Once a remote prospect, an important barrier in disk storage has become a reality: the venerable master boot record (MBR) partitioning scheme can't fully handle disks larger than 2.2TB (2TiB). With disks as large as 3TB readily available and with much larger RAID arrays common, alternatives to the MBR partitioning scheme have become important to understand. The heir apparent is the GUID Partition Table (GPT). Learn how to make sure your Linux system is fully prepared for the future of disk storage.

Microsoft has always understood that to win a platform war, you must engage the developer community. More than engage: Energize. Empower. Aggressive support for developers, through great tools, outstanding technical guidance and marketing assistance, propelled Windows past OS/2 so many years ago. It’s how Microsoft has remained the desktop leader for so many years.

But the world has changed, and in important new spaces (smartphones, tablets and the cloud), Microsoft clearly is lagging. Not only are consumers voting for non-Microsoft products, but developers are as well.

Take phones. Apple and Google, with iOS and Android, have raced out of the starting gate and left Microsoft plodding, well up the track and way off the pace of smartphones and tablets.

Mobile computing is probably the hottest topic for development and operations teams right now. Employees in companies large and small have various mobile devices, many of them personal, that they are using for work. Companies all over the world want to exploit the mobile market by providing customers and users with apps that make mobile computing easier. So, it is important for companies to think through not just the development of a mobile capability but also how they will deploy it and how they can ensure the continuity of the capabilities as these change over time. This article covers how DevOps (development & operations) can help address the issues of deploying different versions of apps to different devices.

There’s a lot of talk these days about DevOps, designing processes for coordinating software development teams with IT operations teams. The talk is being driven by companies challenged by a fast-moving market, an ever changing regulatory landscape, and transformational change. All companies today require agility in their business processes. While many companies limit the scope of DevOps to deployment automation, IBM takes a much broader view. DevOps is really about improved automation, integration, collaboration, and optimization of development and operations, the ultimate goal being improved business outcomes.

HTML5 will reshape the web experience and line-of-business applications. With the offline capabilities and local persisted storage features, you can deliver the same rich user experiences online and offline that were previously available only in proprietary desktop application development frameworks. In this article, learn how to leverage HTML5 offline capabilities and local persisted storage features. An example application illustrates how to avoid common problems.

The new temporal features in IBM® DB2® 10 provide rich capabilities for time-based data management. For example, a date range can be assigned to each row of data to indicate when a row is deemed valid by your applications or business. Tables enabled to track such business validity are called application-period temporal tables and their business time periods can be in the past, present, or future. For a parent table and a child table that have a foreign key relationship, the notion of referential integrity can be extended to consider not only the traditional key value but also the business time period of any given row. This article explains such temporal referential integrity and how time-based consistency can be enforced in DB2. The content of this article is applicable to DB2 for z/OS® and DB2 for Linux®, UNIX®, and Windows®; all included SQL samples were tested in DB2 10.1 for LUW.

The game industry is experiencing tremendous change as the traditional gaming landscape expands to include new types of games, platforms, and players. Game developers and brands have an opportunity to apply these big data analytics techniques to capture rich and varied behavioral and multi-structured game and player data. You can store this data in noSQL databases and integrate it with relational transactional databases to gain keen competitive advantages through deeper and more actionable insights.

Dieses Jahr wäre Alan Turing, der Namensgeber der höchsten Auszeichnung für Informatikforschung, 100 Jahre alt geworden.
Das Vienna Center of Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) nahm sich dieses Jubiläumsjahr zum Anlass, selbst eine Auszeichnung zu vergeben – den Turing Machine Award 2012. Das Ziel dieses Wettbewerbs ist es, Innovationsträgern von morgen die Gelegenheit zu geben, außergewöhnliche Ideen vor Vertretern aus Wissenschaft, Kultur und Wirtschaft zu präsentieren. Es werden Projekte gesucht, die den Mechanismus, die Technologie oder die Idee der Turing-Maschine kreativ umsetzen.

Twenty-four years after releasing her debut album, Melissa Etheridge says she's hit her creative stride. "To actually be creating at the peak of my creative abilities is very exciting for me," the 51-year-old rocker, who will release her 12th studio album, 4th Street Feeling, on September 4th, tells Rolling Stone. "This has been my favorite, most enjoyable time in the studio. I believed in myself more in this album than I ever have." The 12-track follow-up to 2010’s Fearless Love was recorded this spring in Los Angeles at HOB Studios with producers Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Norah Jones) and Steve Booker (Duffy), and is highlighted by the country-infused single "Falling Up," which you can now listen to exclusively on RollingStone.com.

