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What Oracle's dropping Itanium means for you
Oracle's ( NASDAQ: ORCL ) announcement last week that it would stop developing software for systems using the 64-bit Itanium processor set off a firestorm of reaction from Intel ( NASDAQ: INTC ) and
Opera 10.5 will offer significant performance boost
A new pre-alpha developer build of Opera 10.5 was released a couple of weeks back, and it has quickly garnered the honor of being the first browser not using Webkit to achieve the JavaScript
SPOTLIGHT: Applying UNIX tenets to personal productivity
You might know a thing or two about writing good UNIX software but do you know how to stay productive? If not, you might want to apply the principles of UNIX development to your everyday life.
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How to: Create a media center PC with an old Xbox
Ever since you picked up your Xbox 360, your old Xbox has been gathering dust in a corner of the room--why not put it to good use again?
Schedule tasks in OS X without the aid of Unix
Sure, we showed you how to automate a backup process using SSH yesterday . But maybe all that command
IPv6 security issues may be significant
IPv6 has security issues that sysadmins need to start thinking about, expert Van Hauser said at the Hack In The Box conference this week. Companies that aren't using IPv6 networks still need to realize that modern versions of Unix and Windows Vista do support it, so that alone can create some issues. For example, IPv6 shares IPv4's vulnerability to packet monitoring attacks, and even the use of IPSec will not solve all problems. IPv6 will arrive sooner than people realize, he …
Progress for open-source Windows clone
You've heard of WINE, the Windows Emulator, which lets Windows applications run on Unix-based operating systems, but do you know about ReactOS? It's a decade-old, non-profit project to build an open-source clone of Windows itself. It's taking a long time time because Windows is huge, it keeps changing, there's an ongoing code audit to ensure nothing is copied from Microsoft, and the ReactOS team are mostly volunteers. Still, they reached a milestone this week, releasing networking support …
HP readies Unix updates for major fall release
Windows Vista isn't the only major OS upgrade on the horizon. Hewlett-Packard this fall will release HP-UX 11i v3, which is their first major Unix upgrade in three years. (Unix, analysts note, is doing just fine despite the popularity of Linux.) Scalable processor support and more integration with rival IBM's middleware are planned as new features. HP also plans more automation and virtualization support in version 4, which is still a couple of years away.
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