Review: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne Final Titan 2 Carries Military Weather Satellite to Orbit The Titan 2 missiles were the former ICBM's for the United States. Since their wide-scale decommissioning their warheads have been removed and the missiles have been used as a cargo lift platform. The Most Widely Used Operating System in the World It's not Windows, Unix or Linux , but ITRON, a Japanese real-time kernel for small-scale embedded systems. ITRON runs on mobile phones , digital cameras, CD players and countless other electronic devices. Enterprise Unix Roundup: Solaris x86 Resurgent, Sun's Side of the Story Several weeks ago, we cocked a collective eyebrow at Sun. When executive VP Jonathan Schwartz said "we do not believe that Linux plays a role on the server. Period," we didn't have much of a choice. Linux vs. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD Scalability Compared These benchmarks are the result of a scalable network programming research. The interest in this area is to see how scalable and fast network applications can be on standard PC hardware. Linux 2.4/2.6 is compared to BSDs. Read the accompanied PDF paper here. Moms Battle Genetic Engineering Full Size image A group of New Zealand mothers led by a former pop star have launched a provocative billboard campaign to protest their government's decision to allow agricultural genetic engineering. Open Source: The Whole Product Interesting article Open source is an easy choice for the Early Adopter customer: low cost, time to market, and extensibility offer significant business advantage. It's not such an easy choice for Pragmatists, however, as a single provider will never deliver the Whole Product. SCO's Brilliant Business Maneuver? "Who would trust [SCO] after the IBM suit?" IDC vice president Dan Kusnetzky said. "And they have threatened end-user customers with litigation. In effect, they have destroyed themselves as either a Unix or Linux supplier." Is Microsoft Behind SCO's $50 Million Cash Infusion? (C) Shouting Red Goanna Inc.