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- Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do those upgrades really cost?
- Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do those upgrades really cost?False ArticleI'd bet most Mac owners are running 10.5, even those that bought older Mac's. So the Majority of Mac users are able to upgrade for $29.Shoddy "journalism" all around.RE: Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do...
- Tags: Operating systems, family pack, Microsoft Windows 7, Snow Leopard, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-06-26
- Microsoft may rename 'netbooks' to longer, less catchy term
- Microsoft may rename 'netbooks' to longer, less catchy termMicrosoft may rename 'netbooks' to longer, less catchy termThe new name won't catch on. Netbooks is a lot easier to say. The only time you will see it listed as ?low cost small notebook PC" is when Microsoft describes the hardware...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, netbook, Microsoft Corp., catchy term, PC, notebook
- Discussion threads 2009-06-03
- Microsoft now making notebook coolers
- Microsoft now making notebook coolersWhat? It's a notebook cooler. For desk or lap. You know some companies do call them laptops anyway, right? Such as Toshiba, go visit their site. You've never heard of anyone using one on their lap? Seriously? You must be a $teve Job$ follower...
- Tags: Notebooks, notebook, notebook cooler, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-10
- The deed is done: now are you better off?
- Scenario 1: Congratulations! The virtual "you" has done the deed: the last HP RP8440 - always a relative piece of junk because designed for Itanium and sold with the incompatible PA-8900 - is gone, and a couple of nice shiny new Proliants have taken its place....
- Tags: T2, Sun Sparc, HP Compaq ProLiant, Deed, Linux, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Processors, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- The deed is done: now are you better off?
- Scenario 1: Congratulations! The virtual "you" has done the deed: the last HP RP8440 - always a relative piece of junk because designed for Itanium and sold with the incompatible PA-8900 - is gone, and a couple of nice shiny new Proliants have taken its place....
- Tags: T2, Sun Sparc, HP Compaq ProLiant, Deed, Linux, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Processors, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Transitioning SAP Environments From HP 9000 Servers Running HP-UX 11i to HP Integrity Servers Running HP-UX 11i
- To take advantage of the higher processing power and new architecture of the Intel Itanium processor, application binaries are recompiled for HP-UX on HP Integrity servers. HP-UX source code compatibility between PA-RISC and Itanium has enabled a simple and safe transition procedure. SAP applications and the backend database, are clearly...
- Tags: HP Integrity, HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP 9000, Environment, Oracle11i, Intel Itanium, SAP AG, HP PA-RISC, UNIX, Operating Systems, Processors, Servers, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2009-02-01
- VICE 2.1 (Windows)
- VICE is a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, QNX 6.x or BeOS machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit computers. The current version emulates the C64, the C128, the VIC20, all the PET models (except the SuperPET 9000, which is out...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, VICE, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-12-30
- Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10
- Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10Over a barrelis where IBM has you if you still use mainframes. Not only is the hardware very expensive, but the labor is too. Universities stopped their mainframes ages ago, so no CS student today has any idea what a mainframe is. This means that you...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Processors, Hardware cost, Shaw, mainframe, Z10, hardware, CPU
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureOverbroadYou wrote:[The appliance computing culture's interactive] applications model drives almost everything, from processor and OS evolution to appropriate management structure - and even the conflicts with traditional business systems experts whose internal model of "automatic data processing" is broadly unrelated to the needs and...
- Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Processors, business systems expert, appliance computing culture, mainframe, best practice, Windows PC
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Dell repair adventure, day 5, with updates
- Since our last episode, our hero has been communicating with Bob Pearson, Dell's VP of Communities & Conversations, and Bill Bivin, Dell's Community Liaison, about getting my Dell Lattitude D620 back up and running. Both Bob and Bill give every impression of trying very hard to deal not only with...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Transitive's magic - Solaris/SPARC Apps and Hyper-V
- In the past, I posted about one of the important requirements of the next generation datacenter NGDC, the ability to consolidate diverse applications on a unified hardware platform. Both IBM (see What would a next generation datacenter look like?) and HP see HP and the next generation data center and...
- Tags: Application, Sun Sparc, Transitive QuickTransit, Sun Solaris, Data Centers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Processors, Servers, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- RPG, PHP, and history
- RPG, PHP, and historyIf it works for you, use it - but it doesnt work for me.If it works for you, and especially if it has an elegant simplicity, then go for it.However,[i]So what's the model? simple: business applications are user interfaces to business data.[/i]I think that in many cases...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Databases, RPG, PHP
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Who should be thanked for the return of Mr. Jobs to Apple?
- News of Singularity, a non-Windows operating system from Microsoft, sparked my interest in OSes past and present. It got me thumbing though the back issues of MacWEEK for memories of OSes that were built from scratch and now forgotten. But in the research, I found some ironic gold regarding NeXTstep,...
- Tags: Strategy, Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, MacWeek, Operating System, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., NeXTstep, Singularity OS, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Saving Silicon Valley stories
- Silicon Valley is not known for paying much attention to itself. The Computer History Museum aims to change that, and recently it held a fund raiser that also profiled four top technologists. There is a video of that event at the end of this post. It was...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Microprocessor, Computer, Chip, Productivity, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2007-10-21
- A Mac-eye view of Microsoft's EU defeat
- European courts are still carrying the torch forward over Microsoft's antitrust practices. That news may bring a smile to longtime Mac users who know all too well the ways that Microsoft can squeeze its competition, whether by withholding compatibility technology, or at times, even its products. Or at least, it...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Bias and Kanter's Intel CSI analysis
- Early last week a guy named David Kanter at Real World Technologies released a careful analyis of Intel's planned common systems interconnect CSI and its associated integrated memory controller IMC technology. One of the earliest comments on this came from zdnet's own George Ou who provided a quick...
- Tags: P6, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Analysis, Intel Corp., David Kanter, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-09-09
- Mainframe Linux
- Here's a bit from the introduction to a recent article by Ken Milberg under the title "Mainframe Linux vs. Unix". Today's new breed of smaller, cheaper mainframes, paired with the Linux operating system, look like an attractive alternative to Unix on RISC or SPARC...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Paul Murphy, mainframe, Linux, CALCULO S.A., Unix
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Security issues
- Security issuesMurph - you're stuck in the 80sThe simplest programming statement of the lot is the GOTO. It is also the most dangerous because you can do *anything* with it. You can cross loops, functions, procedures, etc and corrupt return stacks and so forth. That is why it is so...
- Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, Processors, pointer, C, Java, Intel x86, Murph, Goto, attack, security
- Discussion threads 2007-06-25
- Security issues
- One of the things that struck me as odd about the programming languages discussion here a few weeks ago was the fact that so many people seemed to think "security" a function of the programming language, not its usage.On looking into this, I found it to be a fairly common...
- Tags: Sun, Security, Infrastructure, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
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