2007 Aug 04 - Sat
Trading Site of the Day -- Futures & Options Trader: A Magazine for Free
Who says the best things in life aren't free. I'd rank the monthly Futures & Options
Trader magazine as good bang for the buck. By signing up, you get a monthly email with
a link to download a pdf file full of the type of content you'd see in regular glossy
magazine. For free.
This month's issue is 52 pages in length and has articles relating to the Gold market
intra day performance,
Lumber futures as they relate to weather, Put-Call parity analysis, Bull Call ladders,
technical analysis with the Price Movement Index, plus a number of additional articles and
regular features.
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Open Source Site of the Day -- Xen: OS Virtualization
VMWare is probably the pre-eminent hypervisor. Microsoft is
trying to catch up with their VM. At one point, you couldnt' get Linux based
guests to run (something that has now changed due to popular demand).
On the Open Source front, Xen appears to be doing well. And through contributions from both Intel
and AMD, unmodified guest operating systems such as MS Windows can be run within a Xen
environment. (Intel VT or AMD-V microprocessor capabilities required).
From an installation point of view, .bootstrap has an article Installing Xen
on Debian Etch 4.0. Russell Coker has a couple of how-to's on installing Xen, to which
I'll just reference through his Popular Posts page.
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Open Source Site of the Day -- PowerTOP: Saving Power with Linux on Intel Platforms
Intel spent some time analyzing the causes of power usage of Linux applications on
laptops. To help users maximize laptop battery life, Intel came up with a helpful utility
called PowerTOP.
Based upon what I've read, certain USB components and products are the worst contributors
to bad battery life. Slashdot readers have various and sundry things to say about battery
performance in general. Matthew has things to say about it in particular, especially about USB
stuff not conforming to published specifications.
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