Monday, April 28, 2003

Users Want More From Server 2003. Enterprises need more interoperability. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis] I think it's interesting to read that some people want the ability to integrate more systems (platforms) and control into Active Directory.  I'm obviously missing something here.  What about a more open standard like LDAP?  12:41:04 PM    comment []

Unlocking Opteron's Potential. SuSE delivers ample scalability.Review: suse delivers ample scalability. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis] 12:11:23 PM    comment []

Two gonzo hacker books free under Creative Commons license. John Sundman has posted the full-texts of his gonzo hacker novel "Acts of the Apostles" and equally gonzo story-collection "Cheap Complex Devices" online as free downloads, under a Creative Commons license. John has self-published very slick paper editions of both titles that he sells for reasonable sums, and he's hoping that CC licensing will be complimentary with sales of the meatspace editions. Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] Cool.  May have to add at least one of these to the stack of reading I have backed up.  I do have to say - I'd rather read a paper book than an electronic book, so I might check out the meatspace editions. 9:49:46 AM    comment []

Schemix - A Scheme In The Linux Kernel. via Slashdot Schemix is a Scheme system, implemented as a patch to the Linux kernel. It aims to attain R5RS compliance while remaining small, fast and easy to understand. The intended use of Schemix is for exploration of the Linux kernel and for rapid, interactive prototyping of Linux drivers and other new kernel features. To achieve this, Schemix will attempt to make a large subset of the kernel functionality available to Scheme programs. Interactivity is via a character device, /dev/schemix which presents a REPL (Read, Eval, Print Loop) to anyone having access to the device. The perfect thing to combat Insecure Macho Love. [Lambda the Ultimate] How cool is that?  Prototyping drivers in Scheme!!  Too cool. 8:14:53 AM    comment []

Rational Digs Up Gems. Development projects should find a home in IBM research tools. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis] IBM is going to add resources that Rational has never had available.  The expectation is that will translate into more features and deeper functionality in the Rational products. 6:53:49 AM    comment []

IBM Hones WebSphere Portal. Seeks to offer Web alternative to Microsoft Office. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis] IBM is adding spreadsheet, word processing, and other productivity components to WebSphere Portal.  This allows developers to extend their applications without requiring Office on the users' desktops. 6:50:09 AM    comment []

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