The Scotsman - International - Xbox creator logs out of the game

The man credited with persuading Microsoft to gamble an estimated £4 billion on its Xbox games console has resigned, less than a week after the company revealed that sales had failed to take off in the way it had hoped.

via Scripting News - Gates Says Windows Can Not Be Taken Apart

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday the company has not tried to figure out how to remove elements of its Windows operating system, because the task would be impossible.

via The Register - Japanese 'Computenik' Earth Simulator shatters US supercomputer hegemony

Tokyo 20 April 2002: The Japanese Earth Simulator is on-line and producing results that alarm the USA, that considered itself as being leading in supercomputing technology. With over 35 Tflop/s, it five times outperforms the Asci White supercomputer that is leading the current TOP500 list. No doubt that position is for the Earth Simulator, not only for the next list, but probably even for the coming two years. In the New York Times, bench mark compiler Jack Dongarra compares the event with the Sputnik, hence he dubbed the Earth Simulator "Computenik"...

TOP500 Supercomputer Sites

To provide a better basis for statistics on high-performance computers, we list the sites that have the 500 most powerful computer systems installed. The best Linpack benchmark performance achieved is used as a performance measure in ranking the computers. The TOP500 list has been updated twice a year since June 1993. Here you can get information about all published lists.

Supercomputing '@Home' Paying Off for Other Research

Sometime late this spring, if all goes as planned, SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, will reach a milestone: it will have spent a million years of computer time sifting the electromagnetic noise emanating from the sky for a sign that someone or something is trying to get in touch...

Zope as MacOS X Service

This howto is a simple step-by-step procedure to allow Mac PowerUsers to start Zope as a service. When this could be necessary?

• When you are running OSX as a line-of-busisness server.
• When you don't want to start Zope from the command line.

Easy Publisher is a commercial, Zope-based, CMS. Looks interesting - especially as the price is virtually identical to Userland's Manila offering.

klingon programmers@Everything2.com

Top 12 things likely to be overheard if you had a Klingon programmer in your company...

The Register | Gates: GPL will eat your economy, but BSD's cool

Bill Gates took another shot at the Open Source question last week, and came up with some interesting new spin. Essentially, if your country standardises on Linux, then you're not going to have any IT jobs in your country, says Bill...

Ha!

via The Register - the totally gob-smacking drivel from a fundamentalist creationist in OBJECTIVE: Creation Education: Evolutionism Propaganda

However, these propagandists aren't just targeting the young. Take for example Apple Computers, makers of the popular Macintosh line of computers. The real operating system hiding under the newest version of the Macintosh operating system (MacOS X) is called... Darwin! That's right, new Macs are based on Darwinism! While they currently don't advertise this fact to consumers, it is well known among the computer elite, who are mostly Atheists and Pagans. Furthermore, the Darwin OS is released under an "Open Source" license, which is just another name for Communism. They try to hide all of this under a facade of shiny, "lickable" buttons, but the truth has finally come out: Apple Computers promote Godless Darwinism and Communism.

and later

ADDENDUM IV (4/21/2002): Apparently anti-Christian zealots -- as well as shocked Christians who have unwittingly become Mac owners -- are linking to this article, which explains the large number of emails we have received on this topic. More clues have come in showing the dark nature of Apple Computers. According to one of our readers, the new MacOS X contains another Satanic holdover from the "BSD Unix" OS mentioned above; to open up certain locked files one has to run a program much like the DOS prompt in Microsoft Windows and type in a secret code: "chmod 666". What other horrors lurk in this thing?