NVIDIA is not supplying a proper OpenCL toolchain for the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS-based developer's kit for the Jetson Tegra TK1 hardware. As a result, it is effectively not possible to develop OpenCL applications for the chip, unless you are a big enough operator to develop your own OpenCL compiler. If you click through to TFA, you will note that I pointed this out months ago. Claiming that OpenCL is properly supported for this hardware by NVIDIA is simply not true.

I say wait until Windows finally finishes dropping support for XP. Large numbers of corporate desktops will not make the move to Windows 7.

The only thing that keeps businesses running Windows at all is the large volume of industry-specific applications (and even web sites) that only work on Win32 and IE. It certainly isn't lower support costs.

I manage 15 seats worth of XP machines, and if availability of software specific to our industry were not a problem, I would move everything to Ubuntu or OSX in a heartbeat. Our servers are already based on Ubuntu LTS, and I have a Mac at home and a Mac for my wife and a Mac laptop for work, which I sometimes use to run XP, but only when I have to. I do keep a windows machine at my desk because otherwise I'd forget how to use the damned thing.

What keeps people from upgrading to Win7 is the vomit-inducing prospect of paying $300 a seat for the OS, plus several hundred more per seat to upgrade the hardware so it can run the OS, for something that really isn't that much better than what you're replacing.

I've been saying since the Apple announcement that the real competition for the iPad will not be the Kindle, or existing netbooks running Windows, but the as-yet-unreleased machines running ChromeOS.

Both are targeted primarily at "average" consumers who don't want a full-on computer, but rather an appliance that "just works," more like a phone, for certain tasks -- browsing the web, watching movies, reading books, keeping track of their photos.

That's why geeks like us find both of them to be a bit lackluster; they're not aimed at us. They're aimed at our parents.

That's going to kill my karma, but I thought it was funny.

I'm a Zimbra admin. I use the payware version in my company, and I administer the open source version for the local high school. Actually, except for a couple of features that are available in the payware version only -- Outlook client integration and mobile access -- the two versions are exactly identical. I switched to Zimbra because I had been administering my own mail system, and I got tired of all the work it took to keep everything current. Zimbra does all that work for me, plus it has a pretty good Ajaxified web interface.

That being said, I would hate to have to get into that codebase and make any changes. It cobbles together parts from a lot of different tools, plus a web UI written in server-based Java, which I decided to abandon years ago. Everything about that system that's written in Java should be rewritten from scratch, IMHO, both for performance and for developer sanity. But as long as somebody else is maintaining it, hey, whatever.

Using outlook makes me want to vomit, but the closed-source parts of Zimbra are key for getting it into the enterprise, because without those parts, you can't really replace Outlook+Exchange for the people that are used to using it. Zimbra's connector is the first one I've seen that actually works.

I think probably what would happen, if MSFT+YHOO decides to pull the plug on the open source bits, is that some combination of Sun/IBM/Apple/Mozilla/Apache/etc would set something up to continue development on the fork, probably hiring some of the current Zimbra developer team.