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Two years ago, Robert Love, a senior software engineer at Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), unveiled a new open source project called Open-FCoE to the Linux community. In April, Open-FCoE moved a step closer to its goal when its FCoE initiator, along with the data center bridging (DCB) drivers, which provide the quality of service that organizations need to be able to run Fibre Channel over Ethernet on a unified wire (along with other traffic types), were included in the 2.6.29 Linux kernel.
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Tilera on Monday announced new general-purpose CPUs, including a 100-core chip, as it tries to make its way into the server market dominated by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.

Whoever heard of an Internet-based device with no Internet access? Or of a single-function electronic device in these days of the digital convergence? Enter the WikiReader.
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Helpful information about "Generate a .lib from a DLL with Visual Studio Code Retard".

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An executive is able to recover a stolen laptop after spying on the person using it with remote management software.
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Symbian has released the platform micro kernel, and supporting development kit, under the Eclipse Public License, proving, the pioneer in mobile operating systems says, that the Symbian Foundation is shifting to an open source model faster than anticipated.
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Tips on enabling few kernel options. Schedulers, Processor types, ACPI, HDD and network drivers.
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A small article on basic concepts of threading to help programmers.

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According to Microsoft employee Robert Morgan, future iterations of Windows, including Windows 8, could support a 128-bit architecture. Two weeks ago his now defunct LinkedIn profile disclosed that he had been working on "research and development projects including 128-bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel and Windows 9 project plan".
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The Linux kernel has several different IO schedulers. This article provides an introduction to the concept of schedulers and what options exist for Linux.
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A quick tool to rely on whenever you require a LiveUSB using LiveCD's in windows.
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A review on Microsoft's multi-kernel OS project.
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A good article on each of the OS features which is the OS providing better support.
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This tutorial shows how you can boot Linux over HTTP with boot.kernel.org (BKO). All that users need is Internet connectivity and a small program (gpxe) to boot the machine.
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A small tutorial on building your own Linux kernel.
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Good article on software code design. Posted by Tomás A. Müller and extract from Jeff Bay in The ThoughtWorks Anthology book from the Pragmatic Programmers.
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Many organizations can't understand why their software doesn't perform as expected, or why users make unexpected errors. According to David Crow, usability adviser at Microsoft Canada, and Jay Goldman, president of Radiant Core in Toronto, waking up to the need for usability testing is akin to hitting rock bottom. At the Free Software and Open Source Symposium at Seneca College in Toronto last month, the two offered a 12-step program for getting back on track, along with some recommended reading.
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Nice article talking about writing defect free software and the advantages from it. All the nine steps are required to achieve it.
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