Exalytics is based on Oracle’s Sun Fire X4470 M2 server, which debuted at the end of June. A four-socket box based on Intel’s ten-core “Westmere-EX” Xeon E7 processor, it crams 1TB of DDR3 main memory and a mere six disk drives into a 3U rack chassis. The X4470 M2 is a perfectly respectable and [...]
Background:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/it_unprintable_OCkB6QLsQpe24xzRece8hO
Hewlett-Packard’s decision to buy UK business software company Autonomy — and the subsequent 20 percent drop in stock price the news produced — puts the world’s largest tech company in a vulnerable position and may make it an Oracle takeover target, The Post has learned.
For shareholders and insiders there were few [...]
From the Google News Blog: Every day, news organizations and journalists around the world dedicate significant time and resources toward some of the most critical types of coverage: exceptional original reporting, deep investigative work, scoops and exclusives, and various special projects that quite clearly stand out. Today, during a Google News workshop at the Online [...]
I switched to the new Facebook profile using the instructions from TechCrunch, (PS Huffington Post has a great writeup and video here - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/the-new-facebook-timeline-profile-how-to-get-it_n_976789.html - to show you how to do it). In summary, The new profile and apps were announced at the f8 Conference for Developers, which means those developers need to be able [...]
This is a project I did in college, I found it while redoing this website, and figured it may have some value:
Autism is a disability that affects the way a person communicates and relates to people around them. Though it describes a condition with wide ranging degrees [...]
Money Money Money Money – Many moons ago I made this animation about the accounting scandals – I know it’s not the most advanced animation, but someone may think it’s funny. It has a large cast of stars – Bernie Ebbers, Ken Lay, Dennis Kozlowski, Martha Stewart, execs from Adelphia (Rigas) and Arthur Andersen enjoying the fruits of [...]
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