Archive for August, 2008

Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?

I’m really hoping that Steven Sinofsky will kick off a discussion about Windows 7 pricing over on the Engineering Windows 7 blog sometime soon. I’m not holding my breath because the chances of seeing an open debate on pricing is highly unlikely, but I can dream, can’t I? My take on the issue of […]

Enterprise Virtual Management for Next-Generation IT

Virtualization enables strategic benefits, but significantly impacts infrastructure, operations and configuration management. Virtualization’s additional complexity and new management challenges can adversely affect TCO, reduce service levels, threaten security and pose compliance issues, as well as introduce new problems like VM sprawl. In this session, you’ll learn how virtualization impacts traditional management disciplines, and their supporting […]

mime4j 0.4 (Default branch)

mime4j provides a parser, MimeStreamParser, fore-mail message streams in plain RFC822 and MIMEformat. The parser uses a callback mechanism toreport parsing events such as the start of anentity header, the start of a body, etc. If youare familiar with the SAX XML parser interface youshould have no problem getting started withmime4j. The parser only […]

Facing Extradition, British Hacker Makes Last Stand

After eight years of litigation, accused British hacker Gary McKinnon is set to be extradited to the United States to stand trial.
Shortly after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, computer break-ins at more than 90 U.S. military and governmental agencies caused severe security compromises and data destruction. In 2002, […]

Psystar Responds to Apple Suit, Will Countersue

Mac clone maker Psystar plans to file its answer to Apple’s copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday as well as a countersuit of its own, alleging that Apple engages in anticompetitive business practices. Miami-based Psystar, owned by Rudy Pedraza, will sue Apple under two federal laws designed to discourage monopolies and cartels, the Sherman Antitrust Act and […]

Safely Saving Energy in Today’s Data Center

Managers of data centers are finding themselves increasingly under pressure to improve the energy efficiency of their facilities. Existing data centers present the greatest challenge because of their older infrastructure and restrictions on downtime to make changes. However, there are proven strategies that can enable a data center to increase energy efficiency without jeopardizing availability.
Before […]

An IT Admin’s Dream Come True: The Promise of Desktop Virtualization

Join MokaFive co-founder and CTO, John Whaley, as he discusses desktop virtualization as a potential dream-come-true for IT administrators faced with demanding users and impending disasters. Whaley will cover how desktop virtualization provides solutions to accommodate a mobile workforce including secure remote access, ability to work online or offline, running complete operating systems and applications […]

Yahoo! Shortcuts for Summer Olympic Fever

With 205 nations, approximately 10,500 athletes and 302 events in 28 sports, it’s going to be tough to keep up with all that’s going on at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. That’s why Yahoo! Search is launching a series of shortcuts to Olympics-related information and news coverage.
Starting with the torch-lighting at the opening ceremony […]

YouTube Cheers Dismissal of Veoh Copyright Suit

In a ruling that could have implications for Viacom’s $1.65 billion lawsuit against YouTube, a California federal court on Wednesday dismissed a copyright-infringement lawsuit against online video-sharing site Veoh Networks.
IO Group, an adult entertainment company, had sued Veoh, alleging the site was displaying its content in violation of copyright laws. Veoh had uploaded IO Group’s […]

Imaginary Microcomputers R2 (Default branch)

The idea of Imaginary Microcomputers is to designsimple computers, comparable to vintage homecomputers, large numbers of which are simulated ona PC in parallel. The machines connect to eachother with the goal of seeing efficient structuresgrow spontaneously, like crystals.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:VM persistence now also includes I/O RAM. ALU now supports multiplication.

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