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Posted on 09.16.07 by templeton @ 8:27 am
AMD’s native quad-core Barcelona processors are finally upon us, and The Tech Report has a comprehensive review pitting the new chips against their Core 2-based Xeon competitors. Performance and power consumption are quantified in a variety of tests, providing a first look at how upcoming Phenom desktop chips will line up against Intel’s Core 2. Filed under: General Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 09.16.07 by templeton @ 8:27 am
If you talk to any half-witted video enthusiast or ask an associate at your local big box retailer – bearing in mind that the two groups are pretty much the same – they’ll unmistakably tell you that HDMI is better than component, case closed, end of story. This is just based on tired assumptions of the entire audio/visual industry.
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Posted on 09.16.07 by templeton @ 8:26 am
The vaunted “$100 laptop” that MIT researchers dreamed up for international schoolchildren is becoming a slightly more distant concept. They are actually now slated to cost $188 when mass production begins this fall. The ‘$188 Laptop Project’ doesn’t have quite the same ring to it… Filed under: General Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 09.12.07 by templeton @ 12:39 am
Dubbed Ubuntu JeOS (Just Enough Operating System), the software has been stripped from drivers and utilities that are bundled with the regular Ubuntu Server distribution. There is no need for hardware drivers in a virtual system, and utilities are typically available in a server’s main operating system. “We can scale up the image. We have a minimal core. We can extend that to support even GUI applications. All that is done with the same packages that people already know from Ubuntu Server.” The Ubuntu JeOS (pronounced: juice) kernel has been optimized to run on VMware. Other virtualization platforms may be added based on customer demand, Shuttleworth said. A virtual appliance is a bundle of an application with operating system that users can load directly into their virtual machine monitor. This liberates them from the need to manually install and configure the operating system and application. The operating system furthermore can be tailored towards the targeted application, allowing for a reduction in the software’s overall size. This reduces the number of potential bugs, thereby increasing a system’s stability and security. Filed under: General Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 09.12.07 by templeton @ 12:34 am
The team behind the OpenVZ project will announce today the availability of its operating system virtualization software for the latest stable release of the Linux kernel. OpenVZ for Linux 2.6.22 now supports user ID namespaces for improved security, and has new process ID namespace code that makes live migration possible. According to Kir Kolyshkin, manager of the OpenVZ project, the process ID namespace code is expected to be adopted into the next release of the Linux kernel. “The code is in the mm tree (Andrew Morton’s) , from which it will be merged to Linus’s tree. Given the two-months kernel release cycle, we expect that to happen in about three months from now.” Kolyshkin acknowledges, however, nothing is “set in stone.”Kolyshkin says that the live migration capability in the most important feature of this new release of OpenVZ. “[Now] there is no need to do all resource planning ahead,” he says. “If the hardware is not capable, you just migrate your app to better hardware without any service interruption.” As long as you have at least two servers to work with, Kolyshkin says there is no downtime during migration.The new OpenVZ kernel software is available for download at the project’s Web site. Installation instructions, product documentation and a knowledge base have been posted on the application’s wiki.
Virtualization software vendor SWsoft created OpenVZ in 2005 as a collaborative open source project to correspond with the company’s Virtuozzo application in much the same way that Fedora corresponds with Red Hat Linux. Built on Linux, OpenVZ is typically used to help consolidate servers and as a sandbox for testing and development. Kolyshkin says it’s tough to pinpoint the exact number of OpenVZ users, but that the Web site attracts “tens of thousands” of visitors each month. Filed under: Cool and Good Idea and Linux Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 09.11.07 by templeton @ 12:57 pm
The first tear-down photos taken of Apple’s new third-generation iPod nano and sixth-generation iPod classic are in, revealing extensive use of adhesive inside the nano and a new support plate behind the classic’s noticeably thinner display. Filed under: Cool Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 09.10.07 by templeton @ 12:58 am
Storage options for devices such as cell phones, digital cameras, and portable media players are changing. While it used to be that you could buy a small SD card for a bit of storage, deferring to spinning hard disks when you needed more, that’s no longer the case. Filed under: Computers and General Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 09.10.07 by templeton @ 12:50 am
Network Attached Storage (NAS) has finally started dribbling into the consumer space, and we couldn’t be happier. It seems as if a combination of all those years of nagging about backing up and the onset of streaming media has woken up the general public to the marvels of network accessible storage.
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Posted on 09.06.07 by templeton @ 2:15 pm
Intel previewed its quad-core Tigerton processor way back in October of last year, but the company has just now let all that server-specific power loose on the general populace, with a couple of slightly scaled back versions also thrown in for good measure.
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