The chipmaker looks to the future with $1.27 billion purchase of Numonyx, a maker of NOR and NAND Flash microprocessors found in cell phones, digital cameras and mp3 players.
Is there a set of community approved rules to avoid vendor lock-in ?
I mean something one can show to a manager or other decision maker that is easy to understand and easily verifiable.
Are there some universally accepted set of rules, checklist or conditions that help detect and prevent vendor lock-in in an objective, measurable way ?
Have any…
<b>ServerWatch:</b> "Novell, the parent company of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, seems to have slapped a huge "For Sale!" sign on its front lawn. It's sad, but this famous enterprise OS maker may soon be little more than a mildly interesting footnote to history."
Besides patches for Microsoft Excel and Windows Movie Maker, Patch Tuesday includes a warning about zero-day attacks on some users via Internet Explorer 6 and 7.
Is there a set of community approved rules to avoid vendor lock-in?
I mean something one can show to a manager or other decision maker that is easy to understand and easily verifiable.
Are there some universally accepted set of rules, checklist or conditions that help detect and prevent vendor lock-in in an objective, measurable way?
Have any…
I recorded a bootable CD with the image that I downloaded from the Ubuntu site, using NTI CD MAKER.
My laptop had a problem and I prefered to get it fixed without installing an OS. Now, when I try to run this CD it shows the following error mssage:
Device driver not found: 'MSCD001'.
No valid CDROM device drivers were selected
Mouse driver…
I fail to understand how something uncomplicated as a countdown clock can fail - to much public humiliation of sponsor and renowned clock maker Omega - after only a few hours of operation.
The clock, which was 'developed by our experts and fully tested' according to a spokesperson who goes on to say that is 'not immediately apparent what has…
I have a database wherein the files are named abcd100.00b, abcd101.00b, etc. I need a code where when the user enters abcd separate then 100 to 110, all the files with the name abcd and in the range 100 to 110 should get displayed now the following code can display only the first four characters.
How do I implement this?
<?php
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<b>Datamation:</b> "Microsoft has only recently begun delivering its so-called "choice screen" for browser selection to consumers in Europe, but it's apparently already producing the hoped for effect, at least for one small browser maker."
<b>Standards Blog:</b> "It does leave open one tantalizing question though, that's harder to read: does the decision to charge for the plug-in indicate that Oracle is taking its ODF-compliant office suite unit seriously as a money maker, and plans to put serious resources behind it..."
Search Engine Optimization is the name of the game if you want to excel as an online money maker. Whether you talk about earning income through AdSense, selling your own products through an online store or simply selling other's products through affiliate marketing, you simply cannot take one step ahead without search engine…
<b>The Register: </b>"Ylmf OS 3.0 has been released from a Chinese software maker with the familiar Luna theme found in Microsoft's Windows 7 and Windows Vista predecessor."
I have a database wherein the files are named abcd100.00b, abcd101.00b,..... i need a code where wen the user enters abcd separate then 100 to 110 . all the files with the name abcd and in the range 100 to 110 should get displayed now the following code can display pnly the first four characters how do i implement this??????…
Security software maker is offering to reimburse customers who had to go into their own pockets to resolve a false positive that wreaked havoc on users' systems.
Afternoon peoples.
I am having a bit of a nightmare traversing a DOM tree properly. I have the following markup
<div class="node" id="first-wh">
<div class="content-heading has-tools">
<div class="tool-menu" style="position: relative">
<span class="menu-open stepper-down"></span>
…
I have a big problem (on Linux):
I create a buffer with defined data, then an OpenCL kernel takes this data and puts it into an image2d_t. When working on an AMD C50 (Fusion CPU/GPU) the program works as desired, but on my GeForce 9500 GT the given kernel computes the correct result very rarely. Sometimes the result is…
I utilize a NSFetchedResultsController (frc) with a Core Data store. I implement all the frc delegate methods. The table is sporadically updated by background threads. All the inserts, deletes and updates work fine, with the exception that updates to the frc's index key for rows toward to the bottom of the table (50…
Following function is used to get the page's base address of an address which is inside this page:
void* GetPageAddress(void* pAddress)
{
return (void*)((ULONG_PTR)pAddress & ~(PAGE_SIZE - 1));
}
But I couldn't quite get it, what is the trick it plays here?
Conclusion:
Personally, I think Amardeep's…
By now you may well have noticed that .NET Reflector 6 and .NET Reflector Pro are out in the wild. The official launch happened today, although we actually put the software out last Thursday as part of a phased release plan to ensure that everything went smoothly today which, so far, it seems to have done. …
Catching up after our sixth code camp here in the Ft Lauderdale, FL area. Website at: http://www.fladotnet.com/codecamp. For the 5th time, DeVry University hosted the event which makes everything else really easy! Statistics from 2010 South Florida Code Camp: 848 registered (we use Microsoft Group…
In this Issue: Andy Beaulieu(-2-, -3-), Alex Golesh, Damian Schenkelman, Adam Kinney(-2-), Jeremy Likness, Laurent Bugnion, and John Papa.
Shoutouts:
Adam Kinney has a good summary up of where to go for all the tools and toys: Install checklist for Silverlight 4 RC, Blend 4 Beta and Windows Phone…
In this Issue: ITLackey, SilverLaw, Max Paulousky, Alex Yakhnin, Paul Sheriff, Douglas, Jeremy Likness, Tomasz Janczuk, Anoop Madhusudanan, Adam Kinney, and Ashish Shetty.
Shoutout:
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 1-3, 2010 Web Development Anti-Forgery Request Recipes For ASP.NET MVC And AJAX - Dixin ASP.NET MVC 2 Localization Complete Guide - Alex Adamyan Dynamically Structured ViewModels in ASP.NET MVC - Keith Brown ASP.NET MVC Time Planner is…
Google I/O 2010 - Using Google Chrome Frame
Google I/O 2010 - Using Google Chrome Frame Chrome 201 Alex Russell Google Chrome Frame brings the HTML5 platform and fast Javascript performance to IE6, 7 & 8. This session will cover the latest on Google Chrome Frame, what it can do for you…