Based on your feedback here, similar comments in Design Partner reviews, and some challenges we were having with explaining the whole thing to our extended IBM team, I revised our release strategy.

The new version of Notes/Domino shipping later this year will now be a single Lotus Notes/Domino Social Edition 8.5.4 release. As an administrator, you will be able to configure the code to deploy in the manner in which you intend. If you want it to just be a maintenance release, you won't have to enable the new features. If you want the new stuff including embedded experiences, you'll be able to deploy all of those components. If you want something in-between, that will be an option.

Beyond this release, it will be time to end the confusion. Our next feature release, planned for another 18 months or so past Notes/Domino Social Edition 8.5.4, will definitely increment the first digit. Whether that is a 9 or something funkier, we'll just have to see :-)

The straightforward conclusion to draw from their study, say the researchers, is that we should spend less on defence and more on policing, as Anderson explained: “Some police forces believe the problem is too large to tackle. In fact, a small number of gangs lie behind many incidents and locking them up would be far more effective than telling the public to fit an anti-phishing toolbar or purchase antivirus software. Cybercrooks impose disproportionate costs on society and we have to become more efficient at fighting cybercrime

If you want to work with "big data" without writing code or scripts, you'll want to look into BigSheets. BigSheets is a spreadsheet-style tool for business analysts provided with IBM® InfoSphere® BigInsights, a platform based on the open source Apache Hadoop project. This article teaches you the basics of using BigSheets to analyze social media and structured data collected through sample applications provided with BigInsights. You'll learn how to model this data in BigSheets, manipulate this data using built-in macros and functions, create charts to visualize your work, and export the results of your analysis in one of several popular output formats.

Java™ developers are accustomed to handling errors by throwing and catching exceptions, which doesn't match the functional paradigm. This Functional thinking installment investigates ways to indicate Java errors functionally while still preserving type safety, shows how to wrap checked exceptions with functional returns, and introduces a handy abstraction named Either.

This is the second article of a four part series focusing on the most important aspects of predictive analytics. Part 1 offered a general overview of predictive analytics. This article focuses on predictive modeling techniques, the mathematical algorithms that make up the core of predictive analytics.

In March 2012, version 3.3 of the Linux kernel was released (followed in by version 3.4 in May). In addition to a plethora of small features and bug fixes, several important changes have arrived with these releases, including the merging of the Google Android project; merging of the Open vSwitch; several networking improvements (including the teaming network device); and a variety of file system, memory management, and virtualization updates. Explore many of the important changes in versions 3.3 and 3.4, and have a peek at what's ahead in 3.5.

With IBM® Worklight® V5, a leading Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP), IBM expands its overall mobile capabilities across its product portfolio. This series of articles introduces the Worklight platform by showing how you can build mobile applications that leverage a variety of IBM products. Part 1 describes the process of setting up a Worklight development environment and creating a simple application that will be used as the basis for iterative development in subsequent articles.

Working with Linux® doesn't mean your work is restricted to command-line tools. True, most experienced Linux administrators use command-line tools for convenience and more efficient administration. However, the GNOME project provides some excellent tools for managing a Linux server using a graphical user interface (GUI). Using your Microsoft® Windows® background experience, you might find that these tools make the transition less dramatic.

Node.js (Node) is an I/O environment built on top of Google Chrome's JavaScript runtime — essentially, a server-side implementation of JavaScript. Node's asynchronous, event-driven I/O model makes it easy for developers with JavaScript knowledge to build high-performing, scalable, and highly concurrent web applications rapidly and run them in the cloud. This knowledge path starts with Node.js basics and takes you beyond them to using Node and supporting technologies to build an application, test it, and deploy it on a platform-as-a service.

You can’t just morph a federalscientist into a giant invertebrate that catches fire. That’s not an acceptable protocol. And the feds aren’t going to fund you anymore. Not when your boss is a self-flattening radioactive pancake.” In “Loco,” an original science fiction story by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling, desperate times call for desperate inventions.

... but, every once in a great while, the devil still opens hell's source repository and looses upon my screen a horror so foul that even one as jaded as myself weeps in bitter despair...