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Sun Microsystems – History

The initial design for what became Sun`s first Unix workstation, the Sun-1, was conceived by Andy Bechtolsheim when he was a graduate student at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He originally designed the SUN workstation for the Stanford University Network communications project as a personal CAD workstation. It was designed as a 3M computer: [...]

Advanced Micro Devices – Other platforms and technologies

AMD chipsets Before the launch of Athlon 64 processors in 2003, AMD designed chipsets for their processors spanning the K6 and K7 processor generations. The chipsets include the AMD-640, AMD-751 and the AMD-761 chipsets. The situation changed in 2003 with the release of Athlon 64 processors, and AMD chose not to further design its own [...]

Intel GMA – Software support

Mac OS X Mac OS X 10.4 supports the GMA 950, since it was used in previous revisions of the MacBook and 17-inch iMacs. It has been used in all Intel-based Mac minis (until the Mac Mini released on March 3, 2009). Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard contains drivers for the GMA X3100, which were [...]

Wine (software) – Third-party applications

Some applications require more tweaking than simply installing the application in order to work properly, such as manually configuring Wine to use certain Windows DLLs. The Wine project does not integrate such workarounds into the Wine codebase, instead preferring to focus solely on improving Wine’s implementation of the Windows API. While this approach focuses Wine [...]

DVD-Audio – DVD-Audio authoring software

Normal DVD(Video) authoring software usually does not support DVD-Audio creation, so there is some special software: Macintosh * Sonic Solutions DVD Creator AV& – The first DVD-Audio authoring solution available. A spin off of the popular high end DVD Video authoring package. It allows DVD-Audio authoring at the command line level only. Still widely used [...]

Replay Gain – Replay Gain-compliant audio players

* AIMP2 for Windows * Amarok for KDE: Native Replay Gain support was added in Amarok 2.1. . No native support is available for Amarok 1, but a [http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=26073 Replay Gain script] is available for Amarok’s script manager. As it is an external script, however, there will be a slight lag between the start of [...]

Oracle Open Office – Pricing and licensing

Traditionally, StarOffice licenses sold for around US$70, but in 2004, Sun planned to offer subscription-based licenses to Japanese customers for about 1,980 JPY (17 USD) per year (Becker, 2004). P. Ulander, a desktop products manager for Sun, acknowledged that Sun planned to expand subscription-based licenses to other countries as well. Sun’s website offered StarOffice for [...]

ZFS – Limitations

* Capacity expansion is normally achieved by adding groups of disks as a top-level vdev: simple device, RAID-Z, RAID-Z2, RAID-Z3, or mirrored. Newly written data will dynamically start to use all available vdevs. It is also possible to expand the array by iteratively swapping each drive in the array with a bigger drive and waiting [...]

Filesystem in Userspace – Examples

*WebDrive: A commercial filesystem implementing WebDAV, SFTP, FTP, FTPS and Amazon S3 *Transmit: A commercial FTP client that also adds the ability to mount WebDAV, SFTP, FTP and Amazon S3 servers as disks in Finder, via [http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ MacFUSE]. *ExpanDrive: A commercial filesystem implementing SFTP/FTP/FTPS using FUSE *GlusterFS: Clustered Distributed Filesystem having capability to scale up [...]

Rock (processor) – Server platforms

The Rock processor slots into the code-named Supernova line. Details of the server specifications were released into OpenSolaris Architecture Review Physical resources The Physical Resource Inventory (PRI) of the ARC 2008/761 indicates the Supernova platforms will support: IEEE 1275 OpenFirmware, platform virtualization through Logical Domains (LDOM), independent system controller (SC), and Fault Management Architecture (FMA) [...]

Benchmark (computing) – Common benchmarks

Industry standard (audited and verifiable) * Business Applications Performance Corporation * Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium * Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) * Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) Open source benchmarks * DEISA Benchmark Suite: scientific HPC applications benchmark * Dhrystone: integer arithmetic performance * Coremark: Embedded computing standard benchmark * Fhourstones: an integer benchmark * [...]

Comparison of the Java and .NET platforms – Runtime inclusion in operating systems

.NET/Mono On Windows, Microsoft is promoting .NET as its flagship development platform, by including the .NET runtime in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and 3, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7. Microsoft also distributes the Visual C# Express development environment at no cost. .NET Framework 3.5 runtime is not pre-installed [...]

Common Development and Distribution License – GPL incompatibility controversy

In the words of Danese Cooper, who is no longer with Sun, one of the reasons for basing the CDDL on the Mozilla license was that the Mozilla license is GPL-incompatible. Cooper stated, at the 6th annual Debian conference, that the engineers who had written the Solaris kernel requested that the license of OpenSolaris be [...]

SimpleHelp – Product Overview

SimpleHelp is remote desktop software created to enable computer companies to assist their clients anywhere in the world. It is hosted on a self-hosted web server operated by the company using the software. Both Technicians and Customers may then use a web browser to access the SimpleHelp server or a web page on the company’s [...]









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