to break, and once when great dearth fell on the land, he could no longer procure even daily bread.
Now when he thought over this by night in his bed, and tossed about in his anxiety, he groaned and said to his wife, "What is to become of us. How are
we to feed our poor children, when we no longer have anything even for ourselves."
"I'll tell you what, husband," answered the woman, "early to-morrow morning we will take the children out into the forest to where it is the thickest.
There we will light a fire for them, and give each of them one more piece of bread, and then we will go to our work and leave them alone. They will not
find the way home again, and we shall be rid of them."
"No, wife," said the man, "I will not do that. How can I bear to leave my children alone in the forest. The wild animals would soon come and tear them
to pieces."
"O' you fool," said she, "then we must all four die of hunger, you may as well plane the planks for our coffins," and she left him no peace until he
consented.
"But I feel very sorry for the poor children, all the same," said the man. The two children had also not been able to sleep for hunger, and had heard
what their step-mother had said to their father.
Gretel wept bitter tears, and said to Hansel, "now all is over with us."
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Onlyodin writes:
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has given the green light to a project that will build the largest ever supercomputer based on Silicon Graphics' (SGI) 512-processor Altix computers.
Called Project Columbia and costing around $160-million, the 10,240-processor system will be used by researchers at the Advanced Supercomputing Facility at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
What makes Project Columbia unique is the size of the multiprocessor Linux systems, or nodes, that it clusters together. It is common for supercomputers to be built of thousands of two-processor nodes, but the Ames system uses SGI's NUMAlink switching technology and ProPack Linux operating system enhancements to connect 512-processor nodes, each of which will have more than 1,000G bytes of memory.
Full Story at Linuxworld
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ewg writes:
Forbes.com has published an entrepreneur's thoughts on why startups should hire an IT professional sooner rather than later. It boils down to the focused attention an experienced geek can bring to planning for the a growing company's needs, and their resourcefulness when dealing with unplanned crises.
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Ep0xi writes:
Montecitorio hi-tech: arriva il Pinguino
Linux al posto di Windows e rete wi-fi
Folena: "Adottare un sistema open source ci libera dai vincoli del software proprietario
E' una scelta di trasparenza e di sicurezza doverosa per una istituzione pubblica"
di CLAUDIA FUSANI
Ho provato e funziona tutto alla perfezione rassicura Grillini.
(11 luglio 2007)
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CoolnQuiet writes:
GIGABYTE's new DDR2/DDR3 combo board offers upgraders four DDR2 slots and two DDR3 slots — takes a risk out of upgrading. http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid= 6&id=2326">click here.
