If you are running both BizTalk BRE and Windows Defender, you may want to note that the BizTalk 2006 R2 documentation at MSDN has been updated recently to take into account a recent interaction with Windows Defender. The issue with Windows Defender was corrected immediately, and the fix for affected machines is simply adding localhost back to the hosts file.
This is the 2006 R2 documentation, but I believe the issue could also affect 2004, 2006, and 2009 Beta.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
I’ve been watching the multi-core video card space and looking at efforts to offload AI onto that hardware. In particular, I’m curious to see the shakeout of the various APIs. One candidate usage is, of course, video games.
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id Software has released an iPhone port of Wolfenstein 3D. Released on the MS-DOS platform in 1992, the game has 16 years of history and has been ported to a variety of platforms in the years since.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
And what do we have here? It seems that Nvidia and AMD are already on top of the idea of offloading AI onto GPUs.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
A site called Check Your HUD has put together a family tree of game developers. What I like most about this is the attempt to show the relationships between the companies including: mergers, splits, name changes, and companies formed by former members of another company.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
I’ve previously posted on the topics of CUDA and Larrabee. I continue to be intrigued by the possibilities that open up as multi-core GPU programming becomes available. For applications that need many threads this should present interesting opportunities. Why bother struggling to run your parallel application in the meager 4 or 8 cores of your CPU when you can offload the work to 32 cores?
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
Gary Riley’s comment here on November 6 alerted me to a book that I didn’t have: The Engineering of Knowledge-Based Systems: Theory and Practice by Avelino J. Gonzalez and Douglas D. Dankel. So, I went to Amazon to track it down. The book is out of print, so I purchased a used copy.
When my copy arrived a little while ago, I quickly noticed that the owner’s name written inside the cover was that of John Durkin, the noted author of Expert Systems: Design and Development. I spotted it quickly since at a previous employer this book (along with Gary Riley’s book) was used in both internal and external training.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
Clearing out some of the backlog of drafts, it seems I have one more post on this topic to wrap up…
Here are some thoughts on content for future October Rules Fest gatherings. This is, of course, highly subjective.
In general, I think James Owen shouldn’t have to bear the burden of organizing all the content. I think there should be a small panel of folks to solicit, select and approve the content. In addition, I think there should be plenty of lead time and slides should have to be presented in advance. Better yet, let’s have real papers rather than just PPT slides.
As my friend Larry says “it’s still the wild west”. The spectrum of talks that can be given is still very wide. Here are some topics I would like to see included.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
These days, I tend to err on the side of saying less about what we are working on. In general, my current approach is one of only talking about products that have already shipped or topics where I can point towards published materials. That’s part of joining a new company and learning what you can and can’t talk about – so I err on the side of caution these days.
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Jim Sinur of Gartner has a fairly recent post where he surveys the platform players and their recent acquisitions of rules technologies. Jim looks at each player and gives his opinions on their offerings, the technology they purchased, and what they will likely do with it.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
