ethtool or mii-tool utility checks or sets the status of a network interface’s Media Independent Interface (MII) unit. Most fast ethernet adapters use an MII to autonegotiate link speed and duplex setting.

In Part I of a two-part interview, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM's visionary leader behind many of the company's moves into new technology and business areas, has retired to a part-time role with IBM and teaching. However, before scaling back his role last month, Wladawsky-Berger spoke with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K.

"...I'm really excited about this book, both because I think Erlang's style of message-passing concurrency is just what we need as we enter the multi-core world, and also because I think its functional roots are an interesting way of thinking about programming...."

Open-Xchange announced the immediate availability of Open-Xchange Express Edition. This is a full-featured collaboration designed to make it easy for small and midsize businesses to take advantage of the cost benefits of open source without requiring prior Linux know-how.

The ease of HTML and server-side programming makes web development, and the use of web applications, very popular. But dogging the web application developer all this time has been one nagging problem; what happens when the customer can't get access to the Web?

Now we introduce the virtualization technology which allows us to run several systems on the same computer, at the same time, all under the control of one of them, called a “host”. My examples are based on the Vmware Server Console v. 1.0.3 (distributed from its manufacturer’s WWW free of charge) running under Mandriva Linux Spring with KDE 3.5.7.

Window Maker is a window manager that, while having elements of a desktop environment, does keep very strongly to the principles of a basic, light weight window manager. It has an extremely simple, mouse driven interface and in some ways operates in the old NextStep blueprint of functionality.