Awesome! 1,000 cores on a chip ... one tiny catch

  The Long View (Computerworld)

How do you fancy a 1,000-core processor in your next PC? Intel's proud to announce that it's working on one. However, you might not actually want it, as we'll see in The Long View ...

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Facebook social inbox: Disaster for enterprise email

  The Long View (Computerworld)

What can enterprise messaging developers learn from Facebook's email 'Project Titan'?
Monday's Facebook Messaging announcement wasn't quite what many had expected. It's not the latest step in some naively-imagined death-march of email. But it does have some interesting things to say to today's email developers, in enterprises and smaller businesses everywhere. What can enterprise email developers and administrators learn from Facebook's new ideas? Let's take a look, in The Long View...

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Restoring old backups: Lessons learned the hard way

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Ancient HP OpenMail backup restore request presented a pretty poser.
I've recently been helping a consulting client restore some ancient data. It struck me that there are lessons here for today's IT operations: lessons to be learned from the mistakes of the past. Mistakes we'll try not to repeat, in The Long View...

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Qantas A380 fly-by-wire control system didn't cause engine failure

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When discussing QF31, we need more science and less hyperbolic linkbait. Cooler heads should prevail.
This week brought us the so-called "engine explosion" and "crash landing" of a Rolls-Royce-powered, Qantas Airbus A380 double-deck superjumbo, at Singapore's Changi airport. Predictably, the media is full of uninformed speculation about what happened. Some are even blaming the aircraft's computerized, fly-by-wire control systems. Let's take a step back from all the hyperbole, and see what we actually know so far about the Qantas QF31 A380 engine failure emergency, in The Long View...

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Hurrah! Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman lose!

  The Long View (Computerworld)

So Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman both lost in yesterday's mid-terms (albeit unofficially, so far). I say: good. This is not a political opinion, though. Just plain old common sense, as is normal for The Long View...

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