I read TFA where is says the new laptop is for sale now, but it's not listed on their website anywhere. http://dell.com/xps13 and all you see are 4 models, and all include windows 7 home premium. There is no option for another OS.

Search for "xps 13 developer" from within dell.com and you get three links to their wiki containing press releases about this new product.

The Cray website (http://www.cray.com/Products/XC/XC.aspx) has more details. 3072 cores (66 Tflops) per cabinet, initially, and the picture make it look like they have 16 cabinets, making 49152 cores total. Amazing.

While the article says they 'unveiled' it, it doesn't give any information about the hardware at all. I'm guessing it hasn't actually been built yet. Too bad. The Top 500 Supercomputers list is due to be updated this month.

Right now I'm running a free IP v6-over-v4 tunnel from my router to Hurricane Electric. I got assigned my own v6 LAN range. Mac OS X works fine, hits the v6 version of a website if it exists, the v4 version otherwise. Doesn't always work, I know. The DNS part is the problem to figure out. The larger infrastructure DNS servers (comcast, at&t, verizon, etc) need to support IPv6. Comcast has just begun rolling it out to end users, so hopefully they've got dnsv6 servers that work now and still return the correct regionally sorted IP addresses for cloud services like akamai.

When I have a list of 200+ servers and VMs that I'm responsible for, as well as the applications that run on them, who has time to tune each server? While a nice idea, it's simply not practical at the scale most large businesses run at.

We used to use FreeBSD on some servers, but they all quickly became dead ends, as OS patches and upgrades were painful and time consuming. Now we're a SLES house.

I agree. Too little, too late. It'll take years for them to turn things around, and they just don't have the time.

http://www.giganews.com/vyprvpn/ I use this when I want to, and they have VPN POPs in europe, southeast asia, and the us. Works great.

Having previously worked for a US national cell phone company that went through mergers/buyouts, I can tell you this. Until the date that the purchase is approved and announced, there is a "wall" between these two carriers. I guarantee T-Mobile's marketing dept is not making business decisions with any thought or concern about whether AT&T will like it or not, because the people who make those decisions are not allowed to talk to each other. Marketing and engineering teams are not allowed to start talking about integrating systems and product lines until that magic date passes. Employees have undoubtedly already been cautioned to be careful what information they pass along on any normal business calls between the two organizations. After all, it's possible the deal could still fall through.

Listen more than you talk, at first. One of the biggest mistakes I have made when starting new jobs is trying to make a good impression by offering my opinion when I didn't really understand how or why things were done the way they are now.

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