'Rising Tide' for x86 Servers Lifting Intel, AMD
March 13, 2010
Serverwatch: “Stating it believes server sales are being underestimated by Wall Street, Broadpoint AmTech’s latest report predicts both Intel and AMD will post better-than-expected earnings in the first quarter.”
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Novell's Motion to Allow Evidence: SCO Opened the Door
March 13, 2010
Groklaw: “SCO’s attorney Stuart Singer may have gotten carried away with his theatrical indignation. And when a party slips like this, what lawyers call opening the door, it can indeed have consequences. Novell was just waiting for a moment like this.”
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Digg Moves From MySQL to NoSQL
March 13, 2010
Datamation: “Social networking and voting site Digg is rewriting its underlying software infrastructure in an effort to improve performance and scalability. Part of that effort involves moving away from the MySQL database that has helped to power Digg since its creation.”
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Blake Stowell Email to Maureen O'Gara: "I Need You to Send a Jab PJ's Way"
March 13, 2010
Groklaw: “So. Now I know. Now we all know.
Blake Stowell, then the PR guy for SCO, sent an email to Maureen O’Gara, saying “I need you to send a jab PJ’s way,” and then right afterwards she wrote that invasive so-called expose, in which she revealed, or at least intended to reveal, things like who I called on my phone.”
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First Fedora 13 Linux Alpha Shows Promise
March 12, 2010
Netstat -vat: “The first alpha milestone of the Fedora 13 Linux distribution is now available and it’s loaded with a number of innovative features.”
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SCALE 8x: Color management for everyone
March 12, 2010
LWN.net: “Color management is sometimes unfairly characterized as a topic of interest only to print shops and video editors, but as Cruz explained at the top of his talk, anyone who shares digital content wants it to look correct, and everyone who uses more than one device knows how tricky that can be.”
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Survey of MySQL Storage Engines
March 12, 2010
Database Journal: “MySQL has an interesting architecture that sets it apart from some other enterprise database systems. It allows you to plug in different modules to handle storage. What that means to end users is that it is quite flexible, offering an interesting array of different storage engines with different features, strengths, and tradeoffs.”
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How to Create Space Scenes Quickly and Easily in Gimp
March 12, 2010
MakeTechEasier: “Creating a cool space scene can be done in a few minutes once you’ve got the basic method down, and Gimp provides several ways to go about adding random elements to keep things interesting.”
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Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Deployed on Intel Hardware
March 12, 2010
Softpedia: “Canonical, the company behind the very popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, recognizes the potential of the emerging market and has partnered with Intel and Eucalyptus to promote its Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) offering as part of Intel’s Cloud Builder program.”
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Kernel Log: Linux 2.6.34 goes into testing
March 11, 2010
The H Open: “Improvements include graphics drivers for recent Radeon GPUs and for the graphics cores of some Intel processors that are only expected to be released early next year. Another new addition is the LogFS SSD file system.”
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