Archive for 'Open Source'
I am out of the matrix
Posted on 15. Aug, 2010 by Amit Jindal.
This evening when I started booting my reformatted laptop, I realized that I am no longer at status quo. Reminds me of the conversation in Matrix. At first Neo’s new world seems rather unreal to him, and he begins to doubt that he has entered a new world at [...]
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World’s nastiest trojan fools AV software
Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
Once again on Microsoft Platform: One of the world’s nastiest password-stealing trojans evades detection by the majority PCs running anti-virus programs, according to a study that examined 10,000 machines. Zeus, a stealthy piece of malware that sits on a PC and waits for users to log in to bank websites, is detected just 23 per cent of [...]
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Hot! - London Stock Exchange to abandon failed Windows platform
Posted on 04. Jul, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
When massive infrastructure relies on non-linux/non-unix, this should be expected. Although windows is good for quick upstart, major infrastructure simply cannot rely on it. Here’s what computerworld wrote: Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the [...]
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IBM Releases Open Source Machine Learning Compiler
Posted on 03. Jul, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
IBM is one of those companies that I admire. Through the years, IBM has done quite lot to promote Open Source and provide quite a big list of projects in the community. “IBM just released Milepost GCC, ‘the world’s first open source machine learning compiler.’ The compiler analyses the software and determines which code optimizations will [...]
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German Foreign Ministry: Cost of Open Source desktop maintenance is by far the lowest
Posted on 14. Jun, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
According to German Foreign ministry: ‘Cost of Open Source desktop maintenance is by far the lowest’ Open source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry. Schuster was one of the participants in a [...]
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Mono Migration Helper for .NET
Posted on 09. Apr, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
Mono project has recently introduced Mono Migration Analyzer (MoMA) for analyzing issues when migrating your applications to Linux. From MoMA website: The Mono Migration Analyzer (MoMA) tool helps you identify issues you may have when porting your .Net application to Mono. It helps pinpoint platform specific calls (P/Invoke) and areas that are not yet supported by [...]