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Submission + - Rackspace goes on rampage against patent trolls (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by girlmad on Friday April 05, 2013 @09:22AM

girlmad writes: Rackspace has come out fighting against one of the US's most notorious patent trolls, Parallel Iron. The cloud services firm said it's totally fed up with trolls of all kinds, which have caused a 500 percent rise in its legal bills.

Rackspace was last week named among 12 firms accused of infringing Parallel Iron's Hadoop Distributed File System patents. Rackspace is now counter-suing the troll, as the firm said it has a deal in place with Parallel Iron after signing a previous patent settlement with them.

Submission + - British Library to Archive One Billion UK Websites (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05, 2013 @05:08AM

An anonymous reader writes: The British Library is to begin archiving the entire UK web, including one billion pages from 4.8 million websites, blogs, forums and social media sites.

The process will take five months, with the aim of presenting a more complete picture of news events for future generations to read and learn from.

Submission + - Intel, 40 years of the 4004 (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by souperfly on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @06:36AM

souperfly writes: The INQUIRER has gone big on its coverage of the anniversary of Intel's 4004 chips, and in two articles has discussed the history of the microprocessor and some of its landmark events.

“To call Intel's 4004 just a microprocessor is to do the microelectronics world a great disservice,” says the first. “Not only was the Intel 4004 the first commercial microprocessor, shattering what people thought of computers, it signaled Intel's shift away from manufacturing memory and into what was going to become the industry that changed the world forever.”

From its humble beginnings, when no one would really call it powerful, but in the chip Faggin, Hoff and Shima created the ability to commoditise computing by adding the micro in microprocessors.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/2124781/microprocessor-development
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/2124944/intel-marks-4004-microprocessor

Submission + - Linux turns 20 today (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by illiteratehack on Thursday August 25, 2011 @08:15AM

illiteratehack writes: The kernel that is found running smartphones, desktops, laptops, servers and high performance clusters turns 20 years old today. The Inquirer looks back at the growing pains of what has undoubtedly become one of the most important contributions to the IT industry in the past 50 years. In just 20 years it has become hard not to find a system running Linux and that is something that the FOSS community should all be proud of.

Submission + - Linux @ 20: The Swiss Army knife of OSes (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by

jrepin

on Thursday August 25, 2011 @06:48AM

jrepin writes: "Linux, the poster child for open source software, was officially disclosed by Linus Torvalds in a Usenet newsgroup posting on 25 August 1991. The two decades since have seen it expand from a personal pet project to a platform capable of running on everything from mobile phones to web servers and even mainframes, with no sign of it running out of steam just yet. Thanks to its close similarity to Unix, Linux has developed into an excellent platform for users requiring Unix-like levels of reliability. Consequently, Linux distributions have gradually displaced many of the ageing proprietary Unix flavours for high-end workstation and server applications. At the same time, Linux now powers many of the world's supercomputers, and underpins a number of embedded and mobile platforms."

Submission + - Windows XP is ten - first review (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by souperfly on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @07:01AM

souperfly writes: With Windows XP turning ten, and still being used on many machines its nice/interesting to see an early review of it to remind us of what we are missing, what we loathed, or what we are still making do with.

This review, from IT Week — dug up by V3.co.uk, makes it seem like only yesterday that XP was announced by Bill Gates in a post 9/11 New York with a splash and a fanfare and a mixed bag of pros and cons.

XP was the first Windows update to turn to a subscription service, which was novel, and it wasn’t particularly cheap either, so perhaps its good that it had some legs.

Submission + - IBM says energy efficiency will be key to exascale (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by illiteratehack on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:03PM

illiteratehack writes: IBM's Dr Irving Wladawsky-Berger gave an insightful speech into just how Big Blue worked with Linux since 1999. He touched on many topics including Deep Blue and its younger brother Watson, and walked through how Linux is present in just about every major computing task going. However his comments about the challenge to hit exascale revolved around Linux. According to Dr Wladawsky-Berger, Linux has a massive role to play in keeping the power efficiency of any exascale cluster at reasonable levels.

The war on power management at the ultra high-end may trickle down to better power management for Linux running on laptops too.

Submission + - Original review of the Personal Computer Model 515 (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by souperfly on Friday August 12, 2011 @07:14AM

souperfly writes: This is hella cool.
The chaps at V3.co.uk have found the review for the first IBM PC, from three decades ago.

It probably won't play Crysis, before you ask

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