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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 | Computer | No Comments
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No Jobs, No Apple?
Thursday, January 15th, 2009 | Computer | 1 Comment
It’s official: Steve Jobs is stepping down–temporarily–from his post at Apple Computer, taking a medical leave of absence to deal with a health problem that has turned out to be “more complex” than the celebrity CEO had originally disclosed prior to the Macworld Expo event earlier this month. On a personal level, I can’t help but have a great deal of sympathy for Jobs and his family at this undoubtedly difficult time. But as a longtime Apple observer, Mac user, and general technology wonk, I can’t help wondering what might come of Apple if and, inevitably one day, when Jobs eventually retires permanently from his role as the company’s spiritual and temporal leader.
What would Apple become in a post-Steve Jobs world? It’s hard to say. Undoubtedly there is enough talent in the company’s engineering and design teams to keep making innovative products that consumers will covet. But is there anyone who can lead that team as effectively as Jobs? Can anyone make the tough and risky calls that have defined Jobs’ resurrection of that company? I have a hard time imagining any of the Apple’s current execs–including the company’s low-key COO Tim Cook, who will now be filling in for Jobs–stepping into that role with the same fire and intensity that have become synonymous with the name of Steve Jobs. And without that caliber of obsessively driven leadership, it’s difficult to imagine how Apple, the underdog brand in the PC platform war, can continue driving its market share upward against Microsoft’s pervasive presence.
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 | Computer | No Comments
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 | Computer | No Comments
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Google’s answer to Web app security: Native Client
Monday, December 15th, 2008 | Computer | 3 Comments
Google is exploring a way to run code fast and natively in a Web browser without worrying about security issues. To that end, the search giant unveiled its new Native Client open source project on Monday.
Native Client, abbreviated by Google as “NaCl,” is currently available for testing as research release version 0.1. The solution promises to reduce data transfers between Web servers and the browser client to better run Web applications in x86-based machines.
“With the ability to seamlessly run native code on the user’s machine, you could instead perform…actual image processing on the desktop CPU, resulting in a much more responsive application by minimizing data transfer and latency,” according to Brad Chen, a member of the Google Native Client team, writing on the Google Code Blog.
Chen pointed out that these tasks can be performed today using “a combination of JavaScript and server side processing.” However, that approach is “painfully slow” because of the data chunks that must be transferred.
On the other hand, local CPU processing of data using Web applications poses security issues, which is the main question that Google is trying to address with the release of Native Client.
“To help protect users from malware and maintain portability, we have defined strict rules for valid modules,” Chen wrote. “Our approach is built around a software containment system called the inner-sandbox [that] uses static analysis to detect security defects in untrusted x86 code.”
These security measures specify a set of structural criteria for all modules. For instance, “modules may not contain certain instruction sequences,” according to Chen. The goal is to help developers to create “safer and more dynamic applications that can run on any OS and any browser,” Chen wrote.
The initial release of Native Client is a hefty download that includes compilation tools and runtime. It also has a software development kit to write portable code modules that will work in Firefox, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome.
Currently, Native Client is not supported in Internet Explorer. While Microsoft’s ActiveX technology allows code to run natively, a Google white paper (PDF) explains that it requires the “manual establishment of trust relationships through pop-up dialog boxes…[that] have been inadequate to prevent execution of malicious native code.”
The white paper asserts that in contrast to ActiveX, “NaCl is designed to prevent such exploitation, even for flawed NaCl modules.”
Some readers of the Google Code Blog have compared the Native Client technology with an Adobe solution code-named “Alchemy.” The Alchemy solution lets developers run C and C++ code via the Adobe Flash platform.
Native Client will run on any Windows, Mac or Linux system with an x86 processor. Chen explained that Google is “working on supporting other CPU architectures (such as ARM and PCC) to make this technology work on the many types of devices that connect to the Web today.”
Computer Virus Hits U.S. Military Base in Afghanistan
Saturday, December 6th, 2008 | Computer | 4 Comments
KABUL—The largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan was hit by a computer virus earlier this month that affected nearly three quarters of the computers on the base, U.S. News has learned.
This wasn’t the first such cyberattack, and officials said that earlier incarnations of the virus had exported information such as convoy and troop movements here. It was not clear precisely what information, if any, was being pulled from Department of Defense computers by this latest virus, they said.
U.S. military spokesmen at Bagram declined to comment, citing operational security.
But privately, U.S. military officials express grave concerns. The Chinese “learn a lot from these attacks,” says one U.S. military intelligence official. “Like how our logistics and other systems work.”
