Boot Linux in Your Web Browser
Fabrice Bellard, the initiator of the QEMU emulator, wrote a PC emulator in JavaScript. You can now boot Linux in your browser, provided it is recent enough. This is not work on IE 8, it’s confirmed worked on my Firefox 4 and it’s boot up half way on my Google Chrome 12.0.742.53 beta-m.
For more information, please see http://bellard.org/jslinux/
Finally WordPress 3.1
WordPress 3.1 codename ““Reinhardt”” have been released on 22 Feb 2011 and we’re running on latest WordPress 3.1 now!
This release features a lightning fast redesigned linking workflow which makes it easy to link to your existing posts and pages, an admin bar so you’re never more than a click away from your most-used dashboard pages, a streamlined writing interface that hides many of the seldom-used panels by default to create a simpler and less intimidating writing experience for new bloggers (visit Screen Options in the top right to get old panels back), and a refreshed blue admin scheme available for selection under your personal options.
There’s a bucket of candy for developers as well, including our new Post Formats support which makes it easy for themes to create portable tumblelogs with different styling for different types of posts, new CMS capabilities like archive pages for custom content types, a new Network Admin, an overhaul of the import and export system, and the ability to perform advanced taxonomy and custom fields queries.
With the 3.1 release, WordPress is more of a CMS than ever before. The only limit to what you can build is your imagination.
Intel Appoints New Country Manager For Malaysia
Intel has appointed Prakash Mallya as Malaysia’s new country manager for sales and marketing operations.
In a statement here on Thursday, Intel said Prakash would be responsible for the growth of its business through channel distribution, local original equipment manufacturers and multinational corporations (MNCs) in Malaysia.
“Prakash will also focus on driving strategic engagements with the government and ecosystem players as part of efforts to accelerate technology adoption in Malaysia, as well as spearhead market expansion strategies to grow local consumption,” it said.
Prakash said he was excited to be a part of Malaysia‘s growth story.
“With continued collaboration with our customers, government and business partners, I’m confident we’ll be able to significantly contribute towards Malaysia’s goal of becoming a high income, knowledge-based economy,” he said.
Ryaz Patel, outgoing Malaysia country manager, will assume the role of Asia-Pacific MNC sales director.
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Novell bought over by Attachmate
Novell Inc. agreed to be bought by Attachmate Corp. for $2.2 billion, ending an eighth-month strategic review aimed at reviving the Linux software maker that has struggled to sustain growth.
Novell investors will get $6.10 a share, Attachmate, a software company owned by private-equity firms including Golden Gate Capital Corp., said today in a statement. That’s 9.1 percent more than Novell’s closing price on Nov. 19. Novell will also sell some intellectual-property assets to a group of technology companies led by Microsoft Corp. for $450 million.
The company, which has reported sales declines for three of the past four years, had trouble competing against larger rivals such as Microsoft, said Rich Williams, an analyst at Cross Research. Novell started looking at strategic alternatives including a sale after rejecting a $2 billion takeover offer in March from shareholder Elliott Associates LP as inadequate.
“Management had struggled over the last few years to grow the new businesses and that created an opportunity given all of the cash from the balance sheet for financial bidders,” said Livingston, New Jersey-based Williams, who rates Novell “hold” and doesn’t own the stock. “The financially oriented buyers are going to hold the company, reshape it to a degree and then in a few years, in a more attractive environment, bring the company public.”
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First IBM zEnterprise Mainframe Server in ASEAN Region
HeiTech Padu Berhad, Malaysia’s leading information and communications technology company, is the first in the ASEAN region to use IBM’s new zEnterprise mainframe server.
From a performance standpoint, the zEnterprise Mainframe is the most powerful commercial IBM system ever. It includes up to 96 of the world’s fastest, most powerful microprocessors, capable of executing more than 50 billion instructions per second.
This performance will accommodate HeiTech’s business growth across the region and will be used to run workloads for HeiTech’s customers across a range of industries including banking, finance and public sector. The new zEnterprise will be located at HeiTech’s Tier IV Data Centre in the city of Shah Alam.
The new IBM zEnterprise System is the result of an investment of more than $1.5 billion in IBM research and development as well as more than three years of collaboration with some of IBM’s top clients around the world. It is also the first system capable of managing workloads running on the mainframe as well as select IBM Power and System x servers as a single virtualized system.
