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Other Unix Links SuSE Linux 91 Professional "One of the great improvements is the addition of AMD64 support. Having both x86 and AMD64 support in the same retail box is an excellent increase in value -- you're getting a lot more for your money. That sentiment carries throughout the distribution: you're getting more in 91 than you ever did before. Even at $90 it's still half the price of Windows XP Home edition and you're getting enough software to do basically whatever you want to do."
Noel Fri May 14, 2004 ) An Interview with Eric Blossom "There are all kinds of interesting problems that need attention, and we think that GNU Radio will serve nicely as a free software platform for research. Folks are looking at wireless networking from all angles and layers: collision free media access layers, dynamic routing of moving nodes, appropriate transport protocols, etc. It turns out that TCP isn't a good transport for wireless. It will run over wireless, but it doesn't work all that well. The characteristics of the medium keep varying in ways that TCP doesn't handle well."
Noel Fri May 14, 2004 ) Learning Assembly Language is Still a Good Idea "Unfortunately, when software performance is less than optimal, these programmers generally don't know how to correct the problems with their software. They'll often spout things like "The 90-10 rule," or "I'll just use a profiler to correct the performance problems," but the truth is they don't really know how to improve the performance of their underperforming applications. It's all well and good to say, "I'll just find a better algorithm!" However, finding and deploying that algorithm, if one actually exists, is another matter."
Noel Fri May 14, 2004 ) Learning to use Audacity "Audacity is a free-as-in-GPLd, cross-platform sound editor for Windows, Mac, and Unix. I can tell you already that it's a gem, ranking up there in my all-time top ten list of free Linux applications. Before the review police start whacking away on this story, let me make one thing perfectly clear: This is not a review. I'll leave that to those who know a lot more about sound engineering than I do. This is the tale of an ordinary user learning how to use a kick-ass application."
Anonymous Fri May 14, 2004 ) Acoustic cryptanalysis "A powerful method for extracting information from supposedly secure systems is side-channel attacks: cryptanalytic techniques that rely on information unintentionally leaked by computing devices. Most side-channel attack research has focused on electromagnetic emanations (TEMPEST), power consumption and, recently, diffuse visible light from CRT displays. The oldest eavesdropping channel, namely acoustic emanations, has received little attention. Our preliminary analysis of acoustic emanations from personal computers shows them to be a surprisingly rich source of information on CPU activity.
Noel Thu May 13, 2004 ) Interview: Xandros and KDE "Rick Berenstein: Linux Global Partners, a NYC investment group, originally planned to invest in Linux companies which were developing applications or technologies that we felt would be essential pieces of a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows. We planned eventually to do a joint venture with one of the existing Linux distros and, in fact, started just such talks with Corel. But along the way Corel decided to divest itself of its Linux Business Division and we took it over, along with most of the development staff, and named the new company Xandros."
Noel Thu May 13, 2004 ) PostgreSQL 74 "PostgreSQL's architecture and Object-Relational features make modular extensions of the database functionality easy and accessible, much like Linux and Apache. And like those other open source projects, PostgreSQL has attracted some unique features to solve unique problems. PostgreSQL 74 release is in many ways a "performance release," with numerous changes designed to speed up queries and ease maintenance and management of large, enterprise databases."
Anonymous Thu May 13, 2004 ) The IPv6 Internet: Connect Today with Linux "Migration from IPv4 to IPv6 has been underway for a few years now, encouraged by the availability of IPv6 implementations on most operating systems and router platforms, and the availability of an IPv6 backbone that is being used for testing and deployment. In this article, I will provide a tutorial that will allow you to enable IPv6 support on your Linux machine and connect it to the IPv6 backbone (also called IPv6 Internet or the 6bone)."
Noel Wed May 12, 2004 ) DOSEMU and programming with PowerBASIC "I have used PowerBasic for numerous projects ever since it was Borland TurboBasic 10 but haven't actually installed or used it (or needed to) for maybe the past five or six years, ever since I really got into Linux. However, I have a current project/job/commission (whatever the word that's currently in vogue might be) that requires a DOS program, and I decided to see how PowerBasic runs under dosemu before I started dragging out one of my old DOS machines in the basement."
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