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- DiscountASP.NET Partners with Richer Components Tuesday, August 5, 2008 @ 2:12PMAugust 5, 2008 - Pasadena, CA — DiscountASP.NET today announced that Richer Components’ award-winning component, RichTextBox, and their new RichMessageBoard for ASP.NET, are available on DiscountASP.NET webservers at no additional cost.
- Recent Original Stories Sunday, July 20, 2008 @ 4:30PMLinux and UNIX-like operating systems in general are regarded as being more secure for the common user, in contrast with operating systems that have "Windows" as part of their name.
- Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 16th Nov 2005 01:53 UTC Saturday, July 19, 2008 @ 7:00AMAnd Linux dominates nothing. It dominates the supercomputer market. It is probably the most widely used operating system for webservers. It is the fastest growing operating system for servers in general.
- Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th Dec 2005 13:32 UTC, submitted by anonymous Friday, July 18, 2008 @ 12:30PMDebian is currently the fastest growing Linux distribution for web servers, with more than 1.2 million active sites in December.
- Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 26th Nov 2005 17:02 UTC, submitted by Mehta Bhai Sunday, July 13, 2008 @ 1:24AM"The Linux community was left stunned when Windows Server software outsold Linux in the server market. Gartner, Inc. recently reported that sales of Windows systems accounted for nearly 37 percent of all server revenue in the last quarter while Linux accounted for 31.7 percent.
- Recent Original Stories Sunday, July 13, 2008 @ 1:12AMBart Smaalders of Sun Microsystems has open sourced libmicro , a portable set of microbenchmarks designed to measure performance of basic system calls and library functions.
- The very first independent Nested Paging Virtualization tests Thursday, July 10, 2008 @ 3:55PMThe first generation of hardware virtualization was nothing to write home about from a performance point of view. In many cases, hardware virtualization was disabled by the OEMS to avoid problems, in other cases hardware virtualization was simply slower than the current forms of software virtualization. It was a step back from the highly optimized...
- The very first independent Nested Paging Virtualization tests Thursday, July 10, 2008 @ 3:40PMThe first generation of hardware virtualization was nothing to write home about. In many cases, hardware virtualization was disabled by the OEMS to avoid problems, in other cases hardware virtualization was simply slower than the current forms of software virtualization. We explained this in great detail here. One of the bigger problems was...
- Linked by John Doe on Thu 15th Feb 2007 17:56 UTC Sunday, July 6, 2008 @ 8:24AMShock and awe; Windows Vista has been released to the hounds (that would be us). As just about every publication has reiterated a thousand times over it took 5+ years of design and development and cost USD 5.5 billion both directly and indirectly.
- Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 15th May 2006 20:00 UTC, submitted by anonymous Sunday, June 22, 2008 @ 11:11PM"This mini how-to shows you how to dual boot between AIX and Linux operating systems in a clustering environment, where available hardware resources are limited. The information presented in this document is based on actual experience.
- Linked by Alcibiades on Wed 4th Jan 2006 18:04 UTC Thursday, June 19, 2008 @ 7:11PMLike a lot of people who have worked in the business, I find myself in conversations about computer security with people who are having problems or know people who have problems.
- Bots to blame for Amazon.com outages? Monday, June 9, 2008 @ 7:44PM New glitches add to intrigue Amazon.com suffered a fresh round of outages on Monday amid speculation that it was under a denial of service attack.…
- Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Jan 2006 14:43 UTC Sunday, June 8, 2008 @ 2:11AMTerrasoft has released YellowDog Linux 4.1. This new release of course incorporates the latest and greatest of the Linux world, but besides that it also features support for the latest Apple PowerBooks, beta support for Apple G5 PowerMacs with dual-core processors, and basic 64-bit development and runtime support.
- Related Articles Saturday, May 31, 2008 @ 2:41PMThe first webpage was served off a NeXTcube at CERN, Switzerland, developed by Tim Berners-Lee. He also wrote the first web browser, confusingly named WorldWideWeb - the world of web browsers has come a long way since then, more or less turning into a platform of their own.
- Computer Crime Laws Chill Discovery of Customer Privacy Threats Friday, May 30, 2008 @ 4:10PMHave you ever wanted to test whether an e-commerce website is keeping your data secure? The federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act -- and state statutes modeled on that law -- are so overbroad and vague that your curiosity could get you in deep legal water.
- Help Slashdot Test Our New Data Center Friday, May 23, 2008 @ 2:52PMAfter many years of living in California, Slashdot is preparing to move to a new data center in Chicago, and we need your help. We have our new site running a dump of our database from a few days ago. You can hit it at beta.slashdot.org. Please go there, post comments, submit stories, and do whatever you do normally. Or maybe abnormally- run crawlers, write poll spamming robots or something. If ...
- Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 8th Jan 2006 04:53 UTC Thursday, May 22, 2008 @ 8:13PMMicrosoft plans to market several versions of Vista but will distribute all of the OS bits with every product shipped so users can easily unlock and step up to more full-featured versions using electronic keys, sources said.
- Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Oct 2006 22:09 UTC Sunday, May 11, 2008 @ 6:13PMSun Microsystems says its new UltraSparc T1 microprocessor, nicknamed Niagara, is creating a big splash . Sun was set to report Monday that 60 percent of the trial units of Niagara, an open-source product, have been ordered by new customers.
- nearing a tipping point Friday, May 9, 2008 @ 4:00AM"This research report by a third-year graduate student examines the growing use of desktop Linux among governments in the US and globally. Drawing on published research and comments from industry analysts, the author hypothesizes that desktop Linux may be within government settings, after which adoption can be expected to accelerate."
- Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 22nd Sep 2006 04:48 UTC, submitted by Anonymous Wednesday, April 30, 2008 @ 4:26PMNeoSmart has published their Windows Vista RC1 Monster Review , which tries a kind of "thorough overview" of everything Vista will ship with this close to RTM. Especially interesting is the brief security run-down . And of course, there are screenshots as always.
- Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 11th Jan 2006 18:05 UTC Monday, April 28, 2008 @ 8:10PMBusinesses, educational institutions, governmental agencies and other organizations around the world are converting1 their computer operating systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux at an increasing pace.
- Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Oct 2006 22:09 UTC Friday, April 25, 2008 @ 9:21PMSun Microsystems says its new UltraSparc T1 microprocessor, nicknamed Niagara, is creating a big splash . Sun was set to report Monday that 60 percent of the trial units of Niagara, an open-source product, have been ordered by new customers.
