With the U.S. economy and
IT spending finally
appearing to be making a
comeback and China and
India adopting IT faster
than you can say
symmetric
multiprocessing, why am I
predicting layoffs?
Sometime between the
years 1995 and 2004,
Linux reached the
mainstream of computer
users the world over. No
longer was it all about
Microsoft or the Mac. Now
there was a new sheriff
in town, and it was a
penguin packing some
serious heat.
In an all too familiar
saga taking place in
small-to-medium
businesses (SMBs)
everywhere, file/print,
Web, e-mail, and
application servers are
multiplying at an
alarming rate in response
to ever-increasing
demands for processing
...
Albert Einstein defined
success as 10 percent
inspiration and 90
percent perspiration.
Although he had no
inkling about the
emergence of Linux
Clusters for High
Performance Computing
(HPC), his words ring
true for designing,
bui...
This article discusses
the implementation
details for the new
device management methods
udev and HAL, now used on
all Fedora Core 3 and 4
systems for all devices.
It's time to relearn how
devices are managed!
Let's play word
association. I say 'Web
Hosting.' I bet 'fat
margins' didn't jump into
your head. More likely,
you thought of some of
the 'where are they nows'
of the bubble, like
Exodus and PSINet. Let's
do another round - I say
...
Whatever happened to the
days when a new college
grad could be sent to a
two-week developer's
course and come back
proficient enough to
develop and deploy small
departmental
applications? J2EE -
That's what happened!
In September, core
developers of Mambo, the
popular open source
content management
system, announced a fork
of the project, called
Joomla!, with virtually
all active participants
following the fork.
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Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's
Because AJAX moves so
much application logic
from the server to the
client, it forces many
developers to master a
wider range of web
technologies than ever
before. T
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha
With the arrival of
Yahoo! and its Yahoo! Go
Mobile 2.0 product,
another A-list brand has
entered the market.
Yahoo!'s presence, like
Apple's, expands the
number of