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NASA Creating Online Multiplayer Video Game

Posted on 14. Jun, 2009 by .

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Space explorers, ready your virtual engines — three game developers have signed on to create NASA’s massively multiplayer online video game (MMO), called “Astronaut: Moon, Mars & Beyond.” NASA plans to let Virtual Heroes, Project Whitecard and Information in Place take the lead in creating a game that emphasizes fun first and foremost. The game [...]

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Non-biological Computer Viruses for a species known as windows

Posted on 14. Jun, 2009 by .

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How true, According to SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman: To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. It surprises me that the number of viruses/malware for windows is in such HUGE numbers. And they are on serious rise! In [...]

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Lightning strikes Amazon cloud, really

Posted on 13. Jun, 2009 by .

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It’s ironical and damn humorous, but it’s true. When you are in cloud, the lighting could strike. Why didn’t we think of this earlier. Maybe its the almighty telling us to be careful with the “cloud“. Amazon’s cloud was struck by lightning earlier this week. And that’s the truth. On Wednesday evening 10th June 2009 [...]

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How to force users to move – Windows 7 gets built in XP mode

Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by .

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When its comes to force users to upgrade, Microsoft seems to have found a way. As per the reports Microsoft’s new OS comes with compatibility insurance policy (sort of): Microsoft is adding a “Windows XP Mode” to Windows 7, in a move to encourage users to make the switch to the software vendor’s forthcoming operating [...]

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Raid Performance Shootout: Observed values for Hardware Raid-5 vs Raid-10

Posted on 25. Apr, 2009 by .

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When considering server performance, Raid is the most common way to achieve disk subsystem performance. When you are on a budget, the choices are very limited. But isn’t that when your creativity hits the roof? We needed cost-effective servers for virtualized environment. So we ran some hard drive benchmarks to see what we can extract. [...]

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Running XenServer on cost effective hardware

Posted on 25. Apr, 2009 by .

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XenServer from Citrix is one sweet piece of software. It kicks all the others free Virtual Machines servers to shame. We have been using XenServer 5 for a while now and we get absolutely brilliant performance. However there are a few things to consider when choosing XenServer for any real world use. The Guidelines we [...]

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Cloud computing for Business

Posted on 22. Apr, 2009 by .

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With ever increasing need for computing, IT industry has once again created a new buzz word. Its called computing in the cloud, or more clearly, cloud computing. I wonder why cloud? Why not phantom computing or something of the sorts. From Wikipedia: Cloud computing infrastructure as of 2009[update] consists of reliable services delivered through data [...]

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H-1B Visa Demand Plunges with Economy

Posted on 10. Apr, 2009 by .

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Business Landscape of US economy is changing rapidly. Skilled workers are finding better jobs in their own countries. The proof is the change in demand for H1-B (temporary work visa’s issued by US immigration department. Initial demand for H-1B visas is the slowest in years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, [...]

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Microsoft Anti-piracy Technology is Patent Infringement

Posted on 09. Apr, 2009 by .

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Some court rulings are just rich with irony. Today, April 8, a jury found that Microsoft infringed on Uniloc patents for product activation. Microsoft uses the technology to protect its software from theft. Who’s stealing from whom? Today’s jury verdict, ordered Microsoft to pay Uniloc $388 million. Gauging from rants about product activation, many people [...]

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Mono Migration Helper for .NET

Posted on 09. Apr, 2009 by .

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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 [...]

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