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Alternatives to Google search ;-)
posted by Detlef Niehof on Fri 4th Dec 2009 22:54
Conversations With Google getting involved with more and more internet fields, I am looking for a really good alternative to Google search in order to get away from them... ;-)
Some time ago I made some sketchy comparisons between several more or less randomly chosen search engines and Google, but was not satisfied with the search results.
So, what is currently a Google alternative that you can really recommend?
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Read More: Linked by, submitted by, written by...
posted by Detlef Niehof on Thu 28th May 2009 16:13
Conversations Hello,

if a news item is "linked by" someone and "submitted by" someone else, who wrote the "Read More" section?

Thanks,
Detlef
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Which CPU (if any) would be better than x86 and why?
posted by Detlef Niehof on Tue 6th Jan 2009 22:53
Conversations From time to time, some OSNews visitors claim that x86 was a bad chip (instruction set?) architecture and something better should come along. As a current example, see http://www.osnews.com/thread?342462 (story: "Freescale To Take on Intel's Atom in Netbook Market", comment: "x86 is brain dead")
What do you all think is technically wrong with x86, why can't it be fixed, and which CPU and/or ISA (instruction set architecture) should follow? Why?
Also, one question that I couldn't answer myself by searching the web: For years, x86 suffered from too few general purpose registers (8), that were only recently raised to 16 with x86-64 (in long mode). What was the reason the number of registers in x86 was not increased earlier and higher? Why limit it to just 16 when other CPU's often offer something around 128 registers or so? Too expensive?
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