A history of the Amiga, part
The flag was flying at half-mast when Dave Haynie drove up to the headquarters of Commodore International for what would be the last time.
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Daily Dose - The Emotion Markup Language
The W3C is working to formalize a language of emotional states for computers. Ruby developers are emotional over the release of Rails 3.0.
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Eclipse on Mac: Use Magic Mouse/Trackpad back and forward gestures
The new Apple Magic Mouse is a controversial piece of hardware. Most people either really hate it or adore it. Personally, I think it is... more »
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Dell's Aero Smartphone: An Embarrassment to Android
Often times, the announcement of a new Android phone is cause for excitement. Occasionally, though, a phone's arrival inspires little... more »
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Intel i7 price cuts
In just seven days time on the 30th of August, the Core i7 950 (LGA1366, 3.06 GHz, quad-core) which is currently retailing for $564 on... more »
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Multi-core, Threads & Message Passing
It's not a question of whether threads, events or message-passing is a better model - the hardware trends require that we use all of the... more »
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Scientists claim GPUs make passwords worthless
As high-end graphics processing units become increasingly widespread, basic passwords are no longer enough protection, say scientists.
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Oracle Outlines Solaris Roadmap; Other Projects Not So Lucky
Determined not to make the same mistakes that Sun did when they bit off more than they could chew in some of their roadmaps, Oracle... more »
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GameBoy Emulation in JavaScript: Memory
In almost every case, a computer's memory is not a simple contiguous region; the GameBoy is no exception in this regard. Since the... more »
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5 Trillion Digits of Pi - New world record
A new world record - Pi to 5 trillion digits. The real shock is that all that was used was a desktop machine with not a supercomputer in sight.
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The performance of Postgresql: SSD vs consumer HDD
I benchmark the database-processing performance of two commercially-available SSDs vs. two traditional SATA HDDs.
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Create your own save-your-ass multi-boot USB stick
I don’t have to convince you that carry around a couple of Linux distros can mean the difference between life and death. Well, of course... more »
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5 Ways to Improve Web Accessibility
The need to ensure that your business website is accessible to all visitors has never been greater. With one in five Australians being... more »
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OpenGL 4.1 Challenges Direct 3D 11
The Khronos Group has been busy with the release of OpenCL 1.1 last month and the completion of OpenGL 4.0 only four and a half months... more »
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Less than a year of IP addresses left
Is it another Y2K? We have less than a year before we run out of allocatable (IP4) Internet addresses. Does this matter? What can be done?
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Why "Gaming" Chips Are Moving Into the Server Room (and what developers need to do to exploit them)
After several years of trying, graphics processing units (GPUs) are beginning to win over the major server vendors. Dell and IBM are the... more »
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Arduino Microcontroller == Awsomeness
A week or so ago (in this thread)Munawwar introduced me to Arduino. Arduino is an open source hardware and software microcontroller... more »
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Daily Dose - Avatar… No, Not The Movie
Even software companies were inspired by the blockbuster movie, Avatar. In other news, Apple and Google have inspired BlackBerry to... more »
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MenuetOS: an operating system written entirely in assembly
We talk to the developers behind MenuetOS: an operating system written entirely in assembly language
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Android Apps on SD Card: The Details
Android 2.2 supports application installation on external storage devices like the SD card. This should give users room for many more... more »
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Using Enumerations in for-each statements - five times faster than the JRE, without RAM limitations
I was such happy when years back the JRE was extended by the Collections Framework. It's just so intuitive to use it, and provides... more »
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Quantum Computers: Not So Far Away?
A new discovery by scientists at the University of Surrey may suggest that quantum computers are closer than we think.
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Apple Reps: Our Reception Bar Formula Is 'Totally Wrong'
In a shocking admission Friday, Apple reps said that the algorithm used to calculate bars of reception on the iPhone is 'totally wrong.'... more »
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Jobs To Upset Customers: 'Relax... It's Just A Phone'
Steve Jobs' bizarre response to the iPhone 4 reception problem just got even weirder. In an e-mail to an angry customer, Jobs waxed... more »
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Steve Jobs: 'There Is No Reception Issue'
A few days ago, Steve Jobs responded to complaints about iPhone 4 reception by telling us to 'just avoid holding it that way.' Today,... more »
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