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Why standardization is necessary

Why standardization is necessaryStandards firstA few items. While providing functionality above and beyond a standard is nice, the main complaint is that many people are picking and choosing what parts of a standard to implement instead of tackling the entire standard before implementing extras.You Xerces versus JAXP example is...

Tags: Strategic planning, Quality, C/C++, XML, Programming languages, standardization, standards, POSIX, Unix

Discussion threads 2006-02-10

Microsoft makes Unix changes

Microsoft makes Unix changesRep told me not to worry...I was a bit concerned when I read this but my rep put my fears to rest. HE said this was merely a trojan horse play to lure UNIX shops into the power and ubiquity of Windows. Although UNIX folks are traditionally...

Tags: Operating systems, Mike Cox, Unix, subsystem, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Posix subsystem, rep, POSIX, Microsoft Windows NT, Network File System

Discussion threads 2005-09-01

Additional Resources

Do we need a 'beautiful mess' in operating systems? Yup

To make a good soup, you've got to stir the pot...Ok, sure - it turns cloudy, short-term. Just be sure to filter it or let it settle, before serving.Whereas the classic 'design-by-committee' model so often fails, its always useful to have multiple, talented teams working on similar projects, independently. With...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Programming languages, Linux Distro, operating system, John Gruber, Linux, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

SCO story ends with a whimper

William Shakespear should have expanded on his "first ... the lawyers" bit!It is hard to feel sorry for people who go crying all the way to the bank!BAH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!Good riddance.Someone remind meThis turned out exactly how Bitty/No Ax predicted, right?: o )SCO Xenix & UnixRather sad that their expertise at delivering...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, SCO Group Inc., BSD, Linux, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

RobotVisionCAD 1.0806 (Mac)

RobotVisionCAD or in short RvCAD is a computer aided design for Image Processing and Computer Vision. RvCAD's GUI presents users with a view where users drag and drop Image Processor Elements, and visually connecting them to form Image Processing Pipeline. RvCAD is a tool used by scientists, engineers, mathematicians to...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Image Processing, RobotVision2, RvCAD, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-13

Helios: Another Microsoft operating system project to watch

helios == hot air for PRJust move on people, M$ does not even expect to sell it.As the name suggests a gassy substance, I expect that M$ tried the 15 minutes worth of fame with it.RE: Helios: Another Microsoft operating system project to watchLinuxGeek:Microsoft didn't TRY to get any PR...

Tags: Operating systems, Helios d.d., operating system, Microsoft Corp., NT-kernel, Singularity, public relations, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

RegEx Cheat Sheet 2.0 (Mobile)

RegEx Cheat Sheet is a quick refresher course in Regular Expressions from time to time. It is a quick reference for topics you've already learned but need a few reminders on, or if you're still a beginner to Regular Expressions, use it to better understand what RegEx has to offer....

Tags: Mobile, Unicode, Regular Expression, Concentric Sky, RegEx Cheat Sheet, Cheatsheet

Software downloads 2009-09-28

Red Hat gains operating system share at Sun's expense

Unix/Linux distro is secureUnix/Linux distro's are secure and they were built for networking period.Windows was built for single user and no networking.Linux winswindoze loses!What will Larry Ellison do?Purchasing Sun was just about as smart as Borland betting on Pascal Delphi.RE: Red Hat gains operating system share at Sun's expenseAny uncertainty...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Operating systems, Processors, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Sun Microsystems Inc., Red Hat Inc., Sun Sparc, Intel x86, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Why writing a Windows compatible file server is (still) hard

Why writing a Windows compatible file server is still hardThis article was more chatty...than SMB/CIFS. I was ready for the answer to the riddle about half way through. But other than that... interesting stuff. It makes me want to test the issue. Thanks.Good jobntLolSo A windows feature is...

Tags: File servers, Storage management, Servers, Operating systems, Windows CIFS, Is it Microsoft, Samba, Microsoft Corp., file server, server, Windows Compatible, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

Is Microsoft now going to have to give everyone a choice of web browser?

