decades

Virtualization's MF Future is in its MF Past

Topix - Linux  Fri, 10/31/2008 - 21:02

"It may surprise you to know that virtualization existed on Mainframes for almost 3 decades before it existed on any other platform.


 

Brother HL-2035 Mono Laser Printer

Topix - Linux  Fri, 10/10/2008 - 02:00

A mono laser printer needn't be a hugely complex piece of equipment any more. The basics of the technology have been known for decades and its evolution has made it simpler and more compact.


 

Why Today's Programming is Still Similar to what it was Decades ...

Topix - Unix  Sat, 10/04/2008 - 22:39

My physics teacher likes to say that physics like to make problems they face look like ones that they know how to solve.


 

10 Linux commands you’ve never used

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Mon, 09/08/2008 - 01:47

It takes years maybe decades to master the commands available to you at the Linux shell prompt. Here are 10 thatyou will have never heard of or used.

They are in no particular order.


 

Opinion: Convergence advances open-source efforts

Topix - Linux  Wed, 08/20/2008 - 20:29

The debate between closed and open software development advocates have been boiling in the electronics and high-tech industries for decades.


 

Virtualization for embedded X86 multiprocessor applications

Topix - Linux  Sun, 08/03/2008 - 12:58

Virtualization of computer hardware has been used for many decades. The most widely noted early examples are those implemented by IBM on its mainframe hardware as a means to give its customers an easy upgrade ...


 

Keeping Unix Skills Uptodate with Hurd, FreeBSd, and OpenSolairs

Topix - Unix  Fri, 08/01/2008 - 09:42

Over the years I have been exposed o many Unix systems. Unlike previous decades there is a wealth of LiveCDs to let me explore Unix again.


 

Ubuntu is not a very good operating system !!

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Wed, 07/30/2008 - 06:49

It completely ignores decades of proven Unixy technology (like the command line and the toolbox approach) and presents users with complicated experimental solutions to simple problems which have already been adequately fixed ages ago.


 

Bill Gates to sign off at Microsoft

Topix - Linux  Sat, 06/28/2008 - 01:36

Bill Gates is spending his last day at Microsoft on Friday before turning his attention full time to philanthropy after decades spent building the US software colossus.


 

Why I've Joined the Cult of Mac

Topix - Mac osx  Tue, 06/10/2008 - 00:43

So, I finally gave in, after decades of refusing to purchase Apple hardware. My wife's laptop bit the bullet last week As I've done before, she got my current laptop as a "hand-me-down" , and I went looking for ...