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Thursday, October 30, 2003
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Updated impressions of the G5 supercluster -- Comment()
I updated my story about the the Apple G5 dual supercluster at Virginia Tech with details from the TecCon Keynote.
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New virus hits computers: "A virus dubbed Sober which affects many versions of Windows is starting to spread more widely online." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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@Stake issues security advisories for OS X Jaguar: "Security consulting firm, @Stake issued three security advisories for Apple's Mac OS X operating system late last night. The advisories affect Mac OS X 10.2.8 and lower and do not appear to affect the company's recently released Panther operating system. In fact, @Stake is recommending users upgrade to Panther as a fix for the problems." [MacCentral] It is interesting to note that @Stake recently fired their Technology Director for co-writing the widely cited white paper Cyber Insecurity: The Cost of Monopoly. It was said that @Stake has done software evaluation research for Microsoft, which may have influenced the firing. I understand that these Mac OS X advisories are rather speculative in nature. Seeing the first Mac OS X worm or virus might not be too far in the future, though. But we'll see. We have been waiting for the first virus to appear for several years now.
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Confessions of the World's Largest Switcher: "I was in the market for a new machine. I was hoping to get ten teraflops by the end of the year. I'd never used a Mac and had been looking at Dells and IBMs. Then Apple released the G5 on June 23. A week later I bought 1,100 duals online at the Apple Store. I'm Srinidhi Varadarajan and I build Supercomputers at Virginia Tech."
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Open Source Software economics: "Linux has been around for quite some time, yet Apple came in and created a Unix operating system with a much easier to use and comprehensive UI, becoming the number one vendor of desktop Unix in a few short years. This demonstrates another pitfall of OSS: distributed part-time development on a wide range of projects (many of them competing) does allow for more choice, but it also results in slower progress, and multiple projects with half-implemented features and functionality."
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