Optimizing the performance of a system can save your company a considerable amount of money. In this chapter, you'll see how to streamline your system for maximum efficiency.
When you write .NET code that takes callback parameters, your first instinct may be to use delegates, but it may not occur to you that you can use an interface instead. Learn why and when an interface may be a better answer.
As mobile devices become more common, it becomes imperative to understand how this environment poses unique application architecture challenges. This chapter will help you understand the issues involved in developing applications for mobile devices.
The integration of Microsoft and Sun Microsystems technology is progressing, but it is more complex than envisioned, according to Scott McNealy, Sun's chief executive.
"There are a lot of misconceptions and false sentiments surrounding SkyOS. And every time someone mentions SkyOS, these same old misconceptions bubble up. In this article, I will try to contradict them and explain why they are untrue." Read the rest here.
LiveBSD has just released a LiveCD based on FreeBSD 5.3 which is a heavily modified FreeSBIE that includes an installer that can be invoked via NCurses, CGI and even QT.
Early in 2003, Hideya Kawahara, a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, had an inspiration. Recognizing that desktops had not changed substantially in 20 years, he set out to make them more aesthetically appealing and more powerful.
SkyOS Beta8 was released to testers about week ago to the beta testers, this release focusing on the new networking abilities, the new ISS, and of course the latest patches and programs. I decided to write a quick overview of it, to better expose SkyOS from just an average users point of view.
To answer the question of which OS runs Doom3 faster - unfortunately, there really was not the type of contest that AnandTech had anticipated. Yes, Doom3 for Linux stays competitive with Doom3 for Windows, but in several instances, it falls more than 25% behind on NVIDIA graphics cards. If and when ATI cards start working for Doom3, we are likely to see even larger differences.
Microsoft wants to deliver its Windows Server 2003 update, known as "R2," in 2005. To make sure it will be able do so, the company is prioritizing its feature list and moving some R2 features into later releases. Elsewhere, Windows Server 2003 SP1 Build 1247 is now available for testers.
Microsoft released Service Pack 2 and millions installed it. Did boat anchors come with the enhancements? Short-Media threw 108 benchmarks at Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 in an attempt to declare a winner.
Novell Inc is lining up updates to its GroupWise and SuSE Linux Openexchange server collaboration software for the new year, including incorporating its iFolder technology with GroupWise and separating SLOX from the Linux operating system.
For those detractors who've been complaining that new RISC OS kit is too expensive, Castle are now offering a DIY option which could save you several hundred pounds.You purchase the motherboard, and a minimum of other parts from Castle and supply the rest yourself.More details on Drobe.
Chander Kant, the founder of the Linux laptop company LinuxCertified.com, gave an interesting interview at Tux:Tops. He speaks of the hardware challenges that laptops pose to Linux but also about the progress of the 2.6.x kernels, especially with 'software suspend'. LinuxCertified sells 12", 15" and 17" Linux laptops and an ultra portable is in the works, while they are considering Ubuntu to become among the distros they support.
Zebra is open source TCP/IP routing software that is similar to Cisco's Internetworking Operating System (IOS). Flexible and powerful, it can handle routing protocols such as Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and all of their various flavors. This article shows how to set up Zebra and use it to manage routes dynamically in conjunction with real Cisco hardware.
Ben Goodger is the lead engineer for the open-source browser Firefox, which has been gaining in popularity in a market overwhelmingly dominated by Microsoft. He talks about Firefox's history, and how he sees it competing with Longhorn in this interview.
