Intel readies new remote PC access function

 

Intel has developed technology that lets people remotely power up their computers and retrieve files across an Internet connection, according to a report on The Wall Street Journal site on Wednesday.

The technology, called Remote Wake, will work only on PCs that use a recently introduced chipset from Intel and requires new software to be loaded onto the PC, according to the report. The technology will also reportedly allow PCs that use Internet-based phones services to be remotely activated to receive calls. Remote Wake could also allow consumers using a Web-enabled phone or a laptop connected to the Internet to activate their PCs and retrieve files, according to the report.

source : http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10016941-92.html

Mr Gates, at a forum in Hong Kong to mark the 10th anniversary of the software giant's Asian research arm, added that technology currently being developed would transform the way people use computers, expanding their ability to interact with the machines.

Increasing internet connection will greatly broaden services for users, allowing them remote access to a wide range of software and information, he said.

"People often talk about this as the internet service revolution," Mr Gates told a gathering of 1600 researchers and academics

"That will eventually lead to machines with lots of server capacity, low-cost computing, low-cost storage. And that will let us write software in an even more ambitious way, eliminating the last constraints we have."

source : http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24179113-5014239,00.html

Google Earth.

new looks and features

 

you call it browser, but i call it a desktop application with social internet support.... a nice and good initiative to connect real people in real time

checkout  http://www.flock.com

Don't be fooled, though change is necessary it is very difficult.  If not planned well, it could cause major disruptions.  It is human nature for many to be against change, because it takes us out of our comfort zones.  Therefore, you must ease the change carefully and communicate constantly (including listening) to make sure that people can see the value and need for change but also to reduce conflicts and risks through the process. 

source:
http://chiefskipper.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A59D550BCED8263B!947.entry

29% is huge. but the cause is still USA. its up by 109% in North America. Thats huge, you can guess very well how dynamic the contry is and how influencial the Ads was and powerful iPhone' innovation was.

Started exploring Domain specific languages.
to start with u can look at the following link
http://martinfowler.com/dslwip/Intro.html

You can use the DynamicMethod class to generate and execute a method at run time, without having to generate a dynamic assembly and a dynamic type to contain the method. The executable code created by the just-in-time (JIT) compiler is reclaimed when the DynamicMethod object is reclaimed. Dynamic methods are the most efficient way to generate and execute small amounts of code.

A dynamic method can be anonymously hosted, or it can be logically associated with a module or with a type.

Source: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.emit.dynamicmethod.aspx

.NET version: 2.0,3.0,3.5

"Ranger" Supercomputer Marks New Era for Petascale Science NSF, TACC dedicate most powerful supercomputer for open science 2008-02-22     Faith Singer-Villalobos AUSTIN, Texas -- Ranger, the most powerful supercomputing system in the world for open science research, today will be dedicated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. This first-of-its-kind system entered full production on Feb. 4. Ranger’s deployment marks the beginning of the Petascale Era in high-performance computing (HPC) where systems will approach a thousand trillion floating point operations per second and manage a thousand trillion bytes of data. Ranger is the largest HPC computing resource on the NSF TeraGrid, a nationwide network of academic HPC centers that provides scientists and researchers access to large-scale computing power and resources. Ranger will provide more than 500 million processor hours of computing time to the science community, performing more than 200,000 years of computational work over its four-year lifetime.  "Ranger is the first of the new 'Path to Petascale' systems that NSF provides to open science. It is out in front on the pathway to sustained petascale performance," said Daniel Atkins, director of the NSF's Office of Cyberinfrastructure. "This system and others to come underscore NSF's commitment to world-class, high-performance computing ensuring that the U.S. is a leader in computational science. No longer used by a handful of elite researchers in a few research communities on select problems, advanced computing has become essential to the way science and engineering research and education are accomplished."

 

 

Soruce: http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/ta/ta_display.php?ta_id=100379

One of my colleague who is in ASP.NET, mortgage application testing asked me "i am want to move to C++ application testing, how its different from .NET application testing and do i need to know the language, or does it metters at all?"

It took me infinite time to come up with an answer. I didn’t had an answer so give her an example "When i was working on Mac OS X C++ Client-Server application the tester use to pull out the network cable while document changes being transferred from client to server."

So i came up with answer, yes it is different. But after putting a lot of though i believe i was wrong.

there is no different between .NET and C++. .NET is no magic, we might still have network errors. Only difference is handling and processing of these errors are inside the .NET library. passionate people at MS has alrady tested and validate that piece of code and we need not to test it again.


A Product!
Can you come up with a product which will show wot function area one need to test and what not (Testing leads need to business rules to test in that himself) based on language used for product.

For example:
what to test when code is in VB6
what for C++, Mac C++ or cross platform CPP
What when migrating from .NET to JAVA, JAVA to .NET
or even ASP.NET to Silverlight.


Market!

there are a lot of testers and test plans written every day. But since this is going to be a new approach for testing i'd say the market size is Zero
and i'd also say free software fits well in zero size markets