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Submission + - Australian stats agency goes open source (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by jimboh2k on Thursday December 16, 2010 @09:42PM

jimboh2k writes: The Australian Bureau of Statistics will use the 2011 Census of Population and Housing as a dry run for XML-based open source standards DDI and SDMX in a bid to make for easier machine-to-machine data, allowing users to better search for and access census datasets. The census will become the first time the open standards are used by an Australian Federal Government agency.

Submission + - iPad serial port adapter

Submitted by swandives on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @09:47PM

swandives writes: Following on from the iPhone serial port hack, Chris Pollock shows how an iPad will look with a serial port adapter for those who need more screen space. The pictures show a basic prototype, but Pollock expects to have a more attractive alternative up and running in the coming months.

Submission + - Linux kernel due early March (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by swandives on Sunday January 17, 2010 @10:03PM

swandives writes: The Linux.conf.au is in full-swing in Wellington, New Zealand, and Computerworld Australia has an interview with Jon Corbet in the leadup to his Kernel Report. The latest kernel release is due early March and will include reversed-engineered drivers for Nvidia chipsets.

Submission + - VMware developing dual OS smartphone virtualisatio (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by Sharky2009 on Sunday December 06, 2009 @10:04PM

Sharky2009 writes: VMware is developing virtualisation for smartphones which can run any two OSes — Windows Mobile, Android or Lunux — at once. The idea is to have your work applications and home applications all running insider their own VMs and running at the same time so you can access any app any time.

VMware says: “We don’t think dual booting will be good enough — we’ll allow you to run both profiles at the same time and be able to switch between them by clicking a button,” he said. “You’ll be able to get and make calls in either profile – work or home – as they will both be live at any given point in time.”

Submission + - COBOL celebrates 50 years (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by

oranghutan

on Monday September 21, 2009 @12:18AM

oranghutan writes: "The language used to power most of the world's ATMs, COBOL, is turning 50. It also runs about 75 per cent of the world's business applications, so COBOL should be celebrated for making it to half a century. In cricketing terms, that's a good knock.
The author says:
"COBOLâ(TM)s fate was decided during a meeting of the Short Range Committee, the organisation responsible for submitting the first version of the language in 1959. The meeting was convened after a meeting at the Pentagon first laid down the guidelines for the language.

"Half a century later, Micro Focus published research which showed people still use COBOL at least 10 times throughout the course of an average working day in Australia. Only 18 per cent of those surveyed, however, had ever actually heard of COBOL."

Happy birthday COBOL.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/319269/cobol_turns_50"

Submission + - SKA telescope to provide a billion PCs worth of pr (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by

Sharky2009

on Thursday September 17, 2009 @11:36PM

Sharky2009 writes: "IBM is researching an exaflop machine with the processing power of about one billion PCs. The machine will be used to help process the Exabyte of data per day expected to flow off the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope project. The company is also researching solid state storage technology called 'racetrack memory' which is much faster and denser than flash and may hold the secret to storing the data from the SKA. The story also says that the SKA is unlikely to use grid computing or a cloud-based approach to processing the telescope data due to challenge in transferring so much data (about one thousand million 1Gb memory sticks each day)."

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