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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

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Android has power of a clean sheet

Android has power of a clean sheetMaybe Android is a big deal?When I first started seeing stories about Android, I figured it was an iPhone wannabe. But, more and more it sounds like my kind of device (os?).This could be the killer app (os?) for phones/PDAs/mp3 players/image viewers.Wow.The key...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Programming languages, Nokia Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Red Hat: Virtualization will be free

Red Hat: Virtualization will be freeI thought it already was. They call it WINE. ntnt = no textDude, ... stop playing WoW before you hurt yourself.Vitualization is a VM virtual machine, in which you can install an OS (Windows, GNU/Linux, BSD, etc). (win4lin, vmware, vitualpc, virgualbox, etc) WINE runs...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Vitualization, wine, virtualization, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-11

Curing what ails Microsoft

Curing what ails MicrosoftYou are the firstNTDid anyone ever tell you that you look a littlelike Tucker Carlson on MSNBC fromerly CNN?Pagan jimWhat you describe......is inherent in any large organization look at the US Government, but your suggestions are good ones, nonetheless. Any plans to fight unnecessary code duplication...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Quality, Microsoft Corp., Amiga, Commodore, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

C to be the next browser scripting language... wait, what?

First off, I hope that everyone's fourth of July was as good as mine.  There's nothing quite like spending time with family and friends over the holidays to put your work-life relationship into perspective of what's important.   In any case, the security news didn't stop for the...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., C, Web Browser, Scripting Language, Flash, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Virtualizing onto mainframes: How to make it fit

Virtualizing onto mainframes: How to make it fitOne day...I'm hoping virtualisation will be better by really virtualising an existing machine using the same hardware drivers etc. That way, if you're using the vitualisation for testing, you can just ghost the real machine with the virtual one once its working.Apparently,...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe

Discussion threads 2008-06-04

Patrick Brady dissects Android

Patrick Brady of Google's partner group provided a detailed technical tour of the internals of the Android platform during his recent talk at Google I/O 2008 titled "Anatomy and Physiology of an Android". Topics included Linux kernel enhancements, the Bionic library (Google's slimmed down version of libc), Android functional and...

Tags: Google Inc., Library, Hardware, Patrick Brady, Android, Bionic, Surfaces, Audio Flinger, Dalvik, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Is Microsoft's open systems promise reliable?

Is Microsoft's open systems promise reliable?Threat assessmentYour point on the ever-shifting sands of Microsoft intentions simply underscores one of the basic rules of threat assessments: "assess enemy capabilities, not enemy intentions."In the present instance, that means that the only things that others should count on from Microsoft are the enforceable...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-29

An idea about teaching Linux to the MCSE community

An idea about teaching Linux to the MCSE communityIt's not about shellsIt's about where things are and what they're called.Remember we can have the scripts configure gnome to look like windows and pop up wintel like menus too.Put the cart before the horse.You'll need to get them all into the...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Unix, server, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-05-08

Will OpenSolaris bring a chill to Sun-Ubuntu romance?

Will OpenSolaris bring a chill to Sun-Ubuntu romance?open source means cooperationFriendly rivalries exist between ALL the Linux distros. This does not mean that Red Hat cannot cooperate with SUSE or Canonical with Sun.I would be surprised to see any real change in relationship between Canonical and Sun. What is more...

Tags: OpenOffice, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, kernel, Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenSolaris, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2008-05-02

Intel Threading Tools and OpenMP

Explicit threading methods, such as Windows threads or POSIX threads, use library calls to create, manage, and synchronize threads. Use of explicit threads requires an almost complete restructuring of affected code. On the other hand, OpenMP is a set of pragmas, API functions, and environment variables that enable one to...

Tags: Thread, Tool, Intel Corp., OpenMP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2008-05-02

UNIX - Let's get together and feel all right

People have often accused me of dreaming too much and not having my thoughts anchored in reality, particularly in this world of multi-billion dollar technology companies and big business, when huge amounts of money are at stake and every competitor is vying for the top spot. In...

Tags: GPL, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., CDDL, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Sun Solaris, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-04-18

PenguinPolitik: Only Ballmer could go to Linux

In my previous post about last week's Microsoft Technology Summit, I talked a little bit about the structure of the event and the overtures that Microsoft seems to be making towards the Open Source community. Some of my esteemed industry colleagues feel that Microsoft is never to be trusted, that...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, File System, Microsoft Corp., Glasnost, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-04-02

Ch Standard (exe)

Ch is a C/C++ interpreter for cross platform scripting, shell programming, 2D/3D graphical plotting, numerical computing and embedded scripting. Ch supports 8,000 functions including 1999 ISO C Standard (C99), C++ class, POSIX, X11/Motif, OpenGL, ODBC, XML, GTK+, Win32, CGI, 2D/3D graphical plotting, socket/Winsock, LAPACK, Intel OpenCV, National Instrument's Data Acquisition...

Tags: Ch, C/C++, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-03-31

Ch Professional (exe)

Ch is a C/C++ interpreter for cross platform scripting, shell programming, 2D/3D graphical plotting, numerical computing and embedded scripting. Ch supports 8,000 functions including 1999 ISO C Professional (C99), C++ class, POSIX, X11/Motif, OpenGL, ODBC, XML, GTK+, Win32, CGI, 2D/3D graphical plotting, socket/Winsock, LAPACK, Intel OpenCV, National Instrument's Data Acquisition...

Tags: Ch, C/C++, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-03-31

Novell's SUSE Linux 11 to come in appliance, embedded, real-time editions

Novell opened the kimono on its development plans for SUSE Linux Enterprise Linux 11 at Brainshare 2008 this week but let it be known the product won't ship until 2009 or possibly 2010. In fact, the Cambridge, Mass. won't even provide a planned ship date until the end of...

Tags: Novell Inc., SuSE Linux, SuSE, Virtualization, Linux, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Storage, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-03-19

A slim API for OOXML

A slim API for OOXMLNot surprisedI figured MS was going to go ahead with OOXML, regardless of what the ISO did. It's still an open question as to how much of it can be independently implemented (legally, as well as practically), but I expect that at least MS and...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, PRODUCTIVITY, Middleware, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, API, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., IBM SOM, XML

Discussion threads 2008-03-13

Are+3rd+party+mobile+applications+dead%3F+I+hope+not.

Are+3rd+party+mobile+applications+dead%3F+I+hope+not.O/S AgnosticismBrowser applications do drive O/S agnosticism, but, there is still a dearth of mobile web applications which compare with the rich functionality of native o/s binary executable/java-based apps.Developer support for S60 Symbian applications is vastly superior to anything else I have seen.Even more so, developers are turning to scripting...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Channel management, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, Nokia Corp., S60, mobile, church, Web, mobile application, Web Based App

Discussion threads 2008-02-25

Microsoft on open APIs: New tune or blowing more smoke?

Microsoft on open APIs: New tune or blowing more smoke?More smoke......what else do you expect from rampant pyromaniacs?Or notWell, for starters "open APIs" just means that you can write value-added software for MS platforms. It doesn't mean you can actually compete with those platforms, because they're still necessary to...

Tags: smoke, Microsoft Corp., API, New Tune

Discussion threads 2008-02-21