Intel has announced that its Haswell architecture, due to ship some time in 2013, will include hardware support for transactional memory.

Transactional memory is a promising technique designed to make the creation of reliable multithreaded programs easier. It does this by using a transactional model wherein complex operations can be performed concurrently, in isolation from each other, with those operations either completing or being undone as if they'd never been started—a model that developers are already familiar with from database programming.

I’ve been working, during the past few months, on Firefox startup performance, with a particular focus on I/O, even more particularly focusing on the core library: libxul. As I’ve been saying all along, my current work is focused on GNU/Linux systems, though some of it has a direct impact on OSX, and similar work is most probably applicable on Windows.

The Computer Sciences Corporation has had to bite the bullet and take a $1.49 billion write-off in the fall out of a catastrophic NHS IT project.

It is thought that the write off is the single largest for a UK IT project, after plans to implement a nationwide patients record system hit the rocks.

Perl Data Language (PDL) – the extension that allows Perl to quickly and compactly store and manipulate large N-dimensional arrays – has been updated to version 2.4.10 and adds automatic multi-thread parallelisation support.

In yet another episode in Hollywood’s year-long legal battle with one of the world’s biggest cyberlocker services, the MPAA has now drawn Google into the dispute. The MPAA says that Google holds valuable information on Hotfile and should produce it, but the search giant is refusing without the file-hoster’s consent. Hotfile says ‘no’ on the basis that the deadline for discovery expired last year.

The EU followed in the footsteps of Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States, who already signed it last October. This brings ACTA a step closer to passing, but individual EU member states and the European Parliament still have to ratify the treaty later this year.

To prevent this from happening, hundreds of thousands of people across the world are taking to the streets today, and millions more are expected to do their part online. In Europe demonstrations are being held in more than 200 cities, the largest in Sofia, Bulgaria, with more than 50,000 participants.

Da Busybox unter der GPL steht, viele Firmen sich aber einen Dreck um Copyright scheren, wenn es sie selber statt ihre Endkunden betrifft, wird es gerne in Router und andere Geräte eingebaut und ist dann Gegenstand einer Lizenzklage, die am Ende dazu führt, daß die Firmen ihre Firmware offenlegen müssen, weil sie zu faul sind, selber zu programmieren und zu blöd, sich genau das Urheberrecht zu halten, für dessen Verschärfung sie Unsummen an die diversen Lobbyfeen bezahlt haben (wir reden hier unter anderem von Sony).

Release 2.0 of the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise introduces several new features. Two of these features are the ability for an IBM SmartCloud Enterprise account to have multiple virtual private network tunnels (VPNs) into a IBM SmartCloud Enterprise data center and multiple virtual local area networks (VLANs) in each data center. The authors examine the details of these new features.

This series explores the popular CoffeeScript programming language, which is built on top of JavaScript. In Part 1, you learned about the perks for developers, set up the CoffeeScript compiler, and used it to create code that was ready to run in a browser or server. In this article, wade deeper into the CoffeeScript language. Use CoffeeScript to solve several programming problems, with a mathematical flavor to them, from Project Euler. Example source code is provided.

Learn how to add a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication module to MediaWiki that will allow it to authenticate users against an LDAP directory. Gain a better understanding of MediaWiki, Apache Directory Services (ApacheDS), and Apache Directory Studio, and how you can use them to create an LDAP directory for testing.

Viele hatten vorher bei Culina per Mail angefragt, wo das Online-Formular zur polizeilichen Teilnahmeanmeldung zu finden sei. Für die meisten ist es ihre erste Demo. Die Fahnenschwenker sind unter 30, ihr Leben findet im Netz statt. Sie schreiben keine SMS, sie twittern. In ihr Netzleben wollen sie sich nicht einfach hineinreden lassen, nur weil Rechteinhaber auf ihr Eigentum bestehen. Sie haben Online-Petitionen und Protestmails geschrieben, wütend getwittert und gebloggt, der virtuelle Lärmpegel stieg. Im Lauf der Woche fingen dann die ersten Politiker der Koalition an, Acta zu kritisieren. Am Freitag verkündete schließlich die Bundesregierung in einer Kehrtwende, sie werde Acta vorerst nicht zustimmen.

Und später wohl auch nicht. Acta wird nach Brüssel abgeschoben, die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass es das EU-Parlament im Sommer ebenfalls zu den Akten legt, ist groß. Seit Freitag ist Acta tot.

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This morning, on a conference mailing list, I made some disparaging remarks about Node.js (the title of this post, in fact). A couple people asked me why I felt that way. Rather than respond individually, I'll just list my reasons here

he Swedish prosecutor sent out a memo in 2006 saying that TPB wasn’t guilty of “main” crimes — at best it aids and abets (he also mentioned that the people running TPB were very clever). But Hollywood was not happy with this and forced the Swedish Minister of Justice to visit the White House and talk about it. The United States told Sweden that if they didn’t get rid of the site, they would not be allowed to trade with the U.S.!

The minister (illegally) told the prosecutor what had happened which forced him to raid TPB — only a few weeks after sending out that memo about how legal it was.

Evidently, Warner Brothers felt that the investigation was taking too long. The studio contacted the police officer in charge of the investigation (one person that worked mostly by himself) and before I had even been questioned by him, he interviewed for a job with Warner Brothers.

You get what you pay for. But having said that, there are some decent budget surround systems you can buy at Costco or Walmart that really aren’t bad. Everybody has their budget; the hi-fi world will tell you if money is no object you can get better results out of every component - even the surface the amplifier sits on. Pro sound people have different expectations; they are only concerned that a piece of gear works and allows them to do their job. Hi-fi people spend huge amounts of money for tiny improvements, and pro sound guys will say, “I can spend half as much and get the results I need.”

RFC 4255 specifies a standard for using the DNS to securely publish Secure Shell (SSH) key fingerprints. We've discussed that here before and there is a gotcha you should be aware of before deploying the records.

Kommt in die Cloud, haben sie gesagt. Da ist alles so super, haben sie gesagt ...

Over the years, I have read hundreds of license agreements, looking for little gotchas and clear descriptions of rights. But I have never, ever seen a legal document like the one Apple has attached to its new iBooks Author program.

Ich komme aus einer fernen Vergangenheit: Bei uns starteten Videorekorder magisch zum Sendungsstart, Filme hatten Zweikanalton und Bücher konnte man weiterverleihen.

Zeigt mir, welchen Fortschritt ihr gemacht habt.

Es werden Zeiten kommen, in denen wir nur noch in Bordellen und Mörderspelunken ein offenes WLAN finden werden. Und wir werden uns von dort per VPN zu Gingrichs Mondkolonie verbinden, die grade ihre Unabhängigkeit erklärt hat und den Cyberrebellen beisteht.