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Canonical offers Office 'alternative'LinuxWorld IBM is today expected to announce expanded backing for Ubuntu in a desktop and collaboration software deal to challenge Microsoft's Windows and Office. Canonical, Ubuntu's commercial sponsor, has agreed to re-distribute IBM's Lotus Symphony productivity suite with its public Linux repositories. More details are expected later today. The news follows IBM's decision earlier this year to offer a version of its Open Collaboration Client Solution (OCCS) for Ubuntu. Ubuntu is, according to the suits at IBM, "a Linux operating system that scores high marks on usability and 'the cool factor.'" The deal is expected to be...

For all it's been going on for years now, not everyone agrees with me that using girls (and young women) as altar servers might be worth keeping in the future.

Excerpt - SUN MICROSYSTEMS will announce today that its Java language, contrary to the prediction of many pundits, will be offered as pure "Free Software" -as Richard Stallman would say "free as in freedom"- under a GPL version two licence. Ponytailed CEO Jonathan Schwartz will announce the ground-breaking move in a webcast to be held later at 9:30am Pacific Time. Both Java SE -used on desktops - and Java ME - used on mobile phones and PDAs- will be included. The server-side Java, or Java EE will be available both under the GPL version two licence and the same Common...

Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/21/amd_open_opteron/AMD opens Opteron to all some By Ashlee Vance in Mountain View (ashlee.vance@theregister.co.uk) Published Thursday 21st September 2006 17:46 GMT AMD has expanded its friends and family program in an obvious way by allowing partners to plug their CPUs, accelerators and other components directly into Opteron processor sockets. AMD's unveiling today of Torrenza 2 - aka the Torrenza Innovation Socket - builds on an existing deal that let third parties tap into the company's Hypertransport technology. Now, AMD has agreed to open up the entire Opteron socket specifications to preferred partners willing to pay a licensing fee. As a...

WASHINGTON - Hundreds of thousands of California waiters, hairstylists, bellhops and other workers who rely on tips to boost their incomes could see their wages slashed under federal legislation the U.S. Senate could take up by Friday. The House already passed HR 5790, a far-reaching bill that would raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in nine years, reinstate tax cuts for teachers and those who pay college tuition and reduce estate taxes for the richest of Americans. But Democrats are blasting a provision in the GOP-written bill that would require that tips be counted as part of...

The House of Representatives has approved a bill that directs the Environmental Protection Agency to assess the potential energy and cost savings of purchasing energy-efficient servers for federal government and business data centers. On Wednesday, the House passed H.R. 5646 by a vote of 417-4. Studies have shown energy efficient servers can save up to 80 percent in electricity and cooling costs, according to co-sponsor Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.). Between 2005 and 2009, the U.S. server market is expected to grow from 2.8 million units to 4.9 million units. This spike in server demand will result in soaring energy costs...

A BigMac and large chocolate shake will cost you more than $5.00.Two gallons of gas will cost you more than $5.00.A pack of cigarettes, around $5.00A movie tickets will cost more than $5.00 Most of us blow five bucks on crap several times a month.If everyone gave 5.00 a month to FR, we wouldn't need Freepathons any longer.Heck, it's worth five bucks a month just to be IBTZ.Help keep FR up and running.

The Virgin Mary and St Joseph, both faceless, seek logdings - an illustration from the front cover of the Diocesan newspaper. What a contrast with MariaHilf (Mary Helper), one of the major pilgrimage shrines in the Diocese. The retreat centre of the Diocese has been placed under the patronage of Mariahilf. It is also called Spectrum Church. The Germans trying to keep up with the Austrians and their plague of rainbow churches. On the 8th December, they forgot the Feast of the Immaculate which the rest of the Catholic world were celebrating but rather celebrated a Festival Mass to commemorate...

Mercury Computer Systems has released its first product based on the IBM Cell BE (Broadband Engine) processor. This announcement follows up on Mercury's June announcement that it was partnering with IBM Engineering & Technology Services to integrated Cell technology into a range of products that address computationally-intensive applications. Mercury's Dual Cell-Based Blade is aimed at the company's traditional target markets, which include defence and aerospace, medical and commercial markets like seismic and semiconductor capital equipment, and it will mostly be distributed through Mercury's OEM channels as well as through its integrator channels. According to Randy Dean, vice president of...

System Administrator Appreciation Day - A special day, once a year, to acknowledge the worthiness and appreciation of the person occupying the role, especially as it is often this person who really keeps the wheels of your company turning.

Tyan and AMD Unleash the Ultimate 8-Way Platform and Server System TAIPEI, TAIWAN, June 1st, 2005 - Eight-way systems are available now, but access to such systems has been limited to the upper echelon of many customer bases, limiting the adoption rate and potential for 8-way processing to truly add value to many organizations. Enter the Tyan Thunder K8QW (S4881): the ultimate in 8-way processing platforms, and its system-level counterpart, the Tyan Transport VX50 (B4881). The design and implementation of the Thunder K8QW (S4881) offers the option to upgrade to four or eight-way processing capabilities. Multiple features are included in...

COMPUTER criminals are coming up with ever stealthier ways to make money. Rather than attack PCs or email inboxes, their latest trick is to subvert the very infrastructure of the internet, the domain name system (DNS) that routes all net traffic. In doing so, they redirect internet users to bogus websites, where visitors could have their passwords and credit details stolen, be forced to download malicious software, or be directed to links to pay-per-click adverts. This kind of attack is called DNS cache poisoning or polluting. It was first done by pranksters in the early years of the internet, but...

