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Old DEC code open sourced by HP

Old DEC code open sourced by HPMove on... why botherWow, and if IBM open sources OS/2, we'd have two museum pieces to admire. AdvFS was DOA five years ago, the last thing we need is another retrieval from the grave.DEC started search enginesFew people remember that DEC started search engines....

Tags: INTERNET, Operating systems, Desktops, Olsen, Hewlett-Packard Co., Digital Equipment Corp., AdvFS, VAX, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Get this: in tech hub Seattle, School Board still uses dinosaur VAX!

Get this: in tech hub Seattle, School Board still uses dinosaur VAX!Get this, Seattle....Russell,I think you are mistaking Seattle for the Eastside cities of Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland. Seattle is low tech city except for when it comes to porta potties in Pioneer Square! yukyukyukyukheheheheff

Tags: Seattle School Board, tech hub, VAX

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

Word of the day: Orthogonal

or·thog·o·nal:Adj.[from mathematics] Mutually independent; well separated; sometimes, irrelevantto. Used in a generalization of its mathematical meaning to describe setsof primitives or capabilities that, like a vector basis in geometry, spanthe entire `capability space' of the system and are in some sense non-overlappingor mutually independent. For...

Tags: E-mail servers, Groupware, RSS, Microsoft Word, PDP-11, VAX

Blog posts 2006-03-07

The Pod: software issues

The Pod: software issuesBoth feet inIn a large corporation like company "F", the one-throat to choke paradigm is paramount. Even if the Java desktop stuff is half-baked, it makes sense to contract with Sun to do everything and use everything. Heck, we use half-baked or less stuff from IBM today...

Tags: Programming languages, UNIX, Operating systems, GNAT, GCC, VAX, Sun Microsystems Inc., Ada, software

Discussion threads 2006-01-04

Additional Resources

Savvis on Cisco's Unified Computing System

Bryan Doerr, Chief Technology Officer, Savvis and I communicated about Cisco's Unifed Computing System UCS. Here are his answers to some questions that were posed to him.  Since Savvis currently operates 29 data centers (a total of 1.4 million square feet of space), his views could be seen as...

Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Environment, Cisco Systems Inc., Savvis Communications, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-20

FireFox 3.5, Add-ons and Backwards Compatibility

On a whim, I updated one of my systems from Firefox 3.0.11 to 3.5 yesterday. I wanted to personally experience the speed improvements that industry reports have said Firefox 3.5 provided over previous versions. After working with the software for a short time, I have to agree that the browser...

Tags: Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Google replies to cloud computing concerns

Google replies to cloud computing concernsPeople generally use private vehicles ...... but take mass transit when it makes sense. There is no reason to believe all computing will be moved to public clouds. One other thing: the transportation industry is far more ancient than any utility industry.RE: Google replies to...

Tags: Managed hosting, Virtualization, cloud computing concern, cloud computing, Google Inc., outsourcing

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

Microsoft finishes Vista SP2

Microsoft finishes Vista SP2RE: Microsoft finishes Vista SP2Unlike previous SPs, SP2 requires SP1. So if you don't hsve SP1 installed, you win't see SP2 in the AU/MU/WU.Unsure why people are in a rush to install it. who knows if there are any issues.RE: Microsoft finishes Vista SP2We care because I...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Service Pack 2, Vista SP2, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

This is the 41st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (2) In its present form this commitment to publication and peer review, originally derived from the core academic and scientific approach giving rise to the science...

Tags: Noorda, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Upgrading older systems

Upgrading older systemseBay "support"At FORD, we had many legacy machines in differing states of "decay". One was a NVH (Noice/Vehicle Harmonics) platform - which consisted of a specialty input card (ISA bus?) that connected hundreds of different sensors on a vehicle to check noise levels. A new card was pretty...

Tags: T5440, P550, Sun Microsystems Inc., P690, older system, Upgrading, Ford Motor Co., eBay Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-03-02

Give your system a mid-life kicker

Give your system a mid-life kickerDRAM/RAM/MemoryIt appears that the article doesn't point out that the amount of memory you can "address"/use depends on your Operating System, not just your motherboard. Windows 2000/XP/Vista 32-bit only support upto 4Gb of RAM. If you are going to go above that, then...

Tags: Flash memory, Processors, memory, mid-life kicker, kicker, RAM, processor, DDR2

Discussion threads 2009-02-09

IBM Acquires Transitive

Last week, I received a notice from IBM's PR company that IBM was going to acquire Transitive, that clever supplier of operating system and hardware virtualization technology. It's clearly a move to strengthen IBM's claim on being the premier supplier of systems for the next generation datacenter. ...

Tags: IBM Corp., Generation Datacenter, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-24

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureA correction(?)[i]and a new proprietory OS called VMS - that eventually became the basis for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0[/i]The first version of Windows NT was 3.5, not 4.0.Also, I think its not correct to say VMS formed the basis of NT. It is true...

Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Digital Equipment Corp., VMS, data-processing

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

What could Microsoft bring to the PC hardware business?

What could Microsoft bring to the PC hardware business?Funny, much of the things you are ...... blaiming Microsoft for in this article were caused by us PC OEM's. We were the ones that insisted the Vista capable logo included hardware that met lower price points. We are also...

Tags: Operating systems, PC, Microsoft Corp., hardware, Apple Inc., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

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

Business PCs are going nowhere fast

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." If Charles Duell, in 1888 the Commissioner for the U.S. patent office, actually said that, then he would, of course, have been wrong; but I think the claim may have some applicability to the business PC in 2008....

Tags: PC, Business PC, Unix, Desktops, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-14

How dangerous is computing to your health?

How dangerous is computing to your health?...Eat healthy, exercise often, and take time off to disconnect. Simple rules to live by! ]:)Back problemsSeveral years ago I felt like there was a knife in my back. It kept getting worse so I visited a chiropractor. As soon as I told him...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Vertical industries, computer, computing, health care, Preventive Medicine

Discussion threads 2008-05-05

RIAA sues Project Playlist

RIAA sues Project PlaylistThere are serious gaps with understanding itWhen you record a work there are two copyrights that may apply:c - represents the work (e.g. song, lyrics, written music owner)p - represents the production (e.g. master recorded medium owner)Takes me back to my degree in Music Industry where I...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, RIAA, Internet radio, RIAA Sues, Web site, internet radio station, music, Project Playlist

Discussion threads 2008-04-29

The tyranny of the majority

The tyranny of the majorityHi Paul, too true.What OS you use should be driven by the requirements specification matched to the particular strengths and weaknesses of each potential solution... not dogma.All operating systems have differing capabilities, and until someone produces something akin to HAL-9000 or Star Trek's LCARS no one...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, tyranny

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

Transitive virtual processing magic

Transitive virtual processing magicMissed a coupleRight after the launch of Windows NT, Digital Equipment also came out with a program that would not only translate, but would also optimize and store that translated code on-the-fly, for 32-bit x86 apps to run on the Alpha platform. The award-winning program...

Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Processors, Alpha, virtual processing magic, processing magic, FX!32, Digital Equipment Corp., Transitive

Discussion threads 2008-03-15