Author: JT Smith
SGI lost $71 million in the 4th quarter of 2000, according to ZDNet UK, but a company spokesperson says, “This will be our comeback year.” Stock analysts are skeptical, as expected.
Category:
- Open Source
SGI posts big loss, remains optimistic
Cisco to build Euro VoIP net
Author: JT Smith
A little blurb at ZNet UK says, “Cisco Systems has linked up with cable company United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC) to build a voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network
across Europe.”
Communications (UPC) to build a voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network
across Europe.”
CVSSearch: A New Way to Search through Code
Author: JT Smith
Amir Michail writes “We have developed a new way to search through
source code that makes use of CVS comments.
source code that makes use of CVS comments.
You can try out a demo for KDE code at
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~amichail/cvssearch.
Any feedback is appreciated.”
Applied Data Systems’ ‘true sleep mode’ support for StrongARM
Author: JT Smith
Linuxdevices reports that ADS will demonstrate “true sleep mode” at the upcoming Linux World Expo in New York. They claim that with their support, the board and StrongARM chip draws a mere 0.01 watts while sleeping.
Cross platform packaging: A dream or something more?
Author: JT Smith
Are platform neutral packages a dream? A new project on Sourceforge has been setup to address this very idea, as reported by Slashdot.
Category:
- Open Source
Talking with John Heard of Sun about GNOME
Author: JT Smith
An interview with John Heard continues the line of interviews that LinuxPower is conducting with the companies behind the Gnome Foundation.
Category:
- Open Source
Supercomputing clusters
Author: JT Smith
Business 2.0 discusses clustering using Linux as the core. “For engineers and designers, bigger is better. Their data-crunching demands spurred mainframe computer makers to success decades before desktop PCs emerged. Speed remained the holy grail long after vacuum tubes and computer punch cards became obsolete. Now companies including IBM (IBM, info) and Hewlett-Packard (HWP, info) are proclaiming Linux-based “clusters” as the next generation of supercomputers.“
Category:
- Linux
Stormix gone bankrupt
Author: JT Smith
DebianPlanet has a short note on Stormix going bankrupt. Slashdot also reports on it.
Category:
- Linux
The LO newbie tests mouseless (midnight) commander
Author: JT Smith
John Gowin writes “Jim Fuller, the Linux Orbit Newbie in residence shares his thoughts on the powerful command shell workhorse Midnight Commander. From editing files to updating and installing packages, Midnight Commander is one of Jim’s favorite “newbie” tools. Yes I said Mouseless Commander. Originally, Midnight Commander had no mouse support and was so named. Later on when mouse support was included, the developers went out and asked the users to vote on a name for the product, which is how it ended up being called Midnight Commander. Note that it had to have the initials mc as this is the two letter command used to execute the program.
Read the article“
Read the article“
Category:
- Open Source
U.S. vs. Europe on Online Privacy
Author: JT Smith
An editorial on Slashdot picks apart a report on Online Privacy written by Consumers International. “A lot of the blame for the misreporting falls on the authors of the study. They described their study as “An international comparative study of consumer privacy on the internet”, when in fact it was nothing of the kind.“
Category:
- Programming