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<p>GOP staff members of the Senate Judiciary Committee had free access to sensitive Democratic computer files because of what investigators termed a “significant lack of security” on the committee’s network.</p> <p>A report by the Senate sergeant at arms has blamed the poor controls on the IT administrator’s inexperience and lack of training.</p>

Two words come immediately to mind to describe Apple's Xserve G5: power and choice. The Xserve G5 is a rack-mounted server product designed to work with Mac OS X Server to create a powerful and highly configurable server. And like the original Xserve, the new Xserve G5 continues to illustrate Apple's commitment to a high-performance server platform -- something that until recently was lacking in Apple's product scheme. The Xserve G5 isn't a product that most mainstream Mac users will find interesting (except for perhaps diehard Mac fans). But it is a product that should appeal to system and network...

Sun Microsystems is placing Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chip at the center of its low-end server strategy, starting with a dual-processor system, to be announced next month, and four- and eight-processor systems coming later. Sun plans to announce the dual-Opteron machine, called the v20z and with a starting price of less than $3,000, at its first quarterly news event of 2004, planned for Feb. 10 in San Francisco, sources familiar with the plan said. The announcement is expected to share the stage with details about how Sun's high-end products are being updated with the company's new UltraSparc IV processor....

...with its upgraded server and RAID systems as well as new clustering and grid technologies. What's stunning isn't that Apple Computer Inc.'s engineers can, say, design a server with two 2-GHz G5 processors, 1GB of memory, storage capacity of 80 to 750GB and loads of other goodies all in a slim 1U package (a mere 1.75-in. thick). No, what's stunning is that Apple's marketers will price the Xserve system at $3,999. That makes the long-reputed price-gouging Macintosh maker the price leader for dual-CPU servers by a couple of bucks. But when you add in Windows per-client pricing, the savings become...

Just looking to find fellow FReepers who play "Army Operations" -- America's Army -- especially now that the official servers are on hiatus. I play as SAW_fan

NEW YORK (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N reclaimed the top market share spot among computer server companies worldwide during the second quarter, pushing Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N back into second place, according to market research firm IDC. IBM, which makes everything from computers based on Intel Corp. INTC.O microprocessors to giant mainframe systems that use proprietary semiconductor technology, had 30.4 percent of global server systems revenue during the quarter. HP, which held the No. 1 spot in the first quarter, had 27.7 percent of total revenues. The overall server market amounted to $10.62 billion in revenues, a slight increase...

The U.S. government has issued a stern warning that computer hackers may be preparing to launch a sweeping attack that could potentially compromise millions of computers running Microsoft Corp.'s popular Windows operating systems. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's cyber-security branch reported that it had detected a dramatic increase in Internet-wide scanning for vulnerable computers. In an unusually ominous alert, the department warned the threat could cause a "significant impact" on the Internet. Experts advised computer users to apply a free repair patch that Microsoft has offered on its Web site since July 16, when it acknowledged that...

IBM will announce a new low-end server Wednesday, its first Power processor-based system that can run the Linux operating system without needing IBM's AIX as well. IBM's pSeries machines already are available with Linux but have also required AIX, IBM's version of Unix. Now, as expected, Big Blue has modified Linux sufficiently that its p630 servers will start up without AIX. The p630 is the lowest-end product to use IBM's 64-bit Power4 processor, and Big Blue is positioning the product as a lower-cost Linux alternative to Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based offerings. Itanium, like Power4 and Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc, is a 64-bit processor...

IBM and Linux our biggest threats - Microsoft By ComputerWire Posted: 07/26/2002 at 06:47 EST IBM and Linux combined represent a threat and inspiration as Microsoft Corp drives into enterprise computing, top company executives said yesterday. Computing giant IBM wages war against Microsoft in lucrative corporate accounts while Linux, the low-coast threat to Windows, wins supporters in fertile developer communities. Speaking at Microsoft's 2002 Financial Analysts Day yesterday, executives heading-up Microsoft's developer and enterprise server divisions spoke with frankness. They also revealed product and strategic initiatives to combat the double-headed threat. Eric Rudder, senior vice president developer and platform evangelism,...

Opteron and Itanium: Two Roads to 64-bit ComputingBy Johan De Gelas Friday, July 5, 2002 7:51 AM EDT A flood of articles have already been written about AMD's Opteron, otherwise known as Sledgehammer and Clawhammer DP. Quite a few editorials believe it will become a very popular server and workstation CPU which will force Intel to follow in AMD's footsteps and introduce 64-bit extensions in their current 32-bit x86 line. At the same time, Intel and many industry analysts claim that 64-bit CPUs for the workstation and desktop are more of a marketing gimmick than anything else, at least...

Sock'it'to'em ScottBy Eva Glass, 08/05/2002 20:18:48 BSTI TOOK A TRIP over to Old Blighty last weekend – my, oh my, that old place really needs a shake up. But on my travels I met someone from Sun Microsystems who tipped me the wink about the "close connection" between it and AMD. He told me, and said that I should keep it quiet, that Sun will definitely use Opterons when the CPUs formerly known as Sledgehammer launch. Better than that – Sun will sell boxes containing multiple Sledgehammers under its own brand name. What are the reasons for this? It's not,...