Students Hit With High Textbook Costs

Cheap Ebooks: College students going back to school are feeling the financial burden of buying textbooks. Some cheaper buying options may help lessen the cost. "I need to take out a loan just for my books," said a student at Iowa State University.

Swapoff Performance

Cheap Ebook: "'My experiments show that when there is not much free physical memory, swapoff moves pages out of swap at a rate of approximately 5mb/sec,' Daniel Drake noted in a recent discussion about swapoff performance. He added, 'I've read into the swap code and I have some understanding that this is an expensive operation (and has to be)'.

Hugh Dickins acknowledged, 'Yes, it can be shamefully slow. But we've done nothing about it for years, simply because very few actually suffer from its worst cases. You're the first I've heard complain about it in a long time: perhaps you'll be joined by a chorus, and we can have fun looking at it again...'"

Tighter Budgets Mean More Open Source

Cheap Ebooks: "I just read two really interesting articles (Giving proprietary vendors a run for their money & Could Linux become the dominant OS?). These articles and a discussion I had yesterday about budget constraints for the next calendar year makes me think that Open Source Software (OSS) is on the verge of becoming mainstream over the next few years.

I have already seen the statistics where 51% of companies are using OSS in mission critical applications. This is starting to look very similar to the days where everyone was fleeing the mainframe for client server technology. The client server craze was driven by lower cost and greater flexibility. Does that sound familiar ..?"

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