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Comment Re:All of IBM's old ideas are new again (Score 2, Insightful) 121

by BASICman on Saturday September 20, 2008 @12:40PM (#25085611) Attached to: Inside VMware's 'Virtual Datacenter OS'

Once you have that VMware cluster you can run your choice of 70+ operating systems and millions of apps on it. Can you run Exchange on a mainframe? Sieble? Your existing billing and accounting app?

Well, you can run whatever runs on Linux on top of a mainframe. And if you're a Fortune 500 corporation, chances are your existing billing and accounting applications are *already* running on a mainframe. That is, after all, what the old girl is built for.

Submission + - Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record

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Aviran

on Sunday August 24, 2008 @05:59AM

Aviran writes: "By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP."

Getting the Most Out of a CS Curriculum? 124

Posted by Cliff on Saturday March 31, 2007 @08:20AM from the it's-not-just-about-code dept.

Henry asks: "In September I start on a CS-type degree course. I am probably a fairly typical newbie programmer, in that most of my knowledge centers around scripting and high to very high level programming. There's much to choose from: languages, concepts, mathematics, and so on. From previous stories, I know that many readers have strong opinions on the failings and weaknesses of university courses and students. Apart from all of the coding that I will do, what can I do in the coming months to maximize what I get out of this? "

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