Submission + - iPhone OS or Android-based netbooks? (zdnet.com)
perlow writes: "Could Mac OS X iPhone or Google's Android be the key to mass adoption of the next generation of netbooks? ZDNet's Jason Perlow puts the question forward."
Submission Summary: 0 pending, 23 declined, 7 accepted (30 total, 23.33% accepted)
Submission + - Kindle Economics (zdnet.com)
perlow writes: "Just how many books a year do you need to read before the costs of Amazon's Kindle are justified? The answer is not so cut and dry. If you're a college student and you had all your texts available on Kindle, you could wipe out the cost of the unit in a semester and a half. But consumers would need to read approximately six ebooks per month if the convenience factor did not outweigh the costs."
Submission + - Why the Olympics didn't melt the Internet (zdnet.com) 1
perlow writes: "The Olympics didn't melt the Internet as many had falsely predicted. Why? Because of Limelight Networks, a Tempe, Arizona-based company which operates a global network of fiber-optic interconnected datacenters which are used to locally cache all of the 3000 hours of Olympics video to your ISP."
Submission + - Tweaking Solid State Drive Performance on Linux (zdnet.com)
perlow writes: "While expensive and shouldn't be used exclusively for primary storage, Solid State Drives perform exceedingly well for things like MySQL databases, provided you tweak your kernel, BIOS, and filesystems accordingly. Here's a few tips to exact excellent performance out of your new $500-$900 on a Linux system."
Submission + - HOWTO: Perform a baremetal backup on Linux LVM (zdnet.com)
perlow writes: Using the free System Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org) you can perform bare metal backups and restores of many types of computer systems. In this article, ZDNet columnist Jason Perlow explains the multi-step procedure in detail on an LVM-based system.
Submission + - The File System Fallout of the Reiser Verdict (zdnet.com)
perlow writes: ""Yesterday, the Open Source community took an emotional hit when veteran Linux programmer Hans Reiser was convicted of first degree murder in the suspicious disappearing of his wife, Nina. While I won't go into the details of the case, as this has been covered extensively in the press, I would like to talk a little bit about how this verdict will impact the technology in play for file system dominance in our favorite Open Source operating system, Linux.""
Submission + - 80% of the MS Server protocols are unpatented (zdnet.com) 1
perlow writes: "ZDNet blogger Jason Perlow and Centrify's Tom Kemp discover that 80 percent of all Microsoft server protocols are un-patented. What exactly then, did SAMBA license? Are Microsoft's patent and intellectual property threats simply the growls of a paper tiger?"
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