Stuck On Tape
Monday, December 1st, 2008 | Computer | 6 Comments
For large enterprises, tape libraries are still a cost-effective storage option!
As disk prices fall, many organizations are switching from tape storage to disk-based virtual tape libraries (VTL) as the preferred means of long-term data storage. The Agriculture Department’s Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) in Alexandria, Va., for example, started using NetApp Virtual File Manager to back up its servers onto a set of NetApp FAS200 series devices. “Since doing disk-to-disk backup, tapes are hardly being used,” said Harold Russell, a Wyandotte NetTel project manager working at FNS.
Despite predictions of their imminent demise, however, tape libraries — which have been around since Remington Rand built the Uniservo in 1951 — still have a place in the data center.
FNS has two Spectra Logic Spectra 20K tape libraries, each with four drives and 24 tape slots, which it still uses for backing up its test environment. And next summer, FNS will start doing monthly archives of its e-mail messages to meet the seven-year retention requirements.
“Knowing the federal government, we will probably never completely dump tapes, unless we switch to another durable type of media like optical disks,” Russell said.
Disk vs. tape
“Tape is the most cost-effective storage out there, and people will continue to leverage tape products for many years to come,” said Tom Coughlin of consulting firm Coughlin and Associates.
Robert Stevenson, managing director of storage research at TheInfoPro, said tape usage is particularly strong among large organizations.
“They are starting to see more regulatory compliance requirements, so we are not seeing a reduction in tape growth,” he said.
Smaller organizations, however, are adopting VTLs as an alternative to tape. Those that have 15,000 to 20,000 tapes are weaning themselves off tape, and many could be completely off tape in about five years. Those with less than 15,000 tapes are using VTLs as a storage consolidation method.
“They like VTLs, not so much because they have a bottleneck in terms of their tape drives being busy, but they have different tape drive technologies,” Stevenson said. “They are using VTL to consolidate onto one single tape format while being more aggressive on trying to minimize tape creation.”
Coughlin said one main driver in keeping tape is not only the equipment and supplies cost but also the power consumption differences between disk and tape storage.
“As fuel prices go up and energy costs increase, tape automation systems can be a big part of using your resources more effectively and lowering your total operating cost,” he said.
Intel, Micron Venture Starts Making 34nm Flash Chips
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 | Computer | 4 Comments
A company owned jointly by Intel and memory maker Micron Technology started mass producing NAND flash memory chips using tiny 34-nanometer technology, the companies said Monday.
NAND flash memory is used to store songs, movies and more in iPods, iPhones and a range of other consumer electronics goods.
The Intel-Micron joint venture, IM Flash Technologies, expects 50 percent of the chips at its factory in Lehi, Utah to be made using 34nm technology by the end of this year.
The nanometer measurement describes the size of the smallest transistors and other parts that can be manufactured on a single chip. There are about three to six atoms in a nanometer, depending on the type of atom, and there are a billion nanometers in a meter.
Chip makers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) and Intel currently mass produce chips using technology as tiny as 40nm to 45nm. Generally, the more transistors on a chip and the closer they are together, the faster the chip can perform tasks.
Aside from performance, companies are working to make chips smaller and less expensive because people want ever-smaller, cheaper devices.
IM Flash is manufacturing 32G byte NAND chips the size of a thumbnail with its 34nm technology, and expects the chips to be used in small solid-state drives (SSDs) or flash memory cards aimed at products including digital cameras, digital camcorders and personal music players.
The 32G byte chips are multi-level cell (MLC) chips, which means they can handle more rewrites than the single level cell (SLC) variety of NAND flash.
Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest NAND flash memory chip maker, is currently upgrading its chip factories to use 42nm technology and plans to start 30nm production next year.
The company showed off a multi-level cell 64G byte NAND flash memory chip made using 30nm manufacturing technology last year.
Firefox Updates Include A Dozen Security Fixes
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | Computer | 5 Comments
Mozilla released Firefox 3.0.4 and Firefox 2.0.0.18 to address a dozen security flaws, half of which the browser maker ranks as critical. Among the critical is one that could allow an attacker privilege escalation after a session restore. Another could allow arbitrary code to execute with compromised Flash media files.
The updates are pushed automatically to current users and will take effect the next time the browser is restarted. Updates will soon no longer be available for users of Firefox 2; the update is a security update only. Current users of Firefox 2 are encouraged to upgrade by manually downloading Firefox 3 as soon as possible.
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 | Computer | 4 Comments
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