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Sun bends rules for nimbler Java
News Java is spreading into one of the last, most demanding frontiers of computing--but getting it there has required some compromises from Sun Microsystems on the basic principles of the software.
Officials sound Code Red alarm
News A group of government and private security experts took the unusual step Monday of publicly urging businesses worldwide to guard themselves against the Code Red worm, set to reactivate Tuesday with possibly dire consequences for the Internet.
XenSource seeks to emerge from VMware's shadow
News As VMware's imminent listing aims to set records on Wall Street, XenSource looks to gather some of the virtualization market for itself.
Tools to monitor memory usage in Windows 7
Techguide Over the years, Microsoft has vastly improved the primitive Resource Meter and increasingly made it easier to see what is going on with the OS's use of memory.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Amount, System Resource, Physical Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista, Entry, Tool, Microsoft Windows 7, Memory, operating system
Get an overview of NT's Performance Monitor
Techguide Most administrators will agree that ordinary benchmark applications don't always reflect real-world application usage. And if you're running out-of-the-ordinary software, the benchmark results are pretty much useless anyway.
Benchmarking and tuning Apache servers
Techguide Vincent Danen offers some tips on determining and tuning memory usage as a way of improving the performance of your Apache server.
First known 64-bit virus threat found
News Security technology company Symantec says it has analyzed what it believes to be the first known threat to 64-bit Windows systems, a virus labeled W64.Rugrat.3344.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Microsoft Windows
Symbian adds support for pushier e-mail
News Version 9.5 of the mobile operating system also promises better memory usage, cheaper handsets and location-based services.
Tags: Symbian
Symbian integrates push-email support
News Version 9.5 of the mobile operating system also promises better memory usage, cheaper handsets and location-based services.
Tags: Wireless e-mail devices, Mobile/Wireless, Symbian
Gates calls for 64-bit software support
News Microsoft's Bill Gates sees widespread use of powerful 64-bit chips in the near future--but not if hardware makers don't get to work on the drivers that will bring that power to the desktop.
Tags: Processors
Windows memory issue clogs some Compaq PCs
News Compaq Computer attempted to snuff out a problem with some Presario consumer PCs that is caused by interactions with Windows 98 yesterday.
Linux update has corporate appeal
News The keepers of the Linux operating system have made improvements to the core technology that should make it easier to find lost data.
Dell's new rackmount server features Madison
News Dell Computer is wading back into 64-bit computing waters with a new rack-mount server.
Quad-core Opteron faster at virtualization, AMD says
News "Barcelona" processor has features to share multiple operating systems more efficiently.
Tags: Processors, Personal Computers
Garbage collection tuning in Java 5.0
Techguide Garbage collection can become a bottleneck in different applications depending on the requirements of the applications. Peter V. Mikhalenko offers a review of Java 5.0 capabilities in the tuning of garbage collection.
