Article by Neil Brown. Find it here...

Those who are working in Embedded Linux, this is a must read article. Find it here...

Intel is now shipping versions of Intel Compiler Professional Edition 11.1 for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Intel says the products help developers build, analyze and optimize performance of parallel applications for clusters using Intel 32- and 64-bit architectures. Read more...

An brief article on using keyboard shotcuts and commands to shutdown, reboot, hybernate and stand-by in Vista and XP. Find it here...

Google is weighing whether to encrypt its Web-based Gmail service by default, as suggested by a group of internationally prominent Internet security and legal experts as a way to mitigate privacy and security risks. Read more...

While lots of fanfare has been given to Microsoft's latest search engine Bing, which is really just Windows Live Search Improved, the true test of how Microsoft technologies will fare against Google is a Silverlight versus Wave battle, say the development folks at Zoho. Read more...

A review on Microsoft free antivirus software. Read more...

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One of the topics of ongoing interest in the kernel community is that of maintaining quality. It is trivially obvious that we need to maintain and even improve quality. It is less obvious how best to do so. One broad approach that has found some real success is to increase the visibility of various aspects of the kernel. This makes the quality of those aspects more apparent, so this tends to lead to an improvement of the quality. Read more...

For those that aren't exactly Computer savvy, but want to ensure that their computer's are secured, this brief primer on the explanation of computer security should get you started on the right path. Bear in mind, this primer IS very brief and could appear scattered at times, but rest assured that this author will continue to produce quality articles for better understanding and reading. Read more...

Good article extracted from the book "After The Software Wars,".

Decided to re-look at the problems of IO and scheduling across all platforms to see what has changed. Read more...

Microsoft released Hyper-V, its hypervisor based virtualization product, in the summer of 2008; but what’s the difference with Virtual Server? And why is Hyper-V a better product than Virtual Server? And what’s the difference with VMware ESX for example? In a series of articles I’ll try to explain what Hyper-V is, how it relates to other products and try to give some best practices regarding the use of Hyper-V...

A Good article on Hyper-V. Click here.

Google is introducing a new model, the GB-9009, which can index up to 30 million documents out of the box. Its minimum capacity is 15 million documents. Read more...