Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th May 2011 20:41 UTC, submitted by lemur2
The first major effect of Attachmate buying Novell (and thus, SUSE) has come into, uh, effect. Novell, of course, is the birth place of Mono, the open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework. Reports indicate Mono developers have been fired as part of the streamlining process, but according to Attachmate's CEO, they weren't fired because of Mono.
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RE[5]: Let Mono transform
by juzzlin on Mon 9th May 2011 13:23
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RE[6]: Let Mono transform
by pantheraleo on Mon 9th May 2011 17:29
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There are still advantages in memory footprint, program startup time and predictability.
True, but memory footprint is also less relevant these days, given that RAM is so cheap these days that the average system comes with more of it than most people ever use. Startup time has also been reduced quite a bit with recent version of the VM. It's still longer than most C++ programs of course, but startup time is an insignificant percentage of the total time spent using the program. And for server applications, startup time is basically irrelevant.
Predictable? Can you elaborate on what you mean by predictable? I'd say Java is more predictable than C++. The Java VM makes many guarantees that will hold true, no matter what platform is involved. Also, because of Java's security model, the JVM makes several guarantees about program behavior that C++ does not make. If you try to write past the ends of an array in Java, the result is a predictable ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. If you try to write past the ends of an array in C or C++ (assuming just vanilla C style array), the result is unpredictable, and could range from a segmentation fault crash, to corrupting other data in the application, to a security hole if someone can use it to execute arbitrary code. By those kinds of metrics, Java is far more predictable than C++. You must mean something else by the word "predictable?"
Edited 2011-05-09 17:31 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 22:33 UTC
Official Apple statement on PRISM and privacy: "Regardless of the circumstances, our Legal team conducts an evaluation of each request and, only if appropriate, we retrieve and deliver the narrowest possible set of information to the authorities. In fact, from time to time when we see inconsistencies or inaccuracies in a request, we will refuse to fulfill it." This is basically Apple re-publishing their earlier statement in a more official manner. You either believe it, or you don't.
Linked by Anonymous on 06/18/13 22:26 UTC
The open source Contiki operating system and its commercial Thingsquare distribution are making strides towards the connected home. According to a Computerworld article, a new LED light bulb manufacturer is putting small computers into their light bulbs. Each computer runs the Contiki OS, which gives each bulb an IP address and allows them to be controlled with a smartphone application. To connect the bulbs to the application, the bulbs use both Wi-Fi and the much lower power IEEE 802.15.4 mesh technology.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 22:25 UTC
"Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government. The legal filing, which cites the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech, is the latest move by the California-based tech giant to protect its reputation in the aftermath of news reports about sweeping National Security Agency surveillance of Internet traffic." Draining the ditch after the cow has drowned in it.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 17:45 UTC
"I can't find one person who has been using the Nexus 7 for an extended period of time, and hasn't seen a massive downgrade in performance. Just what kind of downgrade are we talking here? I cannot pick up my Nexus 7 without experiencing problems like a lag of ten seconds, or more, just to rotate the display; touches refusing to acknowledged; stuttering notification panel actions; and unresponsive apps." Fully and utterly agreed. My Nexus 7 was blazing-fast and awesome for a few months, and at some point, it just started sucking. Just like that. I've tried loads of ROMs, and nothing helps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 17:32 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
A new release of the hobby operating system MenuetOS! The release notes are a bit non-descript, but you'll have to take what you can get: "updates and improvements (picview, httpc, ehci, ...)".
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/17/13 17:58 UTC
"The Internet is one of the most transformative technologies of our lifetimes. But for 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. And this is far from being a solved problem. There are many terrestrial challenges to Internet connectivity - jungles, archipelagos, mountains. There are also major cost challenges. Right now, for example, in most of the countries in the southern hemisphere, the cost of an Internet connection is more than a month's income. Solving these problems isn't simply a question of time: it requires looking at the problem of access from new angles. So today we're unveiling our latest moonshot from Google[x]: balloon-powered Internet access." Insane.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/17/13 17:52 UTC
"MineAssemble is a tiny bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 assembly. I made it first and foremost because a university assignment required me to implement a game in assembly for a computer systems course. Because I had never implemented anything more complex than a 'Hello World' bootloader before, I decided I wanted to learn about writing my own kernel code at the same time. Note that the goal of this project was not to write highly efficient hand-optimized assembly code, but rather to have fun and write code that balances readability and speed. This is primarily accomplished by proper commenting and consistent code structuring." Just cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/14/13 21:03 UTC
Jon Rubinstein, former CEO of Palm: "Well, I'm not sure I would have sold the company to HP. That's for sure. Talk about a waste. Not that I had any choice because when you sell a company you don't get to decide that. Obviously, the board and shareholders decide that. If we had known they were just going to shut it down and never really give it a chance to flourish, what would have been the point of selling the company? I think the deal we had with Verizon really hurt us, but who knew that at the time? These things are all hindsight."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/14/13 20:46 UTC
"And so it is with Dell's Alienware X51 R2, a small form factor gaming PC in console digs. It's shaped similar to Microsoft's Xbox 360 Slim, and though it's slightly larger than either a 360 or PlayStation 3, the X51 R2 would be right at home in a living room setting nestled next to a large screen TV. Indeed, it's adept at running Steam's Big Picture mode, and if your primary objective is to play games in the living room, go ahead and consider the X51 R2 a hybrid game console." This is obviously not the only machine like this - still, these are very valid console alternatives even for those that don't like being hunched over with a cramped WASD-claw. Also, PC gamers among us: could you get away with the $699 model for gaming?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/14/13 17:32 UTC
From Bloomberg: "Microsoft, the world's largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process. That information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes." The lid has officially been blown off.More News »
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Huge list, and only partial at that.
From the list: "All major Adobe applications are developed in C++".
Yep. And Adobe applications such as Flash and Acrobat are plagued with security problems. They are probably one the biggest security nightmares that sys-admins have to deal with. Of course the security issues wit C++ when writing network applications are one of the main reasons it's falling out of favor in environments where applications are exposed to untrusted users.
The speed advantage of C++ has largely disappeared with modern optimizing JIT engines like Java and .NET have.
That's certainly true. But internal corporate apps and Web apps are where the vast majority of development happens these days. Most desktop / shrink wrapped applications, with the exception of games, are basically legacy software these days. There's not a whole lot of new desktop software development going on other than updates to legacy applications such as MS Office. And of course, if Google has their way, even MS Office will go the way of the dinosaur in favor of Google Apps.
When was the last time you used a thick client encylopedia? or thick client mapping program for example? Or hell, do you even use a thick client email program anymore? I don't I just constantly have a browser tab open with GMail running in it.
Edited 2011-05-06 17:25 UTC