via Scripting News - XML.com: Google's Gaffe

Google seems to be caught up in the hype of SOAP-based web services. Conversely, Amazon has recently released a program for its partners based upon pure XML, HTTP and URIs. eBay has long had an XML/HTTP/URI-style service.

In this article I demonstrate that Google's choice was technologically poor, compared to that of eBay and Amazon. I will show that a Google API based on XML, HTTP and URIs can be simpler to use, more efficient, and more powerful.

An interesting and thought provoking article. Well worth the read. My personal opinion? SOAP does not necessarily make a clean implementation ;-)

Eudora Tutorials

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.