Is Microsoft now going to have to give everyone a choice of web browser?Indeed.I'm running XP, and I have IE, FF and Chrome installed... but apparently I have no "choice".Go figure.Seriously ...... I thought this fight ended 10 years ago. [i]Five years from now, I think that all Windows users...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Web browser, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Microsoft submits Hyper-V compatibility code for Linux kernel

Microsoft recently announced that it had contributed source code allowing a Linux system to happily exist in a virtualized environment hosted by Hyper-V. While this code may not make it into the Linux kernel for a number of reasons, it is significant that Microsoft chose to develop this code, protect...

Tags: Linux Kernel, Environment, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-21

X-Chat 2.8.7e (Windows)

XChat is a useful IRC chat application for Windows and UNIX (Linux/BSD) operating systems. I.R.C. is Internet Relay Chat. XChat runs on most BSD and POSIX compliant operating systems.

Tags: IRC, Operating System, Peter Zelezny, XChat, I.R.C., Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Internet, Software

Software downloads 2009-06-17

Why enterprise networks run Windows, not the Mac

Why enterprise networks run Windows, not the MacHere's an asbestos suit.Because, boy, are you going to need it.Anyway...The reason they don't succeed is down to three things:1) TCO - ripping out your infrastructure to replace it with someone else's gear doesn't make sense unless you have to. Since good...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, PC, enterprise network, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-05

Microsoft: No Windows 7 for ARM-based netbooks (for now)

Microsoft: No Windows 7 for ARM-based netbooks for nowTechnically speaking - there IS a Windows for ARMWindows Embedded Compact aka WinCE is a subset of the full Windows API with all the old legacy API removed and Unicode-only calls.It's definitely not the full Windows API, but a lot of stuff...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows CE, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows 7, ARM, Microsoft Windows, netbook, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

FilePathCM 1.1.1 (Mac)

FilePathCM is a contextual menu item for copying the: POSIX path Abbreviated Tilde POSIX pathPOSIX path for TerminalHFS path Server afp URL Full name Display name Extension Windows style path of files and folders to the clipboard. Menu items can be symbolic names or show the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Path, Limit Point Software, FilePathCM, Updates

Software downloads 2009-05-05

Code Visual to Flowchart 6.0.0420 (Windows)

Code Visual to Flowchart is an automatic flow chart generator software. It can reverse engineering a program, create programming flowchart from code, mostly used on flowcharting a program and documenting source code. It can generate Bmp, PNG, Visio, Word, Excel and PowerPoint flowcharts document, help programmers to document, visualize and...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server Transact-SQL, Flowchart, Fortran, Microsoft Visual Basic, C, Microsoft Windows, Programming, Fate Software, Programming Languages, Microsoft Development Tools, C/C++, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, .Net, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-04-15

The Future of Unix

Present day commercial Unix versions are well behind the research community. As far back as 1982 the single machine focus of Unix development became an issue in the research community. Accordingly a number of people at Bell Labs including Dennis Ritchie and Rob Pike, both of whom had contributed to...

Tags: Plan 9, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-20

Shindler 1.21 (Mac)

This utility helps Mac users to track any foder, internal or external HD and USB Keys. Drag a folder or a HD icon on Shindler and it saves a text file wich can be open and edit with TextEdit in your desktop with all file and location (on POSIX...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, File, Desktops, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Software downloads 2009-03-10

ne - the nice editor 2.0.3 (Mac)

ne is a free (GPL'd) text editor based on the POSIX standard that runs we hope on almost any UN*X machine. ne is easy to use for the beginner, but powerful and fully configurable for the wizard, and most sparing in its resource usage. If you have the resources and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mneptok, Ne, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Telecom & Utilities, Open Source, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-02-22

Intel Threading Building Blocks 2.1 (Mac)

"Intel TBB is an award-winning runtime library that simplifies the writing of multi-threaded applications. Just like the C++ Standard Template Library STL extends the core language, Intel TBB offers C++ users a higher level abstraction for parallelism. To implement Intel TBB developers use familiar C++ templates and coding style, leaving...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, C++, Intel Corp., Intel TBB, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-02-04