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- Thinking about multicore and software
- Thinking about multicore and softwareThanks! NT:)RE: Thinking about multicore and softwarePaul,Provided a link to this blog on http://www.multicoreinfo.com , which is a website for resources related to multicore processors.Independent JobsIn the Enterprise, dual core makes sense for handling anti-virus, encryption, and other annoying security overhead functions. When you start...
- Tags: Network technology, open source, T2, MULTICS & PAPPL, Thinking about multicore, hardware, software
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
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- BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeReading this gives me the shakes......by bringing back my days at the Chubb Institute in 1991, learning BASIC, OS JCL & COBOL. MANY hours of flow charting...WITH PENCIL & PAPER...and many more hours at a terminal trying to get what I...
- Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, data-processing, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, COBOL, mainframe, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- The tattered history of OOP
- The tattered history of OOPCalling for Mom ..SOAP etc are not themselves messaging based, they're messaging protocols - i.e. message carriers that are not internally implemented using object messaging.OOP!Crieky, I had no idea OOP had been through so much! We're just about to start using Zend Framework PHP, I might...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, Programming languages, Message Passing, object-oriented programming, Java, Smalltalk
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIX
- Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIXIBM, bah!I always considered AIX as the fork that broke UNIX' back. IBM was very late to the UNIX party, and instead of paying 5 bucks for a copy of SysV UNIX, they instead re-invented the wheel badly by re-writing UNIX...
- Tags: Operating systems, IBM AIX, IBM Corp., Unix, Linux, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- The obligatory "Victoria Falls" post
- The obligatory "Victoria Falls" postThe 800 lb Gorilla in the roomThere is no doubt that Moore's Law is making some very amazing things happen in CPU land. The T2+ would be even better if Sun could make CPUs that can clock to 4 Ghz (or EVEN 2 Ghz), but for...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, T2+, T2
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents
- Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patentsFreakin' Lyin' Bast***s!Wow, after all the months of BS now about how open and closed source can work together - POW!!! RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES. Gates & Co. are lucky Bush & Co. believe in monopoly, otherwise the comments of that federal...
- Tags: Now Microsoft, Gates & Co., Pandora, Microsoft Corp., patent, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-05-13
- OS ranking - confusion to the nth
- OS ranking - confusion to the nthReliability and ease of useAre the two criteria that I would put at the top.Reliability should be a given, it's probably only because of Windows 3.1 that we have arrived at the absurd situation that some people are amazed at the idea of an...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-04-03
- The origin of Unix
- The origin of Unixrewriting history to suit your ideaologyreally, you have an adgenda and you've rewritten "your" version of history to suit it.no wonder no one has bothered to comment on this rubbish.Too muchI can certainly respect your admiration of Unix, both the platform and the philosophy. I've worked on...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-03-30
- The origin of Unix
- Almost everyone thinks that Unix originated with Thomson, Ritchie, and others at Bell Labs in 1969/70, and thats correct but not true. They wrote the first code, originated many of the technologies in Unix, enunciated key design ideas were still exploring today, and demonstrated...
- Tags: Operating systems, Multics, Unix
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Salesforce.com's platform ambitions
- Salesforce.com's platform ambitionsI have to be honest.Much in the same way Benioff trash talks about the 'end of software' and what he's going to do to this or that company, I predict the end of Salesforce.com within a decade. It, hopefully, will never attract enough true devs.to go much of...
- Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc., platform ambition, programming
- Discussion threads 2007-01-19
- Guy Steele's new programming language
- Guy Steele's new programming languageEver heard of APL?Great for formulas.You can write in ASCIIAccording to the manual you can use ASCII keywords for all the special symbols. So if you were just using a text editor you would write it kind of like a conventional program. But if you used...
- Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, ASCII, APL, Fortress, programming, programming language, Guy Steele
- Discussion threads 2007-01-17
- No Software! But more programming languages ...
- No Software! But more programming languages ...Exactly!Phil, Thank you! I happen to agree with you 100%. The lock-in issue goes further than the simple, and more visible, aspects of a platform. The issue with Apex is not use of the platform itself, it's the overhead involved -...
- Tags: Programming languages, software, Apex, tire, programming language, programming
- Discussion threads 2006-10-26
- "Free" as in "unfettered"
- Jorwell's comment yesterday: I still don't see what Unix has to do with it Given that many mini manufacturers were already delivering exactly what you describe back in the eighties including the smart terminals I cannot for the life of me see what...
- Tags: GNU
- Blog posts 2006-08-11
- The role of IT
- The role of ITI still don't see what Unix has to do with itGiven that many mini manufacturers were already delivering exactly what you describe back in the eighties including the smart terminals I cannot for the life of me see what the operating system has to do with anything.Trying...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, Ulm, Unix
- Discussion threads 2006-08-10
- The Office UI retraining canard
- Since the first details of the radical overhaul of the user interface in Office 2007 (er... 2007 Microsoft Office system) were revealed, I have seen numerous references to the "cost of retraining" this reinvention of the human computer interface will precipitate. Having worked with the beta for a number of...
- Tags: Microsoft Office
- Blog posts 2006-06-01
- Blog on JavaDB sparks debate over thin clients, AJAX, and synch
- Blog on JavaDB sparks debate over thin clients, AJAX, and synchClient-side scripting"Local AJAX" is a SPECIFIC form of client-side scripting. I'm with Orisini on this too - using client-side methods enable web technologies to fly! But I'm also with James - Javascript is pathetic and non-standard across browsers.We NEED to...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Web browsers, blog, JavaScript, Ruby, AJAX, Dojo.Storage, JavaDB, thin client
- Discussion threads 2006-05-02
- WebOS market review
- WebOS market reviewRe: embeddedWell what i do with my time with webOSs is that i create a shortcut to C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/IEXPLORE.exe then in the Create Shortcut Wizard I put C:/~~IEXPLORE.exe -k http://desktoptwo.com/frames.htm , which puts IE into Kisok Mode, you know tlike the way they do it in museums....
- Tags: Web browsers, Channel management, Fax, Programming languages, WebOS, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2006-04-24
- APL, COBOL,
- APL, COBOL,GOTO "hell"APL is another example of too much rope. Something that is infinitely configurable is infinitely breakable! The ability to write an entire program on one line makes for some VERY hard to read programs. And I DO wonder about the security implications - would code audits become unmanageable?...
- Tags: Programming languages, Development tools, APL, programming language, programming, COBOL, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-04-07
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt honor and empower thy (Unix) sysadmins
- In data processing your machine operators are nobodies - essentially semi-skilled labour invisible to anyone outside the glass room. In science based computing (i.e. Unix), however, your sysadmins are the people who work with the user community to make and implement the day to day tactical decisions characterizing successful systems...
- Tags: data processing
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
- UDDI: policy enforcer or dead parrot?
- UDDI: policy enforcer or dead parrot?CRAPI and CRUDDIWhen is someone going to wake up to the fact that trying to solve data management and integration problems with programming isn't going to work?We have seen CORBA and DCOM largely fail, now they want to remarket the whole unwieldy, unmanageable and logically...
- Tags: Web services, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Storage, Databases, Middleware, PAPPL, UDDI, elephant, Oracle Corp., data management
- Discussion threads 2006-01-11
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