As niche supercomputer-maker SiCortex works on the next generation of its line and watches the IT marketing machine gearing up for Intel's impending Nehalem-based Xeon EP, the company says that Chipzilla isn't moving in the right direction for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.

For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat.

A variety of news to show just how miserable things have become for Microsoft.

Before joining ZDNet I wrote a lot about Moore’s Law, the idea that things get faster-and-faster faster-and-faster. I found exponential Moore’s Law effects everywhere. Not just in chips, but in magnetic storage, in optical storage, in optical transport, even in radios. The only place where I didn’t find it was in software. But now the folks at SAP Research have.

Earlier we challenged Moore's Law with OpenOffice.org. Today we have a three-way match. In the first corner, we have heavyweight Microsoft Office; in the second, undefeated champion Moore's Law; in the third corner, underdog OpenOffice.org. Let's get ready to rumble!

If Parkinson's Law for computers holds true, then no matter how much disk space you have, it will get used up. If you're already feeling a pinch, consider using a disk space analyzer tool to see what's eating your space.

IBM will be making a big play for small businesses later this year when it launches its one-stop-shop for SMBs' computing needs. The Linux-based program brings together Big Blue's entire ecosystem of partners, compiling all of their offerings into one handy catalog.

This tutorial is being written to help you install Drop Bear to a chroot environment. Drop Bear is a relatively small SSH 2 server and client. It is an alternative lightweight program for openssh and it is designed for environments with low memory and processor resources, such as embedded systems.

OS groups are under pressure to tailor off-the-shelf Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other OS platforms - but, today, it's flexibility at the expense of control.